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Family mourns med student found dead following run in Grenada BRENT RICHTER AND ROISIN CULLEN

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A Pemberton man and wellknown strength trainer on the North Shore has been found dead in Grenada, four days after he was reported missing.

Liam Fisher, 35, was enrolled in medical school in the country’s capital. The Royal Grenada Police Force issued a press release on Sept.

12 seeking the public’s help in finding Fisher, who was last seen taking part in a race on Saturday, Sept. 9.

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West Van scraps plan for sidewalk at elementary school NICK LABA

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If it ain’t broke, don’t pave it.

That was the sentiment expressed at West Vancouver municipal hall last week (Sept. 11), when council voted unanimously to scrap a project to build a sidewalk on the north side of Irwin Park Elementary.

The decision followed an uproar from residents in the area, who argued that the existing gravel shoulder on the street provided sufficient safety for students and other road users.

One member of a local parent advisory council lamented the decision, saying that council should trust the work done by the municipal staff members who recommended the upgrade over anecdotal complaints from the public.

Previously, staff had approved construction of the infrastructure, following a priority assessment based on traffic congestion, active transportation and school safety goals outlined by the district.

Kings Avenue between 24th Street and 25th Street had received the highest priority rating, according to a 2017 pedestrian network study. A 2022 school safety assessment recommended the same stretch of road as a funding candidate due to a lack of onsite pickup and drop-off options at the school, and the related congestion on Haywood Avenue, which also services a transit layover stop and residential units across the street.

“When we met with the principal for the school, one of the concerns they had was how congested Haywood is,” said Sean O’Sullivan, senior manager of roads and transportation for the district.

The safety of Irwin Park students would be improved by having a sidewalk along Kings Avenue, says Jatinder Sidhu, transit and safety representative for West Vancouver District parent advisory council. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN “As we walked around the school, we looked at Kings Avenue, and the principal was saying Kings Avenue is very underutilized,” O’Sullivan said. “Because it’s a gravel shoulder, it was not very attractive for parents to pick up and drop off their kids.”

Wide sidewalks around schools are also recommended by B.C.’s active transportation design guide and the Canadian Transportation Agency, he added.

Funding for the sidewalk was approved

as part of West Van’s capital program, with $52,000 coming from TransLink’s walking infrastructure to transit initiative.

“Funding from TransLink is specific to this project. So if this project doesn’t go ahead, we lose the funding,” O’Sullivan said.

The total cost of the project is around $300,000, he continued, noting rising construction costs in recent years.

Council then heard feedback from several members of the community.

Improving infrastructure near schools is necessary to ensure children’s safety, said Jatinder Sidhu, transit and safety representative for West Vancouver District parent advisory council.

“Detailed work has been underway for almost a year now, every single school has been visited,” he said.

At Irwin Park, “three sides of that block have pavement sidewalks, one side does not. That side is used by cars pretty much every day, at pickup and drop-off. Its safety would be inevitably improved by having a sidewalk,” Sidhu said.

“Fundamentally, I think you should all ask yourselves, what kind of community do you want to be – one that supports families?

One that guarantees children’s safety?” he asked.

But nearby residents who spoke to council said that they didn’t believe the road was unsafe in its current form.

The argument that the north section is underused is false, said Sanaz Harland, a resident who lives on the 2400 block of Kings Avenue. “That side is used every single day at pickup and drop-off at max capacity.”

Another resident of the block, Jan Raworth, said kids never walk down that street.

“They come to the school, either from the three sides that have sidewalks, or when they get to the corner of the field, they go in the gates, and they don’t walk down that block,” she said.

Coun. Nora Gambioli, who sits on West Van’s school traffic and safety committee, noted the district has been tackling an extensive list of safety items at local Continued on A42

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Vehicles impounded after teens race 180 km/h on North Van highway NICK LABA

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Two drivers in their late teens had their vehicles impounded, and will likely have their licences suspended, after they were caught dangerously speeding up the Cut in North Vancouver.

At around 10 p.m. Sept. 12, a

police officer clocked three vehicles travelling up the frequented stretch of Highway 1 at 180 kilometres per hour, said Const. Mansoor Sahak, spokesperson for the North Vancouver RCMP. The drivers were driving dangerously, weaving in and out of lanes, cutting around other vehicles, swerving – “basically street

racing,” Sahak said.

The officer managed to pull two of the drivers over, but was unable to catch the third.

As for the two drivers caught, their vehicles – a white BMW X4 and a Honda Accord – were towed from the scene. Both were from North Vancouver and walked home, Sahak said, adding that

neither was intoxicated.

The speeders were hit with $365 tickets for excessive speeding, and will have to pay seven-day impound fees. They will also have high-risk driver premiums added to their insurance, and will almost certainly be prohibited from driving due to the number of points added to their novice licences.

“The behaviours these drivers were displaying are extremely dangerous,” Sahak said. Their actions could have harmed or killed them, or others on the road, he added.

Sahak’s message to those considering street racing: “Act responsible. Your driver’s licence is a privilege. It’s not a right, and it can be taken away.”

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Sutherland Secondary principal Mark Barrett is reminding students that scrolling social media during class time isn’t appropriate. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

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North Van school scrolls forward on cellphone limits in class JANE SEYD

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As a new school year gets underway, students at Sutherland Secondary are getting reminded that there’s a time and place for Snapchat, and science class isn’t it.

In some classrooms, cellphone “pockets” where students stash their devices during class help remove temptation.

Some teachers have been known to use Tupperware bins to keep their students’ ubiquitous cellphones out of sight and out of mind in class.

It’s not a cellphone ban exactly, says Sutherland principal Mark Barrett.

“There’s a time and a place for technology. We’re not Luddites. We’re not banning things,” he said. But during class time, at least “the default expectation is the phone is away and it’s off,” he said.

Neither the North nor West Vancouver school districts have explicit policies on student cellphone use in schools, although both have expectations about “acceptable use” of technology while on the school network. Generally, that translates into no viewing or posting of offensive online content and no scrolling Instagram during math or social studies class.

A letter recently sent out to Sutherland families reminding them of their

technological manners comes at a time when teens’ cellphone use in schools has been garnering more attention.

In 2019, the Ontario government brought in a province-wide ban on cellphone use in classrooms.

So far B.C. hasn’t followed suit, preferring to leave that to local school districts or schools to decide.

In North and West Vancouver, regulating cellphone use in classrooms has been up to either individual schools or classroom teachers.

Parents keen on cellphone controls Barrett acknowledged he’s seen growing interest from both teachers and parents to manage the time teens spend on their devices. “Even at home, I think families and parents are struggling to get their kids off their devices,” he said.

Last year, when Barrett was principal at Handsworth, “I definitely got emails from parents asking for a greater degree of intervention in students’ cellphone use,” he said.

The pivot to hybrid and online learning during the pandemic didn’t help, said Barrett. “There was so much more screen time.”

Following that, kids are having to Continued on A41

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North Shore News scores five wins in Canadian Community Newspaper Awards NORTH SHORE NEWS STAFF

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The North Shore News is celebrating a handful of wins in the 2023 Canadian Community Newspaper Awards.

Top of the list is reporter Jane Seyd, who scored first place in one of the premier categories in the competition, Best Feature Story for circulation 12,500 and over. Seyd’s story No Magic Pill To Cure Family Doctor Shortage examined the root causes, and ramifications, of the ever-growing waiting list for family doctors on the North Shore.

The CCNA judges praised Seyd’s ability to take a “complex and vitally important subject” and make it relatable and easy to understand.

“Thorough research, multiple sources, tight writing and the use of three quality photos combine to make this the feature story winner.”

Seyd also scored two second place finishes, including the Best Local Editorial, circulation 10,000 and

Paul McGrath’s photo taken at the new Mahon Skatepark earned second place in the CCNA Sports Photo category.

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over. The editorial, aptly named No. 1 Priority, takes the province to task for planning a $30-million upgrade to the Phibbs Exchange transit hub without including any public washrooms.

Seyd also combined with reporter Alanna Kelly to take second place in the Best Multimedia Breaking News

Coverage, circulation open category for the story Three-storey Apartment Fire Displaces Dozens of Residents.

Seyd and Kelly teamed up to cover the fire by combining in-depth reporting, strong storytelling and captivating visuals.

Photographer Paul McGrath also scored a second place finish in the Sports Photo, circulation 10,000 and over category for his photo Skateboard Bowl, a shot snapped at the new Mahon Skatepark. Judges called it “the most unique of all the entries.”

Editor Andy Prest rounded out the winners, scoring third place in the Outstanding Columnist category. His entry was headlined by the column We’ve Got A Honkin’ Big Problem With the Flag Right Now, a look at the troubling use of the Canadian flag in “freedom convoy” protests.

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anadians tend to take pride in our social safety net. The truth, however, is that an incredible amount of the work to keep our neighbours from the misery of perpetual poverty is done not by government but by non-profits who must go tap-dancing for donations.

This year, we mark 30 years of the Harvest Project catching people before they fall through the net. They provide holistic services for everything from keeping people housed and fed in a moment of acute crisis to coaching and emotional support as clients get their lives on solid footing again. We could fill this editorial space with the names of non-profits that deserve equal recognition.

Yet only a tiny portion of their funding comes from government. It leaves us with

mixed emotions. We are incredibly grateful for their staff, volunteers and donors.

But we shudder to think of the consequences if their precarious funding were to disappear.

It would expose how frayed our safety net really is and, to our great shame, it would make poverty truly flourish.

The census statistics don’t lie. Our postal codes are among the wealthiest in the country. As long as that is the case, we should be first in line to open our hearts and wallets to our non-profits. But while we are at it, we should also put this issue in front of our MPs and MLAs. Government officials are the ones who decide how wide the gaps in the social safety net should be. And if we want a system that truly makes us proud, it’s on them to fund it.

Eye-watering bill coming for wastewater treatment plant KIRK LAPOINTE

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Brace, taxpayers.

A big bill is coming your way.

Earlier this month, sources say, the regional Metro Vancouver government summoned the three North Shore mayors for a meeting. The objective was to better understand the runaway train known as the North Shore wastewater treatment project.

Only one of three mayors came: Mike Little of the District of North Vancouver.

West Vancouver’s mayor sent a middle manager from the engineering department.

In hindsight, he would have been better to make time to show up, because the briefing revealed no small sticker shock. On the other hand, maybe avoiding the meeting would be better for the blood pressure.

The implications of the project for this and future councils are substantial and appear to present an inflection point in West Vancouver’s ability to properly finance its formidable infrastructure needs.

In the next weeks, the North Shore will more clearly apprehend what it takes today to replace the crucial wastewater treatment infrastructure that is running its course in capacity. It seems it’s time to contend with the reality of the project’s scope, its current and anticipated expense, and how to pay for it.

You may recall the new plant plan started as a $525 million modernization, then escalated to a $1.05 billion construct.

Along the way the original contractor, the Spain-based Acciona, departed acrimoniously and litigiously, and PCL bid for and

assumed the construction responsibility, with AECOM as the designers.

Once they moved in, the narrative about the construction and design morphed from proud optimism to frank criticism about what they inherited, suggesting they had to go back to square one.

As the Metro Vancouver website politely puts it, “numerous design and construction errors and deficiencies were identified from the previous contractor, who was responsible for both designing and building the new treatment plant. Over the past several months we have been working to correct these deficiencies and advance the design in order to develop an accurate schedule and cost estimate to complete the project.”

Well, it now has a number, and it will be best to read the next line sitting down.

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You read that right.

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A special meeting of Metro Vancouver to deal with the wastewater project takes place Oct. 4. There is a plan the next day to provide the grim details of the expense and the reasons why. We may have to wait for Continued on A9

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Who owns the beach? In 1969, I used to take my German shepherd everywhere.

Down the street to the beach. She loved everybody. I learned to swim while watching her do the dog-paddle.

Recently a woman complained about my girlfriend’s dog at the beach. They were sitting away quietly. Not interrupting anybody. Being part of nature. Loving the ocean.

Whilst very few people were at the beach.

Yet a woman came along and was rude and quoting “bylaws” – West Vancouver’s arbitrary rules with little or no meaning, ignoring the history of who West Van really is. I have a message for West Vancouver: Grow up. Dogs in restaurants. Dogs at pubs.

And dogs at the beach.

More freedom. Less bylaws. In case you don’t remember 1969, it was beautiful.

John Paul Orr West Vancouver

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Editor’s note: The District of West Vancouver provided the following response to our Sept. 13 editorial, Water Resistant The District of West Vancouver takes the protection of water supply very seriously, and unique to the municipalities on the North Shore, has universal metering

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in place with a four-tiered rate structure.

This is intended to incentivize conservation on an ongoing basis throughout the year, and not just when supply is limited in the dryer months. With roughly 12,500 metered service connections in West Vancouver, the high water user letters that went out to 900 residents represents only 7.5 per cent of properties within the district. Of those, 78 per cent reduced their water consumption as a result of the proactive, educational approach the district took. These letters were sent in July based on June consumption, well in advance of the Stage 2 watering restrictions that were introduced across the Lower Mainland in August. With the restrictions, the district responded by developing an extensive water awareness campaign.

