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The province says the District of West Vancouver and District of North Vancouver must see through to completion more than 4,000 new strata and rental homes in the next five years.

B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon released the housing targets this week for 10 municipalities on the so-called “naughty list” for failing to get enough new housing built amid the unaffordability crisis.

Of the more-than 60,000 new units included in the B.C. targets, 1,432 are to be from the District of West Vancouver. The targets further break down the number of bedrooms and the tenure the new homes should have.

In West Van’s case, 58 per cent should be one-bedroom or studio apartments, the province says.

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that 69 per cent of the new units should be purpose-built rentals, almost half of which should be at below-market rates. And West Vancouver should also be home to at least 39 new units of supportive housing.

The District of North Vancouver, meanwhile, should be handing out a minimum of 2,838 new occupancy permits between now and 2028, the ministry says.

Just under half of those (46 per cent) should be strata units, with the majority of the 2,838 new homes being purpose-built rentals. At least 42 per cent, or 657, of those rentals should be at below-market rates. And the district should approve another 78 units of supportive housing that includes on-site staff.

Based on the rolling average of housing completions over the last five years, District of North Vancouver council is likely on Continued on A36

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Takaya Driving Range closing to make way for turf field NICK LABA

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If you’re a golfer, the decision to close Takaya Driving Range may have left you bawling.

But don’t get your high socks in a twist just yet, because səlilwətaɬ (TsleilWaututh Nation) – which has owned and operated the popular golf facility for 31 years – has already gotten the ball rolling on another project to revitalize the site and continue to promote sport in the community.

Friday Sept. 29 was the last day that the piece of land at 700 Apex Dr. in North Vancouver hosted a driving range. The kicker: Tsleil-Waututh Nation has teed up plans to convert the property into a turf field, primarily for soccer.

For decades, Nation members have been very competitive in soccer but there hasn’t been a place to put a field, said Whonoak (Dennis Thomas), elected councillor at the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

“It’s been brought up many times with different previous chiefs and councils,” he said. “We as a Nation, and our members as well, decided that a sports field primarily focused on the game of soccer would be the best use of that land at this time.”

With kids from the Nation fielding six or more teams, from age five all the way up to 18, the new field couldn’t come at a better time, Thomas explained.

Like the golf centre, the new field isn’t just for Nation members. It will be open to the surrounding community as well, Thomas said, adding there will be rental opportunities for academies, adult soccer

Whonoak (Dennis Thomas), elected councillor for Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and his daughter Oaklynn Thomas, 6, look forward to the opportunities that a new turf field will bring. The Nation is building a soccer field on the former home of Takaya Driving Range NICK LABA / NSN leagues and other activities.

“The field is meant to be a sports field, not just soccer,” he said. “There will be a track around the outside, which we planned for.”

Thomas noted that the field will be easily accessible by residents in the Raven Woods development, once a new road is built that will connect to the Takaya Driving Range area.

“It’s the beginning of a beautiful opportunity for our Nation, to be able to maximize use in a very health-conscious way when it comes to rebuilding our

economy,” he said.

In terms of employment, there will be three to four positions in the clubhouse building, which will be carried over from the existing driving range.

“But what really stands out and provides further benefits is the health opportunities of being active, and the power of sport,” Thomas said. “Being active is such a huge thing.”

Work on the site is expected to begin in the next month or two, with an opening date for the new facility as early as summer 2024, he said.

Nation thanks local driving range customers over the years While many will be excited about the new field in the area, others will be sad to see the driving range go.

Thomas thinks back fondly to when Takaya opened in June of 1992. In his previous role with the Nation’s department of economic development, he helped oversee the range for eight years.

“It was our very first economic development business,” he said. “It’s been such a staple and stepping stone for a lot of members.

“A lot of people started their careers off … either in the golf industry or running multiple businesses as their future career,” Thomas added. “The whole intent of the driving range was to create employment for our members, while providing a service for the broader community.”

But over the years, revenue dipped up and down, and the driving range’s covered-tee structure would need a significant overhaul to continue operating.

Thomas said the driving range staff and Nation leadership really valued all the local customers.

“The success and the longevity of having the driving range wouldn’t have been met without their support,” Thomas said. “We really raise our hands to all of the locals that came there year after year, decade after decade.

“Unfortunately, decisions like these have to be made – especially within economic development – to make revenue, to provide jobs, to provide health and wellness opportunities as it relates to sport.”

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The District of North Vancouver and the province have partnered with a non-profit organization to build a supportive housing project for people experiencing homelessness.

The Ministry of Housing announced Wednesday plans for a 65-unit, six-storey building on the northeast corner of Keith

Road and Mountain Highway, which will be operated by the Lu’ma Native Housing Society. Five of the units will be for people requiring complex care, supported by Vancouver Coastal Health.

“There’s a critical need to provide more supportive housing and complex care for people experiencing homelessness on the North Shore,” said Minister of Housing Ravi Kahlon, in a release, adding that the project

would provide the “safe and secure homes and the supports [people] need to begin rebuilding their lives.”

District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little said the municipality has been in talks with the province to build supportive housing on the district-owned land for “many, many years.”

The affordable homes will be targeted for unhoused people on the North Shore. The

project, however, will be subject to a rezoning by District of North Vancouver council.

Supportive housing project frequently face opposition from the community, but Little said the one coming before council will be very carefully designed and managed.

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Usually, the first thing Rev. Judith Hardcastle does when she arrives at St. Andrew’s United Church in the morning is check in on her bees.

In 2021, the environmentally conscious congregation was concerned about the falling populations of pollinator species like European honeybees, so they paid to have a hive installed on the church grounds.

But, sometime on Reverend Judith Hardcastle of North Vancouver’s St. Wednesday morning or Andrews United Church visits the site of a honeybee hive early afternoon, someone heist. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN buzzed off with the hive, upkeep of the hive. bees and all.

“It’s very good honey, actually,” she said.

“I said, I better go have a look and, OMG, Hardcastle said she later spoke with a they’re gone,” Hardcastle said. “When I went manager at Alvéole, the company who proand looked at it, I felt sorry for the three or four bees that were sort of going around in vided the hive, who speculated it may have circles trying to find a missing hive.” been an unscrupulous beekeeper looking to Hardcastle reported the bad beeboost their own apiary hiviour to the North Vancouver RCMP, More than anything, Hardcastle said and a constable made a bee-line for the she’d like the hive back and for the congrechurch. The officer combed the area for gation to keep their bees. A professional surveillance images or witnesses, and did a apiarist from Alvéole had been to the site cruise around the the week before to start preparing the neighbourhood colony for their winter hibernation, but the looking for a sticky-fingered thief might not know what In my six ditched hive. they’re doing, Hardcastle said. years of Hardcastle said “If someone’s just taking it for a laugh, policing in they’ve mostly they’re not going to know what to do with the bees and the bees are going to die, North Van, I’ve only had posiobviously,” she said. “The hive has to be tive comments never really insulated for the winter.” and interactions come across North Vancouver RCMP spokesperson with the comsomebody Const. Mansoor Sahak said it is “a very munity since the just stealing a unusual case.” bees arrived.

“In my six years of policing in North Van, Understandably beehive.

I’ve never really come across somebody just perplexed, RCMP CONST. MANSOOR SAHAK stealing a beehive,” he said.

Hardcastle said “It’s quite hard to track down the perpeshe doesn’t have any solid theories on who would want to trator in this case when we don’t have any steal the church’s busy bees. evidence or any leads. If anybody does have “Our congregation loves the bees. I any information about the stolen beehive, haven’t broken the news yet. It’s really funny they can certainly call us. Maybe we can set what people get behind. Our little, gentle up a sting.”

Italian bees were really, really very beloved Anyone who spots an out-of-place hive here,” she said. “Why would someone take with an Alvéole logo on the side should them?” report it to the police.

If the thief was upset about the risIn the meantime, Hardcastle has asked Alvéole for a replacement. ing cost of honey, they were too late, “We are going to get another one, but Hardcastle said, as the congregation had he’s going to chain it to the railing,” she said already harvested and bottled the honey with an exasperated laugh. “Oh dear.” so it can be sold as a church fundraiser for

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Shipments of bulk products from North Shore terminals showed a favourable trend in the first six months of the year.

The shipment of grain through the Port of Vancouver, including North Shore grain terminals Cargill, G3 and JR Richardson, doubled in the first six months of 2023 compared to the same time period last year.

The rebound in grain shipments – which were up 106 per cent over the first six months of 2022 – helped offset the drop in container shipments through the port.

“Overall grain is very strong,” said Victor Pang, interim CEO and president of the Port of Vancouver.

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In government, as in life, circumstances and plans change. Priorities emerge or are set aside. Conditions alter and it is either desirable or necessary to adapt.

In government, the details of these changes are found not so much in their public statements as in the budgets they set, and they are worth studying closely to read into the revisions – where the money will now go and where it won’t.

In the last month we have been able to see, through its five-year financial plan, how the West Vancouver council in its first year has either set course on some new ideas or retired some old ones.

The plan defines the government’s spending authority and is built in the backroom with district staff to suit the council’s strategic goals and to contend with wider economic conditions, including the weight that inflation has added to initial plans.

When the plan was brought to council Sept. 25 as a package, it consumed a grand total of two minutes and four seconds of business. No discussion. No representations. No discord.

Dig into the document, though, and there are some digressions, some small and some not, that would have benefited from public consultation. At times this council’s effort at efficiency can feel like expediency.

Take, for instance, the introduction of

paid parking in the district. Earlier this year council approved an experiment at three sites: Whytecliff Park, Lighthouse Park and Nelson Canyon. The idea was to be ginger about this shift, to gather data and gauge public response to see if it might be expanded to Ambleside Park, John Lawson Park and Dundarave Park, where the revenue will be heartier. It wasn’t a foregone conclusion, by any stretch. But the financial plan appears to accelerate the process in allocating $30,000 for feasibility studies on the second, more significant wave, when the first wave of parking is barely under way. It has taken on the momentum of a fait accompli.

Economic conditions often cause these amendments, and the plan reflects that.

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Interest rate increases have hit many of us, but the plan reveals it hasn’t been all that bad for the district’s finances and indeed helps counter the impact of inflation. Its investment portfolio revenue is revised upwards now by $1.7 million. That being said, the district faces an additional $465,000 bill on increased interest charges for property owners for tax prepayment.

