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31 ‘Ghost bicycle’ memorializes late cyclist and teacher Pin-up model pageant Teachers choose to coach

Tributes common in other cities Megan Stewart Staff writer

Teacher Amy Hurn was struck crossing East 12th Avenue on Windsor Street last month.

photo Dan Toulgoet

A bicycle, spray-painted white and adorned with daffodils and red tulips that now droop over the handlebars, has been chained to a street sign to memorialize a cyclist and teacher who died in hospital after she was struck crossing East 12th Avenue on Windsor Street in late March.

Who set up the bike is unclear, but with “In memory of Amy Hurn” hand-written in black marker along the crossbar, the startling memorial is what’s known as a “ghost bicycle,” a tribute and protest found worldwide as a reminder of the vulnerability of cyclists, the importance of traffic infrastructure and the

mutual responsibility of all road-users.

Ghost bikes are most often installed by friends and family. Although rare in Vancouver, they are common in Montreal and Toronto and were the subject of a recent documentary film in the U.S. Like roadside crosses marking the scene of a fatal accident, ghost bikes evoke gravestones. For activists they symbolize a continued need for safer roads and improved cycling infrastructure.

“It’s not just to commemorate what’s happened in the past but indicates that bikes are here to stay and they are a growing phenomenon in our cities,” said Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition executive director Erin O’Melinn.

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Cops overspend while investigating murders and serious crimes VPD criminal investigation fund $1.1 million in the red Mike Howell Staff writer The Vancouver Police Department overspent a dedicated budget for serious crime investigations for the fourth consecutive year but still managed to balance its overall $204

million operating budget in 2011.

The criminal investigation fund, which is used largely to pay for overtime costs in homicide investigations and other serious crimes, was set at $3 million in 2011 but reached $4.1 million by year’s end.

Statistics supplied to the Courier

from the VPD regarding criminal investigation fund budgets for previous years show overspending of $91,000 in 2008, $1 million in 2009 and $231,00 in 2010.

In a statement to the Courier, the VPD attributed the four years of overruns “primarily to major

events in the community beyond management’s direct control.”

Those events include the murder of a woman on the grounds of city hall, the kidnapping of Graham McMynn, a shooting at a restaurant on Oak Street near the mayor’s house, the murder of Simon Fraser Uni-

versity professor Melanie O’Neill and the arrest of a suspect in the homicide of 18-year-old Poonam Randhawa.

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Despite cost overruns, VPD left with surplus in 2011

Continued from page 1 It took investigators 12 years to find suspect Ninderjit Singh, who was arrested last year in California. The past two years alone of the investigation cost $550,000.

A Courier cover story last November on the cost of homicide investigations revealed the first 11 homicides of 2011 cost the VPD an average of $75,000 each in overtime.

At the time of the story, the overtime costs in the homicide of Harpreet “Happy” Sandhu reached $102,000. Sandhu was killed July 25, 2011 after a gunman fired several shots into the 21-year-old’s back and left him lying in the 6900-block of Whithorn in Champlain Heights.

Vision Vancouver Coun. Raymond Louie, head of the city’s finance committee, said he trusts Police Chief Jim Chu to decide how the police budget is best spent. Louie said there has been no discussion about council

“THEY HAVEN’T COMMUNICATED THAT TO ME, DIRECTLY.” Raymond Louie

funding an increase to the criminal investigation fund or setting up an annual contingency fund for the VPD, similar to the city’s snow fund for snow removal.

“They haven’t communicated that to me, directly,” said Louie, noting the VPD has balanced its overall budget for seven consecutive years. “There appears to be sufficient flexibility within their current model for them to balance their budget.”

The VPD’s criminal investigation fund was not the only dedicated budget with cost overruns in 2011, according to year-end financial statements that went before the Vancouver Police Board at its public meeting April 18.

The department, which has 1,327 officers, spent $661,000 more than its $5.3 million budget on uniforms and equipment such as firearms and ammunition, which have gone up in price.

The VPD also went $329,000 over its $682,500 budget for legal costs, most of which is associated to the ongoing Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.

The department had surpluses in its legal budget of $156,000 in 2010 and $322,487 in 2009.

Despite the cost overruns, the department was left with a $163,795 surplus in 2011. The biggest savings was $1.3 million in salaries because of retirements.

As the Courier reported last week, the cost of investigating the Stanley Cup riot is expected to reach $2 million by June. So far, the provincial government has picked up $1 million of that tab. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

The VPD spent $661,000 more than its budget on uniforms and equipment. photo Dan Toulgoet

Grocery store owner has seen cyclists illegally cross intersection Continued from page 1 According to O’Melinn, the coalition does not know who installed the bike. “This is symbolic of a part of the lifestyle of that person.”

Hurn was a well-liked teacher and head of the science department at Van Tech secondary school. She cycled regularly and was wearing a helmet when she was hit March 27. She was 32. Written on the saddle of the ghost bike: “All teachers

will miss you.” And along the top crossbar: “May your spirit ride safe and free forever.”

According to Harry Hur, who’s owned the Best Foods Grocery store for 18 years at the southeast corner of the intersection where Hurn was hit, the two-wheeled memorial appeared a few days after her death on March 31. Hur said many cyclists are cautious as they cross 12th Av-

enue, even when the traffic light grants them the rightof-way. Cars reach speeds of 70 kilometres an hour, he estimates. He has also seen cyclists inch into the intersection and cross the busy street against the light.

Hurn had been in his store. “She was optimistic,” he said. Hur said his wife believes the ghost bike brings a bad omen to an already dangerous intersection, one where the neigh-

bourhood petitioned the city to install a proper traffic light instead of the cyclistand pedestrian-controlled light there now. “Always when I come in the morning, I see this. It makes me feel bad,” he said.

The corner store opens at 9 a.m. and Hur wasn’t at work when the accident happened before 7:30 a.m. on a Tuesday. “Maybe this bike doesn’t allow closing for her,” he said.

Hur said he won’t contact the city to remove it. A communications manager with the city said the city does not remove seemingly abandoned bicycles but responds to complaints and may remove bicycles if they are considered hazardous.

A ghost bicycle at the intersection of East Eight Avenue and Quebec Street was installed after Dan Winnick was struck and killed in August 2010. Before Hurn,

his was the last reported cycling death in Vancouver.

His friends installed the bike. A spray-painted message stenciled into the cement sidewalk at three corners reads, “You are loved and missed Dan. Wear your bike helmet.”

A celebration of life for Amy Hurn runs from 3 to 6 p.m. April 26 at Van Tech at 2600 East Broadway. mstewart@vancourier.com Twitter: @MHStewart

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Goodbye, Glenn Wong and Patti Marfleet.

Who? This is the problem, the members of the Vancouver Police Board would say as they bid adieu to Wong and Marfleet, whose terms as board members expire after the last public meeting in June.

In my years of sitting in on meetings, the six-member board has always been the Rodney Dangerfield of public bodies in this city. Regularly, board members ask openly at meetings how the board’s profile can be raised, how it can get a little more respect.

After all, this is the same body that hires the police chief, monitors his performance, sets policy and keeps a $200-million budget in check. So it’s kind of an important body, I would say.

But unlike city council and school board, where candidates spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to run very public campaigns to get elected, the likes of Wong and Marfleet are chosen behind closed doors.

Glenn Wong (far left) will leave the police board in June.

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mittee and a provincial government body called the board resourcing and development office. Over the years, the Vancouver Police Board has generally been staffed by people with business, legal and financial backgrounds, including Wong and Marfleet. They earn $264 for a board meeting lasting less than four hours.

Their replacements are insur-

ance broker Daljit Sidhu, who ran unsuccessfully with the NPA for council in 2008, and venture capitalist Donna Bridgeman. Both were dutifully taking notes in the audience at the most recent meeting April 18 and will get a seat at the board table in June.

Wei Shao, an international business lawyer, is also a new face on the board, having taken over recent-

ly for the departing Jason McLean.

When all the shuffling stops, Sidhu, Bridgeman and Shao will join community organizer Sheryl Williamson, former CapilanoHowe Sound MP Mary Collins and Wade Grant, a Musqueam Indian Band councillor and economic development administrative coordinator of the band.

Mayor Gregor Robertson doubles as chairperson of the police board, although he has said many times he would prefer not to be in the role.