In addition to partnering with Metro Vancouver’s drinking water conservation summer support program, the district created the “Gold is the new Green” campaign specific to lawn watering, and letters were sent to all landscaping and irrigation companies with business licenses in West Vancouver. While the District of West Vancouver may have limited capacity for “boots on the ground” in terms of bylaw enforcement, we do have water meters in the ground, which provide data.

One can also reflect on the fact that the limited number of complaints about water usage in West Vancouver is a positive sign – it means that residents of West Vancouver are complying. Water conservation has always been, and will continue to be, a priority for the District of West Vancouver.

Multi-billion dollar shock on the way Continued from A8 some time to understand exactly how the North Shore leadership plans to extract the funds from property owners.

The project is in many ways emblematic of the extraordinary local expenses that challenge administrators and politicians to prevent taxes from breaking through the ceiling. These projects are mostly financial beasts and most, but not every, politician hates imposing expense. In many cases, too, politicians try to defer repairs, replacements and maintenance. With this new multi-billion tally, the district may lose its ability to properly finance this.

Last year the Fraser Institute analyzed municipal costs in the Lower Mainland, and West Vancouver’s infrastructure was the most expensive – not because we want our sewer pipes platinum-plated, but because our sloped topography drives up the costs.

It contributes to the highest per-capita spending municipally in the Lower Mainland. It bears noting that the wastewater project is one of many ahead under Metro Vancouver.

It can be said that West Vancouver finds itself in particular peril because it has no industrial land to tax and only a smallish amount of business tax revenue. Nearly 95 per cent of the property tax base is residential. The buck stops at the house’s doorway.

Now this new bill is looming and it’s time to get ready for the reckoning. The October meeting will be instructive for taxpayers, in part on how our politicians handle the bills.

Kirk LaPointe is publisher and executive editor of Business in Vancouver as well as vice-president, editorial, Glacier Media Group, the North Shore News’ parent company. He is also a West Vancouverite.

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Preparing for the unavoidable reality of future wildfires As Canadians continue to process the horror and heartbreak of the wildfires of 2023, a survey by the non-profit Angus Reid Institute found that more than half of Canadians say they are expecting even worse fire conditions in the future.

More than 15 million hectares across Canada have been ravaged by fire this year - more than double the previous record of 1989 and shattering the 10-year average of 2.5 million hectares.

It is an unavoidable reality that climate change is contributing to conditions that are going to mean future widespread wildfire activity – though possibly not as severe as this summer.

We need to invest and focus on ways to adapt to that reality – to make our communities prepared and resilient while simultaneously doubling down on Canada’s actions to reduce the emissions behind climate change.

Adaptation strategy In June, the Federal Government released Canada’s first nation-wide climate adaptation strategy. It aims to better prepare the country and to set a shared path for greater resilience to climate change.

The National Adaptation Strategy is the product of two years of intense engagement with provinces and territories, Indigenous partners, key experts, stakeholders and partners across Canada.

It lays out an agreed-upon framework to take proactive measures to reduce climate impacts before they occur, build and maintain resilient infrastructure, improve health outcomes, protect nature and biodiversity and support a strong economy.

The Strategy also identifies common goals, objectives, and targets to focus the efforts of governments and communities across these key areas and to help ensure future investments are targeted, coordinated, ambitious and effective.

The primary responsibility for response to natural disasters such as wildfires and floods in Canada rests with provinces and territories. Local and regional adaptation plans are in place in many parts of the country and are well positioned to set priorities and advance action based on highest risks and local circumstances.

At the national level, a series of action plans are being developed to better coordinate execution and improve support for local actions – while respecting the jurisdiction and responsibilities of different orders of government and rights holders.

“Whole-of-Canada” approach Success in achieving the National Adaptation Strategy’s goals and objectives will require a whole-of-Canada approach: municipal, regional, provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous peoples and governing bodies, the private sector, professional associations, organized labour, academic institutions, researchers, scientists, communities and individuals.

We will all need to be part of the solution.

The role of the national government in a country as vast as Canada is to engage, coordinate and provide resources and financial support. A federal national disaster response agency is under consideration.

Since 2015, the Government of Canada has invested more than $6.5 billion in adaptation. When disaster relief is factored in, federal investments exceed $10 billion with further significant investments required.

One can never say to the thousands of Canadians who lost their homes that enough is being done. They’ve been profoundly and forever impacted.

But at the end of the day, we must and will continue to do everything we possibly can.

Canadians should expect nothing less of their leaders at all levels and of all political stripes in the face of this critical challenge.

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Zoning discussion delayed to seek legal advice on conflicts of interest If certain members of West Vancouver council speak to zoning amendments in an area where they own property, could that input be out of bounds?

On the agenda for the Sept. 11 council meeting was a first reading of zoning bylaw amendments for the Ambleside local area plan, a set of highly anticipated documents that would substantively update the district’s most central neighbourhood.

But at the top of the meeting, council voted to withdraw that item from the evening’s discussion so that legal advice can be sought to determine if Mayor Mark Sager and Coun. Christine Cassidy – who both own property within the bounds of the plan – have a conflict of interest.

“As many of you may or may not know there are two members of our current council that may or may not potentially be in conflict,” said Coun. Scott Snider. “In order to do appropriate and due diligence to ensure that they can be either involved in the process or have confirmed that it would be inappropriate for them to be involved, they would like to seek further legal opinion

to determine whether or not that would be a conflict.”

At issue is a commercial property owned

by Sager at the corner of 15th Street and Marine Drive, and a property owned by Cassidy on the 2000 block of Fulton Avenue.

When the plan was presented to council in July, resident and former West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce president Maggie Pappas said the conflict could threaten the project’s progress, but could easily be corrected by following the provincial Community Charter.

At that meeting, Pappas made the point that if either Sager or Cassidy were to sell their re-zoned property, the profit would be substantially larger than today. “Ignoring the appearance of potential impropriety increases resentment and pushback in the community,” she said.

According to B.C.’s Community Charter, locally elected officials with a financial interest in a matter that will be discussed or voted on at municipal council must declare those interests and not participate in discussion, vote or exercise influence on the matter. No date has yet been set for the issue to come back to council.

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Permissive Tax Exemptions for 2024 Monday, September 25, 2023 at 6:00pm

Watch the meeting online at cnv.org/LiveStreaming or in person at City Hall, 141 West 14th Street Pursuant to Section 227, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 224(2) of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that the City of North Vancouver Council will consider “Taxation Exemption Bylaw, 2023, No. 8990”, which could provide the following properties with an exemption for the payment of municipal taxes in the year 2024. The tax figures below are estimates only and will be modified based on changes in assessment and tax rates as determined by Council for the years 2024, 2025 and 2026. For more information, contact Financial Services at tax@cnv.org or 604-983-7316.

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The Shipyards Office and Public Support Space 125 Victory Ship Way 224 (2)(b) 53,733 55,168 56,696 City of North Vancouver - Pipe Shop 115 Victory Ship Way 224 (2)(b) 39,372 40,423 41,543 Community Living Society 317 & 319 East Keith Road 224 (2)(a) 4,792 4,920 5,056 Community Living Society 1003 – 555 West 28th Street 224 (2)(a) 1,725 1,771 1,820 Family Services North Shore 1109 – 1117 Lonsdale Avenue 224 (2)(a) 20,406 20,951 21,531 Fraternal Order of Eagles, North West Aerie 2638 162 – 170 West 3rd Street 224 (2)(a) 32,523 33,392 34,316 Girl Guides of Canada - Units 107, 108, 109, 207, 208, 209 252 West Esplanade 224 (2)(a) 81,967 84,156 86,487 Hollyburn Community Services Society - Units 104, 106, 107, 205, 206, 207 210 West 13th Street 224 (2)(a) 6,706 6,885 7,075 Hollyburn Community Services Society (new applicant) 439 East 17th Street 224 (2)(a) 5,264 5,405 5,555 HYAD Housing for Young Adults with Disabilities 2130 Chesterfield Avenue 224 (2)(a) 2,787 2,861 2,940 Intellectual Disabilities (North and West Vancouver) Society 1924 Jones Avenue 224 (2)(a) 2,986 3,066 3,151 Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society 170 West 2nd Street 224 (2)(a) 53,920 55,360 56,893 Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society 1480 St. Andrews Avenue 224 (2)(a) 3,530 3,624 3,724 Lighthouse Harbour Ministries 1 – 260 East Esplanade 224 (2)(a) 7,515 7,716 7,930 The Lonsdale Creek Daycare Society 230 West 21st Street 224 (2)(c) 14,915 15,313 15,737 Lookout Emergency Aid Society - North Shore Shelter 705 West 2nd Street 224 (2)(d) 18,136 18,620 19,136 Marineview Housing Society 1053 Grand Boulevard 224 (2)(j) 5,182 5,320 5,467 Marineview Housing Society 1057 Cloverley Street 224 (2)(j) 3,169 3,254 3,344 Navy League of Canada 1555 Forbes Avenue 224 (2)(d) 20,310 20,852 21,430 The North Shore Disability Resource Centre 2412 Wilding Way 224 (2)(a) 3,489 3,582 3,681 North Shore Multicultural Society - Units 100, 202, 203, 204, 204A, 205, 207, 302, 303, 305 123 East 15th Street 224 (2)(a) 60,185 61,792 63,504 North Shore Neighbourhood House 225 East 2nd Street 224 (2)(a) 26,946 27,665 28,431 North Shore Neighbourhood House - Programming Space 113 East 3rd Street 224 (2)(d) 478 491 505 North Shore Neighbourhood House - Centre View Childcare 143 East 14th Street 224 (2)(d) 3,248 3,335 3,427 North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce 102 – 124 West 1st Street 224 (2)(a) 8,309 8,531 8,767 North Vancouver Community Arts Council 335 Lonsdale Avenue 224 (2)(d) 18,020 18,501 19,013 North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club 249 East 24th Street 224 (2)(i) 65,547 67,297 69,161 North Vancouver Museum and Archives Commission 131 – 115 West Esplanade 224 (2)(b) 105,184 107,992 110,893 North Vancouver Royal Canadian Legion 121 – 123 West 15th Street 224 (2)(a) 23,886 24,523 25,202 Presentation House Cultural Society 333 Chesterfield Avenue 224 (2)(d) 48,339 49,630 51,005 Silver Harbour Centre 144 East 22nd Street 224 (2)(a) 71,843 73,761 75,804 St. Edmund’s Parish 613 Mahon Avenue 224 (2)(a) 6,913 7,098 7,295 St. Leonard’s Society of North Vancouver 312 Bewicke Avenue 224 (2)(a) 3,032 3,113 3,199 Vancouver Coastal Health Authority - Magnolia House 720 East 17th Street 224 (2)(j) 3,437 3,529 3,627 Vancouver Coastal Health Authority - Margaret Fulton Centre 1601 Forbes Avenue 224 (2)(d) 26,728 27,442 28,202 Young Women’s Christian Association 125 East 14th Street 224 (2)(f) 2,336 2,398 2,464 North Shore Bethel Christian Mennonite Brethren Church 185 East Keith Road 224 (2)(f) 2,681 2,753 2,829 Holy Trinity Catholic Church 2705 Lonsdale Avenue 224 (2)(f) 4,275 4,389 4,511 North Shore Alliance Church 201 East 23rd Street 224 (2)(f) 22,077 22,667 23,294 King’s Temple Missionary Society - North Shore Christian Centre 1400 Sutherland Avenue 224 (2)(f) 2,323 2,385 2,451 Parish of St. Agnes Anglican Church 530 East 12th Street 224 (2)(f) 879 902 927 Parish of St. John The Evangelist Anglican Church 209 West 13th Street 224 (2)(f) 19,736 20,263 20,824 Salvation Army North Vancouver Community Church 105 West 12th Street 224 (2)(f) 11,216 11,515 11,834 St. Andrew’s and St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church 2641 Chesterfield Avenue 224 (2)(f) 5,649 5,800 5,961 St. Andrew’s United Church 1044 – 1046 St. Georges Avenue224 (2)(f) 3,551 3,646 3,747 The Way Church 630 East 19th Street 224 (2)(f) 5,118 5,255 5,401

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clients who come through the door.

“That’s an issue that wasn’t as much the case 30 years ago. We deal with an intense level of anxiety present with a lot of people that we see,” Lee said.

Perhaps most concerning though, Lee said, is the number of clients who suffer from social isolation, which is itself a crisis in public health. Perhaps one of the Harvest Project’s most important strengths is knowing how to greet them, Lee said.

“The Harvest Project exists to welcome the stranger – welcome and listen to the person who is isolated, who doesn’t have a connection in the community and doesn’t have resources in the community and who really needs to be seen and heard,” he said.

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Poverty is a trap.

Once it’s got you, it holds tight and the odds of becoming self-sufficient again are stacked against you. It’s something David Foster experienced first-hand. The businessman from West Vancouver found success at a young age but fell on hard times, professionally and personally, and wound up living on the street.

With some help from local churches and charities, he got back on his feet, but came away from his experience seeing the gaps in the system.

The non-profit he later founded is now marking 30 years of helping people from Deep Cove to Horseshoe Bay with a hand up.

