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West Vancouver Capilano MLA and BC United housing critic Karin Kirkpatrick is questioning whether the supports being supplied to residents of “temporary” supportive housing in the former Travelodge motel in North Vancouver are adequate, after she says neighbours have complained about open drug use and increased crime and vandalism in the area.

Neighbours have reported seeing bodies being removed from suites, she said, leading to “a presumption there have been some deaths there.” The BC Coroner Service is investigating several deaths associated with the site, including two from overdoses.

On Monday, Oct. 16, Kirkpatrick raised the issue in the legislature, asking why the government is “choosing to warehouse the homeless without adequate supports.”

“The Travelodge on Marine Drive in North Vancouver is a glaring example of this,” she said in the legislature. “I’ve heard countless concerns from neighbours and families horrified by the open and unsupervised drug use and rising vandalism.”

Kirkpatrick went to ask why “such lawlessness and danger” were being allowed “to fester at the Travelodge.”

But the Lu’ma Native Housing Society which runs the

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supportive housing at the Travelodge site says there are supports and programs in place.

“Lu’ma takes the neighbour concerns really seriously,” said Mike Walker, a lawyer acting as a spokesperson for the housing society.

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The housing project at the motel site has an unusual history. Part of the motel was quietly put into in use as a shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020.

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Argyle’s long-awaited artificial turf field opens for play lines), and football (orange lines) and has uprights for football and rugby, soccer nets, and field hockey nets. There is also a smaller turf practice field just below the upper parking lot which Argyle classes and sports teams have been using since it opened last month.

On Oct. 13 – the first day the regular field opened for use – some students set their alarms early to be the first ones on the turf, said Argyle principal Kim Jonat.

“There was nothing better than walking up to the new field on opening day and seeing a small group of students playing a pickup game of soccer as the sun was rising,” she said.

Since then, the field has seen constant use from PE classes, sports team practices and community groups who are able to book the field after school hours and on weekends.

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Student athletes at North Van’s Ecole Argyle Secondary are finally enjoying the green, green (pseudo) grass of home.

After five long years without a school field to practice and hold games on, Argyle’s boys’ soccer squads and senior boys football team are taking to the new artificial turf field this week in front of a local crowd.

Kickoff for the Argyle Pipers vs. West Van Highlands football game happens Friday afternoon at 3:45 p.m., while a senior boys soccer game was set to take place after press time on Tuesday.

In the case of the soccer team, this week marks the first time a home game will be played at Argyle in 30 years, said soccer coach and Argyle teacher Darren Rath. That’s because the previous grass field at the old Argyle wasn’t in good enough condition to be used for games, said Rath, “so we’ve always played at community fields.”

“It’s always nice to be able to play at your school,” he added.

Bill Stanger, one of the football coaches at Argyle, said playing at home will give the teams a boost. “For years we’ve practiced somewhere else besides the school. They’ve played almost in anonymity,” he said. “No one could get there to watch us.”

For the past several years,

Argyle senior boys soccer team member Aidan Best takes part in drills under the eye of head coach Darren Rath on the newly-opened Ecole Argyle Secondary artificial turf field. PAUL MCGRATH / NSN players have mostly used the field at Kirkstone Park, a kilometre away.

“There’s no change facilities there,” he said, and the field is smaller, making it more difficult

for players to figure out what a game might feel like on a regular field.

Practicing on the new turf last week for the first time was “fantastic,” he said.

New field will be used by soccer, rugby, field hockey and football teams The new field is lined for soccer (white lines), rugby (yellow lines), field hockey (blue

Argyle has been without a field for five years The opening of the artificial turf field at the high school has been long-awaited. Because the new Argyle school – which opened in January of 2021 – was built on the footprint of the old school field, athletes at Argyle were without an outside area to practice on during the years the new school was under Continued on A25

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Police seek witnesses to pedestrian hit-and-run at busy intersection JANE SEYD

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North Vancouver RCMP are looking for witnesses and dash-cam footage after a pedestrian was seriously injured in a hit-and-run collision with a vehicle near the intersection of Marine

Drive and Capilano Road Wednesday night.

Passersby found the pedestrian, a man from North Vancouver in his late 40s, laying on the roadway with serious injuries around 9:20 p.m., said Const.

Mansoor Sahak, spokesman for the detachment. The man was

rushed to hospital.

Police arrived on scene to find the suspect vehicle had fled, leaving vehicle debris behind.

“The investigation is in its earliest stages and it’s very important that we continue our efforts to gather all available

evidence,” Sahak said. “We are looking for witnesses or drivers who were in the area of Marine Drive and Capilano Road at around 9:20 p.m. last night.”

Police are asking anyone who was near the area or may have seen someone driving away from the scene of the accident

to please call North Vancouver RCMP at 604-985-1311 and quote file 23-22428. Police are also asking anyone with dash cam or surveillance video to come forward.

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A zoning change that would ensure purpose-built rental apartment buildings in Ambleside can’t be redeveloped as strata condominiums will go to a public hearing in West Vancouver next month.

West Vancouver council voted Monday to give third reading to a zoning bylaw that would see 31 rental apartment buildings identified in West Van’s draft Ambleside local area plan earmarked as rental properties in perpetuity.

Most of the rental apartment buildings in the municipality in Ambleside were planned in the late 1950s and were purpose built in the 1960s and 1970s. Some of these areas were zoned specifically as apartments, and some fall under land use contracts, all of which will expire next year.

The zoning bylaw under consideration by council would restrict those properties to development of rental apartments in the future.

Under current zoning, many of those older rental apartment buildings could currently be replaced with a strata building without any need for council approval, leaving many of the area’s tenants vulnerable to ‘renovictions,’ senior planner David Hawkins told council when they first examined the issue earlier this summer.

“It’s very hard to achieve new rental housing,” Hawkins said Monday, adding a concurrent risk is “we lose our rental stock” that already exists to redevelopment.

“The most affordable housing in West Vancouver already exists,” he said, adding there are 1,600 purpose-built rental units in those apartment buildings.

Since 2018, the province has given municipalities the power to designate zoning on certain properties as rental only, precisely to address this issue.

If passed, the rental-only zoning would apply to about 30 of West Vancouver’s 80 apartment buildings.

Coun. Nora Gambioli said the issue is “very, very important.”

The buildings are currently rental “but they are not zoned rental,” she said. “They could put up luxury condos and sell them as strata. I don’t think very many people understand the significance of what we’re talking about here.”

Gambioli said council has received one letter from the owner of an Ambleside apartment building who feared the aging building would never be redeveloped if strata ownership was prohibited.

But she said she’d like to hear from the public, including “people who are living in these rental buildings,” as well as others who would like to be.

A public hearing on the rezoning is scheduled for Nov. 20.

On the larger issue of changes to the official community plan which would set the stage for the Ambleside area to accommodate a bigger range of housing types in future, council opted to defer further discussion and a vote on how to move forward for another week.

The proposed changes to the official community plan would set general policy on the kinds of development the district would like to see in future in certain areas of Ambleside. Among those, the plan envisions more housing for seniors, rent-to-own apartments and row housing and townhouses to Continued on A25

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City of North Vancouver council voted Oct. 16 to extend the e-bike share program, currently contracted to Lime, for another year, with an eye to making the service permanent. Council members had mostly only praise for how the pilot has run since the first Lime bikes hit the streets in 2021.

The vote followed a presentation by staff showing growing demand for the e-bike share program. Since its launch, roughly 35,000 unique users have completed 156,000 trips across North Vancouver and West Vancouver for a total of 319,000 kilometres ridden. According to staff, 60 per cent of the total trips were made by just 11 per cent of the users, indicating a loyal customer base.

The median distance covered and time spent was two kilometres and 12 minutes.

The fleet grew from 200 e-bikes at the beginning to more than 400 at the summertime peak. A survey of users found one in three said their e-bike trip would otherwise have been made in a personal vehicle. All told, the city estimates the e-bike share kept 25 tonnes of carbon from being emitted into the atmosphere.

“That’s just huge in terms of reducing our GHGs for these shorter trips,” said Coun.

Angela Girard. “It’s certainly meeting our climate target goals as well as our mobility strategy goals.”

Since the program began, there have been no serious injuries reported to Lime or to the municipalities, staff noted, although a survey found less than half of riders wear helmets while on one of Lime’s bikes.

The biggest impediments to more people using the service, the survey found, was the cost, which is 35 cents per minute, the

availability of parking for the bikes, and the lack of safe cycling infrastructure more broadly.

Over the next year, staff will look into expanding the e-bike sharing borders, both on the North Shore and over the two main bridges into Vancouver, as well as increasing the size of the fleet and parking in high-demand areas.

Although the program itself is likely to live on, Lime’s continued involvement is by no means guaranteed. Leadership in the transportation departments of all three municipalities have advised that the partnership should make the contract for the next term of the e-bike sharing project subject to bids on the open market among all potential e-bike providers.

Other cities have two or more competing bike share services on their streets, noted Coun. Tony Valente, who said he’d also like to see e-bikes with child seats and e-cargo bikes added to the fleet.

Council’s vote to extend the program for another year and direct staff to prepare for its being made permanent was unanimous.