Wearing both hats makes for an awkward position to be in when dealing with, for example, a police budget that city council ultimately must approve.

Apparently, a working group of the B.C. Association of Police Boards is looking at the relationship, although I understand not everybody is on side, one way or another.

One other thing: No police officers, present or former, are on the board, although that is not the case with the Transit Police Board, where VPD Deputy Chief Doug LePard and RCMP assistant commissioner Norm Lipinski are members.

The Vancouver Police Board’s next meeting is scheduled for June 20 at the VPD’s Cambie Street headquarters. It’s open to the public. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Last week, the B.C. Teachers’ Federation announced 73 per cent of teachers who cast ballots during a province-wide vote endorsed its plan to protest Bill 22.

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The workload of principals and vice principals has increased this year due to the labour dispute between the BCTF and the government, Taddei added, so they’ll have to decide how many extra jobs they can take on.

“Well-being is important, so we have to decide what are the critical things, what are the most important things and what are our priorities,” she said.

Taddei noted the situation is tough on teachers, some of whom have dedicated hours of work over the school year to prepare for performances such as plays and musicals.

A musical is slated to open at Windermere April 25, but in order to comply with the BCTF action plan the teacher involved can’t take part.

“The union has told her that she can’t participate. It’s Annie Get Your Gun—it’s a big musical she’s been working on for eight months,” Taddei explained. “As administrators we’re prepared to open the doors for

the kids and the kids at this point will self-direct themselves. I think the teacher may be in the audience, but she can’t really participate in terms of really giving direction.”

Aside from athletics, graduations and performances other activities that might be affected by the union plan include award ceremonies that are sometimes held in the evening and end-of-year concerts.

Kurt Heinrich, spokesperson for the Vancouver school district, said senior managers will work closely with administrators in the coming weeks to sort out the situation.

Given the time of year, he said the major impact will likely be on graduation events.

“All the administrators are going to try and do something,” he said.

“At some [secondary] schools teachers are very, very involved with the planning and preparation. Some have very extensive and elaborate ceremonies. At other schools it’s more administrator driven. So it’s really going to be [different] on a school-by-school basis… At the end of the day it’s just a challenging situation. If there’s a program that’s been organized and run by teachers and the teachers decide they don’t want to do it, there’s not a ton we can do. Our administrators have been doing a lot to try and make sure things don’t fall through the cracks and they’re going to continue to do so.” noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Forget bocce ball.

I predict the next old-school sport to catch the attention of hipsters everywhere will be lawn bowling.

Not only is Vancouver home to some of the most beautiful greens in the province, the players are clad head-to-toe in white and the clubhouses I’ve seen are totally vintage.

I had the opportunity to visit with members of the Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club at Queen Elizabeth Park last Saturday, April 21, while they prepared the green and surrounding landscaping for its annual open house. The club is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and the members are inviting the public to check out the Queen Elizabeth Park clubhouse on Saturday. This was my first visit to the club, which is almost invisible to the casual visitor to the park. (I parked by the rose garden on the south side of the park off West 37th Avenue and then followed the path that starts directly next to the pitch and putt entrance.)

I sat down with past club presi-

The Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club in Queen Elizabeth Park celebrates its 100th anniversary this photo Sandra Thomas year. The club hosts an open house April 28. dent Isaac Farn, president Elmer Morish and board members Pat Lam, Lynn Manrell, Kay Sasaji and Donna Chan who attempted to explain the nuances of the game, which as it turns out consists of a lot more than tossing a ball down a green.

For starters, I discovered the “bowls” as the wooden balls are called, aren’t completely round

and instead are flattened slightly on two sides. The game itself looks like a mix of bowling and curling and needs a set of skills and strategy I was told can be learned with practice, which the members are more than willing to teach. And while the sport is as famous for its etiquette as it is for its all-white uniforms, at the Queen Elizabeth green the mem-

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The game has a reputation for being played mostly by seniors and retirees, but that’s something members of the Vancouver club are trying to change. Chan told me when a friend first invited her to play she declined because she assumed the game was strictly for seniors. But she was lured

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Today the youngest member of the club is in their early 50s, while the oldest is 92.

And while the Vancouver club members are of a variety of cultural backgrounds, the game itself is steeped in Scottish culture.

During the annual men’s tournament, a piper plays to open the event and each member enjoys a wee dram of Scotch whisky.

Prior to visiting the green Saturday, I received an email from Vancouver club member John Schwermer who wrote about how while the sport requires strategy, it’s a great stress reliever. “After lawn bowling for seven years,” Schwermer wrote, “I have recognized the reason for seeing so many elderly people joining this sport is their wisdom of having no stress in their lives to keep healthy and happy for longevity…

I have learned more from lawn bowling about the meaning of life than from any of the other sports I pursued…”

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Picture this—your home is in flames and your family members, including children, are fleeing to safety through any door or window they can reach.

So you’ve made it outside safely on your own, but can’t spot the rest of your family.

You begin searching frantically and wonder, are they still inside? Are they on the other side of the house/apartment/condo? A fireman is ready to rush back into the burning building to search, but what if you’re sending him or her into a life-threatening situation for no reason?

Deciding on a dedicated meeting place outside your home in case of emergency is the first and simplest step your family can take when planning for a disaster, whether it’s a fire, flood, earthquake or terrorist attack. That was the first lesson Courier staffers learned last week during an emergency preparedness workshop put on by the City of Vancouver’s emergency planning coordinator Jackie Kloosterboer. These workshops are taking place across the city, but if you can gather together a group of 15 or more, Kloosterboer will come to you for no charge.

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Much of what Kloosterboer told us is common sense, but the problem is that while we all know we should be prepared, few of us bother. Kloosterboer says a key step in surviving an emergency is keeping a “grab-andgo” kit handy to your door. For the most part, these kits should include basics such as water, a flashlight with batteries, candle, matches, lighter, extra car keys, a battery or crank oper-

sandrathomas ated radio, toilet paper, a whistle, some food, toiletries and cash. Kloosterboer says these kits should be personalized to include copies of personal papers, extras of vital medications, and baby or pet food if needed. Speaking of pets, Kloosterboer conducts emergency workshops dedicated to our furry friends and she says they are the most popular of all of the talks she gives.

At the Courier, should the “big one” hit we probably won’t have much to worry about since we’ll likely be buried under the Granville Street Bridge. But on the off chance some of us survive, Kloosterboer says we should also keep a small grab-and-go kit in or near our desk. She adds keeping a pair of comfortable walking shoes nearby is important. I know there are some Courier staffers, I’m talking to you Shez, who might have problems navigating the rubble left behind by an earthquake

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Kloosterboer notes there are some places in the city that sell pre-packaged emergency kits, but notes it’s more economical to prepare your own. Kloosterboer added she also keeps an emergency kit in her car.

Other important tips Kloosterboer gave the Courier are also simple, but can mean the difference between life and death. Number one is ensuring your hot water heater and gas appliances are secure. Furniture on wheels, like dishwashers, should be made stationary. Tall furniture like bookcases and china cabinets should also be secured, while large mirrors and pictures should be moved away from beds. Flying glass is a huge concern during an earthquake, so if possible beds should never be placed directly under a window. If you have no choice, Kloosterboer says heavy blinds and curtains could help mitigate the danger.

It’s Emergency Preparedness Week across Canada May 6 to 12, so there’s no better time to check out the city’s website for information about workshops near you. And if you do nothing else, put together an emergency to-go kit and choose a designated meeting place for your family outside the home. For more information, visit the city’s website at vancouver. ca/emerg. It could save your life.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

opinion VISION EYES ‘GREENEST CITY’

Mayor Robertson declares war on parking, parkers To paraphrase Fidel Castro, revolution is a death match between the future and the past.

These days, old Fidel, king of the green fatigues and unblinking eyes, rarely surfaces, retired to his Punto Cero estate. But his sentiment remains sound.

Revolutions, by nature, eliminate one way to make way for another. The victorious, always virtuous, set the course. And collateral damage, often in human form, gets swept away.

A revolution landed at 12th and Cambie in 2008 with the election of Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver majority, and gained momentum in 2011 when Robertson trounced NPA mayoral challenger Suzanne Anton by more than 18,000 votes.

Robertson—suit-wearing cyclist, climate change alarmist, former Tides Canada director—is Vancouver’s first eco-mayor.