Indeed, for every benefit there are substantial expense increases: $314,000 in adjustments for labour costs, for example, and a $476,000 amendment involving temporary wages and overtime costs as parks, culture and community services return to pre-pandemic levels and then some.

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RE: Dogs Should be Allowed on the Beach, in Pubs, in Restaurants…., Sept. 20 letter Dear Editor: I am always frustrated to hear when an entitled dog owner believing that their life choice, owning a dog, has to be tolerated by everyone else in society. Why can’t dog owners understand that some people do not like, trust or want to be close to dogs? Does that the logic apply to drinking, smoking and making any sort of noise wherever one wants to? Of course not.

I personally have seen dogs defecate on the beach, run over people’s blankets spraying sand everywhere, barking excessively, as well as chasing, scaring and charging at people including my own daughter, who was two years old at the time. Dogs have been banned in some public spaces (you wouldn’t know it looking at any grass playing field on the North Shore), because there are enough bad dog owners that simply do not care about others’ well being, just like this letter writer.

Matt Henderson North Vancouver

Dear Editor: I see nothing wrong with a leashed dog sitting on the sand enjoying the day

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with his family. The dog beach is great for off-leash, large, energetic dogs but not for those who are small, timid or elderly.

Also, I would love to be able to walk my small senior leashed dog on the sea wall (some parts of it, at least). The path next to the tracks option is ridiculously stupid.

My biggest wish is to be able to take our dog to restaurant patios. We are always cited “health concerns” yet dogs are allowed on patios practically everywhere else we go, especially in California, and should be allowed here. In Europe, dogs can be inside restaurants and on trains. Who is actually responsible for the no-dog-on-patio rule here? In my opinion, it should be changed.

Marjorie Bath West Vancouver

Dear Editor: Dogs are man’s best friend, supposedly so. But dogs are treated like outcasts: not allowed here, not allowed there. I frequent Ambleside beach, as I have lived in West Van all of my life, and would rather have dogs on the beach than screaming kids who often run around unsupervised and are permitted without any bylaws to maintain peace and quiet.

Give me dogs any day….

George Harding Ambleside, West Vancouver

The devil is always in the details Continued from A8 on the books. The revenue adjustment exceeds the expense adjustment by $1.4 million, and those funds are transferred into reserves to deal with anticipated capital expenses.

In poring through the 52-page package of documents, it’s clear that council wants to mitigate serious tax increases. It sets that stage mainly by either freezing, deferring or killing some spending plans.

Case in point: a $75,000 electric vehicle for a staff arborist is set aside because the position itself was set aside some months back. Another case: The waterfront pier repair and replacement budget for 2023 was $215,000. That has grown $600,000 in the year to $815,000. One way council is paying for this is to “re-evaluate” (translation: eliminate) the need to resurface the parking lot at the Gleneagles Community Centre, budgeted last year at $820,000.

Again, as a taxpayer, in an ideal world

you’d want more transparency sooner on these changes, and even an opportunity to contest them at council, because some haven’t been the subject of discussion.

To cite one: The mayor has regularly been touting an outdoor fitness circuit for Ambleside Park. I’m as sport-minded as anyone, but this has always had the feeling of a pet project that hasn’t sprouted from the community as much as it has from the person occupying the central chair in the council chamber. Lo and behold, the capital plan now has a $37,350 “archeological assessment” budget, a $193,000 demolition budget, and a $275,000 construction budget. The mayor has pledged there will be private funds arriving to support this.

One can hope.

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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Task force to examine ballooning costs of North Shore sewage treatment plant on that figure, as all the most recent budget information about the construction cost is still in camera.

“All I can say is the current budget that’s on the books is not accurate.

It’s not up to date,” he said.

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The Metro Vancouver regional government is striking a task force to review options for completing the new North Shore sewage treatment plant in the wake of ballooning costs that could put huge pressures on North and West Vancouver taxpayers.

Metro Vancouver board chair George Harvie announced the task force Friday.

“This project has experienced extraordinary circumstances that have come at an unfortunate time of extreme market volatility for Canada,” Harvey said in a statement.

He added the task force will review options for completing the plant “while mitigating its potential cost impacts on the region.”

So far, Metro Vancouver has not revealed the latest cost estimates for the wastewater treatment plant, which has been mired in controversy and lawsuits after Metro terminated the design-build contract of its

Rebar sprouts amongst the problemplagued North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant project on Sept. 30, 2023. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN original contractor, Acciona, in the fall of 2021.

The most recent estimate for construction costs put the cost of building the plant at more than $1 billion.

Sources recently suggested to Glacier Media that the true cost estimates could now be sitting at up to quadruple that figure.

District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little said he couldn’t comment

Skyrocketing costs concerning for North Shore But Little acknowledged the skyrocketing cost estimates are cause for concern, especially as North Shore taxpayers are expected to bear the biggest brunt of the costs for the new sewage plant.

Little said while Metro Vancouver has overseen the project, which was required in response to federal government environmental laws, the North Shore still faces the largest potential financial penalty for the cost overruns. “It would represent a significant amount of taxation to North Shore residents,” he said.

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Drunk driver allegedly careens through West Van playground JANE SEYD

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West Vancouver police are sounding the alarm on drunk driving after nabbing one man who drove his car through a playground area and a motorcyclist who was allegedly so impaired, he fell off his bike.

The first close call happened Sept. 19, around 3:30 p.m., when West Vancouver police got a call saying a car had driven through a children’s playground area at Ambleside Park.

The driver of a 2023 Toyota Corolla apparently left the roadway and drove over a curb then across a children’s playground near the Boat Shed concession.

“He drove through the playground with people jumping out of the way,” said Sgt. Mark McLean of the West Vancouver police. “It’s a really busy area.”

The driver even ended up driving on the Seawalk for a brief stretch, said McLean, before apparently realizing he wasn’t on

West Vancouver Police allege a drunk driver drove his car through an area close to this children’s playground on the Ambleside waterfront.

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the road anymore and turning back across the grass.

When the driver rejoined the roadway, he immediately hit another car, “then without stopping, drove out of the park,” said McLean.

After hearing from multiple witnesses, officers searched the area and found the car on the lawn of a nearby apartment building in the 1200 block of Clyde Avenue.

The driver – a 45-year-old man from Quebec who was “still in care and control of the vehicle,” according to McLean – was handed an immediate 90-day roadside driving prohibition.

Criminal charges are also being recommended.

The second scary near miss happened the next day, on Sept.

20, when a driver on Highway 99 just south of Lions Bay saw

a motorcycle rider fall off his bike on the highway. When the witness stopped to offer help, they saw signs the motorcycle rider was intoxicated. But instead of stopping, the motorcycle rider just hopped back on the bike and rode away.

Witnesses tailed the motorcycle all the way to the Upper Levels Highway. When the motorcycle finally came to a stop at the traffic light on Taylor Way, “he fell over because he apparently didn’t have the ability to balance,” said McLean.

That’s when the witness ran over and removed the keys from the motorcycle so the rider couldn’t get back on.

“To ride a motorcycle on that particular stretch of highway is dangerous as it is,” said McLean.

“To ride it, as we are alleging, intoxicated, is really, really dangerous.”

A 63-year-old North Vancouver man was handed an immediate roadside driving ban.

Criminal charges are also being

recommended in that case as well.

The latest incidents come as the West Vancouver Police Department is being honoured by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for taking the most impaired drivers per capita off the road in the Metro Vancouver region in 2022.

WVPD members have removed 321 drunk drivers from the road – including both immediate roadside prohibitions and those who have been criminally charged – in 2023 so far, said McLean.

Drivers coming in from the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal, from Whistler and the Sea-to-Sky region and coming back from the entertainment district downtown across the Lions Gate Bridge all come through West Vancouver, said McLean, making it a geographic hub.

And while some egregious cases of drunk driving are called in by the public, “We do a lot of proactive work at the patrol level,” he said, “Including roadblocks on a near nightly basis. It’s a high priority for us.”

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What makes Harmony Donut Shop a North Van favourite?

Haggerty has known some of her customers for more than three decades. But as personable as she is, people wouldn’t return to Harmony year after year if the doughnuts weren’t delightful.

NICK LABA

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Harmony Donut Shop has a recipe for success – the same one that’s dropped into the deep fryer for more than 50 years.

Dan Heard remembers the small business at 2945 Lonsdale Ave. in North Vancouver opening in the early ’70s, when it was run by its former owner, a man named Walter, he said.

When Heard lived nearby on East 27th a few years later, he used to go to Harmony in the morning before work. Then, after moving to Burnaby for 18 years, he’d still make the cross-town trip for doughnuts a couple times a month.

Now that he’s living back in North Vancouver, Heard visits the shop every week.

What keeps him coming back after all these years?

“The people and the doughnuts. I mean, this is North Van from way back when,” he said.

“And it’s better than Honey Doughnuts.”

Heard’s opinion fits in the same box as more than a third of local North Shore News readers, who voted in a recent poll that Harmony makes the best doughnuts in North Vancouver.

But another batch would say dollars to doughnuts that Honey is

Harmony owner Carol Haggerty makes sure every doughnut is decorated properly. NICK LABA / NSN the higher-quality confection, with more than a quarter of readers voting for the rival Deep Cove store, which was famously favourited by Oscar-winner Kate Winslet.

Compared to its celebrity-status rival, Harmony is much less known to the outside world. The quirky Lonsdale shop – brimming with bygone bric-à-brac – doesn’t have so much as a website. Yet,

with such a dedicated local fan base, clearly it doesn’t need one.

On the contrary, after news broke of her shop winning the poll, owner Carol Haggerty said she was swamped by a rush of new customers.

“We were in a bind, because we only got one machine,” she said.

This little, small donut shop all of a sudden became like, ‘Oof!’ … We

had a lineup all day.”

Normally, the store has a flow of first-time customers, but much of Haggerty’s clientele are regulars.

“We do get a lot of regulars on a first-name basis, because it’s that kind of store. You get to know other people and they like it,” she said. “I make it a point to remember names, which I’m really good at.”

Same beloved doughnuts crafted by different hands over the years Why do so many consider them the best?

“I love cake doughnuts, No. 1,” says longtime regular Heard, revelling in all the flavour combinations on offer.