“The Harvest Project was created, really out of the strength of his determination to make things better,” said Kevin Lee, development officer.

Decades of change The Harvest Project’s first office opened in what was then the “rough” neighbourhood of Lower Lonsdale. They provided short-term assistance with groceries or finding a job, mostly on a drop-in basis. But the organization’s evolution came quickly.

Within a few years, the Harvest Project adopted a “client

Harvest Project development officer Kevin Lee sorts through groceries to be donated by the North Vancouver non-profit. The Harvest Project is celebrating 30 years of giving people in need a hand up. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN care” model that looks at people in need of help holistically and aims to address areas of concern across their lives. Rather than just a basket of goods, clients get monthly check-ins with a case manager. Together, they set goals, review progress and adjust services accordingly, with compassion and dignity in mind.

“Of course, everything has changed,” said Lee. As a whole, the North Shore has become wealthier since 1993, but not everyone has enjoyed the abundance, Lee notes, sadly.

“I would say extremely so,” Lee said, adding wealth disparity remains “painfully present.”

In 1993, helping someone to

find a rental apartment at a price they could afford was doable.

“Now, of course, that’s a dream,” Lee said. “Many of those folks are simply not keeping up with the economic rigour of our current society.”

As that struggle has become more intense, Lee said they’ve seen it in the mental health of the

Bountiful harvest Inside the Harvest Project’s Norgate office, there is a makeshift supermarket stocked with healthy foods for clients who need help with groceries. There’s a nutritionist on staff who can help advise clients on meals that will leave them not just with a full tummy, but in better health overall. They’ve formed partnerships with dentists who provide care for those who otherwise could not afford it. There’s a thrift shop Continued on A32

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If you suddenly woke up in this home, you might think a time machine took you back to California in the 1950s.

That’s because this house was designed based on a case study for a California modern home by influential Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra.

On Friday, the property at 661 Windsor Rd. East in North Vancouver listed for $2.5 million. Dubbed “the Starlet House” by its listing agent, the 2,213-square-foot home features simple post-and-beam construction, a sloping flat roof and large windows that open up to a forested backyard.

“A true representation of mid-century California modern, the Starlet House was recently chosen to be recreated on the set of a popular U.S. TV show as the home of the main character,” said real estate agent Trent Rodney of West Coast Modern.

“Sixty-two years after she first appeared in North Vancouver, this Californian beauty is stepping back into the spotlight.”

Located in the Princess Park neighbourhood, the three-bedroom, three-bathroom home sits on an 8,712-square-foot lot. The

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entrance is lit by a large skylight, flanked by a sunken planter. Inside is an open-concept floor plan, with large windows to connect to the home’s exterior.

The home was designed by B.C. architect Gordon Hartley, who modelled it after Neutra’s never-built Case Study House #6, explains Rodney.

“The Starlet House maintains these features and adapts them to a North Vancouver context, notably through the use of local cedar and granite,” reads a release.

“A leading figure in his adoptive state, Neutra’s influence extends northward as well. Between 1946 and 1953, he gave a series of lectures at UBC that left an enduring impact on an entire generation of young architects like Arthur Erickson and Ron Thom, who later took his design philosophies and adapted them to B.C.’s climate and landscape to create what would come to be known as West Coast style.”

Hartley attended UBC School of Architecture during the time Neutra came to give lectures. He designed various Continued on A15

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A West Vancouver tenant who withheld part of his rent because he thought the wine cooler his landlord had installed was inadequate has been told to put a cork in it by the B.C. Court of Appeal.

The legal dispute – which focused on whether the wine cooler installed in a

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West Vancouver townhouse was up to snuff – went through several Residential Tenancy Board hearings and attempts to appeal to the courts over a three-year period.

The tenant’s case was eventually dismissed by the B.C. Court of Appeal Sept. 8.

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Replacement cooler questioned Continued from A16 According to a written decision that decanted the case, under a tenancy agreement signed April 1, 2020, Azmairnin Jadavji was to rent a West Vancouver townhome from landlord Jingjing Yin under at a monthly rent of $5,700 for a three-year period.

Immediately after moving in, however, Jadavji complained about several perceived deficiencies, including a broken wine cooler and dirty blinds, and in July asked the Residential Tenancy Board to reduce his rent and order repairs.

By October, an arbitrator for the tenancy board had ordered the landlord to fix the problems, including providing “a functional wine cooler,” noting “the issue of the wine cooler appears to have been of particular concern to the tenant.”

But by early 2021, the tenant was back before the board, arguing the wine cooler was still inadequate, and his blinds still needed cleaning.

The issue apparently had legs, and the tenant and landlord had further arguments before the board, with an arbitrator ordering the landlord to install a fancier wine cooler after the tenant complained “the new wine cooler was not of comparable quality” to the one that

had broken.

When the tenant continued to withhold a portion of his rent for the perceived ‘deficiencies’ following the installation of a new unit, his landlord issued him an eviction order for unpaid rent.

Another arbitrator who weighed in on the case agreed with the landlord that enough was enough, awarding Yin $5,400 in unpaid rent.

The arbitrator also agreed with the landlord that the reason some of the tenant’s blinds had not been cleaned was “the tenant refused to move his furniture out of the way.”

The tenant attempted to dispute the decision twice more, at first arguing he had been “denied the opportunity to participate fully” in the online hearing because he’d joined late due to an invalid access code. He later tried asking for a judicial review of the case, under other technical grounds, which was rejected by B.C. Supreme Court.

Most recently, the Court of Appeal upheld that decision, with a panel of three appeal court justices pouring out the dregs of those arguments, writing, “The tenant has failed to establish that the decision of the arbitrator was patently unreasonable or procedurally unfair.”

Notice of land use plan amendment On September 12, 2023, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority board of directors amended the land use plan to incorporate one property acquisition in Surrey, and two re-designations to existing port authority sites in Electoral Area A—Indian Arm and Coquitlam.

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One site has been designated as Industrial, and two sites have been re-designated—one to Commercial and the other to an Industrial land use designation.

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Crown seeks jail for former school counsellor in child porn case BRENT RICHTER

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The Crown is seeking jail time for a former West Vancouver Secondary guidance counsellor who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.

Joseph Scott William McLeod, known as “Joey McLeod” in his professional capacity, pleaded guilty to the charge in North Vancouver Provincial Court in August 2022.

At his sentencing hearing Friday, the court heard how McLeod, 41, sent images containing child nudity and child pornography from his phone to a contact via Snapchat, which was flagged by the social media company and his IP

address directed to police.

North Vancouver RCMP executed a search warrant at his North Vancouver home in January 2020, seizing his phone and laptop, which had on them dozens of pictures and drawn cartoons, as well as one video, showing prepubescent boys ranging in age from six months to 13 years old, nude or being sexually abused.

Police also seized a two-terabyte hard drive from McLeod’s home but it was password protected, and despite eight months of police software making 11 billion attempts to crack the password, they were unable to access the data, the court heard.

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McLeod had been a Grade 8 guidance counsellor at West Vancouver Secondary since 2017.

Prior to that, he was a math teacher in Richmond.

Crown counsel Sean Harvey detailed the varying degrees of harm being done to the young boys in the material seized by police.

He described the Joseph McLeod, also known five-minute video, which as Joey McLeod, in undated photo. MCLEOD’S VIRTUAL involved a boy between the CLASSROOM / GOOGLE SITES ages of one and two years old, as being “as vile as one could imagine a sexual assault on a child could be.”

McLeod hung his head and closed his eyes as Harvey summarized the contents.

Given the circumstances of the case, Harvey said a jail sentences of six to 12 months would be appropriate, emphasizing the “unimaginable, grotesque” nature of the abuse in the images and video, which targeted “the most vulnerable” victims in society.

Children forced into abusive pornography are re-victimized every time the images are viewed, Harvey said, and the victims’ lives are often ruined because of the abuse they received.

McLeod has since left North Vancouver and moved to Ontario, the court heard.

Defence lawyer Claire Hatcher argued McLeod should be given a conditional sentence order, meaning “a jail sentence served at home,” for up to 24 months, followed by a year of probation.

Hatcher said her client came to court “with a profound and profoundly genuine sense of remorse, shame, and ever-developing insight” into his life at the time he was accessing photos of children being abused.

Hatcher noted there was no suggestion that McLeod ever behaved inappropriately with any of his students.

McLeod has turned his life around since the time of his arrest, getting off drugs and alcohol and making efforts at his rehabilitation through counselling.

Hatcher noted that McLeod’s actions led to him losing the career that he loved and that he has also been publicly shamed for his behaviour through the media.

During an interview for a pre-sentence report, McLeod was “atypically candid” about this pedophilic attraction to young boys, one psychologist remarked.

Two expert reports submitted to the court concluded McLeod was at low risk to reoffend.

Once his sentence is complete, McLeod wishes to help others who have gone through a similar experience, Hatcher said.

Before the hearing was adjourned, McLeod apologized to the court, his family members present, the teaching profession and to the wider community for his actions.

“I wish I could apologize directly to the children. The consequences of my sentence are going to be part of my rehabilitation and healing my soul and delivering justice.

Again, I’m sorry beyond words and I strive to get this right in whatever way I can.”

McLeod will be sentenced later in the fall.

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Police, North Shore Rescue search for man’s missing remains BRENT RICHTER

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West Vancouver police and North Shore Rescue have resumed searching for the remains of a man who disappeared on the North Shore in 2020.

Edmonton resident Jarrett Shane Whitford was last seen at a Hope gas station on Sept. 19, 2020, en route to North Vancouver.

Police found the 32-year-old’s 2015 Nissan Micra abandoned in the Capilano Mall parking lot on Jan. 21, 2021. At the time, investigators issued a renewed plea for tips from the public on Whitford’s whereabouts.

Sgt. Mark McLean, West Vancouver Police Department spokesman, said months later, workers in the Metro Vancouver watershed above Capilano Lake happened upon “partial human remains.”

“In June of this year, that DNA came back and was confirmed to be his DNA,” McLean said. “His family is aware of all this.

We’ve been supporting his family the whole time.”

Police called in North Shore Rescue volunteers on Thursday to help scour the area, taking advantage of the low water

level of the reservoir and dry search conditions.

Following the search, McLean said they did find more partial remains as well as hiking gear but police still have unanswered questions, including how Whitford died and how his remains came to be in the watershed above Capilano Lake, which is off limits to the public and fenced in with barbed wire.

“There’s nothing to indicate a cause of death one way or the other, and I can’t stress enough, there’s nothing to indicate foul play,” he said. “Our ultimate goal is to give some sort of closure to the family and find some evidence that would indicate how this came to be.”

Since investigators are trying to piece together what happened in Whitford’s final days, they are looking for any information the public can provide, especially from witnesses who saw him on the North Shore.

“I understand this was quite some time ago and that people’s memories might be affected, but certainly, if anyone recalls seeing a person who doesn’t look like an authorized employee in that fenced area of the watershed, we would certainly want to hear from them,” he said.

North Shore Rescue volunteers prepare to search the North Vancouver watershed, looking for the remains of an Edmonton man, Sept. 14, 2023. PAT BELL

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North Shore riders took 72K Lime bike trips last year NICK LABA

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For Lime bike riders across the North Shore, apparently the juice is worth the squeeze.

According to a staff report presented to West Vancouver council Sept. 11, riders completed 71,683 trips, for a total of 165,585 kilometres, across three local municipalities from January to December 2022. The collaborative, two-year e-bike share pilot wraps up at the end of this year.

Average daily trips taken showed particularly strong demand in the summer months, with more than 2.4 trips per e-bike per day, with a considerable spike in August to 3.8 trips per bike per day. That’s compared to an average of between one and two trips in other North American jurisdictions.

“This data indicates a strong demand in the local community for the program and support for alternate transportation modes in our region,” reads the report.

Most of the total trips taken were in the City of North Vancouver (54,804 trips), followed by North Vancouver District (8,632) and West Vancouver (8,247). West Van’s program, however, didn’t roll out until last July, giving the other municipalities an extra six

months of trip data.

The total distance ridden in West Van was also notably higher (32,563 km) than North Vancouver District (24,794 km).

Coun. Nora Gambioli said she was impressed with the results. “That’s way more than I would have thought.”

“If we think about how many car trips were saved … I think it must be having some effect on traffic,” she said. “[The program] sounds like it’s a great success so far.”

Coun. Christine Cassidy asked if there was data on how many of the trips were recreational versus functional, such as riding to the library or grocery store. Staff indicated that information was not available.

In terms of availability, there are 21 Lime “groves” in North Vancouver District, 54 in North Vancouver City and 14 in West Van – for a total of 89. The number of bikes available fluctuates with demand: as high as 250 across the North Shore in September to less than 150 in December.

Findings in the report will inform final recommendations that will be presented to West Van council before the pilot ends in December, staff said. A forthcoming report aims to guide future decision making for the program. This information will go to, and be considered by, each municipal council individually.