Alongside Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer, an enviro-star in her own right, Robertson aims to “green” Vancouver in his image. Last July, council approved the Greenest City 2020 Action Plan, the blueprint for his administration, which among other things, targets cars, mankind’s carbon-spewing nemesis. According to the 162-page plan, parking is passé and policy must “affect people’s finances in positive and negative ways.”

Only then will we develop an environmental conscience.

So last week, when council transferred $1 million from the “parking sites reserve,” which funds parking lot construction, into the new “greenest city fund,” few gasped. What, exactly, the “greenest city fund” will fund remains to be seen.

But it’s another victory for the revolution. “I’m quite pleased,” said Reimer, from her seat in council chambers, “to see that money re-purposed for a future that will serve the needs of Vancouverites a little better than it might as parking spots.”

Well, not all Vancouverites.

“Green” parking policies favour the fit—the very young, lame or elderly notwithstanding.

Ann den Hertog arrived in Vancouver in 1973. A Dutch immigrant, she marvelled at Canada’s “wide open spaces” and fell in love with Stanley Park. “It’s so beautiful especially when the sun shines,” she said, while scanning English Bay last Friday from a concrete perch above Third Beach. “We used to come here and walk the park all the time.”

Now 84, Ann, although short and spry, doesn’t walk the park like she used to. Husband Bill stays close to home and the two-bus trip from their Kitsilano address takes almost an

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markhasiuk hour. Parking rate hikes (a total of $1 per hour over the past three years) discourage many seniors. And last week, the Vision-dominated park board, a puppet division of the Vision council, eliminated off-season rates in Stanley Park, increasing per-hour parking fees to $3 year round. “I think a lot of seniors will be prevented from coming here,” said Ann, “if they can’t afford to drive.”

The war on parking, and by extension, parkers, is citywide.

In 2010, council upped rates and expanded meter zones, increasing 2011 parking revenues by $4.8 million. Total on-street parking revenue (all those pesky meters) eclipsed $39 million, which doesn’t include more than $28 million generated from cityowned lots. Incidentally, city councillors receive exemption decals for free parking virtually anywhere in the city.

Do not conflate Robertson with the rest of us who want clean air and fresh water. Who doesn’t want that? We should steward the environment, God’s gift to humanity, with great care.

But Robertson is an extremist.

It’s Earth first, people second.

His vision of parking-starved streets and bike lanes reeks of social Darwinism. At times, like his 2010 trip to China, he sounds downright dictatorial, questioning “how worthwhile democracy is” in combating “the biggest crisis in the history of our species.”

Last month, in only the second papal visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict met with Fidel Castro after mass in Havana’s Revolution Square where the pontiff called for an “open and renewed society” in that communist country.

Expect no revival at city hall.

During “opening prayer” before an April 2011 council meeting, former COPE councillor David Cadman projected a planet Earth image onto a screen while New Age music filled a darkened council chambers.

Perhaps a little old time religion, pondering nothing earthly minded, might soften the hard green hearts of the eco-elite.

Can I get an amen? mhasiuk@vancourier.com Twitter: @MarkHasiuk

Rize opponents criticize the height of the Mount Pleasant project, as seen in this City of Vancouver virtual model superimposed over the shorter original from Rize.

To the editor: Re: “City’s Rize amendment lipstick on a pig?” April 20.

What a poorly researched, prepared and delivered article on the Rize deal by Mr. Garr.

Dismiss the strongest opposition as a result of “social media” whereas I suppose the regular news media takes a truer line.

Lipstick on a pig hardly touches the degree to which this project fails the community and the city’s long-term neighbourhood and sustainability goals. This is not a question of whether Rize is a hideous structure, which Reimer is right it is, but that it fails on so many levels from community consultation to fundamentals established by the community plan.

My sense is Garr hasn’t read the plan, digested the critical discussion of what “density” means nor even started with a primer of the “Overarching Principals” that are to be used in future directions of the neighbourhood; may I suggest section 3.4 of the plan to begin.

Longtime artists, residents and professionals from all urban design and architectural fields rejected this project. From Brent Toderian to Jim Leyto and even the AIBC, they see the podium tower as unsuitable, especially in historic districts such as Mount Pleasant. There are so many ways to add density as speaker after

speaker explained without the damage that this project will inflict. Yet time and time again we hear that in order to achieve density towers are necessary.

Robert Sutherland, Vancouver •••

To the editor: Mr. Garr characterized Rize’s opponents as “crackpots” and belittled “Downtown Eastside activists... [for decrying an East Hastings proposal] targeted at people with modest income as “gentrification.”

I live in the Downtown Eastside, but I shop in Mount Pleasant. I spoke against the Rize project, largely because the design is damn ugly and too tall for the location.

That height is unnecessary to create density. I come from Paris, one of the densest cities in the Western world where very few buildings are higher than eight storeys. The Lee Building at Main and Broadway has a greater floor space ratio (FSR), one measure of density, than the Rize project yet is less than half the height. There is a dangerous confusion between height and density in this fair city.

Michele Charbonnier, Vancouver

Green city is a quiet city: ban the pipes

To the editor: Re: “12th & Cambie— Bagpiping up,” April 13.

Could it be that Mayor Robertson became aware of the ban on bagpipers and bongo drummers through the sudden absence of their noise?

Does he even have the time to pay attention to the city’s soundscape? I suspect pipers, drummers and other noisy

performers may have turned up the noise at city hall about the ban loud enough to reach all the way up to the mayor’s office. Now the ban is lifted and the cacophony is licensed to continue. Isn’t that adding more unnecessary, unhealthy noise to the already over-burdened soundscape of Vancouver, meant to become the greenest, healthiest city in

the world? The soundscape is, after all, an indispensable, integral component of the environment and, thus, deserving of the same care and protection. I’d also argue the original purpose of playing loud pipes and drums in combat has long ceased to be relevant.

Hans Schmid, president Right to Quiet Society

Continuing ed serves a good purpose

To the editor: Re: “Vancouver School Board considers budget cuts,” April 13.

It’s unconscionable that the VSB is considering shutting down Continuing Education to save money. Never mind the fact that CE has been already gutted severely over recent years. Never mind the fact that the purpose of CE is not to make a profit; it’s to offer opportunities for adults to con-

tinue learning at prices that are affordable.

But what I find contentious is the claim that it’s losing money at all because my guess is that VSB makes money off the labour of CE teachers. My partner has taught CE at least two nights a week for nearly 20 years. Her wages do not come close to the money the VSB pulls in from the students.

Dan Bar-el Vancouver

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‘Mosquito’ man defends anti-vandalism device Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

An anti-loitering device called the Mosquito offers a safe and effective way to curb vandalism, according to the president of the company that holds the North American distribution rights for the gadgets, which emit high frequency sounds that irritate 13 to 25 year olds.

The Vancouver school district unplugged 33 Mosquitoes at 19 school sites in March pending a review about their effectiveness that will also consider health and human rights concerns. A staff report is expected at the May 1 planning and facilities meeting. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association opposes Mosquitoes and calls them discriminatory because they target a specific age group.

Trustees and senior staff say they didn’t realize the use of the device to combat vandalism, which costs the VSB $500,000 annually, had proliferated in the district without consultation. The devices were being operated from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Mike Gibson, president of Moving Sound Technologies, maintains concerns about the Mosquitoes are unwarranted.

Gibson can’t hear the noise, but he said it sounds like “fingernails on a chalkboard times 10” to the target age group of 13 to 25 year olds. Younger children hear it but they’re not bothered by the sound, according to Gibson, who added that dogs are curious, but it doesn’t really bother them either.

“It’s very directional, so you put it in the area you want it to be effective and it will not affect any other area,” he said.

“So, for example, if the school board has

an area behind a school where they’re having problems with vandalism, or perhaps they have unsafe areas where kids might congregate and have fights and that sort of thing at night, they can focus the Mosquito sound in that area and it would not affect any other area around it… It will not carry to a yard simply because they have a limited distance of 100 feet.”

Although concerns have been raised that the noise might bother young people with conditions such as autism, Gibson said it shouldn’t be an issue.

“If kids with autism are in an area at two o’clock in the morning where they shouldn’t be, I would think there would be more concerns about why they’re there,” he said.