“They do coconut with white icing. Raspberry, orange, strawberry – whatever – chocolate, different coloured sprinkles. I mean, come on,” he said.

On this particular day, Heard is taking home a box of plain doughnuts, “because these are for my coffees in the morning.”

Another big part of the appeal is how little they’ve changed.

“It’s basically the same as you did back in the day,” he remarks to Haggerty. “I’m sure the recipe is the same. It’s gotta be.”

The doughnut recipe has remained more or less consistent since Carol Haggerty’s husband John Haggerty bought the business in the early ’90s. Even less has changed since her husband died around nine years ago.

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West Van heritage preservation deal to go to public hearing JANE SEYD

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A proposal to preserve West Vancouver’s Clegg House and add it the district’s community heritage registry, in exchange for subdividing the existing lot and building another home as well as a coach house and stratified garden suite on the land, will go to a public hearing later in October.

A proposed heritage revitalization agreement for the property at 1591 Haywood Ave. – essentially allowing extra density in exchange for preserving a heritage home – came forward for consideration

by West Vancouver council Sept.

25.

Council’s biggest questions weren’t about the project itself, however, but about a request for a 20-year tax exemption requested by the property owners.

The 970-square-foot Clegg House, a Craftsman-style home built in 1929, sits on a large third-of-an-acre corner lot at the intersection of West Vancouver’s

A proposal for a heritage revitalization agreement for the Clegg House on Haywood Avenue will go to public hearing Oct. 23. DWV 16th Street and Haywood Avenue.

The home is one of the first built in the neighbourhood, as part of a 1912 subdivision, by immigrant farmer Warren Clegg, who bought two lots for less than $900, according to historical records.

The Clegg House currently sits

in the middle of the property, and although the land is large enough to subdivide, the presence of Vinson Creek in one corner of the property restricts the buildable area, according to a staff report.

Under the proposed heritage revitalization agreement, the

Clegg House would be moved south on the property to allow subdivision of the land. A new home and detached garage would then be built on the north lot while another garage with a coach house above it would be added to the south lot between the Clegg House and the new home. A stratified basement suite would also be added to the Clegg House, which would involve increasing the height of the house to accommodate nine-foot ceilings in the suite.

There have only been six heritage revitalization agreements completed in West Vancouver so far.

But the unusual request for a 20-year tax holiday – estimated at a value of about $96,000 – appeared to catch most of council’s attention during last week’s meeting.

The community charter allows municipal councils to exempt heritage-designated properties from taxation, but it requires a vote of two-thirds of council.

In response to questions

from council, staff confirmed no similar tax exemptions have been requested or given out before to owners of heritage properties.

“So why would we grant this project a tax exemption?” asked Coun. Christine Cassidy.

Owner Darrin DeCosta addressed council, telling them costs of preserving a heritage house are considerably higher than simply building a new home on the property. The cost of bringing services and utilities to the property under a heritage revitalization agreement are substantial, he said.

But Couns. Cassidy and Peter Lambur said the heritage revitalization agreement would already come with built-in financial benefits to the owners in the form of increased density and exemption from community amenity contributions. Cassidy added she didn’t like the precedent-setting nature of a tax exemption.

The public will have a chance to comment on the proposal at a public hearing Oct. 23.

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Driver blows through roadblock, crashes into house, ignites gas fire JANE SEYD

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A driver in North Vancouver blew through a police roadblock near the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge shortly after midnight on Sept. 22, sped away over the bridge, then crashed his vehicle into a house in East Vancouver, rupturing a gas line and setting the house ablaze.

The rental house on McGill Street, where four people were at home, was destroyed in the fire.

The incident happened around midnight, when the driver of a Ford Ranger truck blew through a roadblock set up by North Vancouver RCMP on the Main Street on-ramp to Highway 1 eastbound, said Const. Mansoor Sahak, spokesman for the detachment.

North Vancouver police officers followed the truck over the Ironworkers bridge, and briefly lost sight of the vehicle.

Moments later, they saw the truck – some distance away by now – lose control, leave the road and crash into a house in the 2000-block of McGill Street in East

Vancouver. The force of the crash ruptured the main gas line at the house and sparked a massive fire, said Assistant Fire Chief Jarret Gray of Vancouver Fire and Rescue.

“That collision caused a spark that caused a massive fireball,” said Gray.

Gray said the fire and ruptured gas line created a “blowtorch effect” that was too dangerous for firefighters to tackle until FortisBC crews came to turn off the gas – about 40 minutes later.

By the time the fire was put out, the house suffered extensive structural damage, said Gray.

Gray said the front end of the truck was damaged at the scene and it would likely have taken “a good hit” to cause the gas line to ignite. He added he hasn’t seen anything like it in his career.

The driver of the truck fled the scene after the crash but was tracked with the assistance of Vancouver Police Department, said Sahak.

A West Vancouver man in his late 20s was taken into custody. Sahak said the investigation into the incident is continuing.

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Ex-NHL player admits illegal insider trading, consulting misconduct

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Former NHL player and North Vancouver resident Cameron Paddock has admitted to illegal insider trading and conduct abusive to B.C.’s capital markets, according to a settlement agreement with the B.C. Securities Commission.

Paddock is now largely barred from the securities industry for the next 10 years and has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine, the settlement states.

Paddock was one of four individuals named in a hearing notice that had been amended from the Bridgemark Group consulting case notice, dating back to November 2018.

Paddock and his company Rockshore Advisories Ltd. conceded misconduct “through a pattern of acquiring and then selling shares of companies for which he was acting as a consultant,” noted a commission press release Sept 26.

Rockshore bought free-trading shares from six public-traded junior companies through private placements via an exemption for consultants. The commission had alleged consultants, including Paddock, “performed little or no consulting work.”

Rockshore, “sold all of those shares in the market immediately or shortly after receipt of the issuer’s shares, often for a lesser share price than it paid to acquire the shares.

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As for the insider trading that contravened the B.C. Securities Act, Paddock and Rockshore admitted to trading company shares with knowledge of material information (that most of the funds raised in the private placements were paid out to consultants) that had not been publicly disclosed.

“As Rockshore’s director, Paddock authorized or permitted its contraventions of the Act,” stated the settlement.

Paddock, 40, is a former professional hockey player, who rose through the ranks beginning with a four-year stint as a young man with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League. Drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2002, he spent most of his time in the NHL farm leagues until a 16-game stint with the Blues during the 2008-2009 season. He is presently the director of hockey for the North Shore Winter Club.

Paddock declined to comment on the settlement other than to say he was “surprised” a reporter was interested.

Paddock is now barred from becoming a director or office of any public company or registered entity with the commission; he is also barred from promotional and consulting activities and trading securities unless for personal reasons and through a registered dealer who has a copy of his agreement and orders. Paddock is the second of four B.C. residents to admit to illegal insider trading after initially facing a hearing alongside dozens of consultants and their respective companies the commission dubbed the Bridgemark Group.

In April 2021, the commission discharged most of the consultants from the original hearing notice, leaving just four key alleged conspirators to face administrative charges of illegal insider trading and conduct contrary to the public interest in an amended hearing notice.

The commission stated in its amended hearing notice, there was collectively $50.8 million worth of shares purchased, and $42.9 million in consultant fees issued, via nine firms traded on the Canadian Securities Exchange, in the span of seven months in 2018. Paddock’s agreement shows he purchased $3.2 million of shares in two unnamed companies, sold $2.5 million and received $972,500 in consulting fees – transactions in which he had a special relationship with the company and traded with undisclosed knowledge.

Also admitting to illegal insider trading, last January, was co-respondent Robert John Lawrence, whose company Tavistock purchased $625,000 worth of shares via arrangements similar to Paddock’s, as described by the commission.

Since 2019, the commission has also settled with executives from four companies, upon their admissions that they made misrepresentations in 2018 with respect to consulting contracts and private placements. The commission has hearings scheduled for three other companies.

Paddock made his admissions ahead of a lengthy hearing that is scheduled to commence Sept. 29 and last into next year. The original amended hearing notice lists (aside from Paddock and Lawrence): Anthony Kevin Jackson, Jackson’s BridgeMark Financial Corp., Jackson’s financial service firm Jackson & Company Professional Corp., Justin Edgar Liu, and Liu’s Lukor Capital Corp. and Asiatic Management Consultants Ltd. Jackson and Liu are alleged to have conducted themselves contrary to the public interest as company directors and performed illegal insider trading. Those administrative allegations (from the commission’s executive director Peter Brady) have not been proven before a panel of independent commissioners.

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West Vancouver moves to ban fireworks in the district JANE SEYD

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Halloween celebrations in West Vancouver will likely be less explosive in the future after council moved to ban the sale and private use of fireworks in the district on Monday, Sept. 25.

Banning private use of fireworks brings West Van into line with other Metro Vancouver communities, where only a small handful of municipalities – including both the District of North Vancouver and West Vancouver – still allow fireworks to be sold and set off privately.

But the incendiary displays are a historical practice that’s no longer in line with concerns about environmental and wildfire risks, Assistant Fire Chief Jeremy Calder wrote in a report to council.

Calder said residents have consistently called for a ban on fireworks, citing noise that upsets pets and wildlife, poor air quality, damage to property and threats to public safety.

Calder noted both the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and the City of Vancouver have both banned fireworks in the last two years. Both the District of North Vancouver and

Here’s a selection of Halloween fireworks seized by North Vancouver RCMP in previous years. West Van is considering a ban on fireworks. NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP Tsleil-Waututh Nation are considering banning fireworks.

Under current rules, members of the public can apply for a permit to discharge fireworks from Oct. 24 to 28 and on Oct. 31 for a $5 fee. But Calder said there is no verification process associated with that application.

The total number of permits issued has been declining, he added in the report, with 50 permits issued last year.

Officially dousing storefront sales and cracking down on crackers won’t entirely stop problematic activity, particularly as fireworks are frequently bought online, Calder acknowledged in the report. But it will allow police and West Van staff to enforce the rules, he said, and stop the district’s condoning of fireworks.

According to the fire department, in the weeks leading up to and following Halloween, a large number of public complaints are typically received, including ones for noise, concerns that gunshots have been fired, fireworks causing anxiety to household pets, environmental pollution and litter left on neighbouring properties.