West Vancouver District councillor Nora Gambioli tries out the Lime bikes at a grove near Ambleside Beach. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

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Permissive Tax Exemptions for 2024-2027 In accordance with Section 227 of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that the Council for the District of North Vancouver intends to consider the adoption of Bylaw 8636 “2024-2027 Taxation Exemptions by Council Bylaw 8636, 2023” and Bylaw 8638 “Tax Exemption for 2024-2033 Ice Sports North Shore Bylaw 8638, 2023” at the Regular Council Meeting to be held on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. Bylaw 8636 will provide the following properties with a 100% exemption from the payment of Municipal property taxes for the years 2024 to 2027 inclusive. Bylaw 8638 will provide Canlan Ice Sports with a 100% exemption from the payment of Municipal property taxes for the years 2024 to 2033 inclusive for the property listed below.

Exemption to remain in effect based upon current contractual arrangement in the “Ice Facility Partnering Agreement” between the District of North Vancouver and Canlan Ice Sports Corp.

Upon modification to the agreement the current exemption will terminate at December 31st of the year following any amendment date.

Note:The tax figures below are estimates only and will be modified based on changes in assessment, as provided by BC Assessment, and taxes as determined by Council for the years 2024, 2025 and 2026.

Organization

Description of proposed exemption

Address

Estimated taxes 2024 $

Estimated taxes 2025 $

Estimated taxes 2026 $

PROPOSED EXEMPTIONS UNDER BYLAW 8636 North Shore Crisis Services Society

That portion of Lot 2, District Lot 2087, Group 1, New Westminster District Plan LMP24090 106-223 Mountain Highway 108-223 Mountain Highway 3158 Mountain Highway 3140 Mountain Highway 104-3205 Mountain Highway 204-3205 Mountain Highway 304-3205 Mountain Highway 404-3205 Mountain Highway

224(2)(a)

4,785

5,024

5,275

224(2)(a) 224(2)(a) 224(2)(a) 224(2)(a) 224(2)(a) 224(2)(a) 224(2)(a) 224(2)(a)

8,779 2,602 3,300 13,227 229 229 229 229

9,218 2,732 3,465 13,889 241 241 241 241

9,678 2,869 3,638 14,583 253 253 253 253

1573 Arborlynn Drive

224(2)(a)

2,694

2,829

2,971

1198 Harold Road

224(2)(a)

2,430

2,552

2,679

5415 Molina Crescent

224(2)(a)

4,265

4,478

4,702

1286 Chamberlain Drive

224(2)(a)

4,334

4,550

4,778

1071 Roosevelt Crescent 2649 Dollarton Highway

224(2)(a) 224(2)(a)

19,210 1,134

20,171 1,190

21,179 1,250

MTR Asset Management Society

1063 Hendecourt Road

224(2)(a)

3,063

3,217

3,377

MTR Asset Management Society North Star Montessori Elementary Society Marineview Housing Society

224(2)(a) 224(2)(a) 224(2)(a)

3,316 2,301 2,429

3,482 2,416 2,551

3,656 2,537 2,678

224(2)(b)

10,100

10,605

11,135

224(2)(b)

3,942

4,139

4,346

224(2)(b)

3,378

3,547

3,724

Greater Vancouver Water District (Parkland)

821 East 29th Street 1325 East Keith Road 990 East Keith Road Lot A (except part in Plan 6637), Blocks 23 and 24, District Lots 601 and 607, Plan 4740 All that part of Block A (Reference Plan 360) Lying East of Lot B (Reference Plan 1372), District Lot 764, Group 1, New Westminster District Lot B (Reference Plan 1372), Block A (Reference Plan 360), District Lot 764, Group 1, New Westminster District Block G, District Lot 602, Plan 10857

224(2)(b)

18,196

19,105

20,061

The Corporation of the City of North Vancouver (Parkland)

District Lot 1620, Group 1 New Westminster District

224(2)(b)

31,250

32,813

34,453

2580 Capilano Road

224(2)(b)

5,961

6,259

6,572

3675 Banff Court 4360 Gallant Avenue 815 East 11th Street 3355 Mountain Highway Unit 101, 1200 Lynn Valley Road

224(2)(b) 224(2)(d) 224(2)(d) 224(2)(d) 224(2)(d)

14,023 11,548 9,619 19,201 6,594

14,724 12,125 10,100 20,161 6,924

15,460 12,732 10,605 21,169 7,270

St. John Society (British Columbia and Yukon) St. John Society (British Columbia and Yukon) North Shore Disability Resource Centre Foundation North Shore Disability Resource Centre Foundation North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association Canadian Mental Health Association, North and West Vancouver Branch Canadian Mental Health Association, North and West Vancouver Branch Canadian Mental Health Association, North and West Vancouver Branch Canadian Mental Health Association, North and West Vancouver Branch Change the World Foundation, DBA Harvest Project Wild Bird Trust of British Columbia

The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver (Parkland) The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver (Parkland) The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver (Parkland)

The Corporation of the District of North Vancouver (Animal Shelter) Parkgate Community Health Centre Deep Cove Cultural Society North Vancouver Community Players RNB Dance and Theatre Arts Society RNB Dance and Theatre Arts Society

For further information, please call Eirikka Brandson, Community Planner, 604-990-2274 or Daniel So, Section Manager – Revenue and Taxation, 604-990-2230

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Organization Parkgate Community Services Society North Shore Neighbourhood House Seymour Heights Parent Participation Preschool Association dba Seymour Heights Play-Based Programs Lynn Valley Parent Participation Preschool Lynn Valley Services Society Deep Cove Rowing Club

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Description of proposed exemption

Address

Estimated taxes 2024 $

Estimated taxes 2025 $

Estimated taxes 2026 $

949 Lytton Street 3361 Mountain Highway

224(2)(d) 224(2)(d)

6,422 2,159

6,744 2,266

7,081 2,380

800 Lytton Street

224(2)(d)

946

993

1,043

3220 Mountain Highway 940 Lynn Valley Road 2156 Banbury Road That portion of Lot A, Block 7, District Lot 193, Plan 12218, Except Part Road on Plan BCP35378

224(2)(d) 224(2)(d) 224(2)(d)

633 2,564 4,704

664 2,692 4,939

698 2,827 5,186

224(2)(d)

8,179

8,588

9,017

Hollyburn Family Services Society

3212 Mount Seymour Parkway

224(2)(d)

2,368

2,486

2,611

Hollyburn Family Services Society

3218 Mount Seymour Parkway

224(2)(d)

2,536

2,663

2,796

Hollyburn Family Services Society

Lot F, Block G, District Lot 613, Plan 20442

224(2)(d)

6,722

7,058

7,411

Hollyburn Family Services Society

894 Orwell Street

224(2)(d)

2,927

3,074

3,227

Family Services of the North Shore

399 Seymour River Place

224(2)(d)

2,840

2,982

3,131

Capilano Tennis Club

2500 Capilano Road

224(2)(d)

5,860

6,153

6,461

Forest View Early Learning Society

3592 Mountain Highway

224(2)(d)

3,111

3,267

3,430

North Shore Crisis Services Society

Lot B, Block 2, District Lot 791, Plan 10072

224(2)(d)

2,406

2,527

2,653

SAP Outdoor Association

1390 West 22nd Street

224(2)(d)

7,236

7,597

7,977

Aga Khan Foundation Canada

1150 Gladwin Drive

224(2)(g)

45,892

48,186

50,595

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

5793 Nancy Greene Way

224(2)(j)

3,614

3,795

3,985

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

4060 Shone Road

224(2)(j)

3,617

3,798

3,988

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

4338 Quinton Place

224(2)(j)

5,025

5,277

5,541

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

750 West 23rd Street

224(2)(j)

3,691

3,876

4,070

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

2000 Rufus Drive

224(2)(j)

3,436

3,607

3,788

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

1608 Kerrstead Place

224(2)(j)

3,749

3,936

4,133

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

1630 Kilmer Road

224(2)(j)

3,508

3,683

3,867

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

3908 Loraine Avenue

224(2)(j)

3,682

3,866

4,059

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

202 – 2785 Library Lane

224(2)(j)

1,819

1,910

2,006

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

302 – 2785 Library Lane

224(2)(j)

1,819

1,910

2,006

North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association

402 – 2785 Library Lane

224(2)(j)

1,831

1,922

2,019

Community Living Society

2985 Newmarket Drive

224(2)(j)

4,663

4,896

5,141

Community Living Society

4537 Capilano Road

224(2)(j)

2,825

2,966

3,115

Community Living Society

3091 Paisley Road

224(2)(j)

3,717

3,903

4,098

Community Living Society

3660 Maginnis Avenue

224(2)(j)

3,134

3,291

3,455

Community Living Society

1075 Frederick Road

224(2)(j)

2,660

2,793

2,933

Community Living Society

1680 Ross Road

224(2)(j)

3,053

3,206

3,366

Community Living Society

3636 Norwood Avenue

224(2)(j)

3,122

3,278

3,442

Greater Vancouver Community Services Society

3403 Mount Seymour Parkway

224(2)(j)

2,495

2,619

2,750

Greater Vancouver Community Services Society

1693 Coleman Street

224(2)(j)

2,913

3,058

3,211

Intellectual Disabilities (North & West Vancouver) Society

2490 Edgemont Boulevard

224(2)(j)

2,532

2,659

2,792

Intellectual Disabilities (North & West Vancouver) Society

4410 Capilano Road

224(2)(j)

4,467

4,690

4,924

Intellectual Disabilities (North & West Vancouver) Society

1240 Barlynn Crescent

224(2)(j)

3,619

3,800

3,990

Intellectual Disabilities (North & West Vancouver) Society

1904 Peters Road

224(2)(j)

3,513

3,688

3,873

Turning Point Recovery Society

2670 Lloyd Avenue

224(2)(j)

4,855

5,098

5,353

Turning Point Recovery Society

2431 Burr Place

224(2)(j)

4,430

4,652

4,885

Hollyburn Family Services Society

For further information, please call Eirikka Brandson, Community Planner, 604-990-2274 or Daniel So, Section Manager – Revenue and Taxation, 604-990-2230

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Description of proposed exemption

Address

Estimated taxes 2024 $

Estimated taxes 2025 $

Estimated taxes 2026 $

Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society

2555 Whiteley Court

224(2)(k)

58,412

61,333

64,400

Lowland Senior Citizens’ Housing Society

1335 East 27th Street

224(2)(k)

9,956

10,454

10,976

21 & 224(2)(d)

53,806

56,496

59,321

PROPOSED EXEMPTION UNDER BYLAW 8638 Canlan Ice Sports Corp.

2411 Mount Seymour Parkway

t Also on October 3, 2023, Council will consider the adoption of Bylaw 8637 “2024-2027 Taxation Exemptions for Places of Public Worship Bylaw 8637, 2023”.

Copies of Bylaw 8636 “2024-2027 Taxation Exemptions by Council Bylaw 8636, 2023”, Bylaw 8637 “2024-2027 Taxation Exemptions for Places of Public Worship Bylaw 8637, 2023”, and Bylaw 8638 “Tax Exemption for 2024-2033 Ice Sports North Shore Bylaw 8638, 2023” and relevant background material are available for review online in the agenda package for the September 11, 2023 Regular Meeting of Council at www.dnv.org/agenda.

Permissive Tax Exemptions - Extract of Community Charter General authority for permissive exemptions 224 (1) A council may, by bylaw in accordance with this section, exempt land or improvements, or both, referred to in subsection (2) from taxation under section 197 (1) (a) [municipal property taxes], to the extent, for the period and subject to the conditions provided in the bylaw.

(2) Tax exemptions may be provided under this section for the following: (a) land or improvements that (i) are owned or held by a charitable, philanthropic or other not for profit corporation, and (ii) the council considers are used for a purpose that is directly related to the purposes of the corporation; (b) land or improvements that (i) are owned or held by a municipality, regional district or other local authority, and (ii) the council considers are used for a purpose of the local authority; (c) land or improvements that the council considers would otherwise qualify for exemption under section 220 [general statutory exemptions] were it not for a secondary use; (d) the interest of a public authority, local authority or any other corporation or organization in land or improvements that are used or occupied by the corporation or organization if (i) the land or improvements are owned by a public authority or local authority, and (ii) the land or improvements are used by the corporation or organization for a purpose in relation to which an exemption under this Division or Division 6 of this Part would apply or could be provided if the land or improvements were owned by that corporation or organization; (e) the interest of a public authority, local authority or any other corporation or organization in land or improvements that are used or occupied by the corporation or organization if (i) the land or improvements are owned by a person who is providing a municipal service under a partnering agreement, (ii) an exemption under section 225 [partnering and other special tax exemption authority] would be available for the land or improvements in relation to the partnering agreement if they were used in relation to the service, (iii) the partnering agreement expressly contemplates that the council may provide an exemption under this provision, and (iv) the land or improvements are used by the corporation or organization for a purpose in relation to which an exemption under this Division or Division 6 of this Part would apply or could be provided if the land or improvements were owned by that corporation or organization; (f) in relation to property that is exempt under section 220 (1) (h) [buildings for public worship], (i) an area of land surrounding the exempt building, (ii) a hall that the council considers is necessary to the exempt building and the land on which the hall stands, and (iii) an area of land surrounding a hall that is exempt under subparagraph (ii); (g) land or improvements used or occupied by a religious organization, as tenant or licensee, for the purpose of public worship or for the purposes of a hall that the council considers is necessary to land or improvements so used or occupied; (h) in relation to property that is exempt under section 220 (1) (i)[seniors’ homes] or (j) [hospitals], any area of land surrounding the exempt building; (h.1) in relation to land or improvements, or both, exempt under section 220 (1) (l) [independent schools], any area of land surrounding the exempt land or improvements; (i) land or improvements owned or held by an athletic or service club or association and used as a public park or recreation ground or for public athletic or recreational purposes; (j) land or improvements owned or held by a person or organization and operated as a private hospital licensed under the Hospital Act or as a licensed community care facility, or registered assisted living residence, under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act; (k) land or improvements for which a grant has been made, after March 31, 1974, under the Housing Construction (Elderly Citizens) Act before its repeal.