“Overall, I think, we want to make sure that people are moving safely and efficiently through or from the city, or across the North Shore, seamlessly. I think the data shows that that’s happening. For a long time, we haven’t been able to give people that service and so we haven’t been really able to understand why people weren’t choosing different modes,” said Mayor Linda Buchanan. “The data speaks for itself. That’s a lot of trips.

That’s a lot of kilometres.”

Buchanan said the number of people who choose to ride will only go up if local governments follow through on creating more safe cycling infrastructure.

“Imagine what [ridership] would be if we actually did,” she said.

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A woman is taking the City of North Vancouver to court, seeking to have two bylaw tickets tossed out after her dog bit a stranger.

Andrea Reagan Wong laid out her version of the events in a petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court this week.

On Feb. 26, 2021, Wong was walking her leashed dog Finna to their Victory Ship Way apartment when they encountered some residents moving out of the building and taking up most of the outdoor walkway, the petition states. “[One woman] strode into their path and walked directly into Finna, provoking him to nip at her leg to create distance between himself and the complainant,” she wrote.

“The complainant suffered a minor wound to the leg and some bruising thereafter.”

After the woman complained to the city, animal control officers issued Wong two tickets for failing to ensure that a dog does not bite a

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Wong disputed the tickets, triggering an adjudication process. After a hearing in September, the adjudicator upheld the tickets but noted in her reasoning that Wong “took all reasonable precautions” leading up to the incident, the petition states.

Wong highlighted the adjudicator’s comments that Finna was “reasonably under control up until the complainant was within close

proximity of the dog” and that “the owners had exercised reasonable cautions.”

In her petition, Wong doesn’t dispute that Finna bit the woman, but she said she should have been entitled to the defence of due diligence – that is she should not be held liable for an incident she tried to prevent.

“The brief reasons of the adjudicator show that they believe their role to be limited to making a factual finding of whether the offence occurred, rather than to perform a legal analysis of whether a defence was applicable. This is a legal error,” Wong’s petition states.

The adjudicator was also wrong to uphold both tickets, given that they stemmed from the same single incident, Wong argued.

The City of North Vancouver has not yet filed a response to the petition.

In a statement Wednesday, city staff said they have not yet been served with the legal documents and could not offer comment.

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omething remarkable happened this month. Argyle Secondary’s long-awaited artificial turf field finally opened for play. No one can say this was a rushed project -- some high school athletes who entered Grade 8 at Argyle without a field graduated without ever setting foot on it. But after five long years, the community can now celebrate what a great amenity it is.

In this case, the field truly has been a community effort. Without the District of North Vancouver stepping in and bankrolling the field to the tune of more than $5 million, the project would never have happened. Expensive fields just aren’t in the province’s budget when it comes to building new schools. Which is too bad.

Old-fashioned grass fields just can’t withstand the kind of heavy-duty use that

today’s athletic teams subject them to.

Athletes on the North Shore are particularly squeezed when it comes to sports fields for teams to practice on. Even with Argyle now open and the turf field at William Griffin slated to re-open over the winter, there will still be a lack of fields for local teams.

The result is that thousands of kids are forced to practice on ‘all-weather’ fields, a fancy way of saying gravel. If you’re trying to keep kids fit and interested in sport for life, sending them out to play on a patch of gravel sounds a little offside.

Artificial turf fields don’t come cheap.

But other fields are in the works in North Vancouver – primarily because the public turned out to say they were worth paying for.

Let’s keep that team effort going.

Christine Sinclair’s legacy is a gift to young soccer players ANDY PREST

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It’s the year 2003 and my girlfriend and I have just moved into a little apartment in Edmonton.

We’re young and dumb and cute and poor. We’re both sports lovers, but for financial reasons we hesitate to get the full cable TV sports package, on account of the poorness. Then Team Canada gets on a roll at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, scoring wins over Japan and Argentina to advance to the playoff round for the first time in team history. They have plenty of firepower on the squad, but the most exciting of the bunch are a couple of youngsters in 16-year-old phenom Kara Lang and 20-year-old Christine Sinclair,

barely out of her teens herself but already established as a team leader and one of the best goal scorers in the world.

A header from Sinclair stands up as the winning goal in Canada’s crucial win over Japan to book a spot in the quarterfinals.

My then-girlfriend (now my wife) and I find ourselves so enthralled with the action that we end up seeking out local sports bars so that we can watch every minute of the playoff games – a win over China to make the semifinals followed by losses to Sweden and United States to finish in fourth place, still the best showing ever for Canada at FIFA men’s or women’s World Cup. By the time the bronze medal game rolls around my wife and I finally do the

math and realize that the money we are spending on beers and wings and nachos to keep a table at the pub for all these games would be enough to buy us the sports package for months, maybe even years. Hook us up!

This was the power of that one soccer team – exciting enough to get money from an empty pocket. This was not something Canada had seen from a women’s team before except for maybe the women’s Olympic hockey team that took home gold in Salt Lake City the year before.

Fast forward 10 years and we now have a kid of our own, a two-year-old who loves sports – shocking, I know – and adorably mispronounces athletes’

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names. He’s got a little soccer setup in the living room, and when he fires in goals he screams out “just like Sixteen Sinclair!”

That’s pretty cool – a little boy screaming out the name of the best Canadian soccer player there is, who happens to be a women from just across the bridge in Burnaby. And by 2013 Sinclair is, no doubt, the best Canadian soccer player ever. She still is – young Alphonso Davies probably has a decade or two of work left to do to catch her.

Fast forward eight more years, and the women’s national team, driven by Sinclair more than 20 years after she made her national debut, claims one of Continued page A9

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Dear Editor:

RE: It’s check-out time for short-term rentals, Oct. 18 editorial These actions by the NDP government are no more than vote buying, a thinly veiled attempt to shuffle the blame and responsibility for providing rental housing to British Colombians.

Most Airbnb hosts are respectable, considerate citizens yet the province turns a blind eye to the many thousands of illegal, unauthorized suites that have been around for decades?

Most of these suites do not meet basic building safety codes. Their owners often pay no income tax on rental income, nor do they pay additional property taxes for use of municipal services by their tenants. They do not have to provide one off-street parking space as is required for authorized suites. The lack of enforcement encourages more of the same.

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RE: West Van councillors want to loosen leash on dog restrictions, Oct. 18 news story I have just read the above article which states that the West Vancouver Council – not the general public whom it will impact – is considering allowing leashed dogs on the Centennial Seawalk.

Dog owners have become the new entitled group. It’s not enough that they have their own off-leash park, that they have their own dog run adjacent to the Seawalk, now their owners are demanding they be allowed on a pedestrian-friendly stretch.

I walk this area daily and, although I am a dog lover, I am happy not to have to dodge them or their poop or their leashes as they run across the path to greet or even attack other dogs.

Please leave this little bit of paradise to us non-dog owners. It’s only a few kilometres for heaven’s sake.

Lisa Cooper West Vancouver

Gold medal caps brilliant career Continued from A8 the biggest victories in Canadian sports history in winning an Olympic gold medal in Tokyo.

Few sporting moments in the country’s history could be more satisfying than seeing Sinclair with a gold medal around her neck. It’s a win that will live forever in Canadian sports history.

And then, last week, Sinclair announced that she was retiring from national team play at the end of 2023.

She’ll leave, truly remarkably, as the leading goal scorer for any man or woman in international soccer history, having scored 190 goals in 327 international games.

She’s the most Canadian of legends: modest and humble and full of quiet power.

Not everything on her way to becoming the greatest international goal scorer of all time was easy though. In announcing her pending retirement, Sinclair wrote a letter to her 16-year-old self.

It offers lovely and touching insights into the mind of normally very private superstar. It’s also kind of heartbreaking

in parts, rage-inducing in others.

“Pretty soon you’ll discover things aren’t so rosy behind the scenes,” she writes to her teenaged self, describing the battles she waged off the field over two decades to try to bring equality to the sport in Canada.

“While people will know you for your accomplishments on the pitch, they will remember you for how you transcended the painted white lines. Creating equity is what you will be most proud of.”

It’s such an indictment of the system that the most prolific goal scorer in history is most proud of the battles she waged against her own federation off the field, not the victories garnered on it.

But the legacy that will hopefully live the longest is all those youngsters, boys and girls, who saw her play and realized that someone from around here could go on to become one of the best in the world.

Forget the cost of the TV sports package – that legacy is priceless.

Andy Prest is the editor of the North Shore News. His lifestyle/humour column runs biweekly.

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Woman pleads for return of her husband’s stolen ashes BRENT RICHTER

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A woman whose husband’s cremated remains were stolen from her parked vehicle is speaking out, hoping for the return of her family’s missing urn.

North Vancouver RCMP issued a plea to the public on Oct. 16 after a series of vehicle break-ins occurred sometime over the preceding weekend on the 500 block of 21st Street West.

The victim, who the North Shore News is not naming to protect her privacy, said she saw right away that the thief had made off with some loose change, sunglasses, a blanket, some keepsakes and two pairs of reading glasses. It wasn’t until she opened her trunk later in the day that she realized the urn had been taken.

“I was just really upset. What kind of person does this, to take something so personal? They have absolutely no use for it,” she said.

Her husband died 14 years ago and she was preparing, along with her daughters, to find a meaningful way to spread his ashes together as a family when the theft happened.