In 2022, there were 29 West Vancouver Police Department files involving fireworks and there have been six so far in 2023, according to the report. The majority took place at schools, in parks or on roads, and five resulted in property damage. Ten of the complaints were from fireworks displays at private properties.

Of those, only one had a valid permit.

The report added that since 2018,

there have been 12 fires associated with fireworks reported in West Van, including two structure fires, one instance of fireworks and compressed gas cylinders on fire against a high school, one newspaper box set on fire, and three instances of fireworks set off in the interior stairwells of commercial buildings.

Under the proposed bylaw, fines for breaking the rules would range from $300 to $500.

Council did not discuss the fireworks ban Monday night, but Coun. Nora Gambioli said she welcomed the change.

“We have a lot of resources being put into this issue, especially around Halloween time,” she said, adding that, according to a map provided by the fire department, West Van remains one of the few places in the Lower Mainland that still allows fireworks.

Others include Bowen Island, and the villages of Lions Bay, Anmore and Belcarra.

“I don’t want to be the only one that still allows fireworks in the whole Lower Mainland. That would be a bit too exciting, wouldn’t it?” Gambioli said.

The bylaw banning fireworks must come back to council for final adoption.

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A totem pole commissioned almost 60 years ago by B.C. Ferries has been gifted to the family of the man who carved it, and will be placed at his grave to honour his legacy.

The four-metre-tall pole, carved from western red cedar, features a bear and a chief with a hat or helmet. It was erected at Horseshoe Bay terminal in 1966 after it was created by a then-24-year-old Tony Hunt Sr., one of a series of totem poles commissioned to mark Canada’s centennial the following year.

Hunt, whose carvings are in museums around the world, was a hereditary chief and the eldest of six sons of renowned artist Henry Hunt. His maternal grandfather was another celebrated artist, Mungo Martin.

B.C. Ferries said it began considering what to do with the totem pole last year after concerns were raised about its safety because of rot and wear.

As an interim measure, an engineering company was brought in to design an attachment to keep the totem pole stable.

Toni Edenshaw, the Indigenous-relations liaison for B.C. Ferries, contacted the Hunt

Workers carefully remove the bear totem at Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal. B.C. FERRIES family to ask if they would like the pole returned to Kwakiutl First Nation land on northern Vancouver Island. The family was quick to say yes, and B.C. Ferries started the process of repatriating the totem pole to Fort Rupert on Aug. 28. A work crew lifted it from its concrete base and onto a tandem-axle crane truck. The work followed months of planning, and included moving electrical wires in the area.

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Edenshaw said there is a special procedure for moving a totem pole and she had many conversations with Stanley Clifford Hunt, Tony Sr.’s brother, to make sure it was done properly, like keeping it from touching the ground.

Hunt was excited about the totem pole coming home and said B.C. Ferries was “incredibly gracious” to offer it the family.

An acclaimed carver himself, he was

on a recent tour of western Canada with a totem pole he carved for Indigenous children who attended residential schools.

He said he is going to restore his brother’s totem pole and “bring it back to as good a life as I can.”

“Tony and I were really close,” he said.

“It’s just a huge honour for me and, I know, for our family that we would get to see and help one of Tony’s totem poles be restored and be on display again.”

He and eight family members were on hand Aug. 29 when the totem pole arrived in Fort Rupert after a four-hour drive from the Departure Bay terminal.

It was unloaded with great caution.

“We were doing it with utmost care and with utmost respect and so much emotion for us all,” Hunt said. “I looked at it the next morning, I looked out in the backyard and there it is, looking back at me.”

He said the pole will get a coat of paint and possibly additional wood before it is placed “beside where Tony is resting.”

Hunt said his brother’s legacy includes not only his art but all the artists he trained.

Having the totem pole come home is special for the family, he said.

“When we look out now, we can feel Tony’s spirit.”

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Hikers warned after cougar spotted on Grouse Mountain trail JANE SEYD

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Hikers on the North Shore are being warned to be cautious after two people reported seeing a cougar on the upper BCMC Trail on Grouse Mountain Sept. 23.

The two hikers spotted the big cat on the trail between 8 and 8:30 a.m. and reported it to Grouse Mountain Resort staff, who alerted Metro Vancouver.

Parks staff have now posted signs alerting the public that a cougar may be in the area.

The cougar wasn’t displaying any concerning behaviour when it was spotted by the hikers, said Jennifer Saltman of Metro Vancouver, and was likely just passing through the area.

She added it’s not unusual for cougars to be spotted on the North Shore.

To avoid danger, parks staff advise hikers to go out with a friend if possible and not wear earbuds or earphones on the trail.

Cougar attacks are very rare, although there have been reports of cougar encounters on hiking trails in recent months.

In August, part of a trail system near

Whistler’s Alpine neighbourhood was closed for a few days after a mountain biker reported that a cougar knocked him off his bike, then followed him for 10 to 15 minutes.

Another man reported a cougar took a swipe at him while he was hiking at Elk Falls Provincial Park near Campbell River the same month.

In June, the Conservation Officer Service also closed two popular mountain bike trails in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast after a cougar reportedly lunged and swatted at a woman, who was later treated in hospital. Luckily in that case, a group of nearby trail builders arrived soon after the encounter and scared the cougar off.

Experts advise if you see a cougar, don’t approach it or run away. Instead, face the cougar and back away slowly.

Try to make yourself look bigger and pick up sticks to wave them about.

Pick up any small children immediately, as children are most at risk.

According to WildSafeBC, cougars account for about 2,500 calls to the Conservation Officer Service every year, although many reported sightings turn out to be animals other than cougars.

A cougar is spotted by a wildlife camera last winter in North Vancouver’s Seymour Water Supply Area. Two people reported seeing a cougar on the upper BCMC Trail on Saturday, Sept. 23. METRO VANCOUVER Currently, the main trailhead at Grouse Mountain Regional Park and the Grouse Grind Trail are closed until December while repair and upgrade work is underway. Hikers can access the park through

a secondary trailhead about 250 metres east of the usual Grouse Grind trailhead, through the parking lot. Meanwhile, the BCMC route and the Baden-Powell Trail on Grouse remain open.

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Trucking company fined $3,500 for striking highway overpass

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Squamish-based Whistler Courier & Freightways trucks are back on the road making deliveries after a safety audit that followed a bridge strike in North Vancouver by one of its drivers on Sept. 19.

“Thank you to all our customers for your patience while Whistler Courier completed a safety audit,” reads a Sept.

27 statement emailed to The Squamish Chief and posted to the company’s Facebook page.

“Our fleet is back on the road, so we are ready to take your orders again. We look forward to serving your delivery needs in the Sea to Sky Corridor, Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley.”

On Sept. 19, one of the company’s trucks struck the Main Street overpass with an overheight load, closing Highway 1 for several hours, according to North Vancouver RCMP. The driver then fled on foot after

abandoning the vehicle.

The company’s licences were suspended pending further investigation by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement Agency (CVSE), which included a safety audit.

B.C. Transportation Minister Rob Fleming called the incident “outrageous” on Sept. 20.

“There will be a criminal investigation into the incident because the driver fled the scene,” Fleming said, adding that DriveBC has online tools that give height clearances for such structures.

“It’s never been easier to comply,” Fleming said at the time.

Fleming noted most truck drivers operate safely.

“A tiny percentage can create havoc.”

North Vancouver RCMP say the owner was issued a ticket for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

“We are supporting CVSE with their investigation,” said Const.

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A spokesperson with the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure said on Thursday that following CVSE’s investigation into the incident, its officers issued tickets to the company totalling approximately $3,500.

This was beyond the original ticket issued by the RCMP. The company was also asked to submit an action plan to address all areas of non-compliance with Division 37 of the

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North Shore resident Fernando Lessa – who often visits Squamish to capture nature photography – was on his way to a dinner reservation when the crash happened. He did not get to dinner on time.

“We spent, I think, two hours and 15 minutes stuck there,” he said.

Lessa said he was surprised and disappointed by how long it took police and crews to arrive at the scene and begin their work of opening the highway and getting drivers detoured.

“Accidents happen, but I was expecting something would happen, someone would come and organize the traffic,” he said. “It was pretty disorganized.”

Asked how he felt about the amount of the fine, Lessa was not impressed.

“That’s kind of a joke, right?” he said.

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North Vancouver teen scores first goal as a pro soccer player NICK LABA

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He wasn’t used to not scoring goals.

After his debut as a pro soccer player in June, 18-year-old James Cameron of North Vancouver had gone nearly 13 games without putting a ball through the goal posts.

“It was a rare feeling for me,” said Cameron, who had been consistently working toward a career in professional soccer since the age of 14.

Then, on Sept. 9, he broke his dry spell by scoring the game-winning goal for his team, Vancouver FC, at home against Atlético Ottawa.

In the late 90th minute of the match, Cameron saw three of his teammates on the counterattack. The ball went wide to his teammate Shaan Hundal as Cameron was at the halfway line.

From the halfway line, Cameron sprinted towards the net. Hundal made a cross to Cameron, landing perfectly to meet Cameron in the

James Cameron celebrates after scoring his first goal as a pro soccer player on Sept. 9. BEAU CHEVALIER / VANCOUVER FC six-yard box for a strike to beat the Ottawa goalkeeper.

Cameron erupted with emotion, running across the turf with his arms spread wide in celebration, joined by his ecstatic team. “It was awesome,” he said.

It was a great moment, winning against a tough opponent and keeping his team’s playoff dreams alive, Cameron said.

Unfortunately, Vancouver FC’s hopes for a post-season would end shortly after, following a 2-1 loss on Sept. 16 to Cavalry FC, the top-ranked team in the Canadian

Premier League.

While Vancouver FC’s season is coming to an end, Cameron’s career in pro soccer is just beginning.

His journey with the sport started at age five, but he was also involved in several sports as a kid, including baseball and hockey. As he became a teenager, Cameron said he knew he had to choose one if he wanted to be good enough to play professionally one day.

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Cameron, a product of Blaise Soccer Academy, played for Mountain FC in the BC Soccer Premier League in his youth.

He was also set to play soccer for UBC this fall, but his plans changed course at the Vancouver FC open trials in January, where Cameron was one of three players selected from a pool of more than 150 prospects.

When he was told that he made the team, Cameron was a bit surprised.