For further information, please call Eirikka Brandson, Community Planner, 604-990-2274 or Daniel So, Section Manager – Revenue and Taxation, 604-990-2230

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North Vancouver sisters among Canada’s first pickleball pros NICK LABA

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Propelled by the sport’s recent surge in pop-pop-popularity, Canada launched its premier professional pickleball league earlier this year. Among the nation’s top players are a sibling pair from North Vancouver.

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Angie and Alex Walker were the No. 1 and 8 picks, respectively, in the Canadian National Pickleball League’s first-ever draft. The sisters have also recently signed to the U.S.-based Professional Pickleball Association, where they will join Canadian tennis sensation Eugenie Bouchard, who just signed last week.

In its first season, the CNPL picked up 32 paddle pros, ranging in age from 18 to 54. The players were drafted onto eight teams, with two women and two men per team.

All the players travel to events where each team plays all the others. In each match, two teams will play against each other in mixed and gender matches. If one team wins three out of four games, they take the match. In the case of a tie, the teams face off in a singles “stream

breaker,” where each in the four-player lineup rotates every three points up to 15.

At a 14-to-14 tie, it goes to sudden death.

“It’s super exciting for the fans to watch when it comes down to those stream breakers,” Alex says. Her team, the Rocky Mountain Rush, topped the CNPL regular season with a recent three-game winning streak at the Edmonton Expo Centre, Sept.

2-3. As a result, the Rush have qualified for the playoffs in Mississauga, Ont. on Sept.

30 and Oct. 1.

The 22-year-old Carson Graham alum says she loves the team events. “You’re out there with your team. They’re sitting right on the sidelines cheering you on while you’re playing,” Alex said. “Every single point matters because we play with rally scoring.”

Her least favourite part? Playing against her sister.

“We’re each other’s best friend and No. 1 supporter, so playing against each other has been a bit tough because we both want the other one to do well,” Alex said.

“When the goal is to try to beat them, it’s a bit weird.”

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Walker sisters play same pickleball circuit as Eugenie Bouchard tournaments a year for three years.

“If you told me several months ago that my life was going to change this much in this short amount of time, I would have laughed,” Alex said. “I’m thrilled to be able to do what I love, now full time. It’s my passion.”

Tennis will always have a special place in their hearts. It’s what they grew up on, and it’s how their parents met – both playing on the team at Texas Tech University. But pickleball is a faster game.

“Coming from tennis, you step out on the court, and you could be out there for four hours in one match,” Alex said. “But pickleball, the matches are a lot more compact, you focus intensely for that amount of time, the points are quicker, the time between points is quicker.”

Alex said she was also drawn in by the community aspect of the sport, how close-knit, social and friendly everybody is.

For these reasons and others, pickleball has become a pretty

Continued from A26 The pair grew up playing tennis together and would both go on to play with scholarships at U.S. schools – Alex at University of Montana and Angie at Idaho State University.

During the pandemic, their mom introduced them to pickleball. At first, it was just for fun.

But then Angie decided to take it more seriously, and went full-time this January, playing tournaments weekly and getting her name out there south of the border.

“Ever since then, she’s been pushing me to go on this journey along with her,” Alex said. “So far, it’s been awesome.”

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That enthusiasm had led to the creation of professional associations like the CNPL, PPA and Major League Pickleball, where West Vancouver’s Todd Fought plays for the Hard Eights. And big athletic brands are now sponsoring pickleball athletes – Angie Walker has a contract with Head.

But not everyone is a fan.

Pickleball’s bite into public court space, and its distinctive “pop” sound, have made the sport a salty subject for detractors in communities here on the North Shore, and across North America.

To the haters, Alex gives the same advice you would to someone whose face sours at an unwanted vegetable.

“Give it a try,” she said. “You might not hate it as much as you think. Maybe you’ll end up really liking it.”

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Longtime coach gets the call to BC Football Hall of Fame ANDY PREST

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Larry Donohoe has been a fixture on the Carson Graham Secondary football team in North Vancouver for more than 40 years.

And now he’ll be a permanent fixture on the walls of the BC Football Hall of Fame.

The former Carson Graham player who jumped right into coaching following his playing days was inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony during the CFL game between the BC Lions and Ottawa Redblacks Friday night at BC Place. The Class of 2023 also included Jon Cornish, Bryan Chiu, Will Loftus, Mark McDonald, Howard Tsumura, Terry Kehoe, Kay Ackles, Dennis Skulsky, and the 1996-1998 Richmond Colts.

For Donohoe, who has served a number of coaching and administrative roles with the Carson Graham program over the years, the call to the hall is still a bit stunning.

“It’s kind of surreal,” he said before the ceremony. “Definitely humbling, but it’s a huge honor. I still don’t know what to think about it all, to be honest.”

Donohoe’s Carson career started as a player in 1978. He graduated in 1980 and

was set to play for SFU, but just before the season began he found out he was ineligible due to his grades. At around the same time Donohoe’s father passed away. It was at this low point that Earl Henderson, the legendary founder of the Carson football program who spent nearly three decades as head coach, ordered Donohoe to report for duty.

“He said ‘well if you’re not going to school, you’re going to come coach,’” Donohoe recalled. “Earl was the first coach who made me fall in love with coaching.”

Donohoe has been working with the Carson program ever since, and his connections to the team have made him the longest serving non-teaching coach in the history of the North Shore Secondary Schools Athletics Association.

His list of accomplishments is extensive, including head coaching and assistant coaching roles with both the Carson junior and senior teams, collecting several provincial championship banners along the way.

He also co-founded and served as co-ordinator of the annual Buchanan Bowl game between Carson Graham and their North Van neighbours Handsworth.

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Donohoe a driving force behind annual Buchanan Bowl game

Continued from A28 Founded in 1987, the Buchanan Bowl is the second-longest running high school rivalry game in the province.

Donohoe is also president of the James Buchanan Memorial Scholarship Fund, which awards academic scholarships to a player from each of the Buchanan Bowl teams.

“Larry is incredibly loyal and caring,” said current Carson Graham head coach Brian Brady.

“The sheer volume of work he needs to do for the Buchanan Bowl would be crippling to the average individual. He has grown this event not for himself, but for the honour of James Buchanan’s memory, for his friend John Buchanan, and to ensure that Carson Graham and Handsworth have a special event to build community and come together. These are the memories students will have 20-30-40 years after graduation.”

Away from Carson, Donohoe has also served as a staff sponsor of the Argyle Pipers football program, acted as an assistant coach

at the B.C. Senior Bowl and at the Western Canada All-Star Football Camp, sat as an executive of the BC Secondary Schools Football Association, and co-ordinated the Subway Bowl BC High School Football All-Star Banquet during the first five years of its existence.

Suffice it to say, he’s given a huge amount of time, effort and expertise to the game of football.

But the game has also given a huge amount back to him.

“Football is a different sport,” he said. “I love the preparation, I love working with the kids. It’s kind of my happy place with all the stresses of life.... I’ve given back, but I always felt like I was getting a lot back as well. I just love being around it all.”

Football is a unique game in terms of the bonds that it creates, said Donohoe.

“I met great people along the way, lots of mentors of mine who have become great friends,” he said. “It’s the ultimate team sport – you have to have all 11 guys doing the right thing for anything to work.”

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Here are a few of my favourite things about West Coast living MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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Last month marked one whole year since I packed up my life and moved to Canada from New Zealand, where I had lived as a British expat since 2016. This month then marked one whole year since I started writing for the North Shore News, and one year since my Newcomer to Vancouver column debuted.

The columns, which unpack my experience settling into a new country and all the blunders and comical situations that come with it, have been churned out at least once a month since.

Some have poked fun at aspects of Canadian culture, others have honed in on unsavoury subject matter. So it seemed only fair that I would make my annual celebration piece something that errs on the nicer side: A compilation, of all my favourite things about my new home.

• Running along the West Vancouver seawall. There is not a

single stressful situation or crappy day that can’t be remedied by a run along West Van’s waterfront, more so if it begins and ends at the dog beach.

• Timbits. I am obsessed with Timbits. So cute. So moreish. So Canadian. I don’t have to leave my car to stuff my face with them.

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The birthday cake flavour is my favourite.

And while we’re on the topic … doughnuts in general. Vancouver’s dedication to the deep fried treat is something else, there’s a boundless selection on the North Shore alone. Honey’s rocks my world.

Harmony would knock the socks off Mary Berry herself.

• Despite my occasional ribbing, the pronunciation of ‘sorry.’

• Bears sloshing around in North Shore backyard pools. Baby bears crossing roads. Whales doing whale things. Hummingbirds flitting around the garden. Raccoons running around the SeaBus station.

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• Seabus Memes nailing it every time. Shania Twain singing ‘Let’s Go Girls.’ Crazy P running riot at Canucks hockey games.

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• Finding a box of Annie’s pasta in the cupboard when you think there is no food in the house and you can’t be bothered to cook.

Finding out the box of Annie’s pasta is the white cheddar shells flavour.

• Listening to JR Country in the car with the windows down.

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• Fun and cheery sketches by West Vancouver artist Ian Cunliffe.

• The entire month of October.

Driving around with no aim other than to look at all the glorious Halloween displays. Gorging on the 2,800 pumpkin flavoured things. Watching classics at a drive-in movie with the perfect blanket.

• Replace October with December, Halloween with Christmas, and

pumpkin with gingerbread.

• The vague possibility of bumping into Ryan Reynolds or Seth Rogen or some minor Netflix actor in a local restaurant, cafe, or 7-Eleven. It hasn’t happened yet, but it will (surely).

• Sun-drenched mornings that turn into typical Raincouver afternoons, so I can hike for a bit and then abandon all plans in favour of lying on the sofa and watching Harry Potter without a single shred of guilt.

• Pigs racing at the PNE. • Poutine on a winter’s evening.

Coffee crisps. Celebration cookies.

Caesars. Pumpkin pie. Those little maple-leaf shaped biscuits with the cream in the middle.

• The White Spot in North Vancouver where you can sit in your car and have your burgers brought to you on a tray like you’re the Queen.

In this regular column, North Shore News reporter Mina Kerr-Lazenby shares the ups and downs of moving to Metro Vancouver, and all it entails.

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Many former Harvest Project clients come back to volunteer

Continued from A13 inside where clients can keep themselves appropriately clothed. There is art therapy that provides a salve for mental health.

They estimate there are about 500 folks on the North Shore who remain housed today because of the Harvest Project’s rent bank, which offers zero-interest loans to people who are falling behind in rent, or by helping them secure an apartment with first and last months’ rent and a damage deposit.

Hand up, not a hand out West Vancouver resident Sara (not her real name) said

she was grateful to receive the broad array of help when she was referred to the non-profit. In 2021, she was facing a family crisis, eviction and isolation leaving her with no one else she could turn to.

The Harvest Project kept Sara and her daughter from homelessness and hunger, which she remains grateful for, but Sara emphasized the importance of the compassionate approach the staff and volunteers demonstrated with her.

“From the first experience, I really liked them. They are very supportive, very kind,” said the single mom from West Vancouver. “I feel welcomed. I feel like they see me, they know me.”

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clients of the Harvest Project do eventually graduate and no longer need their services. Lee said the average duration in their program is less than two years.

There are “lightbulb moments” when it becomes clear that a client is not just doing better but also feeling better, Lee aid.

“Some folks spend two, three, four years with us. Others move on and find a level of greater health and self-sufficiency in a much shorter period of time,” he said. “We do hear of very conclusive change happening.”

None of it would be possible without gracious donors.

From an operating budget of $1.5 million this year, less than $100,000 will be from government sources. The rest comes from North Shore households, businesses as well as religious and community groups who know of the Harvest Project’s good work and want to share in their success.

Among their generous regular donors is North Vancouver’s Bryan Adams, who has told them if the Harvest Project existed when he was young, his family would have needed them.

Next year’s harvest Like a lot of people running non-profits focused on poverty, Lee would like nothing more than for the Harvest Project to no longer be needed when it comes time for a 40th or 50th anniversary. But he said, it’s more likely the organization will still be here, just further evolved with the times.

“We don’t exist because we want to, particularly, but there seems to be a role to be played by an accepting and welcoming place that has a really broad range of helps,” he said.

Lee said if there’s anything he’d ask of his North Shore neighbours now, it’s that they help share the Harvest Project’s story and make a connection with someone who is struggling.

“And then realize that Harvest Project is in your community to do that at a slightly larger scale to enable the community to be healthier,” he said. “Think about making some support at whatever level an individual or business can.… There are so many creative ways to be generous.”