The woman said she is hoping the thief took the urn in error, not realizing what it was, and will either turn it in or leave it somewhere visible so it can be found and returned to police. The stolen urn has a date of 09-09-09, according to investigators.

In the meantime, she wants the culprit to know the impact they’ve had on her whole family.

“They think they’re just rummaging through a car and

taking random things, but they don’t realize the connections that people have to their things,” she said. “There’s nothing I can do about it but it is tough because even though it’s been 14 years, this is just another grief on top of it.”

While they maintain hope the urn will be found and they can give their beloved family member a proper send-off, the woman said it’s also painful to think of her husband’s remains not being treated Obviously, this with the dignity they is something of a deserve. great sentimental “It’s not nice not knowvalue to the owner ing,” she said, holding back and we are hoping tears. “To think of it getting raked up off the side of the the perpetrator road with all the leaves and will do the right thrown in the dumpster or thing and return it. something, that’s not a nice CONST. MANSOOR SAHAK thought.”

North Vancouver RCMP searched the area where the thefts occurred and are asking the public to keep an eye out.

“Obviously, this is something of a great sentimental value to the owner and we are hoping the perpetrator will do the right thing and return it,” said Const. Mansoor Sahak, spokesperson for the North Vancouver RCMP. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the urn is asked to call the North Vancouver RCMP at 604-9851311 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) to remain anonymous.

An urn, identical to this one, was stolen from a white Kia Forte in North Vancouver, sometime before the morning of Oct. 14. Investigators are appealing for its return. NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP

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New doc shines light on Canada’s deepest, longest caves NICK LABA

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In the middle of the evergreen rainforest on Northern Vancouver Island, a man wearing an orange helmet with a headlamp leans over a cave opening, all but camouflaged by the lush vegetation surrounding it.

Secured by a length of rope attached to a climbing harness around his waist, he lets a bricksized rock slip from his gloved hand into the darkness below.

Silence. …

A sonorous “Bang” echoes up from the unseen.

“Ooo…. Twenty metres?

Thirty metres?” guesses the man, before tossing a handful of rope into the abyss and beginning his descent. The man’s name is Peter Curtis, a caver with more than four decades of experience.

He’s one in a group of adventurers that has been attempting to reach the termination points of the longest and deepest caves in Canada.

The cavers’ experiences are chronicled in Subterranean, a new documentary that takes place inside two of the vastest caving sites in British Columbia.

Subterranean premiered at Toronto’s Hot Docs Film Festival in April, and recently won the

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The film will screen at Vancity Theatre Oct. 30-31, and Nov. 2 and 5. It has a broadcast premier on the Knowledge Network on Nov. 7 before being available to stream online.

“This is a glimpse inside a world that most people will never get to see in person,” says

North Vancouver producer Jenny Rustemeyer, who’s also known for her award-winning work on the series Search & Rescue: North Shore, as well as This Mountain Life (Best Snow Sports Film: Banff Mountain Film Festival), and Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (multiple awards including Canadian Documentary Feature Award: Edmonton International Film Festival).

“It’s true exploration where no person has gone before,” Rustemeyer said. “And we were able to capture it in such a beautiful way, to put it on a big screen where people can really enjoy the experience.”

But you don’t have to be a caver to like the film, she explained. “It really is about the people who cave. It’s about the adventure. Even the logistics

– like, how do you do a trip like that?”

Half of the 86-minute film follows Katie Graham, an expert caver and cave diver who leads a team of 13 on multiple expeditions between 2019 and 2021 down the Bisaro Anima cave near Fernie – the deepest recorded cave in Canada at 683 vertical metres from entrance to lowest point.

The team carries down all the supplies needed for the trip, including batteries and camera gear – which crew sleeps with to keep dry – as well as diving equipment for Graham’s final descent where the cave is completely filled with water.

Shuttling bags between multiple camps, while hiking, crawling, and abseiling down cliffs and steep pitches, the 6.4-kilometre journey takes around two days. Then Graham dives for a day, before trekking back to the outside world.

The other half of Subterranean focuses on a team tackling the ARGO cave system in Northern Vancouver Island, which is currently recorded as Canada’s second longest at 18.6 kilometres (Castleguard Cave in Banff is more than 21.3 km long). That team is led by Franck Tuot, a man convinced that linking two Continued on A29

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Two artists commended for contributions to First Nations art MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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Together, they have a combined experience of more than seven decades, some notable awards under their belt, and pieces that have been shown both across the world and in some of the most esteemed galleries on home soil.

Yet for Xwalacktun (Rick Harry) and Klatle-Bhi, an impressive repertoire doesn’t make an immodest artist: neither had been expecting to take home wins this year, not least for BC Achievement Foundation’s Polygon Award in First Nations Art. “This was a very, very pleasant surprise. It was almost a bit surreal,” said Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Kwakwaka’wakw artist Klatle-bhi.

“I don’t even know how to describe it, the feeling. It’s just nice to be standing alongside so many other great artists, and so many that have come before me.”

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Squamish Nation artist Xwalacktun (Rick Harry) adds the Polygon Award to his ever-growing accolades. BRENT RICHTER / NSN Klatle-Bhi and West Vancouver residing Xwalacktun were selected alongside Musqueam artist Brent Sparrow and emerging Victoria artist Shawna Kiesman for their commitment and contribution to First Nations Art. Now in its 17th year, the award applauds artists who have accumulated a body of work that honours Indigenous artistic

traditions, and have demonstrated a commitment to their art practice, so much so they are recognized within their communities.

Klatle-Bhi’s artistic resume includes a totem pole for the 2010 Olympic Games, large-scale commissions for corporate offices across Canada, and exhibits at the likes of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and

the Burke Memorial Museum of Natural History in Seattle.

Xwalacktun’s highlights comprise a 2022 honourary doctorate from Emily Carr University, the 2016 First Nations Art Award and a number of varied carving projects in Scotland.

For both, the desire to educate on Indigenous design and traditions is what drives much of their work, and, while all winning artists have their own unique styles, Xwalacktun said collectively they come together as one, working towards the same mission.

“If we think about stories, a lot of stories overlap. We use different imagery and tell the story differently, but the messages are all the same,” he said.

Klatle-Bhi, who hopes to bring “more light into the world” with his artworks, said much of his success can be credited to the mentors and fellow artists who encouraged him to embark on a career in carving.

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“Now it feels like I’m in that position where perhaps my body of work, over the last 33 years, has inspired people to maybe pick up a knife, or pick up a drum, or go to a potlatch. Just awaken somebody somehow,” he said.

For that next generation of artists, both Xwalacktun and Klatle-Bhi have a word of advice.

“Continue on doing the work the best you can, and think about the ones that aren’t here yet, that example you can set” said Xwalacktun.

“Don’t give up. If you feel it, just keep going,” adds Klatle-Bhi. “If you feel that passion, that fire in your heart and spirit for the artwork, don’t give up. And learn from every piece. Always ask for more teachings, always keep on learning, that’s something that I still apply to myself today.”

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

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When Jared Reynolds served a tour of Afghanistan with the Canadian military in 2009-2010, one of his roles in a platoon providing security to supply convoys was a back-up level medic for casualties in the field.

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“I was looking at what’s happening in Ukraine and feeling like this was kind of the closest thing to World War Two in my lifetime, with a global power invading an independent country,” he said. “I was looking for an opportunity to help.”

Reynolds discovered that a Canadian charity, Firefighter Aid Ukraine, had already sent instructors to Ukraine to teach the kind of casualty care he specializes in. Soon after, he contacted the co-ordinator of the program in Edmonton and went through a process of being checked out by the group.

Last month, he flew to Poland and

crossed the border to western Ukraine, where he taught three tactical combat casualty care courses to about 100 students over a 10-day period.

With airports closed in Ukraine, Reynolds and other members of his team first had to fly into Poland and cross the border on foot, carrying their supplies through multiple checkpoints.

Once set up in Ukraine, the people Reynolds helped train included firefighters, emergency services personnel, and others attached to groups tasked with removing landmines.

While some of those people might end up treating battlefield injuries, others will likely help civilians who are either being deliberately targeted or drawn into the conflict.

Skills Reynolds taught included “how to use things like tourniquets, pressure dressings, how to do things like doing needle decompression,” he said. In Canada, it’s not often a firefighter would be called upon to perform some of that first aid, said Reynolds, but “in Ukraine, they don’t have the luxury of ‘We’ll just take you to a hospital.’ Maybe the hospital just got bombed,” he said.

Skills can help save lives Skills taught in the Tactical Combat Casualty Care course are focused on saving lives in situations where deaths are preventable – if the injured get cared for in time.

Compared to the wartime situation he saw in Afghanistan, those in the Ukraine are at a disadvantage when it comes to evacuating wounded people, said Reynolds.

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Quick access to medical treatment essential in a conflict zone Continued from A16 injured and evacuate them quickly to a field hospital. In Ukraine, however, “Russia has so much weaponry they can use in the air, that’s not an option,” he said. “So, most of their patients are having to be evacuated with vehicles.”

With a lot of transportation having to take place at night in Ukraine, “They might not get there for 24 hours,” he said. “It’s a big difference if a patient is in your care for two hours versus 20 hours.”