“Honestly I wasn’t ready at the time,” he said. “I still had a lot of work to do to be ready to play in the pro league.” “[Head Coach Afshin Ghotbi] took a chance on me … He saw that I was young and have a good head on my shoulders,” Cameron said.

After the trials, Cameron decided to defer his UBC acceptance and started playing soccer full time, which allowed him to get his play up to speed with pro league standards.

“I’m more relaxed, less busy than having to do both school and soccer,” he said. “I can put all my focus and training on being a football player.”

Starting off as a developmental player, which can only play six games a season, Vancouver FC signed Cameron – described by the club as a “young star” – under a standard player contract in the exceptional young talent subcategory, which allows teams to sign three young players without affecting the squad’s salary cap.

Playing as a pro, soccer is a now a whole different experience for Cameron.

“You might show up for a game feeling sore or tired, but then you realize you’re not just playing for yourself, you’re playing for your team and the people there supporting you,” he said.

Although he’s just kicking off his professional career, Cameron, who has British ancestry, said he dreams of one day playing for the national team in England.

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Proposal for both sites: To rezone the subject properties from a One-Unit Residential (RS-1) Zone to a One-Unit Residential (RS-2) Zone to allow for subdivision of the properties into 2 lots and the development of a singlefamily dwelling with a secondary suite on each lot.

Provide written input: All persons who believe their interest in property may be affected by the proposed bylaws will be afforded an opportunity to be heard by written or email submission. All submissions must include your name and address and should be sent to the Corporate Officer at input@cnv.org, or by mail or delivered to City Hall, no later than noon on Monday, October 16, 2023, to ensure their availability to Council at the meeting.

No Public Hearing will be held.

Watch the meeting online at cnv.org/LiveStreaming or in person at City Hall, 141 West 14th Street. Enter City Hall from 13th Street after 5:30pm.

View the documents online at cnv.org/PublicHearings Questions? Sara Rasooli, Planning Assistant srasooli@cnv.org / 604-982-8352 141 WEST 14TH STREET / NORTH VANCOUVER / BC / V7M 1H9 T 604 985 7761 / F 604 985 9417 / CNV.ORG

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The North Vancouver Wolf Pack will be on the prowl for a spot in this year’s playoffs, with the return of assistant coach Elias Godoy, who helped lead the team to a Pacific Junior Hockey League championship title in 2015.

Primarily working with the team’s forwards, Godoy emphasizes offence and high-level skills, while training the players on a new system for penalty kills and power plays, says Giancarlo Nadeau, spokesperson for the Wolf Pack. “[With] the level of professionalism that he brings to the practices and to the games, we’re super excited to have him back,” Nadeau said. “He’s also got a lot of experience with our organization, so he understands what our values are.”

Godoy was a regular figure behind the Wolf Pack’s bench before leaving in 2018 to take time to be with his two young kids.

The 41-year-old West Vancouverite comes from a high-level playing background. From 2002 to 2006, Godoy played NCAA Division 1 for University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he was nominated for the Hobey Baker Award, which recognizes the top player in collegiate hockey.

After university, he took an opportunity to attend the Vancouver Canucks development camp, where he trained alongside a young Markus Näslund and the Sedin twins.

He then played professionally from 2006 to 2011, primarily in the CHL and EliteHockey Ligaen, the premier Norwegian league.

The Wolf Pack extended a warm welcome to Godoy and his family.

“We are excited for coach Elias to be back with the Wolf Pack family and to help try and bring another championship home,”

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said general manager Matt Samson.

The Wolf Pack narrowly missed the playoffs last year after a slow start to the regular season, losing to the Grandview Steelers in a three-game, must-win play-in series in February.

As it will be the final season for several players on the bench, there’s a renewed sense of urgency to push for a strong showing in the post season, Nadeau said.

Among those moving on next year is top scorer J.J. Pickell of North Vancouver, who was first in the PJHL last season with 42 goals, tying the Wolf Pack’s all-time record set by Dominic Davis in the 2019-20 season.

This year, the Wolf Pack jumped to Tier 2 Junior A status, from Junior B, following the BCHL’s decision to break away from BC Hockey and become its own independent league.

The next home game for the Wolf Pack will be Saturday, Oct. 7 against the Grandview Steelers, puck drop at 7 p.m. at Harry Jerome Arena.

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Michael Scherk competes at the 2023 Bell Canadian Track & Field Championships in Langley. The NorWesters Track and Field Club athlete won gold in the senior men’s 100-metre hurdles. NORWESTERS

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Hurdler caps dominant season with win at senior nationals ANDY PREST

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Michael Scherk from the North Shore’s NorWesters Track and Field Club can call himself a national champion after a strong season that culminated with a win in the senior men’s 110-metre hurdles at the 2023 Bell Canadian Track & Field Championships in Langley.

After going undefeated throughout the season in the U20 age division, the young speedster moved up to the senior division for the national championships, claiming the Canadian crown with a time of 13.68, a new personal best that was more than half a second ahead of the second place finisher.

His undefeated season also saw him win the 110-m hurdles in the North Shore

High School Championships, the Sea to Sky Championships, the B.C. High School Championships, and the BC Jamboree Club Championships.

He is now attending Duke University as a freshman on the track and field team.

Marlena Tresnjo, another NorWesters athlete, also hit the podium in a national competition, earning silver in heptathlon at the Canadian Legion Youth Championships in Sherbrooke, Que. Trensjo also just missed the podium at the U20 Canadian Championships in Langley, finishing fourth in high jump.

Those results capped off a season that saw her win five medals at the B.C. High School Championships, including gold in the high jump, and gold in heptathlon at the BC Jamboree Club Championships.

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Longtime North Shore publisher named Canadian news champion BRENT RICHTER

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Longtime North Shore resident and former publisher of the North Shore News Peter Kvarnstrom has been named one of the country’s “champions” for news in a new book.

News Media Canada, the industry organization that represents hundreds of print and digital new publishers in the country, is publishing a book in time for National Newspaper Week, which started on Oct. 1.

Kvarnstrom, who immigrated from Sweden as a child, started in the news business in 1991, selling classified ads for the North Shore News. He quickly rose up through the ranks, eventually becoming advertising director, before leaving in 1997 to start a new print newspaper, the Coast Reporter, in Sechelt, which he still publishes. He returned to the North Shore News as publisher in 2015.

Today, Kvarnstrom is the president for community media at Glacier Media Group, the parent company of the North Shore News.

Kvarnstrom said his inclusion in the book comes as a big honour.

“I am humbled to be part of that class of great people that have devoted their life and energies to Canadian journalism and local news in many ways,” he said. “It’s been my distinct privilege to serve communities here in North Vancouver, West Vancouver and on the Sunshine Coast over the last 25 years, and to be recognized by my peers in this way is indeed a special time for me.”

Kvarnstrom has been equally active at the industry

level, serving in leadership roles with the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspaper Association, News Media Canada, Canadian Community Newspaper Association, the Canadian Daily Newspaper Association, the National Newspaper Awards Program and Vivadata, a consumer research organization.

We will find a While there’s no secret way for us to exist about the challenges the for many, many news publishing industry years and serve faces, Kvarnstrom contincommunities ues to exude positivity. with the type of “What we are doing is building communities journalism that by connecting audiences they deserve and our sponsors and need to really help with advertisers through qualtheir community ity journalism that truly and support impacts the quality of life that we all enjoy,” he said. democracy.

“We will find a way for us PETER KVARNSTROM to exist for many, many years and serve communities with the type of journalism that they deserve and need to really help their community and support democracy.”

Champions goes on sale on Oct. 1 at championsofthetruth.ca. All proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the charity First Book Canada.

Peter Kvarnstrom is immortalized here by artist Rachel Joanis for an upcoming book on the news industry in Canada. The red sun is a nod to the colour featured in the logo of the North Shore News. RACHEL JOANIS / NEWS MEDIA CANADA

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Housing society included in project proposal Continued from A4 population.… Right now, lots of these kinds of services are being offered haphazardly in places that were not designed for it,” he said. “If you design the building correctly, then you can manage a lot of the impacts within the structure itself and then it doesn’t have a spillover effect into the neighbourhood… I think it will be a much more effective way to manage the challenges that come with these kinds of supportive housing.”

North Vancouver-Lonsdale NDP MLA Bowinn Ma said the district stepping up to partner on the project has been “huge” in advancing it this far. But she acknowledged it may face blowback in the neighbourhood, putting its future success at council at risk.

“It is not uncommon for projects like this for very vulnerable populations to face resistance in communities, but I am extremely hopeful the compassion of North Vancouver will shine through,” she said. “The people who are being housed in these projects are already here in North Vancouver, but they’re living in desperate situations. They’re living in their

This intersection of Keith Road and Mountain Highway in North Vancouver is where the province is planning to build supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness. GOOGLE EARTH

cars. They’re living on the streets.”

People who move into the building will benefit from ready access to services and the stability that comes from having a safe and secure place to live, and the entire North Shore will be better for it, Ma said.

“We can’t underestimate how positively life-changing stable housing like this can be for vulnerable populations,” she said. “None of us benefit from having vulnerable community members living in tents in the forest instead of stable housing.”

The Lu’ma Native Housing Society currently owns and/or operates more than 1,250 supportive housing units in B.C. Kevin Eaton, executive director of supportive housing for the society, welcomed their inclusion in the project, noting it is fitting that it is going on unceded and stolen traditional lands of the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations “Supporting the unhoused and those at risk of being unhoused is paramount for Lu’ma Native Housing Society, with our mandate to serve the urban Indigenous community with affordable housing options along a continuum,” he said in a release.

The project was scheduled to face its first public vote by council last night, after North Shore News deadline.

The province has granted municipalities the power to waive public hearings for redevelopments such a this one, but Little said the intention is to hold a public hearing before a final vote, likely later in the fall.

The assessed value of the four lots where the project is proposed to be built is a combined $8.84 million.

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Doughnut recipe stays mostly the same for more than 50 years

Continued from A13 Before his death, John was the principal operator of the shop.

He would handle the doughnuts while his wife would head the sandwich counter.

“We made like three turkeys a week,” Haggerty said.

Eventually, the business became focused solely on the sweet stuff. After John’s sudden passing, his wife decided to continue making the doughnuts. “And I said, ‘No changes for a year. We won’t do any change, nothing rash,’” she recalled.