While all Canadian charities were hit hard during COVID-19 with donors and volunteers disappearing, the Harvest Project adapted quickly, Lee said, keeping its finances in the black. They are, however, still trying to rebuild their volunteer base. One of those most reliable groups to offer their services, Lee said, are past clients.

That’s precisely what Sara has in mind.

“I am about to graduate this month. It was a hard decision to make but I feel I accomplished what I needed over these two years and maybe I need to be more independent,” she said. “In the future, I have the intention to volunteer.”

Stories like Sara’s are what Foster sought for the Harvest Project when he founded the non-profit 30 years ago. Foster died in 2022.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Harvest Project, the non-profit is collecting photos and stories from clients, graduates, volunteers and donors, which will be incorporated into a digital mosaic. A link for submissions will be added to the Harvest Project’s website and social media channels this week. The mosaic will be debuted at an open house the Harvest Project is hosting at its Roosevelt Crescent office on Nov. 2.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 | A33

CLIMATE SCIENCE

Much of B.C.’s coast recorded its hottest August in 174 years STEFAN LABBÉ

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Last month will go down as the hottest August in Earth’s 174-year climate record, in no small part thanks to record temperatures on B.C.’s coast, according to satellite data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

NOAA’s analysis found four continents — Africa, Asia, North and South America — had their hottest August ever. August also marks the fifth consecutive month global ocean surface temperatures have reached a record high.

The Arctic saw its warmest August and warmest summer on record, and at the planet’s other pole, last month was the fourth in a row where Antarctic sea ice hit a record low.

“Global marine heat waves and a growing El Niño are driving additional warming this year, but as long as emissions continue driving a steady march of background warming, we expect further records to be broken in the years to come,” NOAA chief scientist Sarah Kapnick said in a statement.

The agency found record-warm temperatures covered almost 13 per cent of the world’s surface in August, the most since the start of records. Temperatures have now exceeded the 20th century average for 534 consecutive months in a row.

Some areas were hotter than others.

Record temperatures were recorded in large swathes of Greenland, Japan, South America, the Caribbean, as well as West, Central and East Africa.

B.C. coast sees August record temperatures going back to 1850 Most of Canada saw much warmer than

average temperatures, including a large section of coastal British Columbia, which saw surface temperatures climb to their highest level ever.

The swath of record temperatures off North America’s west coast extended in a grid stretching from the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast, through the northern half of Vancouver Island and up the B.C. coast toward the Alaskan Panhandle.

About 10 kilometres off the coast of Tofino and off the northern tip of Vancouver Island near the Scott Islands, for example, records going back to 1850 show surface temperatures in August 2023 were the hottest measured yet.

Off the coast of downtown Victoria, however, last month was beat out by soaring temperatures in August 2022.

Ellen Bartow-Gillies, a climate scientist at NOAA and lead author of its global monthly climate report, said that while not every location in the “record warmest” grid category will register as a record, enough did to trigger a global signal throughout a massive section of B.C. coast.

“It’s definitely something that’s notable on even the global scale,” said Bartow-Gillies.

“That has implications for the ocean because marine life is obviously affected by elevated surface temperatures.”

With 71 per cent of the Earth covered by ocean, when it warms, it feeds extreme weather systems, such as hurricanes, atmospheric rivers and the kind of storms that have unleashed powerful flooding across the Mediterranean in recent weeks.

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Warming trend expected to continue as El Niño cycle settles in Continued from A33 expansion,” Bartow-Gillies said.

El Niño remains a wildcard The warming trend is only expected to continue with the growing influence of El Niño.

La Niña and El Niño are used to describe warm and cool phases of a climate pattern that shifts across the tropical Pacific every three to seven years.

As sea surface temperatures swing back and forth between Australia and South America, the cyclical El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon causes knock-on effects that disrupt temperature and precipitation patterns thousands of kilometres away — often in somewhat predictable ways.

In B.C., a cycle dominated by an El Niño pattern tends to deliver warmer winters, while La Niña brings colder temperatures.

The world is currently entering another El Niño event, but those warming effects don’t tend to fully affect the Northern Hemisphere until the winter after it emerges in the South Pacific.

“We’re heading into this El Niño season, and we’re already breaking ocean heat record,” said Bartow-Gillies. “We’re

already seeing this really, really unprecedented heat in the oceans and you know, that’s not going anywhere. That heat is here to stay.”

Bartow-Gillies says part of the explanation may be that La Niña’s global cooling effect over the past three years may have dampened the impacts of human-caused climate change.

“We don’t know the extent that climate is kind of bouncing back from that event versus how much of the current El Niño is affecting our climate” she said.

“It’s something we’re keeping an eye on. It’s somewhat of a cause for concern.”

At the global scale, there’s now a 95 per cent chance 2023 will be among the top two hottest years on record, up from 47 per cent last month.

“I hope people start to pay attention.

This unprecedented heat is becoming more and more precedented,” she said.

“A lot of the places around the world are not equipped to deal with this sort of record heat. They need to sort of face the reality.”

“Because at the end of the day, we just want to make sure that people are safe and healthy. And as we approach a really, really warm world, that’s getting harder and harder to do.”

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Council Chamber, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver Pursuant to Section 254 of the Community Charter and Section 645 of the Local Government Act, notice is hereby given that as of September 25, 2023, the following properties will be subject to Tax Sale unless delinquent taxes, together with interest, are paid: Roll Number Legal Description

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List subject to change.

Prospective purchasers of a tax sale property will not have the right to receive title or possession of the property until one full year following the date of the Tax Sale. During this period, the registered owners of the property have the prerogative to redeem the property from the sale.

Properties sold at the Tax Sale are subject to Property Transfer Tax. It is the purchaser’s responsibility to satisfy themselves regarding the condition/potential of a property.

Questions? Financial Services / tax@cnv.org / 604-983-7316 141 WEST 14TH STREET / NORTH VANCOUVER / BC / V7M 1H9 T 604 985 7761 / F 604 985 9417 / CNV.ORG

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PERMISSIVE TAX EXEMPTIONS NOTICE 2024 Permissive Tax Exemptions under provision of the Community Charter (SBC 2003) Chapter 26, Part 7, Division 7, Section 224.

It is the intention of the Council of the District of West Vancouver to consider Proposed 2024 Permissive Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 5250, 2023 at the regular Council Meeting on Monday, September 25, 2023. Proposed 2024 Permissive Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 5250, 2023 will provide the following properties with an exemption from paying municipal taxes in 2024.

Extract of Community Charter Chapter 26 Part 7 DIVISION 7-PERMISSIVE EXEMPTIONS: General authority for permissive exemptions a public authority or local authority, and (ii) the land or improvements are used by the corporation or organization for a purpose in relation to which an exemption under this Division or Division 6 of this Part would apply or could be provided if the land or improvements were owned by that corporation or organization; (f) in relation to property that is exempt under section 220 (1) (h) [buildings for public worship], (i) an area of land surrounding the exempt building, (ii) a hall that the council considers is necessary to the exempt building and the land on which the hall stands, and (iii) an area of land surrounding a hall that is exempt under subparagraph (ii); (h) in relation to property that is exempt under section 220 (1) (i) [seniors’ homes] or (j) [hospitals], any area of land surrounding the exempt building; (k) land or improvements for which a grant has been made, after March 31, 1974, under the Housing Construction (Elderly Citizens) Act before its repeal.

224 (1) A council may, by bylaw in accordance with this section, exempt land or improvements, or both, referred to in subsection (2) from taxation under section 197 (1) (a) [municipal property taxes], to the extent, for the period and subject to the conditions provided in the bylaw.

(2) Tax exemptions may be provided under this section for the following: (a) land or improvements that (i) are owned or held by a charitable, philanthropic or other not for profit corporation, and (ii) the council considers are used for a purpose that is directly related to the purposes of the corporation; (c) land or improvements that the council considers would otherwise qualify for exemption under section 220 [general statutory exemptions] were it not for a secondary use; (d) the interest of a public authority, local authority or any other corporation or organization in land or improvements that are used or occupied by the corporation or organization if (i) the land or improvements are owned by ORGANIZATION NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 60 580 18th Street North Shore Disability Resource Centre Association 1590 Gordon Avenue Scout Properties (BC/Yukon) #158 Hollyburn Mountain Scout Properties (BC/Yukon) #174 Hollyburn Mountain ** The YMCA of Greater Vancouver 220 723 Main Street HOUSING SOCIETIES Capilano Senior Citizen’s Housing Society 1475 Esquimalt Avenue Klahanee Park Housing Society 370 Klahanie Court Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society 2151 Gordon Avenue Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society 959 21st Street Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society 975 & 999 21st Street *** Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society 950 22nd Street PLACES OF WORSHIP Christ the Redeemer Parish 599 Keith Road First Church of Christ, Scientist 714 20th Street Har EI, North Shore Centre for Jewish Life Society 1305 Taylor Way North Shore Unitarian Church 370 Mathers Avenue Parish of St. Christopher’s (West Vancouver) 1068 Inglewood Avenue Parish of St. Christopher’s (West Vancouver) 1080 11th Street St. Stephen’s Anglican Church 885 22nd Avenue Park Royal Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses 1335 3rd Street St. Anthony’s Church 2347 Inglewood Avenue St. David’s United Church 1525 Taylor Way St. Francis-in-the-Wood Anglican Church 4773 Piccadilly South West Vancouver Baptist Church 450 Mathers Avenue West Vancouver Presbyterian Church 2893 Marine Drive West Vancouver United Church 2062 Esquimalt Avenue TOTAL

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$4,700 $4,100 $100 $200 —

$4,900 $4,300 $100 $200 —

$5,100 $4,500 $100 $200 —

$41,300 $9,200 $15,300 $9,200 $29,900 —

$43,000 $9,600 $15,900 $9,600 $31,100 —

$44,700 $10,000 $16,500 $10,000 $32,300 —

$4,500 $2,500 $3,900 $11,700 $6,900 $7,500 $4,500 $7,400 $10,300 $6,800 $7,800 $14,200 $6,700 $17,200 $225,900

$4,700 $2,600 $4,100 $12,200 $7,200 $7,800 $4,700 $7,700 $10,700 $7,100 $8,100 $14,800 $7,000 $17,900 $235,300

$4,900 $2,700 $4,300 $12,700 $7,500 $8,100 $4,900 $8,000 $11,100 $7,400 $8,400 $15,400 $7,300 $18,600 $244,700

Graph depicting the estimated municipal property tax* for exempted properties

* The estimate may not represent additional tax exemptions that may be available through BC Assessment. ** This parcel is new and details will be confirmed later in 2023 by BC Assessment. Currently, there is no assessment value so no estimate of exempt taxes can be calculated. *** This parcel is currently exempt for municipal use but assessment will change for 2024 as the District signed a ground lease with Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society.

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A36 | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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While the long-term plan is a full replacement of the berth in 2030, several pieces of work are necessary in the meantime to ensure the travel hub lasts until the next decade. This includes reinforcement of the ramp, repairing the wing walls, and replacing mechanical equipment.

The work will affect Bowen Island ferry traffic for a few months, beginning with a planned start date in mid-November and lasting into February. During that time two sailings a day will be eliminated, and there will likely be one to two days a month with no ferry service.

Crews will be performing work on the terminal overnight, which means the two sailings to be cut will either be the last two sailings of the night, or the last sailing of the night and first sailing in the morning. The decision will be based on public feedback over the coming days, including a joint information and workshop session that was held at Bowen Island Community School on Tuesday, Sept. 19. There will be no cancellations during the holiday season, between Dec. 20 and Jan. 5.

BC Ferries project manager Jesse Lightman appeared before Bowen council on Sept. 11 to outline the plan, and address options for the cancelled sailings. The longer closures which are expected to take place once a month are scheduled to start on a Friday night after the final sailing, last through all of Saturday, and hopefully finish in time to resume service on Sunday. During this time water taxis will be available

Snug Cove Ferry Terminal on Bowen Island in July 2023. ALEX KURIAL for foot passengers in place of the regular schedule, and free parking will be offered in Horseshoe Bay, but there will be no option to transport a vehicle on or off-island. Lightman says the company will provide 30 days notice before these extended berth closures.

Mayor Andrew Leonard noted he hasn’t heard much so far from Bowen residents about the project. Given the significant impact it will have, he says it’s likely that many Islanders aren’t fully aware of it yet, and asked if BC Ferries could utilize as many messaging methods as possible over the next two months to let people know.

“The type of traffic that occurs from September to May or June is really driven by the community use of ferry-going to the mainland and returning.... These are residents who need to get to work, who need to get to medical appointments, who need to go grocery shopping, who need to access sports team and community centres,” Leonard said.

“The ferry being Bowen Island’s only means to access the mainland by vehicle, and an easier way to access the mainland as a foot passenger and

connect to public transit, it’s really a disruption of service that for two sailings a day no longer makes the mainland and any of its amenities accessible to residents,” added the mayor.

And, Leonard pointed out these disruptions will not be new for the island. “Bowen Island residents for the past two years now, especially since the pandemic, have been facing a degradation of service and increased pressures from BC Ferries in terms of schedule issues to cancellations to the ability to access the mainland and get back to island that’s affecting livability for residents on the island.”