Some of the newly trained casualty medics have been pushed into roles they never imagined being in, added Reynolds. “You’ll have a doctor who was working as an ophthalmologist.

And now all of a sudden [they’re] a trauma doctor,” he said. “Because there’s just no one else.”

The recent medic training isn’t the first time Reynolds has pitched in to help in Ukraine.

Earlier projects shipped field hospital, medical supplies Earlier in the conflict, Reynolds was instrumental in getting a surplus NATO-grade field hospital that

had been sitting in storage in North Vancouver shipped over to Ukraine.

Shipping of the 200 beds and other life-saving supplies to the front lines, a project dubbed “Operation Hawkeye,” was led by the Defend Ukraine Foundation (Canada). A portion of the $14,000 cost to ship the field hospital was covered by two North Van fire charities: District of North Vancouver Fire Fighters Charitable Society and IAFF 1183 Charitable.

A second project involved Reynolds taking about 500 pounds of outdated medical gear that he’d found stashed in a West Vancouver firehall as far as Poland. “I started to kind of look for all these old caches, because this stuff gets replaced and doesn’t get destroyed. It just sits there until someone does something with it,” he said.

A third project involved sending winter clothing gathered from the North Shore over to areas of Ukraine where power grids had been knocked out.

This latest project, however, was the first time Reynolds entered the country.

As a former soldier, it’s a conflict that weighs heavily on him.

The conflict in Ukraine has fallen out of the news “because it’s been going on for so long,” he said. “But I feel like Ukraine is fighting the rest of the world’s fight. And I’m disappointed in Canada and I’m disappointed in a lot of the Western countries for not doing more.

“Everyone’s [saying], ‘It’s not my country. So it’s not really my problem.… Where does this end if Russia goes through Ukraine? Do they keep going?”

When he fought in Afghanistan, “I had an end date,” said Reynolds.

“And I flew to another country to represent Canada and fight in a war.

But these people are fighting in their back yards. Their home was invaded.

So it just feels different. It’s obviously personal.”

Reynolds said there’s a need for more medical training, and volunteers are ready to go to Ukraine. But more money is needed to buy the medical supplies that get donated and to pay to get the supplies and trainers to Ukraine.

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Ocean Film Festival celebrates anniversary with Canadian debut MINA KERR-LAZENBY

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Whales and dolphins and octopi, oh my!

After a whole decade of showcasing in theatres around the globe, the Ocean Film Festival, a cinematic celebration of the big blue, is set to make its Canadian debut.

On the evening of Nov. 9 the festival will unleash a string of aquatic short films at North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre, presenting an international tour of stories that honour marine life, divers, surfers and oceanographers.

There is a once-in-a-lifetime surfing trip to a winter ravaged eastern Russia, an inside look into the world of Italian free diving, an adventure into the Arctic to document the polar region’s sea ice loss. One film dives into the intricacies of whale sounds, while another has one particularly endearing octopus as its protagonist.

Local waters get their turn in the spotlight too, with the festival’s concluding film focusing on Vancouver freedive instructor and swimmer Roberta Cenedese.

Viewers are taken along Cenedese’s journey as she trains for one of the most challenging feats in action sports, an icy mile in the three-degree waters of the Pacific Northwest.

“It’s surprising that they’ve taken so long to consider Canada as one of the hosting countries, because it’s the perfect fit,” said Alvaro Calderon, the operations director for Ocean Film Festival Canada. “We have such a large ocean-loving culture here.”

While organizers could have selected anywhere in the country to host the festival’s launch, it was the North Shore, with its ocean-hugging location, close proximity to the mountains and outdoorsy denizens that made for the most fitting location, said Calderon.

“The North Shore community is really outdoorsy. We thrive

The Ocean Film Festival will make its Canadian debut Nov. 9 at North Vancouver’s Centennial Theatre. OCEAN FILM FESTIVAL in nature here,” he said. “It just made a lot of sense. It was a perfect match, a no-brainer. If we are going to put this in a place, it’s got to be here on the North Shore.”

The festival, which was created in Australia in 2012 and has gone on to showcase annually to eager audiences in 14 countries, is a true celebration of North Shore living. Its sponsors include the Capilano University Alumni

Association and North Vancouver shipping company Neptune Terminals and, tying in with the festival’s aim to inspire viewers to explore and enjoy the oceans while protecting and respecting it, it has also partnered with Ocean Wise to organize local beach clean ups.

“There are so many people that want to help and make a difference, so many that truly care about the environment,”

said Calderon. “This is more of a movement than just a festival, a place for like-minded people to get together and celebrate the oceans and do their bit to help keep them thriving. It’s a special community.”

Ocean Film Festival will be donating ticket sales to the Pacific Salmon Foundation and Seymour Salmonid Society, and there will even be a special contribution from North Point Brewing Company, with the local craft brewery offering a special edition west coast pale ale and craft lager to celebrate the event.

The limited edition beverage will be debuted in-house at a launch party Oct. 25, gearing audiences up for the main cinematic event Nov. 9.

To view trailers and book tickets, visit oceanfilmfestivalcanada.ca.

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

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Ambleside local area plan due for update Continued from A5 address the “missing middle.”

Hawkins said by changing the OCP, council isn’t rezoning those properties or committing to redevelopment of any particular site. “It does send a signal that these types of housing are desired,” he said.

Coun. Peter Lambur said he had some concerns about wording in parts of the plan, such as those which stipulate a range of building heights, like “six to eight storeys.”

Gambioli said she had concerns that the public doesn’t understand the plan. “It’s very complicated,” she said. “My impression from what I hear is people don’t understand what this is.”

Discussion on the rezoning of the apartment properties and changes to the official community plan in the Ambleside local area plan first came to council for discussion in September. Council decided to seek a legal opinion after former West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce Argyle’s new artificial turf field is now open and can be booked by community groups on evenings and weekends.

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While many young athletes had hoped work on the new Argyle field would get underway as a high priority soon after the old school was demolished, further delays pushed construction further down the road.

The budget for the new school did not include funds for an artificial turf field, so the District of North Vancouver stepped in to fund the field as a joint-use facility. The field was originally budgeted for $3.5 million in 2019, which ballooned to a final budget of $5.3 million this year, according to the District of North Vancouver. Actual costs of the field are yet to be finalized.

Now that the field is ready, local sports groups can book it through the North Vancouver Recreation Commission after 5:30 p.m. on school days and all day on weekends.

During the week, youth community sports organizations are given priority for the field and amenities until 8 p.m., once Argyle sports activities are done at 5:30 p.m.

The field is also available for local adult sports organizations till 11 p.m.

president Maggie Pappas said Mayor Mark Sager and Coun.

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

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A man who struck a stranger on the head with a metal pipe in North Vancouver will not face any further jail time.

James Henry Reddemann, 44, was sentenced in North Vancouver Provincial Court Oct. 18 to time already served in jail, plus two years on probation.

Just after midnight on Aug. 31, 2022, Reddemann approached two men sitting at a bus stop on the 700 block of Marine Drive and asked them for the time. Soon after, he came back with a metal pipe and struck one of the men, Terry Carmichael, on the head.

Reddemann took Carmichael’s tool belt and the pizza he was eating and ran off. He was arrested a short time later.

“Mr. Carmichael was taken to hospital. He said that he did not know Mr. Reddemann, that he remembered being struck with an object and landing on the floor and that was it,” Judge Lyndsay Smith noted in her decision.

Reddemann was initially charged with armed robbery but later pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of assault with a weapon.

When it came time for sentencing, the Crown was not able to track Carmichael down and he was not able to give a victim impact statement for the court, but Smith noted the aggravating circumstances of the attack.

“The assault was unprovoked. It was a blow to the head.

It caused significant harm to the victim in that an open wound was sustained on his head,” she said.

Reddemann has a long criminal history dating back to 2007, including convictions for robbery, breaking and entering, uttering threats, assaults, and sexual assaults with a weapon. His last conviction was for breaching his probation conditions in October 2014.

When Reddemann’s sentencing began in April, the Crown sought a jail sentence of nine to 12 months, plus a period of probation, but by that time he’d already spent 183 days in custody. Canadian courts generally credit every day in custody prior to a conviction as 1.5 days when it comes to sentencing, meaning the Crown was not seeking any further time in jail.

A pre-sentence report indicated Reddemann had “little insight” into the offence, Smith said, although in court, he did indicate his remorse and accepted responsibility, she noted. Mitigating circumstances of the offence were that Reddemann pleaded guilty, that he’d gone a “relatively long time” since his last conviction and that he hadn’t had any run-ins with the law since he was released on bail in the spring. Reddemann is in the last stages of certification to become a health and safety officer, Smith noted.

Smith agreed to the Crown’s submission that Reddemann face another two years of probation, which will include completing any anger management and addictions counselling programs directed by his probation officer.

“You know your demons come from your addiction. If you can grab on with both hands and deal with that, it looks to me like you’ve got a good life ahead of you,” she said.

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The North Shore is well represented at the Pan Am Games this year, with 15 athletes and two coaches with ties to North or West Vancouver taking part in the event running Oct. 20 to Nov. 5 in Santiago, Chile.