Gibson maintains the devices have already reduced vandalism on school board property and it’s the safest and least expensive way to address the problem. “The bottom line is people have the right to protect their property and school property at two o’clock in the morning is not public property, it’s private property,” he said. “If kids are there at two o’clock, they should maybe be looking at the safety issues rather than the civil liberties issues.”

Gibson estimates there are somewhere between 400 and 500 Mosquito devices installed in the Greater Vancouver area. He’s sold them to property management companies, stratas, restaurants and parking companies. He doesn’t sell to homeowners.

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Salsbury Community Society doesn’t want low-income residents of a housing project slated for East First Avenue and Victoria Drive to be mere clients in need of help.

Johanna Suttor-Doerksen, community housing director for the non-profit society and registered charity, said the model of a service provider with knowledge, skills and expertise and a client in need can create barriers.

“It’s not just about changing and improving the recipient, but realizing that we ourselves also need to be changed, and that often we live quite isolated lives in a way of just being with people in our economic bracket and people that are similar to us, but that we really grow in both our compassion and, more importantly, our solidarity with people if we allow ourselves to be open to having friendships with people that come from a different background,” Suttor-Doerksen said.

The four-storey building unanimously approved in a rezoning by city council April 18 will include a total of 26 apartments. Eighteen to 20 units will be for lowincome tenants from the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood who don’t need high levels of support and six to eight units will be for community members who want to live alongside those in need of support. (Vision Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal was absent for the vote).

Those who are part of what the society calls the “intentional community of support” will pay below market rents.

Each floor of the building will be arranged in “pods” that include four or five apartments that will open to a common space with seating, laundry facilities and access to a balcony. Pods could be designated womenonly.

The society that grew out of the nearby Grandview Cavalry Baptist Church will select low-income tenants that could include individuals, couples or families, the working poor, elderly people and others struggling with homelessness, and they can be of any ethnic background, culture, sexual orientation or faith.

Tenants who provide support need to be from Grandview-Woodland, committed to economic and material simplicity, relationship-building and collective decision-making and a local Christian faith community.

The development that drew opposition from neighbours primarily for its height and size includes a large kitchen, dining area and community garden.

“In our community houses, we just found that sitting around the table and eating with one another has just been the starting point and sustaining bond for people to build relationships with one another as well as gardening has,” Suttor-Doerksen said. “It’s just a very natural way of doing something together even if you are from a very different economic or cultural background. It’s something that you can connect over.”

Salsbury operates three homes that provide longterm housing to those in need and two houses that lodge refugees. Members of the church’s congregation have invited one or two single people to share their homes and have bought houses together.

Council reduced the permitted building height from 50 to 45 feet and the structure needs to fit with the character of the neighbourhood. A community advisory committee for the project must continue.

City staff had recommended that the rezoning be approved with conditions.

“It’s a unique proposal. We all know there’s a dearth of supportive housing in the city and a challenge to house people that are at risk of homelessness or are homeless, for a non-profit society to come forward doesn’t happen every day,” Kent Munro, assistant director of planning, said last week. crossi@vancourier.com Twitter: @Cheryl_Rossi

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

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Journey into lathery underworld of men’s grooming fraught with fragrant self-discovery

Life smells good for former Drakkar Noir man Midlife Man

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Michael Kissinger

In the 40 years I’ve spent roaming this earth, I have never smelled as good as I do now.

Sure, there was time in high school when I regularly bathed in the sweet, pungent nectar of Drakkar Noir at the behest of my then-rocker-girlfriend Tonya “with an o.” But pubescent aftershave does not a fragrant man make. Although it came in a cool matte-black bottle, evoking the charred hull of a Lamborghini Countach, Guy Laroche’s “eau de stud” merely masked the murky musk of adolescence—hormones, sweat, damp runners, Zesty Cheese Doritos, pepperoni sticks and Yop “drinkable yogurt.”

Drakkar Noir and Tonya were eventually replaced by a less dangerous Perry Ellis and a girlfriend who preferred Sarah McLachlan to Def Leppard. At the end of those two relationships, I got hot and heavy with Hugo Boss. In fact, I can map out my entire romantic history by tracing what cologne I wore at the time.

These days, I’m enjoying a long-term relationship with “Style in Play” by Lacoste, which I’ve grown so accustomed to I can’t even detect I’m wearing it at times.

But cologne isn’t the only fragrant firearm in my arsenal of scented bliss. A few years ago, I started exploring the lathery underworld of shaving products. It began, like most tales of sudsy decadence, with the purchase of a badger hair shaving brush, which in all honesty puts typical boar hair shaving brushes to shame and gives further credence to the oft repeated saying “once you go badger, you never go back.”

Soon after the badger brush, I started hitting the shaving creams and aftershave balms pretty hard.

It wasn’t long before I became intimately acquainted with “pre-shave” oil and the subtle nuances of lemon grass, verbena and “marine,” until one day, I’m not proud to admit, I shelled out $70 for a German-made,

stainless steal safety razor that I imagine Don Draper wielding as he stares guiltily at himself in the mirror.

I may have even picked up a ridiculously large bar of Portuguese soap.

Normally if I had a spare $70 lying around, I would have spent it on decidedly scent-free items such as Slurpees, plaid shirts and Superchunk albums. But something in me changed. I’m not even sure exactly when or why this transformation occurred, but I do know that it roughly coincided with swearing off futons for good and accepting the fact that I was too old to be considered a prodigy in anything. Apparently the smell of resignation is woodsy and floral with notes of green apple, vetiver and cedar.

THE SMELL OF RESIGNATION IS WOODSY AND FLORAL WITH NOTES OF GREEN APPLE, VETIVER AND CEDAR Smelling good is also one of the more accomplishable self-improvement projects you can embark on—far easier than learning a new language, shedding 20 pounds or performing charity work.

Just the other day, I found myself in a store called Beauty Bar with my equally lovely smelling girlfriend.

Previously if faced with such an emasculating situation, I would have sighed gravely, sat down in a chair specifically designated for shopweary dudes and waited impatiently for my girlfriend and testicles to return. This time, however, I wished her luck in her never-ending search for mascara and stood contentedly in the men’s grooming section, smelling my way through products like a sandalwood-obsessed version of Rain Man. However, there is one line I won’t cross when it comes to smelling good. I leave the cologne and razor on the shelf and ignore all temptations to “freshen up” before I play ball hockey every Sunday afternoon. Maybe it has something to do with pheromones or the weekend’s toxins oozing out of us or the Petri dish

of bacteria that is our equipment bags and hockey gear, but we are a rancid bunch of aging men. I liken it to how the Celts would wash their hair in urine and soot before going into battle. Except we’re stinkier and with a hint of pot. But for those two-and-a-half hours I spend running around in the open air with my brain only thinking about ball hockey and how good the post-game

beer will taste, I don’t care what my increasingly creaky body smells like.

Besides, as Hockey Night in Canada colour commentator Harry Neale once said, “Perspiration is the cologne of accomplishment.”

Michael Kissinger has been writing about his impending midlife crisis since turning 40 in February. mkissinger@vancourier.com Twitter: @MidlifeMan1

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April 2012

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SPRING BLOOMS AND PREPARING FOR A HEARTY HARVEST

BY BRENDA JONES CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Courier contacted a few local garden divas to find out what they’re planting this year – and what their favourite spring plants are.

Gardeners quickly learn to adapt to the conditions offered in their garden.

Laura Doheny, manager of David Hunter Garden Centre, has a mostly shaded garden at home, so she focuses on texture plants to add dimension and depth to her garden.

“I have an enclosed garden space that feels like a private oasis when I’m sitting out there,” Doheny says. “I want my garden to look lush and almost tropical without the trouble of maintaining tropical plants.”

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Spring is here at last, and gardeners are out in full force weeding, and preparing their pots and gardens for planting some new spring perennials or plotting a veggie garden for a summer bounty.

One of Doheny’s favourite plants in her garden is a limey yellow and green Japanese Reed Grass (Hakonechloa Grass). She describes it as looking like a small waterfall in the garden, and

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However, the bread and butter of any lush tropical-feeling garden is the simple hosta.

“It gives you a big, bold structure, a tropical look, and the leaves look great with smaller leafed plants,” Doheny says. Hostas flower for weeks on end, and Doheny particularly enjoys a variety called “Summer Fragrance,” which smells almost like jasmine.