For nearly a decade since, her careful hands have cooked and decorated each confection, one by one.

Uniform, joyful and delicious, Harmony’s annular offerings line up in colourful rows along the shop’s windows, as they have for as long as any local doughnut lover cares to remember.

“I’m very picky,” Haggerty admits. “I am here six days a week because I don’t like anybody else to make them, because they don’t make it the way I make it.”

“You’re never ever going to get them all the same. But there’s certain things … they’ve got to be decorated properly,” she said.

“I never came across any that I like as much as mine. I know it’s terrible, but it works, right?

“So, I’m my own worst enemy, because now my kids won’t help because I pick on them,” Haggerty continued.

For a while it was a one-woman show, but now she has help from two trusted staff.

Still, Haggerty isn’t sure how long Harmony’s doughnut-making days will last.

“For how long? I don’t know.

Till I’m sick of it,” she said. “You’re up early every day. I’m here at 5:30 in the morning.”

Getting up at the crack of dawn is the thing Haggerty says she likes least about running the shop. What does she like most?

“My favorite thing is meeting all the people. The majority of people when they come in, they’re happy that they’re getting something sweet,” she said. “They’re happy, and that makes me happy.”

Rows of the colourful confections line up in front of the shop window each day. NICK LABA / NSN

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Building new housing is a complex process, says SFU expert

Continued from A1 pace to meet the province’s target for net new units.

West Vancouver, though, will have to step up its rate of housing completions by about 20 per cent over historical trends based on Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation data (although that data counts gross completions, not net, so it would include redevelopment of existing homes).

According to the CMHC, West Vancouver had 2,285 housing starts between 2013 and 2022, but more than half – 1,313 – were for new single-family homes.

In the last 10 years, West Vancouver has averaged 108 new apartment unit starts per year. The new provincial targets call for them to complete an average of 286 per year for the next five years.

West Vancouver reacts West Vancouver Mayor Mark Sager said the numbers

are achievable.

There are only a few small projects waiting for council’s approval in the pre-application phase, Sager said, but the local area plan for Ambleside’s revitalization is nearing completion, and the planning process for Taylor Way is under way. Later this fall, council will likely vote on approval for Cypress Village, a new mixed-use neighbourhood with 3,000 units to be built in phases on Cypress Bowl Road, and council recently approved a 201-unit rental building on Clyde Avenue, he noted. And the Kiwanis North Shore Housing Society has approval to build a six-storey, below-market rental building on Gordon Avenue, although council is asking the province for funding to cover the development cost charges.

Sager said the minister has indicated that if municipalities aren’t delivering new housing projects, the province will simply mandate them, “which would be a real fight.”

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“It is the responsibility of the local government to make wise land-use decisions that work based on the ability of the community to absorb new construction and infrastructure that works,” he said. “Honestly, I don’t think [mandates are] going to be necessary, so it’s not something I’m going to lose sleep over.”

Regardless of how many new units council approves, it will be up to the private sector to decide how much gets delivered and on what schedule, Sager said. Rising interest rates and labour costs will certainly be a factor in that, he added.

“This is something that the province is going to have to realize that’s out of everybody’s control,” he said “People aren’t going to build things unless there’s somebody that will rent or buy them at the end of the day. That’s just the market reality.”

North Vancouver reacts District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little said the provincial housing targets are pretty much in line with his municipality’s rolling average for completions over the last five years, which won’t be a challenge to continue. But, he said, the province can’t expect any municipality to bring on so many below-market rental units on their own.

“The gross numbers we can achieve,” Little said. “The ratio of non-market units will be a big challenge without further provincial and federal financial support.” And, Little added, there are many other factors that council has to consider beyond the province’s housing targets.

“As we’re receiving pressure from the provincial government to build more, we still aren’t receiving the corresponding supports needed in infrastructure to accommodate more growth,” he said. “There’s still no commitment from the province or federal government for addressing our transportation infrastructure deficit, nor commitment to rapid transit improvement to the North Shore.”

Expert opinion Andy Yan, director of SFU’s City Program, said he appreciated that the province broke down the number of bedrooms, rentals, strata and non-market units that were in the targets – but he expressed similar concerns about how they might be delivered.

“They’re not playing checkers. They’re playing chess,” he said. “The other side of this is how the province and the federal government will turn up.”

More than meeting the province’s expectation to having plenty of new housing stock coming online, Yan noted that councils also have to be mindful of where it goes and how it functions within the wider community, its services and infrastructure and transportation.

“Housing is hard,” he said with a laugh. “It’s hard because it’s not only the immediate site issue, but it’s how it links up to a system.”

Yan said the province has been taking important steps to speed up housing approvals at the provincial level and cut back on red tape, but he also cautioned that the construction industry itself is likely running at capacity already.

“Where are they going to get the labour? And we already know that supply chains are a bit stretched,” he said. “Be very careful, because there could be any number of reasons why a target isn’t met, and a lot of them could be outside of the controls of the municipality.”

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OPINION

Sultan: Caregivers need to be given a break as society ages RALPH SULTAN

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The Boomers Are Aging. Their Kids Aren’t Ready.

That’s a recent American headline. It could be written in Canada. Public policy debate focuses on crime, housing costs, inflation, and access to medical care. Missing from the list is our aging society.

When Premier Christy Clark appointed me British Columbia Minister of State for Seniors, maybe with an eye on the seniors vote, I visited about a hundred seniors care facilities across B.C., ranging from admirable to deplorable. Cracks were appearing in the system even then. Dementia was coming on strong. How would our seniors care system cope? I posed the question, “What’s our plan to handle the influx?” to the director of one of the largest government care facilities in Vancouver. I will always remember her answer: “I’m retiring next year!”

To be fair, the government of

Former West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan is seen here in 2019 shortly after announcing his impending retirement from politics. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN

the day was proactive. For example, we announced the Better at Home program. As they age, most seniors want to stay living right where they are. Moving into a care facility is not first choice.

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focus on community nursing and visitation – helped seniors stay right where they already were, at home but with some government assistance. And that program successfully operates today.

Benefits are obvious. A visiting

nurse with a car is a lot less expensive than building a longterm care semi-hospital, funded by your tax dollars.

However, demand grows and grows. The proportion of seniors in our population climbs year by year, thanks to healthier living, improved health care and better education. Seven years ago, the proportion of our North Shore population aged 75 and older was 9.5 per cent. Five years later, that proportion had grown to 12.9 per cent. If it keeps growing at that rate – and what’s to stop it? – then more than 16 per cent of our North Shore population could be aged 75 and older by 2026.

And as we grow older, more and more of us suffer from dementia. One national organization says over 10 per cent of British Columbians aged 75 and older suffer from some degree of dementia. And the incidence of dementia climbs with age.

Here are two case studies involving personal friends and relatives. One case involves a

56-year-old man who developed premature dementia. His wife is the breadwinner, and somehow managed both his care and her own career – until his dementia became too much to manage.

So, he was hospitalized. He awaits disposition into a government-subsidized long-term care home. A bed will become available when one of the current residents dies. A sort of death watch, you might say. Evidence of no slack in the system.

Another case involves a 75-year-old woman who lived in a trailer park on the North Shore.

Relatives dropped in frequently as her own ability to look after herself declined, but relatives also had their own lives to live.

They researched long-term, private-pay care, not taxpayer-subsidized, and it was indeed available at an annual cost of $135,000. She joined the government-pay queue and her relatives soldiered on.

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Count Alvo Von Alvensleben Photo: NVMA, 3748 October is German Heritage Month in Canada. Here is a photograph taken in 1916 of a house at 437 Somerset St. in North Vancouver, owned at one point by Count Gustav Constantin Alvo von Alvensleben, a German businessman who helped found the Vancouver Stock Exchange. von Alvensleben arrived in Vancouver in 1904, and later formed a real estate and finance company, which was rumoured to be supported by Kaiser Wilhelm II. His success abruptly ended with the arrival of the First World War, when his assets were seized as “enemy property” and he was forced to flee to Seattle. He died there in 1965.

Visit monova.ca for more information about the history of the North Shore and to learn about MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver now open Thursday to Sunday in The Shipyards. Currently, MONOVA: Archives of North Vancouver at 3203 Institute Rd. in Lynn Valley is open by appointment only. Contact: archives@monova.ca

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Providing care is time consuming Continued from A38 here is a person being looked after by family members who, at some point, decide they cannot carry on. Demands are too great. Too stressful. Too energy consuming. In other words, “Better at Home” runs out of steam.

What is our capacity to cope with all of this? On the North Shore where I live, we have on the supply side in the range of 1,000 government-subsidized long term care beds. And maybe half that number again in the private pay category. On the

demand side, we have 18,000 people aged 75 and older living on the North Shore. So, the government can house perhaps five per cent of them. What about the other 95 per cent? Here’s the unwelcome speech I used to give when I was Seniors Minister: “We’re mostly on our own folks!”

What makes “at home” possible is seniors care by partners, family and loved ones. We call them “caregivers.” And that’s what most seniors prefer.

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Respite care expands the system Continued from A40 solution: caregiver burn out. Faced with dementia, limited mobility, even diapers and bedpans, often on top of existing careers, many caregivers say, “I’m sorry, I can’t do this anymore.”

How can we forestall this? A smart strategy is to give at-home caregivers an occasional break, allowing them to simply relax, or take a charter flight to Baja, or spend more time with their own family. But who will look after their loved one during their period of respite (caregiver respite that is)?

Fortunately, we have an organization dedicated to respite care: the North Shore Family Respite Centre, which will soon break ground for a special purpose shortterm care facility at the foot of Lonsdale in North Vancouver. It will be like a shortterm stay hotel for seniors. The sponsoring organization is Care BC, which used to operate under the name Victorian Order of Nurses. It is an organization of visiting community nurses.

Here is the arithmetic: their new Respite Centre will offer 18 overnight respite beds. If a loved one is admitted for, say, 10 days, while their caregivers take a muchneeded break, about 650 clients can be served each year at the new centre. That is

equivalent to adding about 650 permanent care beds to our North Shore capacity, simply by forestalling caregiver burnout. In other words, a gearing ratio of about 35, in which one respite bed gets you 35 clients looked after at home, and it’s “Better at Home.” This single project could effectively grow long-term care capacity on the North Shore by 50 per cent.