The North Shore core is bolstered by half a dozen field hockey players who will be going for gold with the men’s and women’s national teams. Climbers Sean McColl and Alannah Yip, who both represented Canada in 2021 in Tokyo where their sport made its Olympic debut, will be aiming to climb to the top again in Santiago.

The list also includes a familiar name in Mike Darbyshire, who will be competing in stand up paddleboarding. Darbyshire is well known in North Van as the operations manager at Deep Cove Kayak.

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West Vancouver bans private fireworks in municipality JANE SEYD

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The big bang of Halloween fireworks has officially fizzled in West Vancouver.

On Monday, Oct. 16, West Vancouver council voted to ban the sale and private use of fireworks in the municipality, bringing it in line with most other Metro Vancouver communities.

Up until now, members of the public in West Vancouver could apply for a permit to discharge fireworks from Oct. 24 to 28 and on Oct. 31 for a $5 fee.

But increasingly, politicians and fire officials have decided allowing Roman candles and screechers to be set off is more trouble than it’s worth.

According to the fire department, in the weeks leading up to and following Halloween, many 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,

Here’s a selection of fireworks seized by the RCMP in previous years’ Halloween rambunctiousness. NORTH VANCOUVER RCMP according to a report by Assistant Fire Chief Jeremy Calder. 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.

In response to questions from Coun.

Christine Cassidy Monday night, Calder described some of the problems that have been caused by fireworks.

“We’ve had portapotties burn,” he said.

“We’ve had fires set against the school with propane bottles and fireworks. We’ve had

people lighting fireworks off on the roof that have ignited the roof on fire.”

In banning private fireworks, “I believe the message is that we’re not condoning something that’s dangerous, not only for the individual using fireworks but also for our community,” he said.

One member of the public, Therese Reinsch, called in to council to point out the BC SPCA has long pointed out the harm done to both domestic pets and wild animals by fireworks.

“The noise from exploding fireworks can be terrifying to pets,” she said. Animals can injure themselves in an attempt to get away from the noise, and reports of lost pets typically go up whenever there are fireworks, she said.

Three people called in asking council not to ban fireworks – all of whom were involved in businesses selling fireworks.

Dayle George, owner of Big Rig Fireworks on the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, emphasized the “tradition of celebrating with fireworks.”

Aleem Kanji, of the Canadian National Fireworks Association, told council people will continue to buy fireworks from underground sources or online.

He said many Asian and South Asian cultural festivals involve the “celebration of light over darkness,” and that fireworks have long been a part of that. Suggesting disco balls or pinatas as a substitute is “insulting” and “represents a very clear microaggression and an unconscious bias to the thousands of South Asians and Asians that observe Diwali and Lunar New Year in the city,” he said.

He added candles and stoves cause more damage than fireworks, but “there’s no provision to ban candles or stoves in the city.”

Coun. Nora Gambioli said many people have requested a ban on fireworks over the years, and since the proposed ban went public this year “we have not, to my knowledge, had a single piece of correspondence related to supporting fireworks.”

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Second supportive housing project opens on Lower Capilano Road Continued from A1 That’s when the province began to rent hotel rooms in a few communities to help provide more space for people who would otherwise be living in crowded emergency shelters or not have anywhere to isolate when they became ill.

Later the project changed from an offshoot of the shelter to a supportive housing model, where tenants recommended by agencies that work with people experiencing homelessness are provided long-term housing along with meals and other programs.

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Society, which also operates MIKE WALKER, LU’MA the emergency housing shelter NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY on Second Street in North Vancouver, to the Lu’ma Native Housing Society, which operates six supportive housing sites across Metro Vancouver. Fifteen of the rooms at the site are reserved for Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) members.

BC Housing has been paying $1.5 million annually towards the operating costs of the supportive housing, on top of the lease. The initial term of the lease is up next month and is expected to be renewed.

Neighbours question if enough support in place But in the interim, Kirkpatrick said she’s heard from more than 40 neighbours in condo towers and along Marine Drive concerned about open drug use and an increase in vandalism in nearby areas.

“They are finding drug paraphernalia,” she said.

The site wasn’t built for the purpose it’s being used for, she added, leading to a lack of security for residents and there are fears people who live at the site are being preyed on by drug dealers or others.

“You don’t even know who the people in the parking lot are,” she said. “The building itself is dilapidated and there are shopping carts all over the street.”

Kirkpatrick said before the lease for the site is extended, she’d like reassurance that enough supportive services are being provided.

In a letter to Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Housing, in June, Kirkpatrick wrote the most common concern she hears about from neighbours is “the lack of clarity and accountability from your ministry about this project, and a lack of communication with neighbourhood residents.”

“At what point do you actually have a conversation with the community?” she asked.

Kirkpatrick said she hasn’t got a reply.

Meanwhile, she said issues like those being reported at the Travelodge could make others reluctant to see supportive housing in their neighbourhoods. “You are going to get more and more pushback,” she said. “It does cause a problem.”

Staff on site around the clock According to BC Housing, there are currently 55 tenants living at the Travelodge. Some of those people previously lived at a temporary hotel site in Vancouver operated by Lu’ma during the pandemic. Lu’ma staff are on site around the clock, said Walker, including five or six staff members during the day and at least two overnight.

“There’s very good supervision of the site,” he said, including hourly ‘walkarounds’ and a procedure involving wellness checks on residents.

All residents must agree to participate in programs, he said, but aren’t required to be drug and alcohol free.

“It’s not a sobriety-based program,” he said.

Walker said police and Squamish Nation peacekeepers are involved in any law enforcement issues but, in some cases, “neighbour concerns are not about the law,” he said.

“If people don’t like what they see, that’s different.”

Walker said Lu’ma is working diligently to make the project work with the neighbourhood. The Marine Drive site is no different than those operated by Lu’ma in other communities, he said.

“Have they achieved perfection? No. Will they achieve perfection? Likely not,” he said. “It’s going to be hard work to make something like this work, no matter where it is.”

Walker said the hope is residents in the temporary site will be able to move to the Keith Road supportive housing project in North Vancouver once it’s built.

Second supportive housing project opened Bowinn Ma, NDP MLA for the neighbouring North Vancouver Lonsdale riding, said there’s a significant need for housing on the North Shore, and the project has provided immediate housing while more permanent housing is being developed.

In September, the Ministry of Housing announced plans to build a 65-unit, six-storey building on the northeast corner of Keith Road and Mountain Highway, which will also 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.

BC Housing also provides approximately $1.31 million to Hiy’am’ ta Sḵwxwú7mesh Housing Society for the operation of Estítkw Place, a 55-unit supportive housing at 239 Lower Capilano Road, about a block away from the Travelodge, which opened this fall on Squamish Nation land behind the International Plaza. The project also provides housing and supportive programs to those experiencing or at-risk-of homelessness, and those with mental health or substance use problems. According to BC Housing, there has been a delay in having tenants move into Estítkw Place, so there are currently just four tenants living in those units.

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So, you’ve got a house decked out to the nines with terrifying Halloween decor and you’re ready to scare the bejesus out of anyone who dares visit … the only problem is, nobody knows about your blood-curdling creative venture.

Sound familiar? Well, not to fear, because we’re bringing back our annual haunted house map – a detailing of the most frightful homes here on the North Shore – and there’s plenty of room for newcomers.

Returning for another year is the annual walk-through haunted house at 1336 West 15th St., between Pemberton and Phillip Avenues in North Vancouver’s Norgate neighbourhood. Scare-meister Christopher Smith, the brains behind the operation, promises this year’s iteration is even bigger and better than that of previous years.

He remains tight-lipped on the finer details but assures that it’s going to make for one “very electrifying

experience,” with a longer walkthrough, extra jump scares and even more high-energy special effects.

The house runs from Oct. 27-31 from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m., with a live band set to perform on Oct. 28.

Admission is free, however minimum donations of $5 per person are encouraged – with all donations set to go towards the West Vancouver SPCA. “We raised $5,000 for the West Vancouver SPCA last year, and we’re going to try and double that this year,” he said.

Homes everywhere from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove will be getting in on the spooky action, with annual family friendly events like the Great Grand Boulevard Walk and the Capilano Suspension Bridge’s Canyon Frights set to make their return.

Hoping to add your own abode to the listings? Simply email the North Shore News team at editor@nsnews. com with your address and images of your scary fit-out and we’ll add it to the interactive map, found online by searching for “Haunted house map” at nsnews.com.

Avid haunted house decorator Christopher Smith, creator of this frightful sight last year, says he has returned with an even bigger Halloween setup for 2023. CHRISTOPHER SMITH

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Squamish Nation selects planning partners for 350-acre development

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The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) is moving full steam ahead with its project to redevelop large swathes of reserve land, with two multidisciplinary design and urban planning teams now selected to take on development plans.

Earlier this year, the Nation announced it would be developing 350 acres of its reserve land with a focus on two North Shore locations: the Marine Drive area of Xwmélch’sten Capilano I.R. No. 5 near Capilano Road and the Ch’ich’élx̱wí7 ḵw Seymour Indian Reserve No. 2 near Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing. Development is also penned for the Sunshine Coast at the Ch’ ḵw’elhp Indian Reserve No. 26, and at the Stá7mes Indian Reserve No. 24 in the District of Squamish.