Faerlyn Bush, manager of Figaro’s Garden in East Vancouver recommends Heathers at this time of year. These grown very well in Vancouver’s climate, but should be planted where they will get lots of sun. Heathers like an acidic soil, and need to be watered regularly.

Heathers are very colourful, and look especially nice in a rock garden, with

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Not to overlook ground covers, Bush recommends Sweet Woodruff (Galium Odoratum), which grows well in partial to full shade and forms beautiful little starshaped flowers. “It brightens up a dark space.”

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home garden Finally, for the practical, sustenance gardeners among us, garden columnist Anne Marrison has been preparing for a summer bounty. She will be planting blight-resistant tomatoes in large containers along a west-facing wall, as well as in a full-sun raised veggie bed where runner beans grew the previous year.

Marrison planted seed, started on a heat mat, and now has 15 three-inch seedlings of “Mountain Magic” (a large cherry tomato) and “Defiant” (mediumsize hybrid).

She has also started Early Jalapeno PURPLE POLE BEANS ARE FUN AND TASTY TOO. Peppers and Genovese Basil, which will

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Finally, in an 18-inch stone planter set in full-sun, she’ll be erecting a teepee of black bamboo stems for growing Purple Peacock Pole Beans and nasturtiums (to add to salads).

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Dream Homes SPECIAL INFORMATION FEATURE

WHEN BUILDING YOUR NEW HOUSE, IT’S ALL IN THE STYLE On the West Coast, home styles have a definite special attraction. That “curb appeal” can not be emphasized enough, and, staying true to its coastal roots, homes in Vancouver featuring many natural products.

But sifting through the various styles – from West Coast modern to Arts & Crafts revival to contemporary to “green.” And from single family home to duplex to laneway house, the question is “what am I allowed to build on this lot?” It can all be very overwhelming.

the answer should always be… “Yes, this is the style of home I really want.”

Whether you are building to live in it or to resell, having a house that fits in to the neighbourhood is imperative. So is having an aesthetic appeal, both in elements and in colours and materials chosen. You need a practical, liveable environment. For example, if someone has trouble walking – don’t build a house with a large, steep flight of exterior stairs that may be slippery.

Finding that perfect style for you and your family is made much easier with the assistance of an accredited designer. At Odenza Homes, you are helped along the way by the team’s designers who assist in every way to reflect what YOU really want.

Here are some hot trends in exterior finishings for Vancouver’s new home building environment, courtesy Nikki at Odenza Homes. Go to the www.odenzahomes.com photo gallery to see all the beautiful options.

POPULAR FINISHES FOR VANCOUVER HOMES: • Craftsman and traditional homes are very popular in heritage neighborhoods such as Dunbar. Clients have been opting for a more modern interior while maintaining the character of the exterior.

There are many questions to be answered. Some are of the legal variety (where does my property end?) or logistical variety (not building too near power lines!). A surveyor will help with those concerns.

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Dobson adds that a successful window treatment demands two solutions. First, it must be functional—it needs to control light, open and close easily, and not cause problems with small children and pets. It must also be easy to maintain.

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Not all ‘lilies’ should be treated equally Anne Marrison Contributing writer

Many beautiful plants in summer gardens have the name “lily” attached to them. Most of these belong to the lily family but are fairly distant relatives of the plants we recognize as lilies. It’s important to know that none of these so-called lilies can be treated exactly as the Asiatic lilies or the oriental lilies that we’re familiar with. For instance, many are not as hardy.

Pineapple Lilies have the botanical name of Eucomis. They’re a zone 8 plant and in warm coastal gardens come through mild winters if they’re

under a deep, leafy mulch. In cooler gardens, eucomis does best in containers brought inside for winter. It produces a fat spike of starry blooms in white, pink or purple with a tuft of green leaves on top like a pineapple.

Unlike many summer bulbs, the Pineapple Lily flowers for many weeks and still looks good when the flowers are replaced by fat, green seeds. Purple-leaved forms are being developed as well as hybrids such as Leia, which has large, pink flowers.

The Calla Lily is really an arum with the Latin name of Zantedeschia.

It loves moisture and warm, sheltered places. The old almost-hardy favourite still planted outside in gardens is

the white form Crowborough, which reliably over-winters under mulch.

The pink, purple, red or yellow Calla Lilies that are sold widely in spring are hybrids with more tender varieties and need winters indoors.

These thrive in warm places with lots of moisture such as container ponds or bog gardens.

The Foxtail Lily has the Latin name of Eremurus. It’s a hardy, semi-desert plant that can grow up to 10-feet tall topped with a long spike of densely clustered shallow cups with long, stamens. Basic flowers are white, yellow and pink, but hybrid colours include orange, red, deep pink and coppery tones. The

wide-spreading rhizomes (evolved to absorb water quickly in rare desert rains) look like skinny starfish.

Eremerus plants can last for years if you keep rain off them in winter when they are dormant.

Lily relatives also include African Lilies that are often sold by their true Latin name: Agapanthus. The tender varieties throw up stout, tall stems topped by spectacular balls of blue, violet or white tubular flowers. These Agapanthus are perfect for well-drained patio containers in full sun. But they must spend winter indoors. A few agapanthus varieties survive winter outdoors under mulch even in the chilly Fraser Valley. These

are dwarf, deciduous and the clumps slowly enlarge. Plants can sometimes be found in specialist nurseries but are easy from seed. Headbourne Hybrids is one hardy variety and this seed is offered by Chiltern Seeds in the UK and also by Thompson and Morgan.

Daylilies are botanically called Hemerocallis. They’re popular because they grow in most garden soils and produce flowers over several weeks (though each flower lasts only one day). The most flowers are produced by feeding them lavishly and growing them in a sunny spot. amarrison@shaw.ca

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This Application has different implications for customers in each service area. If approved, customers in the Vancouver Island and Whistler service areas will see rate decreases, while customers in the Lower Mainland, Columbia, Inland, and Fort Nelson service areas will see an overall rate increase.

PUBLIC REVIEW PROCESS The Commission is initiating a review of FortisBC Energy Utilities’ Application. To view the timetable for this hearing and the Application go to www.bcuc.com select “Current Applications” under “Quick Links” and scroll to “FEU Common Rates, Amalgamation and Rate Design.”

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By the 1400s, merchant sailing ships had started to render the route obsolete.

Now, the Silk Road has more value to tour operators, who trade on its mythic lure. Visitors who prefer just a sample of Silk Road sensations can do so with a program that focuses on key cities like Kashgar, Samarkand, Bukhara and Kiva.

But those who want the complete experience are best to book an overland journey by specialized vehicle—preferably one like the hardy and comfortable Land Rovers used by Asia Adventures and Study Tours (AAST) of Toronto. This is as much a driving adventure as a tour, with each of the three or four passengers per vehicle having a turn at the wheel.

It takes 60 days for AAST to cover the route, which runs roughly 14,000 kilometres from Xian, in China, at the eastern end of the Silk Road to Istanbul, in Turkey, in the west. The journey traces the original Silk Road through challenging deserts and rugged mountains, along highways, secondary roads and even trails.

Few of the Silk Road cities, save Xian and Istanbul, have well developed tourism infrastructures, so hotel accommodations tend be basic, but clean and friendly, with hearty meals served in-house.

Four-or-five-star services may be hard to

come by, but the sacrifice is worth it.

There is, for instance, the solitary city of Khiva in the Kizil Kum Desert. Life still hums inside its massive, 10th-century walls, the twists and turns of its narrow streets leading visitors to mosques and markets.

Or the legendary Samarkand, once known as the Garden of the Universe, in present-day Uzbekistan. Samarkand was a major centre of Silk Road business in the days of camel-train commerce 800plus years ago, and it retains elements from those days of glory.

Among them is the Registan, a spectacular structure dedicated to Islamic education. Visitors can stroll through its three madrassahs (Islamic schools) and marvel at the millions of bright tiles that colour the building’s exterior. They can even climb to the top of one of the minarets.

It is a narrow and steep ascent, but the view rewards the effort.