Dr. Inge Schamborzki is executive director of Care BC, the non-profit society providing at-home services for seniors and respite care (in Vancouver). She is raising the $15 million needed to complete a respite project for the North Shore. It is close to ground-breaking.

Schamborzki is organizing a fund-raising gala at the Pinnacle Waterfront Vancouver on Saturday, October 28. You can donate to the North Shore Family Respite Centre through becauseyoucarebc.ca/donate or connect by phone at 604-733-9177. Making a tax-deductible contribution to the Care BC Foundation is a high-leverage way a younger generation can prepare for the aging boomers who, on present trends, will swamp our already stressed long-term care system.

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NOTICE OF DISPOSITION In accordance with section 26 of the Community Charter, the District of West Vancouver (the “District”) hereby gives notice of its intention to dispose of the fee simple interest in a parcel of land located at 3000 Park Lane, West Vancouver BC, legally described as: PID: 030-375-207 THAT PART OF DISTRICT LOT 556 GROUP 1 NEW WESTMINSTER DISTRICT SHOWN ON PLAN EPP60531 (the “Lot”).

The Lot is a vacant residential parcel, approximately 9,020 square feet in area, and zoned RS4. The location of the Lot is approximately as indicated in blue on the map. All measurements are approximate, and the Lot will be sold “as-is, where-is”.

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Continued from A10 governments for more financial support “because it’s just going to be too much for us to be able to bear.”

Currently, the new contractors hired by Metro to figure out how to complete the sewage plant are still addressing the morethan 1,200 deficiencies identified in the project left by Acciona, said Little.

“That is a big problem,” he said. “The bigger problem is we’re this far in and the project is only 80 per cent designed.”

Little cited examples including designs that had yet to figure out how a pipe would go from one side of a building to another and weight-bearing walls with huge holes cut into them for pipes to pass through.

The North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant will provide tertiary treatment, exceeding federal regulatory requirements for secondary treatment technology, for 250,000 residents and businesses on the North Shore.

Harvie said completion of the new

treatment plant is also needed to accommodate the significant population growth and new housing being requested by the federal government.

According to a press statement, the new Metro task force will present the board with options to consider in relation to the treatment plant construction “over the coming months.”

Problem-plagued plant The wastewater treatment plant has long been plagued with problems.

After the contract fight broke out between Metro Vancouver and its original contractor Acciona in the fall of 2021, the regional government hired PCL Constructors Westcoast Inc. in February of 2022 to jump-start construction on the stalled wastewater treatment plant.

But subsequent reports on the project identified “more extensive deficiencies than originally anticipated,” according to Metro.

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PUBLIC MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING SHORT TERM RENTALS AND BED AND BREAKFASTS - AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING BYLAW AND BUSINESS LICENCE BYLAW

When: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 7pm. Where: Council Chamber, 355 W. Queens Rd, North Vancouver, BC How: The Public Meeting and 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 meetings 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.

Meeting: Amendments to the Business Licence Bylaw

Hearing: Amendments to the Zoning Bylaw

What: A Public Meeting for Bylaw 8632, which proposes to amend the Business

What: A Public Hearing for Bylaw 8631, which proposes to

• Adding definitions for: • Bed and Breakfast Operator; • Principal Residence; • Short Term Rental; and, • Short Term Rental Operator.

• Replacing the definition of Bed and Breakfast;

Licence Bylaw by:

• Adding regulations for Short Term Rentals: • Requirement to be located in the principal residence of the owner or tenant; • Limit of six guests; • Adding regulations for Short Term Rentals and Bed and Breakfasts: • Emergency contact information requirement; • Information on relevant District of North Vancouver bylaws requirement; • Must provide a valid business licence number in advertising, listings, or promotional material; • Licence Inspector must be provided with a written description of the proposed rental and detailed plans of proposed off-street parking prior to operating; • Requirement to post a fire safety plan by all entrances and exits, and have a smoke alarm and fire extinguisher on each floor as well as a carbon monoxide detector on each floor that contains a gas appliance; • Testing, inspection and maintenance requirements for life safety equipment; and, • Requirement to produce inspection, testing and maintenance records to the Inspector upon request.

amend the Zoning Bylaw by:

• Adding definitions for Principal Residence and Short Term Rental; • Replacing Part 4 Section 405 Home Occupations, subsection (h) regarding the number of home occupations permitted at the same premises; • Adding regulations for Short Term Rentals: • Principal residence requirement; • Prohibition of Short Term Rentals in permitted caretaker dwelling units and non-market housing units; • Maximum of six guests; • Requirement for one off-street parking stall; • Adding Short Term Rental businesses to the list of permitted Accessory Uses in Part 5 Residential Zone Regulations; and, • Adding designated expressions and fines for ticketing violations of the Short Term Rental provisions in the Zoning Bylaw.

When and How can I provide input? We welcome your input on October 10, 2023 at 7pm. You may sign up to speak at the meeting and hearing by

contacting the Municipal Clerk at signup@dnv.org prior to 3pm on Tuesday, October 10, 2023. You may also provide a written submission at any time prior to the close of the public meeting and 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 this proposal after the conclusion of the public meeting and 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 26, 2023 to October 10, 2023 or online at DNV.org/public-hearing

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Carolyn Margaret Huget March 22, 1931 – September 29, 2016 My darling, I don’t want you cold Confined in space and rarefied.

I want you here beside me Warm and loving As you were.

Lovingly remembered by husband Ray and “daughter” Dawn

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LARSON, Josephine H. March 3, 1936 − September 9, 2023 It is with deep sadness we share the loss of a mother, grandmother, great−grandmother, and friend. Jo passed away suddenly on September 9, 2023, at Evergreen Long Term Care Facility. She leaves behind her daughter Desiree; son Dean (Catherine); son Michael (Liza); grandchildren Kelsey, Kaitlynn, Joe, Adam, Erika and Meghan; great−granddaughter Emery; as well as many beloved nieces and nephews.

Jo was predeceased by her husband, Roy Alan Larson.

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COOKE, Dale October 3, 1926 − September 1, 2023 Dale passed peacefully at his home on September 1, 2023, with his daughter Karen Cooke at his side.

Eldest of four children, Dale is predeceased by his brother Lorne (2016), loving wife Muriel (2018), sister Dorreen Reid (2022), and best friend Jim Hibak (2022). Dale is survived by his daughter Karen, son Lance (Lara Zee), grandsons Declan and Benjamin, youngest sister Donna Cooke, and many other family members and friends.

Born in New Westminster, Dale enjoyed singing for local church choirs, the Amabilis Singers, and Choral Connections.

He found his passion in teaching grades four to seven, teaching all subjects and specializing in Physical Education while coaching many successful school teams. Dale taught in White Rock and New Westminster before moving to West Van for most of his 30+ years as a teacher, enjoying time at Gleneagles, Cypress Park, and Hollyburn schools.

Dale and Muriel were married for 65 years and spent time exploring backroads, visiting friends and family across BC and Canada, and pursuing a love of the game of Bridge with many friends, including retired teachers’ groups on the North Shore and in Coquitlam.

Dale’s remaining family will sorely miss this wonderful man: wise, kind, compassionate, supportive, a good listener, and the best dad, grandpa, uncle, and brother we could ever wish for.

Many thanks to Dale’s doctors, who took great care of him for many years: Drs. van Aggelen, Cunningham, Werb, Godinho and Coyle. Thanks also to the first responders to our 911 call for being so kind, professional and respectful.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to a charity of your choice. A celebration of life will be held at 1PM on October 28, 2023, at Queens Avenue United Church/Sanctuary on 6th − 6th Street & Queens Avenue, New Westminster, BC.

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CYMET, Steven (Steve) February 14, 1948 - September 26, 2023 It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle, Steve Cymet, age 75 years, on September 26, 2023 at home in North Vancouver with his loving wife at his side.

Steve was predeceased by his parents, Abram and Cypora Cymet. Steve is survived by his wife, Leslie, 2 sons, Emerson and Ian, granddaughter, Abbey, older brother Erwin (Anne), younger brother Jack (Anita), younger sister Sura (Stan), nieces and nephews and many good friends.

Steve was born in Berlin and immigrated to Canada with his family in 1949. He grew up in Montreal, working for many years for CP rail in both Montreal and Vancouver and then with CN rail in Vancouver before he started his own consulting business.

Steve will be remembered for his love of life, family and friends and his love of the outdoors. He loved all sports but his greatest love was skiing. One of his greatest joys was volunteering with the Whistler Adaptive Ski Program, and then with Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports, until his health prevented him from continuing. More recently, despite ill health, Steve could often be found at the gym on the exercise bike listening to music and doing his Sudoku puzzles.

Steve inspired all those who knew him with his extraordinarily positive attitude to life and his great sense of humour, as he faced more health challenges with equanimity and courage.

Thank you to the North Shore Palliative team and the North Shore Home Support program which allowed Steve to fulfill his wish to be cared for at home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports or to a charity of your choice. A celebration of Steve’s life will be announced at a future date.

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RAY, Doug July 9, 1937 - August 22, 2023 Doug Ray, raised in a log cabin in the middle of what is now known as Wells Gray Park, loved to share stories of his childhood. The son of a trapper named John Bunyan Ray and his homesteading wife Alice (nee Ludtke), he grew up deep in the forest with his older sister Nancy and younger brother Bob. Now a National Heritage Site, the Ray Farm was left behind when John died and the rest of the family moved to Blackpool, BC, where Doug became a star athlete and pupil at Clearwater High. Although he received a scholarship at UBC to study geology, he had to delay the move to Vancouver as he had no money and had been supporting himself since he was 13. Always a hard worker, once at UBC he excelled again, but despite his isolated upbringing, the work up North proved to be too remote and he soon packed his bags to enter the first MBA class offered at the University of Toronto.

In Toronto he met Jeanne Blair and they had a son named Robert Blair. After Jeanne, Doug married Connie Clayson, who would become his wife until she passed in 2017. While he gained experience within the financial districts of Montreal and Toronto, Doug and Connie began raising two children, David and Diana.