For the North Van locations the Nation has secured Perkins & Will Architects and Liveable City Planning, with subcontractors PWL Partnership Landscape Architects, Cory Douglas Modern Formline Design, Ginger Gosnell-Myers Consulting, and Bunt

& Associates Transportation Engineering.

Development at the Sea to Sky and Sunshine Coast sites will be by HCMA Architecture & Design, with the aid of Nation members at the Sky Spirit Studio, and Urbanics Consultants Limited.

“These teams were selected by Nation and Nch’ḵay̓ staff based on their understanding of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh worldviews, proposed collaborative design processes and understanding of market and industry opportunities,” said Mindy Wight, CEO of Nch’ḵay̓ Development Corporation, which is the economic development arm of the Squamish Nation.

Earlier this year the Nation issued an expression of interest for development firms who would maximize both the potential financial value of the area and the benefit to the community, all while keeping with Squamish values, culture and worldview.

The development itself will be a mix of residential and industrial, with a focus on bringing together the community through a number of amenities like elder centres, health care clinics, healing centres, community centres, schools and public parks.

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Deodorant, soap, toothpaste – many of us take for granted the so-called necessities that help us lead dignified lives in society.

These are among the items found in backpacks filled by Stash Project, a nonprofit run by students at Ecole Handsworth Secondary in North Vancouver.

Student volunteers were set to gather on Friday and Saturday (Oct. 20-21), at six locations across the North Shore and downtown Vancouver, selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts with all profits going toward helping people experiencing homelessness. But the planned fundraising cut short to a single day, as all 400 boxes of doughnuts sold out Friday. At $15 a box, nearly $7,000 was raised, according to student organizer August Gadsby Portal.

Much of the cash will go directly to making the stuffed backpacks, which are handed directly to unhoused individuals, some locally but primarily in the Downtown Eastside.

Portal, a Grade 12 student, says handing out the backpacks has allowed him to learn stories of people on the receiving end.

“We talked a little bit and learned what they had to say, what they had to tell us about their situation, which I found very insightful,” he said. “It made us feel better because it gave us a bit of a connection. And they really appreciated it.”

Portal got involved in the initiative last year, when Stash Project – a registered charity – was launched by Handsworth

seniors. This year, he’s taken more of a leadership role, alongside fellow students Parsa Douraghinejad and Kimiya Anjam.

The idea behind stuffing the backpacks with essential items like hygiene products, Portal said, is to give marginalized individuals things they might not otherwise prioritize, but can boost self esteem.

“They have other priorities, probably food and other stuff like that. So they’re not looking to purchase these things,” He said.

By handing out essentials, “you can give them a bit more of a sense of dignity.”

Many other people walking by don’t even acknowledge people experiencing homelessness, Portal said.

“They kind of just pretend they’re not there,” he said. “So I feel like this gives them more of a connection to us as people and helps them not feel as invisible, like they’re appreciated as people and valued instead of just forgotten about.”

A homelessness count report released earlier this month showed a sharp spike in homelessness across the Lower Mainland over the past three years. On the North Shore, the number of people experiencing homelessness rose nearly 40 per cent.

This trend is “unacceptable,” Portal said, adding that there should be more support systems for mental health as well as additional financial supports.

“It’s not something that we tackle in a day or even a year. So I think if we make those gradual steps towards solving this together, as a city and not just a couple of people … I think that’s probably a good way to start.”

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The North Vancouver non-profit, which provides everything from grocery support to art therapy, is holding an open house at their Roosevelt Crescent office on Thursday, Nov. 2 from 5 to 8 p.m.

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personally and professionally and wound up on the street. Today, the non-profit operates on a “client care” model, which looks at people in need of help holistically and aims to address areas of concern across their lives.

To celebrate their 30 years of giving a hand up, the Harvest Project commissioned a digital mosaic, bearing the non-profit’s brand, but made up of hundreds of smaller images, personal anecdotes and press clippings. To see the growing mosaic or to contribute directly to it, visit harvestproject. org/30th-anniversary.

The mosaic will have its public debut at the open house, along with live music, light refreshments and a few words from longtime volunteers and local dignitaries.

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The benefits of hops go beyond beer-making LAURA MARIE NEUBERT

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Sḵwxwú7mesh lacrosse team Photo: NVMA, 7119 Here is a photo of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) lacrosse team, taken in October 1932. That year, the team took the local league title, and went on to challenge for a chance to compete for the Mann Cup, the senior lacrosse championship of Canada, ultimately falling short.

The team was managed by Xwechtáal Andy Paull and led by star goalie Henry Baker, who competed as a member of the Canadian lacrosse team at the Los Angeles Olympics earlier that year.

It was noted of their style that “their speed and stick-handling ability [stood] them in good stead against all opposition.”

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Hops flowers, most often associated with beer making, have so much to offer than meets the eye.

They are neither colourful nor showy, but they are elegant, strong, and uncommonly resilient.

I love these ancient, medicinal and culinary blossoms. Perhaps it is my Bavarian roots that ground me in hop fandom.

Sleepy tea made from hops, holy basil, star anise and cinnamon. LAURA MARIE NEUBERT

A half dozen years ago or so, my son and I made small-batch beer from scratch. We didn’t know anything about brewing at the time, but we made stellar beer. Most definitely it was the hops that made it great. Pushing our luck still further, we made malt vinegar from the beer. Hands down, it was the best malt vinegar we’d tasted – sweet and savoury, punctuated by summer garden umami.

A few summers ago, when we installed a food forest trellis along the perimeter of our home garden, we interplanted Centennial and Cascade hops alongside perennial native honeysuckle, grapes and figs, as well as assorted annual food crops like sunflowers and beans and such.

We had been warned by assorted master gardeners, that hops would both “stink to high heaven” and attract rodents. I hadn’t heard anything about either eventuality from my Bavarian family, so I pressed on in good faith.

As it turns out, my olfactory receptors are purpose-built for hops, because I very much love the subtle, near invisible gossamer blooms, and the overtly flowery, sappy, resin-like fragrance that I take on faith is off-putting to some. There has been no stink, and there have been no rodents.

Typically, hops plants are string-trellis farmed as a monoculture crop, for beer, though permaculture suggests a polyculture neighborhood of simpatico species that benefit from and assist each other both above ground and below. Our polyculture food forest trellis is thriving, and we take great pleasure in harvesting the hops, to dry for beer and for tea, and for use in cooking.

During this change of seasons, when our Circadian rhythms are challenged by darkness so sudden and so early, homegrown hops tea fortified with sweet bits of cinnamon and star anise, and a leaf or two

of holy basil, helps us fall asleep and stay asleep until dawn.

For thousands of years, hops have been cultivated for brewing, for medicinal use, and for food. Great institutions, and minds far greater than mine have studied the medicinal and health-enhancing benefits of hops. Research suggests that hops promote calm, restfulness, uninterrupted sleep, detoxification, effective digestion and elimination, and skin health.

Hops are rich in beneficial phytonutrients and powerful antioxidants, and also contain strong antimicrobial properties.

Their taste and aroma is slightly skunky, like cannabis, which is interesting because the two plants are cousins within the Cannabaceae family. Beer and cannabis – crazy, right?

Interestingly, in spite of hops’ relative obscurity outside of the brewing industry, a hops renaissance of sorts is emerging.

“Sober” hops canned teas, hops tinctures, hops kombuchas and such are headlining the high-end consumer packaged goods space. How fabulous that a lowly, “stinky”, near invisible flower could command such attention and premium price point.

I am content to grow my own hops health and wellness on a simple trellis in our yard, and then experiment in the kitchen. Hops are very easy to grow in a container, around the frame of a window or door, or under the eaves of a house. Local growers sell slips of varieties well suited to our climate, and nurseries stock hops vines in the spring.

Check with your healthcare provider before ingesting herbal medicines.

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

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LIFE SENTENCE

Parole denied for former cop who murdered his girlfriend JANE SEYD

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A former police officer convicted of murdering his girlfriend in North Vancouver 30 years ago, then killing another partner on Vancouver Island three years later, has been denied parole.

The Parole Board of Canada denied a request for day parole by Brock Graham on Sept. 21, 2023.

The decision came after Graham applied for day parole in March and a parole board hearing was held in August of this year.

In denying Graham day parole, the board stated in its written decision that his risk “would be undue and would not be manageable in the community.”

A psychological test in June of 2023 put Graham at a low to low-moderate risk to re-offend, but at a high risk for violence in the context of a relationship.

Graham, a former Vancouver Police Department officer, is serving a life sentence for killing his 34-year-old girlfriend Lynn Duggan in her North Vancouver apartment in 1993 by hitting her in the head with a hammer multiple times.

He later loaded her body into the trunk

of his car and drove out to the area now known as the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, where he covered her body with dirt and leaves before driving home to Surrey. Although Graham was always a suspect, he provided an alibi and the crime scene had been cleaned up, the decision noted.

Three years later, Graham killed his common-law wife Patricia Ducharme, a mother of four children. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Duggan’s murder remained unsolved until Duggan’s brother Brad visited Graham in jail and eventually got him to confess.

That confession came 12 years after Duggan was killed and just months before he would have been eligible for parole on Ducharme’s murder.

Graham was born in North Vancouver and worked with the VPD until 1990, later joining the transit police. In 2005 he was sentenced to life in prison for Duggan’s murder, with no eligibility for parole for 10 years.