The city was also once renowned as a centre of learning, when scientific knowledge trumped religion for a short period of time. In the early 1400s, Samarkand was ruled by Ulugh Beg, grandson of central Asia’s conquerer, Timur (known to the West as Tamerlane). He built an observatory to track the stars and he postulated heretical suggestions, such as the idea that the earth circles the sun. The observatory was ultimately destroyed by religious fanatics in 1449, but its foundations and tracking mechanism still remain to be seen by visitors to Samarkand.

For more information on the Asia Adventures and Study Tours annual Drive the Silk Road trip, visit www.aast-journeys.com.

Ted Davis is a member of the Meridian Writers’ Group.

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1. Mixing Latin, Caribbean, hip hop, jazz and other shag carpet-friendly stylings, local outfit Pacifika gets its global groove on in support of its latest album Supermagique, which, if our high school French still holds up, roughly translates to “Jean-Paul’s chocolate school bus.” It all goes down April 25 at the Waldorf. Tickets $15 at the door.

More info at waldorfhotel.com.

2. Ever since I got drunk at my aunt and uncle’s retirement party and performed “the worm” across the floor of the Salt Spring Island community hall, I’ve had a deep appreciation and understanding of the physical demands required to be a break dancer. Choreographer Crazy Smooth takes it up a notch with the hip -hop, street dance showcase IZM, featuring 10 of Canada’s most talented performers breaking, rocking and, fingers crossed, doing the worm. It runs until April 29 at the Cultch. For tickets and info, go to thecultch.com or call 604-251-1363.

3. Fans of sharp, sassy, funny, all-female Canadian folk music, your dry-witted dream journal entries have been answered. Toronto trio The Good Lovelies play St. James Hall, April 26, 8 p.m., in support of their Juno Awardnominated album Let the Rain Fall, which is something you’d never hear from a Vancouver band. Tickets at Highlife Records and Rufus’s Guitar Shop, online at roguefolk.bc.ca or by calling 604-736-3022.

4. As the temperature rises, so too does the Arts Club Theatre Company’s propensity for crowd-pleasing, lighthearted comedy. Having attempted to spice up their love life in the smash hit Sexy Laundry, Henry (Andrew Wheeler) and Alice (Susinn McFarlen) are back at it and trying to enjoy the great outdoors in Henry and Alice: Into the Wild. Wackiness ensues, April 25 to May 26 at the Granville Island Stage. For tickets and more info, call 604687-1644 or go to artsclub.com.

kudos & kvetches Haiku Night in Canada: the end

It was a frustratingly short-lived series between the Vancouver Canucks and L.A. Kings, filled with not enough goals, not enough wins, and not enough Basho-inspired playoff haikus.

We bid adieu to the Canucks for another season with a final burst of verse courtesy of dedicated, passionate and body-obsessed K&K reader “Harold Wang,” who we’re beginning to think is a 14-year-old-boy with a wealth of unresolved issues. See you next year.

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Brand new bike coalition

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our many years mowing, pruning and fertilizing the media landscape, it’s that “branding” is where it’s at. From catchy names to cool logos to synergistic marketing campaigns, if you don’t brand yourself properly, you’re a goner. Which partially explains the unfortunate downfall of K&K’s all to brief online magazine for chubby indie rock dudes called More to Love.

The Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition is the latest local entity to rebrand itself. On Tuesday, it announced it’s launching a new brand, complete with new name, logo and look.

According to the press release, VACC worked with award-winning communications company DARE and Seven25 Typography & Design to “refresh its image and broaden its perceived reach beyond the City of Vancouver as a central organization for programming, advocacy and engagement across the entire Metro Vancouver region.” Consequently, VACC will now be called HUB: Your Cycling Connection (bikehub.ca).

Not bad. Hub… wheel… centre of activity. We get it. But K&K also prides itself on its brand-savvy ways, and it pains us that VACC didn’t consult us first before embarking on its, wait for it, brand new life. Here are a few ideas for new names and logos, which VACC is free to use if HUB doesn’t pan out.

• SPOKES. Bikes have spokes, which you should never throw a stick into. Spoke is also the past tense of speak. It also rhymes with toke, which some cyclists do, particularly the ones who ride retro BMX’s and unicycles. For a logo, you could have a joint with wheels. Boom.

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• Let Me Stand Next to Your Tire. This is a reference to a bitchin’ song by Jimi Hendrix, who was an avid cyclist. Actually, we just made that up, but you can make up any backstory you want when it comes to building your brand. It’s the law.

The logo would be a bike tire. No need to fancy it up. Sometimes directness is most effective. Either that or you could have a pic of Hendrix but instead of sunglasses his eyes would be bike tires. Sweet.

• Two Wheels and the Truth. You can never go wrong when you evoke the grandiosity of a lame U2 song. The logo would be a judge’s gavel with wheels. And how’s this for a catchphrase: “I’m out of order? This whole bike route is out of order.” Or better yet, “I want the truth!”…. “You can’t handlebar the truth!” And scene.

• Sexual Wheeling. Get it? It’s a take off on that song by Marvin Gaye, who, like Jimi Hendrix, was also an avid cyclist… wink, wink. Plus none of the Courier’s cycling columnists thought it was funny when we suggested it as a name for their columns, so it’s free to use. The logo would be a wheel with phalluses for spokes. k&k@vancourier.com Twitter: @KudosKvetches

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Chef, inner city nutritionist by day, pin-up model by night

Pin-up pageant goes Kaboom Cheryl Rossi

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Jen Kaboom feels like she was groomed to moonlight as a pin-up model.

“I was kind of raised growing up retro, you know, growing up listening to Patsy Cline and Elvis, it was just kind of a way of life,” the 25-year-old resident of Mount Pleasant said.

Kaboom participated in the first annual pin-up pageant of the WestCoast Tattoo and Culture Show, in Langley, and she’ll participate in the show’s third annual pageant this Friday, in Coquitlam.

About 20 competitors will be judged on their poise and how well they connect with the audience as they pose, flirt and vie to win pin-up shot packages in a glamour and a new talent round.

The swimsuit segment has been ditched this year.

“There is going to be the alternative model competition the next day, and I’m sure you’re going to see a lot of skin in that one,” Kaboom said with a laugh. “Maybe they’re saving it for Saturday.”

She’ll sing “Why Do Fools Fall in Love,” by Frank Lymon and

The Teenagers, a cappella.

“I just really like the crowd participation and interaction,” said Kaboom, who has no previous experience performing. “It’s really a confidence-booster. You get to share a little of who you are with everyone else.”

The five-foot-three-inch tall bottled blond who hails from “smalltown” Alberta says she’s always had a penchant for dresses, pin curls and wearing flowers in her hair. She doesn’t see the pin-up pageants as sexist.

“If anything they’re empowering,” she said. “My first pageant that I did, I was by far the largest girl on stage in a swimsuit and I actually got the loudest applause for my confidence because they were like, wow, a 200-pound woman can go up on stage in a retro bikini and rock it. You’re poised, not being self-conscious of a little bit of cellulite you might have on your thigh, forgetting about it, having a good time and the crowd really enjoys that.”

Her pin-up pageant participation has also helped boost Jen Kaboom Designs, the company she started last August, that sells her pin-up, retro and rockabilly fash-

ion accessories.

By day, the woman who’s inked with robot tattoos on each calf and almost a full sleeve of tattoos, is a chef who works as a nutritional advisor in a Vancouver inner city daycare that provides healthy breakfasts, lunches and dinners for children and a community dinner once a week.

She’s happy to hold a rewarding 9 to 5 job, unlike the long hours she’s previously toiled in restaurants, so she can pursue her passion for all things pretty and playful.

The WestCoast Tattoo Show happens at the Boulevard Casino, April 27 to 29. It features tattoo artist and reality TV star Chris Nunez from Spike TV’s Ink Masters and TLC’s Miami Ink, and Billy DeCola from TLC’s New York Ink. More than 70 exhibitors and 125 world-renowned tattoo artists will show off their creativity at the event that also includes the first annual Vixen Alternative Model Pageant. Tattoo artists will compete for awards that include best portrait, cover-up, sleeve and tattoo of the day. For more information, see westcoasttattooshow.com. crossi@vancourier.com Twitter: @Cheryl_Rossi

Jen Kaboom competes in the third annual pin-up pageant of the WestCoast Tattoo and Culture Show in Coquitlam, April 27 to 29.