The mayor asked if not cancelling any sailings was considered and instead having the project extend further into the spring, pointing out that no matter which sailings are ultimately cancelled either early-morning commuters or late-night ferry users will be impacted. Lightman answered: “For the sake of expediting the work before the next busy season and trying to have the least amount of impact, we believe this is the path forward with the least amount of impact on the community.”

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Check out these 1909 plans for a pedestrian bridge to Vancouver BRENDAN KERGIN

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Decades before the Lions Gate Bridge was built in the 1930s, another idea was put forth for people to get from Stanley Park to what is now West Vancouver: An absolutely massive suspension bridge, only for pedestrians.

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2023 marks the 50-year anniversary of the beginning of construction on the Karen Magnussen Community Recreation Centre in Lynn Valley.

Here is a picture of Karen Magnussen, alongside District of North Vancouver Mayor Ron Andrews, breaking ground on the construction site in 1973. That same year, Magnussen won gold at the World Figure Skating Championships, was named an Officer to the Order of Canada and went on to retire from competitive skating.

The centre, then known as Karen Magnussen Arena, opened the following year and remains an important community hub for North Vancouverites.

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The monumental bridge was a proposal put forth by Will Farrell (no, not the Hollywood comedian, this one has an ‘a’ in his name). In 1909 automobiles weren’t as common as they would be a few years later. Horses and carriages were dominant, and walking longer distances was a part of the everyday routine.

If you needed to get directly from Vancouver to West Vancouver, you needed to take a ferry.

The proposed bridge would have been one of the biggest suspension bridges in the world with a single span running 1,280 feet, or about 390 metres. For comparison, the Capilano suspension bridge (which had been open for nearly 20 years at the time of Farrell’s proposal) is about 450 feet (137 metres).

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Not only was it going to be long, but also quite high. The drawings show towers on either side of the inlet with the beginning of the bridge (which is the highest point) 93 metres above the ground on the north side of the span. On the south side, it would have started about 38 metres above the ground before stretching out over a cliff and above the ocean water hundreds of feet below.

That’s quite high for a pedestrian suspension bridge, but the entrance to the inlet, and therefore Vancouver’s harbour, needs to be high to allow ships into port; it’s why the Lions Gate is also quite high, as freighters and cruise ships pass under.

In Vancouver Province news articles from the time, the bridge was proposed with some excitement in June 1909.

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Solutions can be found in the Wednesday October 4th issue.

This massive pedestrian bridge was suggested to cross the first narrows on Burrard Inlet in Vancouver. Reference code: AM1594-: LEG1709.1 CITY OF VANCOUVER ARCHIVES

Park board rejects bridge plan

Continued from A38 bridge at a time – but only 500 would be allowed to cross at any given moment.

“An electric hoist will be used to transport passengers to and from the bridge besides the usual platform walk,” states the article.

The proposed bridge was seen as a practical solution and a tourist attraction.

“It will not only be something original,

but a structure that will be as ornamental as it will be useful,” notes the unnamed reporter.

While Farrell promised things were all lined up to go ahead with the plan, at a park board meeting in July 1909, the board (which, it would seem, had veto rights over the bridge) didn’t give unanimous support, which was needed for the project to move forward, and so it died.

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A40 | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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ROAD FATALITY

No charges in death of senior struck by truck driver BRENT RICHTER

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There will be no charges in the death of a West Vancouver senior who was struck and killed by commercial truck driver during a February 2023 snowstorm.

The incident happened during the morning of Feb. 28 on the 800 block of Third Street in the Cedardale neighbourhood of West Vancouver.

At the time, the North Shore was under heavy It looks like snowfall. it’s just really The driver was delivering paving bad timing and stones to a home really tragic on the street when circumstances he put the truck and events that into reverse to led to him being better position the struck. flat deck trailer for unloading, accordSGT. MARK MCLEAN WEST VANCOUVER POLICE ing to Sgt. Mark McLean, West Vancouver police spokesperson. As that was happening, 83-year-old Third Street resident Thomas Sullivan was pushing his snowblower across the street on his way to clear the snow from a neighbour’s driveway.

Sullivan’s wife saw the driver backing up and called out to him but the driver did not hear, McLean said, and Sullivan was knocked down under the trailer’s rear tires. He died at the scene.

The Integrated Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Service shut down the street and conducted a lengthy investigation, which has now concluded with no recommendation for charges, McLean said.

“The driver told us at the time that he couldn’t see his mirrors, partially due to the conditions but also just the size of the truck and the significant blind spot behind it,” he said. “The witness statements from the victim’s family as well as from the driver also indicated neither [believed] there was any nefarious intent or neglect.”

The investigation was overseen by an experienced West Van police traffic officer who consulted with ICARS and Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement to see if the actions of the driver merited any Criminal Code of Canada or Motor Vehicle Act charges, McLean said.

“They determined that the elements of those offences just weren’t met to any standard,” McLean said. “It looks like it’s just really bad timing and really tragic circumstances and events that led to him being struck.”

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Technology has its place in class Continued from A5 re-learn some normal social interaction, said Barrett, and even some basic rules around social etiquette. “Like when people are having a conversation, you don’t bury your face in your phone.”

Barrett said reinforcing expectations around cellphone use school-wide makes sense, so students don’t get into the situation where “Teacher A is doing it and Teacher B isn’t doing it.”

Another benefit of making cellphones off limits to everyone during class time is “there’s no sense that kids are missing out on anything,” he said. “Whereas if you’re the only person who doesn’t have their phone, or even your class doesn’t have their phones, it’s like, ‘Oh man, I’m missing out on the TikTok that the students down the hall are posting.’”

Cellphones in class ‘distracting’ Karin Kirkpatrick, the BC United MLA for West Vancouver-Capilano, said her

party would like to see cellphone use restricted in schools province-wide.

Research shows “when cellphones are banned or they’re limited, you’re going to see improved attention and better grades and a better sense of school community,” she said.

“So, we’re looking around to see what’s working best in other jurisdictions where they’ve decided to do this,” she said.

Kirkpatrick said in her own experience teaching older students at UBC, she found students’ use of cellphones in class distracting. “You never knew if they were looking at a YouTube video or taking notes on the phone,” she said.

Barrett said at the same time, there is a place for technology in the classroom.

Equally important is that students learn to self-regulate when it comes to their devices – without having someone else tell them when it is or isn’t appropriate. “There should be times when you use your own discretion,” he said.

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PUBLIC HEARING COACH HOUSES AND SECONDARY SUITES ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENTS

When: 7pm, Tuesday, September 26, 2023 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 or 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

What: A Public Hearing for Bylaw 8525, 8615, and 8635, proposed amendments to the Zoning Bylaw regarding Coach Houses and Secondary Suites.

What Changes:

Bylaw 8525 proposes to amend the Zoning Bylaw to update the definition of “secondary suite”; add clarifying language to Section 4B88-3(c) regarding the residency of the owner within a single-family residential building, accessory use of the secondary suite, and legal designation of the principal dwelling unit and secondary suite; and revise the size requirements for secondary suites.

Bylaw 8615 proposes to amend the Zoning Bylaw to allow a secondary suite and coach house on the same property in single-family zones except within Town and Village Centres and update the off-street parking requirements for single-family homes with a secondary suite or a coach house, and a secondary suite and a coach house.

Bylaw 8635 proposes to amend the Zoning Bylaw to change the permitted roof height of coach houses

When and How can I provide input?

We welcome your input on September 26, 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, September 26, 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 bylaws after the conclusion of the public hearing.

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 September 12, 2023 to September 26, 2023 or online at DNV.org/public-hearing

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The union representing West Vancouver Transit drivers has filed a complaint with the Labour Relations Board, alleging the District of West Vancouver has been dragging its feet in putting a written collective agreement into place.

The local West Vancouver bus drivers’ union was on the verge of striking in September of 2022, when the union and municipal employer agreed to have veteran arbitrator Vince Ready arbitrate a settlement.

The terms of that North Shore transit riders wait for their bus in West settlement were reached Vancouver. MIKE WAKEFIELD / NSN FILES several months later, in January 2023.

Since then, wages and benefits of West Union Local 134 filed a complaint with the LRB, urging it to order the municipalVancouver Transit drivers and mechanity to formalize the deal. ics have reflected the terms of that “Our expectation is that this formal settlement. action will hasten the District of West But the union says the district hasn’t managed to put those wages and working Vancouver’s compliance with the terms already agreed upon,” the union stated in conditions into a formal written colleca press release. tive agreement that its members can In response to the complaint, the access.

District of West Vancouver issued a Cornel Neagu, president of the union, statement saying the terms of the arbisaid that’s a problem, because it means drivers can’t check to see when their pay tration have been in place since January will go up on the scale and by how much. and “employees who are ATU members Formalizing the agreement for both received their wages and working condiparties to sign should take just a few tions improvements at that time.” days, said Neagu, but instead has According to the municipality, the coldragged into close to nine months. lective agreement “is still in the process On Friday, the Amalgamated Transit of being drafted.”

West Van council vote unanimous Continued from A4 schools.

“I would hate to see that this amount of money – that’s already been agreed to in our budget and supported by all seven of us – be put elsewhere,” she said.

“The school’s parents and administrators have been screaming for us to make safety improvements, including sidewalks, ever since I’ve been on council,” Gambioli said, asking staff for clarification that the allocated funds, minus TransLink’s grant, could be used for other school-related projects.

“There’s a number of projects that we can find that we can re-allocate the money to,” O’Sullivan said.

Ultimately, council voted down the project unanimously, with Gambioli stating, “I’m not going to bother voting against it.”

Speaking to the North Shore News, Sidhu said the result is disappointing.

As for dangerous events on the street, “any one of us can say: ‘It never happened.

In my experience, my kids were fine.’ That is an anecdote, that is not a basis for politics,” he said.

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Harold “Buck ” Buckley February 23, 1938 to September 19, 2016

Trish McGeer October 26, 1926 - August 21, 2023 Irene Patricia McGeer (nee Rogers), known as ‘Trish”, age 96 years, passed away at her lovely home by the sea in Ambleside, West Vancouver on Monday, August 21st, 2023. Born on October 30, 1926 to Ernest and Irene Rogers in Vancouver, Trish married Michael McGeer in 1949. Mother, Grandmother, Great-grandmother, she was the epicenter of the family, bringing her boundless energy, positive outlook and loving spirit to every one of us. She was cherished.

As I mark seven years since I lost you, I carry your heart with me, I am never without it, and anywhere I go, you go, and I truly believe you are always with me.

You are in my heart and thoughts today, tomorrow and always.

Forever in my heart and always missed, Your Daughter, Sandra

Mum will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered by every member of her family: children Michael (Carole), Nancy (Philip), Tim (Monique) and Julie; her thirteen grandchildren Melissa, Chris (Pam), Will (Becky), Eric (Megan), Rosie (Dan), Emma (Jon), Angus, Connor, Kiah, Ava, Sophie, Evan, Fee and Kate, and her eight greatgrandchildren Eli, Brody, Chloe, Lily, Henry, Quinn, Billy and Wesley, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins in her extensive family.

She was pre-deceased by her husband Mike and daughter Teal (Gary), as well as sisters Lailey Johnstone and Maggie Cumming and brothers John and Ted Rogers.

Mum was a person of many interests and pursuits, including tennis, travel and teaching, politics and puppetry, language, music and literature. She will leave behind a wide network of friends who will miss her sunny presence, her delight in conversation and great sense of fun.

We will remember her enjoying her time at her beloved summer home Peter Pan on Bowen Island, reading, visiting with family and relaxing by the sea.

A Celebration of Life honoring Trish will be held at St. Christophers Anglican Church 1068 Inglewood Avenue, West Vancouver, V7T 1Y3 on Saturday, October 7th at 2pm Reception to follow

ATKINS, Barbara Louise (nee Wood) August 28, 1932 - September 5, 2023 A promise was kept: Barbara Louise Atkins passed away peacefully in her own home on the morning of September 5th. She was the fourth child of a family with six children; parents William and Phyllis Wood. Barb is survived by her daughter Adriene and grandchildren Heather and Hayley, her son Christopher, daughter-in-law Angela, grandchildren Deanna, Jessa and Alex, great-grandchildren Keira, Amara and Christopher. Predeceased by husband Don in 2010.

Mom was a woman of many talents and interests with a constant curiosity about the world around her. Before becoming a wonderful wife and mother, Mom was an accomplished tennis player having won the title of Junior Canadian Tennis Champion in 1950 at age 18. She was an elementary school teacher in North Vancouver before starting a family in West Vancouver. Mom had an exceptional green thumb that was part of the initiative in helping to establish Arbutus, Cypress and Maple community gardens in Vancouver. She was passionate about the environment and fought to save and protect nature long before climate change was in the news. Barb and Don enjoyed trips to the U.K., continental Europe and time spent with friends and family on the Sunshine Coast.

We are grateful for the help from Mom’s amazing caregivers Carrie, Olivia and Hana, as well as Dr. Hofmeyr, the staff at Lions Gate Hospital and palliative care nurse Sarah. As per Mom’s wishes there will be no service. Instead of flowers, please donate to a charity of your choice.