The Correctional Service of Canada recommended granting Graham day parole with conditions that he abstain from drugs and alcohol and report any relationships he is involved in.

A former cop who murdered his girlfriend in her North Vancouver apartment in 1993 has been denied parole. GETTY IMAGES The parole board noted Graham, now 63, has completed programs while in jail, but noted his attitude to women remains a concern and he had failed to address how he would handle high-risk situations, like a relationship breakdown.

The decision noted Graham has had two relationships with women while incarcerated, but those “did not progress to private family visits.”

Statements from Duggan’s family considered in the decision “are very compelling and convey the immense anguish and loss

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they have suffered,” the board wrote.

Graham has been denied day parole twice before – once in February of 2021, which was confirmed on appeal in August of that year, and again in July of 2022.

He has, however, been granted numerous escorted temporary absences from jail, as well as a recent 60-day un-escorted temporary absence during which he was living at a halfway house in Ontario while taking a violence prevention program offered by the Salvation Army.

“It is noteworthy that you came into your federal sentence with significant dishonesty, having committed a previous murder that you did not take responsibility for and maintaining that stance for 12 years,” the board stated in its decision. “You committed very serious crimes, causing at separate times, the untimely deaths of two of your partners and you have impacted not only the deceased victims but a wide spectrum of people as well, including their families, loved ones and wider community. Committing such crimes against persons you claimed to love shows the presence of a deeper affinity for cruel behaviour and not surprisingly, you remain rated as a high risk for partner violence.”

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obItuarIes GALOZO, Gina Maria August 1, 1955 - October 11, 2023 We lost our beautiful daughter, sister, auntie and friend after a long hard 2 year battle with cancer.

She left peacefully and went into the arms of the Creator wrapped in her Eagle blanket.

Chuck was born September 30, 1926, in Victoria, BC, and passed away on his 97th birthday September 30, 2023, predeceased by his wife Julie, who passed away in 2005.

Dad will be missed by his children Greg, Dean (Joy), Mitch (Holly), Todd (Sonia); Papa to his grandkids Jacquelyn (Cody), James, Darci, Joel (Alexandra), Alex (Colin), Chris, Justin; and Papa Chuck to his great−grandkids Nova, Cade, Jacob, Henry, Benjamin.

Chuck grew up in Dunbar/Point Grey, Vancouver, graduated from Kitsilano High and UBC. He raised a family in Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, where they were members at the North Shore Winter Club and retired in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island. His career was in insurance − ICBC, Leslie Wright & Rolfe, and Jardine Insurance. He was a lifelong golfer − started by taking a bus to Hastings Golf Course and then as a junior member at Marine Drive, McCleery, Point Grey and Fairwinds. He started shooting his age when he was in his 70s and played his last full game in his early 90s. He had a legacy of many friends and neighbours that always enjoyed his sarcastic wit and humor.

Many thanks to the staff at Evergreen House for taking care of our Dad in the last year of this life.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Parkinson Society British Columbia.

Gina was predeceased by her father Jim Galozo.

She is lovingly remembered by her beautiful mother Eugenie Galozo; her sisters Audrey (Terry), Elaine (Tony); her brothers Thomas (Linda), James (Karen), Dennis, and Leo (Margot), and all her nieces and nephews, their partners and children.

Funeral Mass at Holy Trinity Church, 27th and Lonsdale, Wednesday, October 25 at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers Gina asked for donations to the North Shore Hospice or the Vancouver Cancer Clinic Orthopedic Cancer Division. Please visit korucremation.com to read Gina’s story.

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MOBERG, Vernon Allan April 6, 1940 - October 17, 2023 Vernon Allan Moberg passed away on October 17, 2023, in Kelowna. He was born to parents Nells and Winnifred Moberg on April 6, 1940, in North Vancouver. One of Vern’s first jobs was working at King’s Mill down at the bottom of Fell Avenue and he also delivered furnace oil on the North Shore.

On July 8, 1960, Vern married Dorothy and they lived in North Vancouver where they raised their two boys, Dan and Greg. We all know how much Vern loved hockey. He coached at the North Shore Winter Club from 1972-1979 and formed a tight parent hockey group that lasted a life time. Vern was a scout for Billing’s Bighorns of the WHL from 1978-1982. He also coached the Billings Bighorns during the 1981-1982 season. In 1985, Vern and Dorothy purchased the Peachland Trailer Inn campground, which they operated for 18 years, meeting and creating many life-long friends. Vern also drove the school bus for Peachland School District and Wesbank First Nations Band. He loved to go see all his grandchildren’s activities. Vern is survived by his children Dan (Colleen) and Greg (Krista); grandchildren Quinn, Mason, Samantha, Chloe, and Cole; siblings Buster, Joan (Ron), Eileen, Ted (Pat) and Don (Catherine); brother-inlaw Jack; as well as many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his wife of 57 years Dorothy; mother Wynn and father Nells; brothers-in-law Ben, Bob, and Jerry; and sister-in-law Pat. We would like to extend a special thank you to Ted, Pat, and Trisha for all of their help. In memory of Vern, a donation can be made in his honour to the Kelowna General Hospital Foundation. No service by request.

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WRIGHT, Joan (Harstone) July 13th, 1927 - September 10th, 2023 Joan Wright died peacefully on September 10th, 2023 at Hollyburn House in West Vancouver. We will miss Joan’s grace, kindness and love of life, wrapped up in her regal demeanour.

Joan was born and grew up in Tuxedo, Manitoba.

Throughout her life she spoke fondly of her early days in Tuxedo and the family’s North Star Island, in The Lake of the Woods, Ontario where the family spent their summers.

The Harstones moved to Vancouver when Joan was a young teenager and Joan attended and graduated from Crofton House School. After graduation she discovered the pleasures of international travel which became a lifelong passion.

Descending a staircase at a party in Vancouver Joan caught the eye of the dashing Peter Leckie Wright. No one who knew them would question the story that it was love at first sight. They were married in 1951, moved to West Vancouver and had three children - son David (Jeannette) and grandchildren Brett (Carly), Sean (Morgan) and great grandchildren Lila, Lui, Quin and Lennon, daughter Pamela with Queen Bee and Lollipop, and youngest son Philip.

Joan lived her life with grace and zest. She swam and played bridge and tennis at the Hollyburn Country Club, supported the arts and loved gardening and flowers. She was a dedicated docent at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Museum of Vancouver and also volunteered at organizations such as St. Christopher’s Church, Meals on Wheels and the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Joan entertained with elegance (and always a dinner bell), took a spirited part in family events and never missed the chance to send a thank you note.

She and Peter loved to travel and until recently could be found embarking on yet another adventure.

Joan was predeceased in 2022 by Peter, by then her husband of 70 years, her brother Campbell John Harstone and her cousins Doyne and David Harstone.

She is survived by her children and grandchildren, niece Elizabeth “Buff” (Nigel), nephew Peter “Beau” (Gerry) and niece Tia (Gary).

Joan’s family thank Dr. Paul Sugar, Victoriya and her staff of caregivers from Vital Life Nursing (especially Tatiana and Allison) who took such good care of Joan in recent years. We also thank the caring staff at Hollyburn House.

FISHER, Ruth Elizabeth (Née Nesbitt) May 28, 1924 - October 12, 2023 Ruth Elizabeth Fisher (Née Nesbitt) passed away peacefully at Lions Gate Hospital on October 12, 2023, at the age of 99, surrounded by family.

Predeceased by father Harry Nesbitt; mother Dulcie Nesbitt (Née Robinson); husband Herb Fisher; sisters Dolly Cartwright (Née Nesbitt) and Bea Snelgrove (Née Nesbitt); and nephews Paul and Michael Cartwright. Survived by sister, Nora Haaland (Née Nesbitt); nephews Barry Cartwright (wife Rosa), Mark Cartwright (wife Linda), Rick Haaland, and John and Tom Snelgrove; nieces Arlene Haaland, Christina Marmaras (husband Dennis) Paula Serpa and Angelina Andre (husband Victor); niece-in-law Lynn Cartwright; grand-nieces and grand-nephews, Nina, Lynnsey, Stacy, Gary and Cameron Cartwright, and Gabriel and Nicholas Tavares and Zachary Andre; and great-grandnieces and great-grand-nephews Casey, Edith, Aaliyah, Amelia, Lillian, Aleah, Rylee, Noah, Jadon, Bodhi, Caiden, Liam and Livio.

It’s the end of an era. Ruth Fisher (“Aunt Ruth” to just about everybody) lived virtually all of her life in the family home in Ambleside, a home that was built back in the days when you would have to swim or paddle to get from West Vancouver to Vancouver. She was one of the founders of St. Christopher’s Anglican Church in West Vancouver, a devoted member of the church throughout her life, and was the recipient of the prestigious Order of the Diocese of New Westminster Award. Aunt Ruth was renowned for her kindness and generosity. She loved children, loved teaching Sunday School, and greatly enjoyed gardening, crocheting, and time spent with family. She will be sorely missed by all.

A service will be held at St. Christopher’s Anglican Church in West Vancouver at 11:00 AM on Saturday, October 28th, 2023. Anybody who knew her is welcome to join family and friends in celebrating her long and happy life.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to St. Christopher’s Anglican Church in West Vancouver, or to the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation.