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Feuding parents both funny and concerning in God of Carnage God of Carnage

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In her 2009 Tony Award-winning God of Carnage, French playwright Yasmina Reza uses the same setup as Edward Albee in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?: two couples, lots of liquor and loads of psychological baggage.

But while there are—significantly—no children in Albee’s play, there are two in Reza’s. And Albee spares us the yuck factor by having Honey do her upchucking offstage. In Carnage, Annette does her puking front and centre. I wouldn’t sit in the front row, if I were you.

Following 11-year-old Benjamin Raleigh’s attack with a stick on schoolmate Henry Novak in an after school scuffle, Henry’s mother Veronica has arranged for both boys’ parents to meet and discuss the matter. Whether Henry has a couple of broken teeth or has been “disfigured” (his mother’s word), she wants Benjamin to apologize to Henry. Benjamin, according to his father is a “savage” and Henry, if he’s anything like his mother, is a self-righteous little prick.

We never see the boys so who’s to say?

It all begins civilly although Veronica’s reading of her “statement of events” justifiably sets Benjamin’s father’s teeth on edge.

Alan objects to the phrase “armed with a stick,” and Veronica, in the spirit of give and take, rewords her statement to read,

John Cassini, Vickie Papavs, Shauna Black and Oliver Becker star in Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning play God of Carnage at The Playhouse until May 5. “furnished with a stick.” But there the civility ends. What we do not surprisingly discover is that these couples have lots of personal and marital issues, and it’s not long before the fur flies: Veronica (Shauna Black) takes on Alan and Annette (John Cassini and Vickie Papavs) before turning her rage on her own husband Michael (Oliver Becker). Annette screams at husband Alan to get off the cellphone that’s perma-

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nently glued to his ear and then she goes gunning for Veronica. Then the men join forces and trash the women; together, the women cast aspersions on their husbands’ sexual performance. Long forgotten are Benjamin and Henry and it all becomes obvious that schoolyard brawls are not limited to schoolchildren.

The free-for-all happens on Gillian Gallow’s sophisticated, raked set. Laminate

floors, off-white furniture, sleek cowhide rug, marble-top coffee table covered with art books and gallery catalogues are in sharp contrast to the two couples’ far from civilized behaviour.

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by Miles Potter, God of Carnage is billed as a comedy and it is funny in the same way Albee’s play is: we laugh in shock at how thin the veneer of civility is. And there are some fine comedic performances here—especially Papavs in Annette’s complete meltdown. Cassini’s restrained performance strikes a very real, very welcome note in what otherwise slips sideways into farce.

But as the curtain falls on God of Carnage, one has to wonder if it’s a comedy at all. With parents who behave like children, those two 11-year-olds have got about as much chance of surviving unscathed as the hamster that Henry’s father unceremoniously dumps out of its cage on the roadside. Poor hamster. Poor Henry. Poor Benjamin.

Taken to another level—and surely the playwright wants us to go there, God of Carnage implies that if four apparently civilized adults are unable to resolve a little playground kerfuffle, how successful can we hope to be in resolving international conflict? Poor world.

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Story of Burqa filmmaker uncovers politics behind controversial garment State of the Arts

with Cheryl Rossi Brishkay Ahmed assumed burqas had always been the norm in Afghanistan until her father told her otherwise.

While reviewing the subtitled scenes of Afghan divorcees clad in blue burqas streaming in and out of a Kabul legal centre in her 2010 documentary Reclaiming Rights, the Vancouver filmmaker said her father, a former Counsel General of Afghanistan, told her that the burqa wasn’t an Afghan garment.

Ahmed was shocked. She recalled Afghanistan—the country she’d left when she was five— through the photos in her parents’ album, which showed her mother decked in sleeveless dresses, mini skirts and stylish slacks. But those images had long been knocked out of her consciousness by the images of shrouded, faceless women she’d seen on BBC and CNN. Ahmed travelled to Afghanistan in 2011 to explore the history and origin of the burqa in her native land. Her

Story of Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan premieres at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, May 10.

“I have nine-year-old girls who are twins, and that is the main reason why I wanted the film to finish this year,” the 36-year-old resident of Oakridge said. “Because nine years old is when Islamic extremists begin covering up the girls entirely. It’s that age when they say a girl has become a woman.”

Ahmed explores the burqa on Davie Street, in tailors’ shops in Afghanistan, through interviews with women, husbands and highranking Afghan historians and officials. The film incorporates bits of stock footage and animation.

She shoots from inside the often polyester garment to show how difficult it is to see and move with a mesh panel covering one’s eyes and limited peripheral vision.

“Are you going to get your driver’s licence if you wear it? No,” Ahmed said. “Are you going to fly a plane? No.” The Story of Burqa uncovers the politics behind the controversial full-body garment from its ties to the harems of Indian kings to the influence of British foreign policy, Russian rule and the Taliban, and

Brishkay Ahmed’s Story of Burqa: Case of a Confused Afghan premieres at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival, May 10. how it has little to do with religion.

According to Ahmed, many Afghanis, including herself until making the film, don’t realize that burqas weren’t always the norm.

“Anybody from 15 to about 40 assumes Afghanistan is the way it was under the Taliban because all images were burned, films were burned...

They’re the ones who are shocked and partially because two, three million of them left Afghanistan and were raised in Pakistan or in Iran.

So it’s that middle gap that does not understand what our country used to be, and they’re the ones that I’m trying to reach and awaken,” she said. “The older people my father’s age or the experts I interviewed, oh my God, they’re dying to get rid of this cloth. Over and over they make that statement.”

Ahmed supports women’s choice to dress modestly and wear the hijab to cover their hair, but she believes the burqa should

be banned everywhere.

“I have never met a woman in Afghanistan who has said she has worn the burqa because she likes it—never,” Ahmed said. “The fear associated with it is why it’s still hanging in the closet because [women] have been killed for not wearing it.”

With NATO troops preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014, Ahmed worries the Taliban will again reign and the burqa will rule.

“The entire world needs to ban the burqa and I’m not scared about saying this and there is one reason: I’m a filmmaker and I’m not supposed to be politically correct. It’s not my job,” Ahmed said.

Story of Burqa is one of more than 100 films to screen during DOXA, which runs May 4 to 13.

Story of Burqa screens May 10 at Empire Granville 7 Cinemas, at Granville and Robson, at 7 p.m.

The 2012 Kris Anderson Connexions Youth Forum films will precede the feature. There will be a special performance from Afghan singer Mozhdah Jamalzadah and Ahmed will attend.

For more information, see doxafestival.ca. crossi@vancourier.com Twitter: @Cheryl_Rossi

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Most schools sports to continue despite BCTF vote Megan Stewart Staff writer

The majority of public high school sports leagues will continue in Vancouver but three schools have turned off the lights on their competitive spring seasons.

David Thompson, Windermere and University Hill secondary schools are not running sports teams. Windermere halted school sports after spring break and teachers at the other two schools made the decision last Friday or early this week.

As of Tuesday morning, the tennis and junior ultimate leagues will not continue on an official basis because there are fewer than four competing schools. The Point Grey junior ultimate team is cancelled, meaning Winston Churchill, Gladstone and Kitsilano will meet unofficially to play. Players from the senior B ultimate team at Point Grey will partner with Britannia; that league will continue.

Teachers across B.C. voted 73 per cent in favour of an action plan to withdraw extracurricular activities such as sports, drama and graduation ceremonies in protest of Bill 22, government legislation harshly criticized by the teachers’ union, the BCTF. The action is not an organized job stoppage or strike but may continue or escalate through September and the next school year. Individual teachers can decide how to proceed.

The Vancouver Secondary School Athletic Association will officially operate a sports league if four teams participate.

Although teams that began the season have withdrawn from a number of leagues, boys bantam and juvenile volleyball will continue. So will girls tier I and II soccer, boys rugby, badminton, and track and field.

English teacher Fred Gault has coached since his first semester at Magee 24 years ago and said con-

Teacher Fred Gault, who coaches the senior girls soccer team at Magee secondary, is out on the field for a practice photo Dan Toulgoet Monday afternoon despite the BCTF’s vote to cease extracurricular activities. tinuing to lead the school’s two girls soccer teams was not a hard decision in spite of the vote result.

“For me it’s part of what I do. Extracurriculars, it’s part of what makes my job as great as it is, it’s where memories are made for the kids and it makes life special.”