In 1974, after missing the West Coast and wishing for a change, Doug moved his family to Vancouver and eventually purchased The Imperial Salmon House, a gamble that proved to be a brilliant career decision. A little time later, he and Connie opened up a retail outlet for the smoked salmon business (Smokehouse Foods) in the newly developed Granville Island Public Market. A few years later they expanded again by opening Imperial Gourmet Foods at Robson Public Market.

Through it all, Doug had a good life enjoying the fruits of his labour all the while dabbling in other business ventures and investments before retiring in his late 50’s. He had a wonderful sense of humour and insight, which was reflected in his many writings and in his poetry. He loved words in all forms, from crossword puzzles to limericks. He enjoyed hiking, stamp collecting, watching sports, music and film, great food, reading and, of course, traveling the world. Doug thrived when discussing current events and cried when saying goodbye to his beloved pets. He was always true to himself.

He greatly influenced all who he encountered through his creativity, intellect, understanding and independence. He touched many lives: his family, his buddies at Eldercollege, his social circles and friends (the Greek Six!), and even his children’s friends who remember the family home as being a safe and supportive place back in the day, with Doug on hand to pay for mysterious pizzas or to just be there. Family and friends were everything to Doug and he was at his best when surrounded by loved ones; often regaling them with stories of his life and his travels while enjoying a fine bottle of wine, or a cheap bottle of port.

He is survived by his brother Bob (Carol), his children David and Diana (Andrew Rainsley), daughter-in-law, Angeline Proudhon (widow of Robert Blair who passed in 2011) and grandchildren Annie and Finn. Family in his later years broadened to include the patient and loving aides who cared for him, most especially Teresa Avelino.

Doug Ray passed away peacefully at Inglewood Care Centre, and the family is immensely grateful for the care that he was given. Shortly before he died, when asked where his happy place was, Doug responded without hesitation that it was a large black elm tree by that log cabin in Wells Gray Park, where he would sit on a branch and talk for hours with his brother and sister. This is the spot where we intend to scatter his ashes in the spring.

Please join us for a celebration of his life at Boal Chapel in North Vancouver on May 11, 2024 at 2pm. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to his favorite charity, Operation Smile.

LINCOLN, Roy Gilbert Sepember 30, 1926 - September 15, 2023 Roy slipped away in the palliative care wing of Lions Gate Hospital early September 15, 2023, two weeks shy of his 97th birthday.

He was born in Calgary, the younger of two sons raised by English settlers.

He loved building things, taking them apart and putting them back together. As a young man, he owned both and even rode motorcycles through the Calgary winter!

Roy left Calgary for Vancouver in 1948 and for most of the next ten years went back and forth from Vancouver to jobs up North, where he drove trucks on big infrastructure projects.

In October of 1957, a friend set him up on a blind date at The Breakers - and it worked! He married Beverley in September, 1958 and later adopted her three sons (Michael, John and Roy). They also had a son together (Chris) in 1961. After living most of the 1960s in Kitsilano, the family moved to North Vancouver in 1969.

Roy began working for the federal government in 1960 in a forestry research lab on the UBC campus. He became an engineering technician and stayed for 20 years. He finished his government service with a five-year stint in an entomology lab on the University of Saskatchewan campus in Saskatoon.

He was always a good crib player. And a better piano player. He was full of music. He used his tenor voice in choirs and at the dinner table. He and Bev were members of the Vancouver Opera Association starting in the 1960s. The records they played filled the house with music on Sunday afternoons.

Roy and Bev were also square dancers, learning in the early 1970s and dancing for some 30 years, mostly as members of the West Van Weavers.

After returning from the prairies, Roy did another ten years of paid work, before volunteering at the Seniors Centre in West Van teaching people how to use computers. He later served on several committees at the Ambleview Housing Co-op, where he lived his last dozen years.

Glaucoma left Roy completely blind in the last two years of his life. And in the final months, he was mostly bedridden. Still he was full of joy, making jokes and singing songs. Bev called him the perfect husband. Roy died two days after his 65th wedding anniversary.

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McTAVISH, Jacqueline Nancy (nee Faulkner) August 14, 1935 - September 28, 2023 I was so blessed with the wonderful care and love that I have been shown by family and friends while I have been on this, my final journey.

I want to thank my 4 daughters for the extraordinary care they have given me, they are, Kim Tuckett (Bob), Karen Vance, Bonnie Lepine (Peter), and Maureen Terranova (Gino). Son Paul (Alejandra) have been supportive from afar. My 2 sisters Sandra Bodfish and Terri Pamenter (David) have been there for me throughout. As well, my grandchildren have supported me with visits and phone calls.

My medical care has been above and beyond by staff at VGH and Lions Gate and North Shore Hospice. I have had caring and extraordinary timely treatment during this whole process.

I also want to thank my friends Walter Rochford, Lee Massey, Paul Whitehouse and Johnny Lam for their support and TLC. There have been many others as well, especially my Rotary friends.

I was a proud member of Rotary for over 25 years and very involved with other organizations in the community - a few were the Coho Society, West Van Chamber of Commerce, Familia Christie and on the start up board of the WV Otters in 1976.

Those that have gone before me are daughter Leigh Anne Terranova, parents Charles & Daisy Faulkner, husbands Basil Terranova and William McTavish, sister Bonnie Nolan, brother Bill Faulkner and dear friend Janey Marie Anderson.

I have been told that I am the family knitting and gardening champion. My special passion was for dancing, especially Latin, foxtrot and Jazz.

Swimming, aquafit, walking and hiking were also pass times I enjoyed.

My special place since 1951 has been Balsam Lake in Ontario and when possible, I was there at least 2 months every year. My ashes will reside with Lily Tuckett, my walking, morning coffee and cuddling companion in Coboconk Cemetery, in Ontario..

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A memorial service will be held at 1:30 pm on October 22, 2023 at West Van United Church, 2062 Esquimalt Avenue, West Vancouver.

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

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REMEMBRANCES Obituaries

Obituaries

Obituaries BRASS, Alice Rae January 23, 1926 − September 13, 2023

SKILL, Arthur William

FERGUSON, Mary Ann (Pat) May 2, 1926 - July 28, 2023 It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Mary Ann (Pat) Ferguson (nee Donnelly). Pat’s loving husband, Jim Branson, was at her bedside in Evergreen House in North Vancouver.

Pat was a wife, mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother (GG), and she was loved by all members of her family and will be deeply missed.

Pat is survived by her loving husband Jim Branson, step-children; Janice (Alan), Jill (Patrick), Thomas and Sarah; and children, Annalee (Hugh), Jim (Leigh), Mary (Richard), Neil (Jennifer); five grandchildren, Rob (Raili), Cathy (André), Steven (Fiona), Stacy (Blake), Marly, and ten greatgrandchildren Meaghan, Owen, Keegan, Tierdon, Alex, David, Taylor, Kyle, Ryan and Craig. Her extended family includes many cousins and a wide circle of friends and associates. Pat was predeceased by her daughter Teresa (Wilf).

Pat was the only child of Jim and Georgi Donnelly in Quesnel, BC. Pat worked as a Realtor for over 35 years and was well known in the community. Pat had many interests and enjoyed many activities including travel, golf, tennis, music, hiking, dancing and art. Her legacy of open-hearted resilience lives on in us all.

Cremation has taken place and a Celebration of Life will be held at Boal Chapel, First Memorial Funeral Service, N. Vancouver, October 27th@2PM

Arthur William Skill, 90 years old passed away September 15, 2023 with his family by his side. He was born in Vancouver to Eager and Isabella Skill.

Predeceased by his siblings Gordon, Ned, Nancy, Tiny and his daughter Georgia. Art grew up on York Street and attended King George and Kitsilano High. He began his working career at Trembley Motors then Woodwards Food Floor moving onto Remington Rand Typewriters with an apprenticeship in early 1950. He soon left repairs and moved into sales. Remington closed in Canada and Art and two partners opened Modern Business Machines on Hastings Street. In the 1970s he bought out his last partner, opened Copy Static-Calculex and acquired Polson Typewriters Ltd. where he grew his business to 35 employees.

He was nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year in 1994, 1995 and 1996 by the Royal Bank Broadway and Cambie branch. Art loved business, his customers and all the opportunities that typewriters offered his family and staff. At the age of 76 he closed his storefront and moved his company to his home where he continued to offer sales and service. He retired when he was 87 years old. He was an avid boater loading his family up and cruising the BC coastline. He loved his dogs and pheasant and duck hunting. He had many lifelong friends, his longest being 76 years with John Bingham. He is survived by his loving wife of 56 years Patsy, daughters Virginia, Leianne, Berma (Bruce) and Claire. Grandchildren Brock, Aaji, Coel, Trent, Belle, Ryder, Breezy and so many nieces and nephews. His final days were spent with his family and all the angels at Berkley Care Centre, especially those in Cypress Cove.

Celebration of Life will be held Monday, October 23, 2023 from 3pm to 5pm at West Vancouver Yacht Club, 5854 Marine Drive, West Vancouver.

My beautiful, wonderful, sweet, funny and extremely kind Auntie Alice passed away peacefully in her sleep on September 13, 2023.

She is now reunited with the love of her life, my uncle, Horace Norman Brass, along with my mother, Leanora Brabner and my Auntie’s little brother, Douglas Brabner.

May they all rest peacefully together.

No service by request.

Donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s/Dementia Foundation.

PUTS, Franciscus (Frank) Frank was born in Nijmegen, Netherlands on November 10, 1934, and passed away peacefully in North Vancouver Hospice on September 20, 2023, with his “nephew” Frank by his side. He will be missed and fondly remembered by his “adopted” family, Corry Ewens/Sas (Peter), Rudy Sas (Lauren), Frank Sas (Dawna) and their families. He was predeceased by his special friend and travelling companion, Grace Bell in November, 2019 and is missed by her family Lisa Delarue, Gord Riffel and their daughter Rebecca. He will also be missed by his friends, especially neighbours John and Deanna at St. Andrew’s Manor and his many relatives in the Netherlands. Frank was proud to have worked at LGH for 27 years retiring as Maintenance Supervisor. A Celebration of Life will be held at First Memorial/Boal Chapel (1505 Lillooet Road, NV) on Saturday, November 11 at 2:00. If you wish to remember Frank in a special way, a donation in his name can be made to Lions Gate Hospital Foundation. Rest in Peace “Putsie”.

He is now with his daughter Georgia.

We love you both.

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