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Obituaries GARRIES, Zelma Edith Olga (nee Comer) 1926 - 2023 The Garries’ family is saddened to announce the passing away of Zel Garries on September 11th, although happy to say she passed away peacefully in her sleep.

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Zel was highly praised in her work as an administrator for the North Vancouver School District.

BRIDGES, Jean Arlene (nee Rustad) Jean passed away peacefully on September 9, 2023 surrounded by her loving family.

She was born January 18, 1937 in Rose Valley, Saskatchewan and lived the first 10 years of her life in nearby White Fox before moving with her family to Prince George, B.C. Though she was an only child, Jean had a large and close extended family growing up.

After graduating from High School, Jean moved to Vancouver and completed her training as a Registered Nurse at Saint Paul’s Hospital. She met her husband Harvey on a blind date arranged by one of her nursing pals. She remained close to her nursing friends up to her passing away.

Jean and Harvey raised a family of 4 rambunctious boys in North Burnaby. Jean’s family meant the world to her, and she took great pleasure and pride throughout the years in celebrating them all.

Jean and Harvey recently celebrated 65 years of marriage. Together they enjoyed many travels and playing tennis in their younger years and bridge up until quite recently.

Jean suffered more than her share of heartache and tragedy in her life, losing her Mom at a young age and prematurely losing her sons Allan (1991) and Ron (2004). Jean showed that she was made of stern stuff in carrying on with her life in the face of such hardships.

Jean is survived by her husband Harvey, sons David (Michelle) and Greg (Diane), and grandchildren Sydney, Megan, Allison, Katy, Cameron, Lisa, Kayla and Kai. There will be no service at Jean’s request. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the charity of your choice or do something kind for someone less fortunate.

CHARLTON, Diana M. January 1, 1944 − September 8, 2023 It is with broken hearts that we announce the passing of Diana Marguerite Charlton (née Creasy) on September 8th, 2023, at the age of 79.

Diana was born in Poole, County Dorset, England, on January 1st, 1944, to Max Terence Creasy and May Cecilia Creasy (née Hirons).

Many thanks to Dr. (Bella) Hughan and all the attentive folks at Cedar Springs who supported Zel to make her life comfortable, happy and safe over the years.

Diana met her first husband, David Charlton, in 1965 while living and working in Cambridge, England. They married in 1966 and emigrated to Canada in 1967, where they had three children: Christian, Martin and Hazel.

Diana’s career path started in the Hotel industry.

This included working at The Garden House Hotel (Cambridge), The Scole Inn (Norfolk), The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver and The Westin Bayshore Hotel.

She then joined the Foundation department at the Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver in 1992, where her years were pivotal in making a difference in the local community; fundraising not only for the hospital but also for many publicly funded healthcare facilities on the North Shore.

After retiring from the LGH Foundation in 2009, Diana filled her days playing bridge with friends, painting, knitting, writing biographies, travelling, watching movies and enjoying all types of exotic cuisine. She found her greatest joy while spending time with her family (especially the grandkids) in the warmth of the sun with a cup of coffee in hand.

Gracious, generous, supportive, compassionate, adventurous, creative, inclusive, stylish, organized and meticulous...she was all of these and more.

Predeceased by her younger brother Allan, first husband David Charlton and second partner in life Donald Heise; Diana is survived by her younger brother Paul Creasy (Pauline), three children: Christian, Martin (Tordes), Hazel (Adam Black); two stepchildren: Pam Pescott (Dan), Phillip Heise; and eleven grandchildren: Riel, Luca, Jasmine, Jada, Cooper, Riley, Mackenzie, Caitlin, Joanna, Samantha and Frankie.

Diana (Nana) will always be remembered for being the glue that bound our family together, and she was the most stylish matriarch you could ever envision. With her gorgeous curls, colourful scarves and signature style, she was always dressed for the occasion! She will be dearly missed by all.

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Zel will be lovingly remembered by her three sons, Doug (and Sue), Don (and Sarah) and Bob (and Marcia). She was Nana to her six grandchildren and Gigi to her nine great-grandchildren.

GILL, Mary Rita (neé Dalton) June 8, 1947 - July 15, 2023 Our dear Rita passed away with family by her side on July 15, 2023, at St. Paul’s Hospital. Born and raised on St. Paul’s Road, Middlesbrough, England, Rita was the 6th child of Jack and Sarah Dalton. In the late ‘60s Rita trained as a nurse, but after a year she decided to spread her wings and move to Canada. She first lived with sister Sheila in Toronto but ultimately landed in Vancouver where she worked as a legal secretary, forging tight bonds within the community. Rita became a Canadian citizen in 1977 and continued to enjoy all that Canadian life had to offer. Rita married Stephen in 1984 and they had 39 years rich with adventure, skiing Whistler, boating coastal waters, golfing, and traveling the world. She loved the companionship of the family dogs and always had a special place in her heart for Candy, Penny, Brewster, Lucy, and Daisy. Rita is predeceased by siblings Sheila, Jack, Ken, Sylvia, and Joseph. She is survived by husband Stephen, stepchildren Maureen (Craig) and Patrick (Deb), and grandchildren Samantha, Owen, Lizzie, Sydney, and Daniel. She is survived by brother Peter (Wendy), and many cherished nieces, nephews, and extended family in England.

She will be remembered as a loving sister, parent, wife, and Nana. Please share your fond memories and offerings of condolence at www.mem.com. A celebration of life will be held on Friday, October 6th at the Vancouver Golf Club at 1:00 PM.

A memorial service will be held at First Memorial Funeral Home in North Vancouver. Please contact the family for details. If you wish to honour Diana, please consider donating in her name to cureibm.org, as there is currently no effective treatment or cure for Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM).

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North Shore’s Only Family Owned Funeral Provider Donald Anthony Homer March 12, 1940 - July 24, 2023

CHANGE OF VENUE NOTICE FOR DON’S CELEBRATION OF LIFE

We have needed to change the venue so that we can accommodate everyone who would like to attend.

So Don’s Celebration of Life will now be held at: PINNACLE AT THE PIER 138 Victory Ship Way Ballroom Level North Vancouver on: Sunday, September 24th, 2023 1:30 - 4:30

WICK, Larry Born in Saskatchewan in 1924, our Uncle Larry and friend to SO many, passed away peacefully, aged 99, at his home in North Vancouver, with the cat and niece Patricia by his side. He was predeceased in 2000 by his beloved wife of over 50 years, Peggy.

A veteran of RCAF WW2, Larry moved from the Prairies to BC as a young man where he met/married Peggy, graduated with a Social Work Degree from UBC then went on to be a Social Worker, educator, prolific builder of rock walls, an ardent gardener and exotic plant collector.

Uncle Larry was a passionate member of numerous garden clubs throughout Vancouver including the Palm Society plus Bonsai, Alpine, Rhododendron and Water garden groups to name just a few.

Always fond of overwintering in southern climates, especially Mexico, Larry also enjoyed traveling with family, friends and garden tours to many exotic places like Turkey, China, Tibet, Myanmar, and South Africa.

Susan Hilda Matthews November 6, 1936 - July 20, 2023 Clifford Royal Matthews March 21, 1938 - May 2, 2021 Celebration of Life will be held at the Boal Chapel, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver of Friday, September 22, 2023 at 1 pm. To send a tribute go to dignitymemorial.ca For those that cannot attend you may watch live or replay ceremony at: https:/funeralweb.tv/en/diffusions/78265

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Between vacations, his home became a favourite stop for thousands of visitors enjoying the North Vancouver, Art In The Garden tour, for over 15 yrs.

He often gave away free seedlings that eventually became known as “Uncle Larry Palms”.

Throughout our entire lives, family celebrations were hosted by Larry and Peggy, both in North Vancouver and their sanctuary on Keats Island.

Their prized island garden was ALSO a favourite stop of many aficionados, both by land & water. It was even featured on HGTV, mentioned in garden books and the red roofed Gazebo was photographed for the cover of a Sunshine Coast traveler’s guide.

In lieu of a public service, we hope you might visit the Palm Trees at English Bay, or stop by Van Dusen, Stanley Park, the Dr Sun Yat Sen, Butchart Gardens in Victoria or make time to appreciate your own garden, with a cup of tea, in his memory.

Larry and his late wife, Peggy will be forever missed by the McLean, Lansdell, and Wick families, by many wonderful friends, his close knit community on Keats Island, lifelong neighbours in North Vancouver and of course, the cat.

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COMMUNITY Announcements West Van and Lions Gate Gogos fundraiser for Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Bridge and Scrabble Lunch will be on Tues., October 17th, 10 am to 2 pm.

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The following vehicles will be sold, as per the Warehouse Lien Act;

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.

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1. The Following vehicle will be sold, 2006 BMW 750i VIN: WBAHN865X6DT61342 Registered owner: Crittenden Morash Jamie-Le Debt amount as of August 21st 2023, $8,952.47.

2. The Following vehicle will be sold, 2007 Mazda CX-9 VIN: JM3TB38Y070101432 Registered owner: Dhaliwal Farwinder Debt amount as of August 21st 2023, $4,522.08.

3. The Following vehicle will be sold, 2015 Nissan Sentra VIN: 3N1AB7AP0FL673632 Registered owner: Tia-Lynn Patricia Morgan Debt amount as of August 21st 2023, $4,061.89.

4. The Following vehicle will be sold, 2006 Mercedes C230 VIN: WDBRF52J96F801720 Registered owner: Bezhan Chkheidze Debt amount as of August 21st 2023, $5,104.86.

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ANKENMAN MARCHAND ARCHITECTS 6.00000X3 R0011937488 :: #743935 DEVELOPER’S PRE-APPLICATION MEETING* LEGAL/PUBLIC NOTICES Ankenman Marchand Architects are proposing to construct a 3-storey, mixed-use building that includes four stacked townhouses and a small daycare at 6384 Bruce St, West Vancouver.

We would like your input and are hosting a meeting for you to see and understand our proposal BEFORE we apply to the District.

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Serving the North shore for over 20+ years

Mark’s Painting Services

atozglass1451@gmail.com | 604-770-0406

1451 Marine Drive, North Vancouver, BC V7P 1TS

RAIN FOREST STONE MASONRY

7291234 DELBROOK PLUMBING & DRAINAGE

All-Ways Painting

OFF

your total bill

ACROSS

Best Rates & Quality.

10%

• glass and mirror cut to size • wood and metal customized frames • storefront glass replace • windows and screens replacements • patio door screens and rollers • shower doors and railing glass • emergency board ups

ABE Rubbish Removal + Delivery & Moving Services Prompt. • 604-999-6020

To place your ad email nmather@glaciermedia.ca

DOWN

Years of Exp. Senior Disc.

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

• 24/7 Service

PROMOTION

Exterior & Interior Specialist.

1. Type of cat 6. Weaponry 10. Western Christian Church service 14. Significant eruption of pustules 15. Baltic nation 17. Start of American holiday season 19. Unhappy 20. Maintains possession of

21. Metrical foot of one long and three short syllables 22. Mountain pass 23. Vestments 24. Type of dish 26. Escaped quickly 29. Zoroastrian concept of holy fire 31. Wings 32. Political action committee 34. Touches lightly

35. Stood back from 37. Philippine Island 38. Popular winter activity 39. Type of amine 40. Small freshwater duck 41. Filled with love 43. Without (French) 45. Vetch 46. Swiss river 47. Describes a sound 49. Sign language 50. Hair product

53. Have surgery 57. Quality of being imaginary 58. Far-right German party 59. Drove 60. Former French coin of low value 61. Hard, durable timbers

1. Body art 2. Middle East military title 3. Actor Pitt 4. Container 5. Speak incessantly 6. Relating to algae 7. Jacob __, journalist 8. Rock TV channel 9. Boat’s cargo 10. Most wise 11. Within 12. Chinese industrial city

13. Scotland’s longest river 16. Not capable 18. Footwear 22. Savings account 23. Capable 24. Vaccine developer 25. Tax collector 27. Fencing swords 28. Native religion in China 29. Promotional materials 30. A shot in a film production

31. Afflict in mind or body 33. A passage with access only at one end 35. Breathing devices 36. Employ for wages 37. Kids’ TV channel (abbr.)

39. Popular Boston song 42. Made amends 43. Selling at specially reduced prices 44. Atomic #18 46. With fireplace residue

47. Unleavened cornbread 48. Draw out 49. Southwestern Alaska island 50. Where the Pyramids are 51. People of Nigeria 52. Smaller quantity 53. Destroy the inside of 54. City 55. Chivalrous figure (abbr.)

56. No (Scottish)

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†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: $750 bonus on CR-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. *Based on IHS Markit Vehicles in Operation as of June 30, 2022 for Model Years 2013 to 2024 vs Total New Registrations of those vehicles. Offer ends September 30, 2023 and is subject to change or cancellation without notice. Dealer may sell/lease for less. †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 Passport 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. *Based on IHS Markit Vehicles in Operation as of June 30, 2022 for Model Years 2013 to 2023 vs Total New Registrations of those vehicles. Offer ends September 30, 2023 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 quantities of 2023 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