GARDNER, William January 30, 1923 - October 17, 2023 Bill Gardner passed away at Hollyburn House, West Vancouver, B.C. at the age of 100. He was predeceased by his wife Christine Gardner on January 6, 2023, his daughter, Patricia Syme Gardner (John Adames), and sister Rennie Gardner Thomson. He is survived by daughter Sylvia Gardner (Glen Tugman), son Hamish Gardner (Susan) and daughter Christine Banham, and grandchildren, Christopher Tugman, James Tugman, Andrew Gardner, Kayla Gardner, Caroline Banham and Alex Banham.

Bill will be remembered as a considerate, insightful, determined and charming man. He was a proud father and grandfather, formidable bridge player and a loyal friend. He lived independently to his last day with a sharp wit and clear focus, managing every aspect of his life, including writing his own obituary which we share here: Bill Gardner died on October 17, 2023. He enjoyed a long and happy life with his loving wife, Christine, and their children, Pat, who died in 1993, Sylvia, Hamish and Kirsty. Bill was born in Glasgow in 1923, spent his early childhood in India, was schooled in Scotland, graduating from Paisley Grammar School before serving five years in the R.N.V.R. Fleet Air Arm, Squadron 846.

In 1951, he graduated in medicine from Glasgow University and the following year emigrated to Vancouver, as Resident in Paediatrics at St. Paul’s Hospital before setting up a medical family practice in Burnaby.

In 1960 he entered into post-graduate studies and four years later opened a psychiatric practice in North Vancouver. He initiated the establishment of the Psychiatric Day Care Programme at Lions Gate Hospital.

After 18 years in North Vancouver he moved to Vernon, B.C. where he was active in Geriatric Psychiatric services. In 1987 he returned to the Coast, to Community Psychiatry at Burnaby Psychiatry Services until he retired in 2000.

Subsequently, he was actively engaged in doing nothing, with no sense of responsibility for the free offers of wisdom, opinion and advice he gave to anyone prepared to listen. A most fortunate and happy man. *************************************** The Gardner family wishes to acknowledge and thank the management, staff and nurses at Hollyburn House who provided Bill a warm, caring home and engaging community.

Bill visited the West Vancouver Memorial Library weekly, always looking to explore new ideas and to understand our rapidly changing world. Please consider a donation in Bill’s memory to West Vancouver Memorial Library Foundation to support the Library’s mission to provide free access to knowledge in all its forms. www.westvanlibrary.ca/foundation/ways-to-give/ Funeral arrangements through McKenzie Funeral Services. Private family ceremony.

To write a condolence to the family, please visit www.mckenziefuneralservices.com. A celebration to remember Bill will take place later this fall.

In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Joan can be made to The Paul Sugar Palliative Support Foundation.

The family will hold a service to remember Joan later this fall.

We will miss Joan’s unfailing ability to do and say the right thing, her quiet kindness and her way of thinking the best of everyone.

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OLIVER, Dorothy Eileen Eileen passed away at Inglewood Care Centre on October 15, 2023.

Predeceased by husband William Robert (Bob) Oliver, parents Dorothy and Albert, brother Ted and his wife Marge, sister Joan Jessiman and her husband Doug, and son-in-law Peter Stampfli.

Survived by daughter Jocelyn Stampfli and her daughters Krystle Dunn and Karina Stampfli, great grandsons Nathaniel Allan Dunn and Joshua Oliver Dunn, son Wesley Cameron Oliver (Angie) and their children Lindsay (Shaun) Machnik, Jenna Oliver (Lucas Wilson), Cody (Laura) Oliver, and great grandson Hayden, son Mark Cody Oliver (Trena) and their daughters Shannon and Kelsea.

Eileen is also survived by Simon Davey MBE and Bill Edgar of London England, Gillian and Martyn Locke of Bristol Somerset, Diana Mitchell of Petersborough U.K., and nieces Deborah (Terry) Mikula and Pamela (Doug) Morris, great niece Rachel Teague, nephew Bruce (Chris) and great nephews Matthew and Tyler, and lastly great niece Lauren Hurdon.

Eileen was proud of her British heritage. Living in Canada she held dual citizenship and was proud of both. Travelling to the United Kingdom to visit relatives and friends, she and Bob decided to cross the English Channel and travel the continent by coach, train and car, visiting several countries.

At Eileen’s request, no service will be held. A private interment will take place at Capilano View Cemetery. If friends wish to honour her, in lieu of flowers, donations to The Terry Fox Foundation or Canada West Veterinary Specialists and Critical Care Hospital would be appreciated.

Eileen’s family would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to the staff of Inglewood Care Centre for their loving care and support. Condolences and fond memories may be sent to www.firstmemorialnorthvancouvercom

TAYLOR, Thomas M. January 13, 1931 − October 5, 2023 Thomas Mackenzie Taylor of West Vancouver, British Columbia, passed away peacefully at home on October 5, 2023. He was in his 93rd year.

Thomas was predeceased by his brother, Chris.

He leaves behind his wife, Margaret; his son Paul, his wife Hu Yan, and their child Cecilia; and his other son Tom, his wife Sarah, and their children Mac and Charlie.

Thomas spent his first several years in Kitsilano and the West End of Vancouver, before his family moved to West Vancouver, where he attended Pauline Johnson and West Vancouver Secondary Schools. He furthered his education at the University of British Columbia, where he met Margaret, and later gave years of service to the West Vancouver high schools.

In Loving Memory of Joan Fraser Rogers

November 11, 1942 - September 12, 2023 With heavy hearts and profound sadness, we announce the passing of beloved wife, sister, mother, and grandmother, Joan Fraser Rogers.

‘Joanie’ died on September 12, 2023, leaving behind a legacy of love and cherished memories that will forever be engraved in the hearts of those who knew her.

Joanie was born on November 11, 1942, and her life was a testament to the values of compassion, kindness, and devotion. She touched the lives of many with her warm smile and unwavering love.

She was the loving wife of Bill Rogers and a devoted mother to her family, Shannon (Warren), Russ (Melanee), and Glenn (Catherine) and sister to Peter (Nancy) and Paul (Susan). Her nurturing spirit and endless love guided her family through their lives, and her memory will continue to inspire them.

Joan’s love extended to her grandchildren, Victoria, Cole, Callum, and Makena, who were the joys of her life. She cherished the time spent with them, and they, in turn, cherished her devotion and affection. Joanie loved Africa, and during her travels developed a special bond with Tinah, who she considered family. Joanie’s legacy will live on through the values she instilled in all of them.

Joanie was more than just a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother; she was a friend to all who had the privilege of knowing her. Her kindness and generosity knew no bounds, and her home was always open to all. Her ability to make anyone feel welcomed and loved was her true gift to the world.

Rest in peace, dear Joanie you will be dearly missed, but never forgotten.

A memorial service to celebrate Joanie’s life will be held on November 16th at 2:00 PM at Gleneagles Clubhouse, West Vancouver.

Upon retiring, Tom dedicated time to the North Shore Retired Teachers Association and the West Vancouver Historical Society, serving as president and editor of the newsletter "Histrionics." He also authored the book, "Glimpses: West Vancouver through the eyes of the Paper and the Paperboy."

Thomas’s love of music and nature, his wit and humorous use of language remained throughout his life.

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TURNER, Patricia Joan March 2, 1930 - September 19, 2023 Patricia Joan Turner of Dollarton, Deep Cove in North Vancouver, passed away peacefully at the age of 93 on September 19th 2023.

Mom, Nana, Pat leaves a quite a family legacy, She leaves Grant Turner, sons Lucas and Chase, Chris and Doug Fidler, children Miles and Olivia, Jane and Mike Murray, children Novelle, Leo and Emerson, Craig Turner, Graham Turner, children Austin and Stella, and great grand children Lenox, Penny and another little one on the way.

Pat was born in Rushden, England to parents Margaret Spavins and John Warburton on March 2, 1930. She was the youngest of 8 siblings, 4 boys and 4 girls. She was just 9 years old when WW2 broke out, leading to many years of hardships. She married our father Kenneth Raymond Turner and together they immigrated to Canada in 1952, and went on to have 5 children.

We settled in a little house at the end of Roslyn Blvd, where mom stayed at home and raised her family, then went to work at Lions Gate hospital for many years, retiring in 1992.

After retirement Pat became very involved in the Parkgate Senior Center. It was near and dear to her heart from it’s earliest inception down in Deep Cove. She went on to volunteer for 25 years in many capacities and had a large group of friends which she played scrabble, mahjong and did crafts.

Her days were full and she loved it!

She was feisty, had a brilliant sense of humour and no filter, she left an indelible impression on her family and friends. Pat lived independently until the end, and she left this world peacefully. She wished our grief short and our memories to last a lifetime.

A celebration of life will be held on November 10th at 11am at the Seymour United Church, 1200 Parkgate Avenue, North Vancouver.

Our family wish to extend our gratitude to so many of her friends at Parkgate, and many of the people living at Banff Court, such a wonderful community, especially her neighbor Syd and neighbor Joy. If you wish to honour Pat, please consider donating in her name to Parkgate Services Society @ Parkgate Community Center, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancouver, BC.

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