The veteran teacher said he intends to keep his commitment he set at the beginning of this school year. He believes, however, Bill 22 is flawed legislation that compromises classroom composition and said, “If this continues into September, I probably will join my colleagues and not [coach] or I’ll ar-

range for it.”

VSSAA president Mike Allina told the Courier last week that each teacher decides if he or she will coach.

Gault, a member of the VSSAA executive, said this feeling carries over into the athletic department at Magee.

The decision is stressful for many teachers, Jameel Aziz, the president of the B.C. Principals’ and VicePrincipals’ Association told CBC Radio Monday morning.

“I know that many teachers are actually struggling with this and many coaches are struggling with this,” he said, noting the emotional toll.

“I know the real challenge, especially over the last couple of weeks was that teachers who don’t provide those services to students were actually the ones who were able to have input on to whether or not this occurred.”

At David Thompson, student-athletes were running track this week although notices had circulated that sports teams were cancelled.

School principal Iona Wishaw said it wasn’t entirely clear if the team was continuing or if the students were leading their own practice. mstewart@vancourier.com Twitter: @MHStewart

Seniors series celebrates lifelong fitness

Megan Stewart Staff writer

“When I was your age…” is a phrase that can signal the beginning of a story worth sitting down for.

At 19, Arnie Hallgren played major league baseball and in the spring of 1953 was in Florida for training camp with the Boston Braves.

As teenagers, figure skaters Barry Soper and Louise Lind won the national novice ice dance title, a championship they’d go on to claim six more times and become the first pair to win in all three categories: senior, junior and novice.

Nearly 30 years ago, Cindy Crapper was headed to L.A. for the Summer Games. A javelin thrower, she nonetheless didn’t travel with the Olympic team because the Canadians did not send a full squad.

These and other athletes join an

on-going storytelling series titled, Before They Were Grandparents….

They Were Champions.

Sponsored by Bayshore Home Health Vancouver, an in-home seniors care provider, the series launched last year and can be watched online. The “before they were grandparents…” theme opens the door for countless storytellers, including adventurers, singers, lovers, farmers, scholars and more.

The series celebrates individuals and holds them up as positive examples of lifelong fitness, said Bayshore’s Metro Vancouver director Chris Clark. “People who are active have a better quality of life, independence and dignity through later years,” he said.

“We were looking for a way to make people change their views and their outlooks on the senior population and to recognize who

they were and what they still are.

Just because their packaging changes, doesn’t mean their spirit does.”

In Crapper’s case, she will give a nod to her own sport success before she narrates the stories of several Vancouver Olympians and Paralympians. A parks board employee and the coordinator of Sport For Life who ran in the torch relay after she wrote and rapped about the joy sport brings, Crapper is passionate and said, at 50, “I’m half way to being a senior.” Old age doesn’t start at 65 and not necessarily at 100 either, she said.

Crapper was also part of a 125 Vancouver anniversary storytelling series last year that tapped the knowledge and memories of sporty seniors to emphasize the support they received through their lives from coaches, parents, partners, administrators and organizers. The

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An advocate of the long-term athlete development model, Crapper will highlight the importance of physical literacy and the work of the city’s Active for Life Committee.

“Active for Life is like playground to podium,” she said, noting the committee’s goals to increase activity for all Vancouverites, regardless of age, ability or income, by 20 per cent.

“My own personal experience in sport, I learned to jump and throw and skip and hop and dodge and dance,” she said. “I believe that I had fundamental movement skills to be able to move forward in sport.”

Before They Were Grandparents… They Were Champions runs from 1 to 3 p.m. April 26 at the Creekside community centre (1 Athletes Way). mstewart@vancourier.com

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Expect goalie Roberto Luongo to play elsewhere

Canucks playoff loss will lead to line-up changes jimmorris Naomi Jones, 20, gets an autograph from Roberto Luongo during last year’s playoff. It’s doubtful Luongo will be back next season. file photo Dan Toulgoet The early exit was a shocking end to the Canucks season. From the moment Vancouver opened training camp in September, coaches and players had a single goal. Win one more playoff game than last year and bring the Stanley Cup home.

“Nobody envisioned this,’’ said coach Alain Vigneault. “We came here on day one with a plan. We wanted to take the steps one at a time. Unfortunately this first step we weren’t good enough.’’

There are plenty of reasons why the Canucks weren’t good enough.

In five games of the best-of-seven series against the Kings, Vancouver’s power play scored just three

times in 21 chances and allowed two shorthanded goals in one game. The Canucks managed just eight goals.

Players like Kesler, David Booth and Mason Raymond didn’t score. Usually reliable defenceman Alex Edler suddenly made rookie mistakes.

The Canucks dug themselves a hole by losing the first two games at home. “If you give away two games it’s tough to win four out of five,’’ said captain Henrik Sedin.

“We didn’t score enough. They had a great goalie and played tight defence. They scored enough to win.’’

Los Angeles exposed Vancouver’s soft side. The Kings showed more speed and aggression. L.A.’s fore-

into a 12-year, $64-million contract.

Schneider is seven years younger.

He’s moving into his prime. At 33, Luongo may be nearing his best-before date.

Luongo is an imposing figure in the Canucks dressing room. Depending on the day he can be sullen, funny, withdrawn, engaged, arrogant or humble. Sometimes, when facing a group of reporters, he talks in cliches and looks like he’d rather be in a dental chair. One-on-one he can be gracious and thoughtful with his answers. Over the years Luongo learned to deal with living under the microscope in a hockey-fixated city.

“You learn to handle things,’’ Luongo said last week. “I’m much better at it now than when I got here.’’

Former GM Brian Burke once described Vancouver as a goalie graveyard. Dan Cloutier, Kevin Weeks and Garth Snow were all buried here.

Schneider will come to camp next year as the Canucks’ new saviour, the man now capable of leading Vancouver on the road to the Stanley Cup. He’d better be careful. A lot of other goaltenders have tripped along that same path.

Jim Morris is a veteran sports reporter who has covered hockey for 30 years. Reach him at jimemorris@hotmail.com.

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There was stunned silence and disbelief in the Vancouver Canuck dressing room as players digested their first-round upset playoff loss to the Los Angeles Kings Sunday.

Defenceman Dan Hamhuis tried to explain how he lost the puck at his own blueline, allowing Jarret Stoll to score the winning goal at 4:27 of overtime in a 2-1 L.A. victory.

Twins Daniel and Henrik Sedin showed their class by trying to find answers to how the team with the best record in the NHL lost in five games to the eighth-seeded Kings.

Centre Ryan Kesler sat for a long time with his head in his hands, then quietly left. Conspicuous by his absence was goaltender Roberto Luongo. The best goalie to wear a Canuck uniform has probably played his last game in Vancouver.

check created turnovers. Goaltender Jonathan Quick stymied the Vancouver shooters.

The loss will send vibrations through the Canuck organization.

Expect coach Alain Vigneault to be fired. It’s unlikely Raymond will be back. Defenceman Sami Salo may have played his last game as a Canuck. The biggest change will be in net. Ever since Luongo arrived in Vancouver six years ago, he has been a polarizing figure to Canuck fans. At first he was praised as the saviour, the man who would end years of frustration and bring the Cup to Vancouver.

After a couple of playoff meltdowns, most notably in last year’s final against the Boston Bruins, Luongo become the devil to many of the Canuck faithful. They point to him as the reason Vancouver still hasn’t won a championship. TransLink president Ian Jarvis might get more likes on Facebook.

Vigneault’s decision to bench Luongo and place Vancouver’s playoff fate in Cory Schneider’s catching glove signalled a changing of the guard in the Canuck crease.

The Canucks will make a decision this summer over whether to keep Schneider, who becomes a restricted free agent, or Luongo, who is locked

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Deadline for submission is Wednesday, April 25th, 2012.

We thank all applicants for their submissions, however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. If you are not contacted, we will keep your résumé on file for future opportunities.

2005

Antiques

BIG CAMBIE MOVE, mahogany dressers, paintings, milk glass, 2 desks, old tools, rugs, mirrors, BC ceramics, horse brasses, wood radios, tin wear, country chairs, stools, tables, 2 screens, planters and more. Call 604-876-8206

2060

For Sale Miscellaneous

EDUCATION

GARAGE SALES

FOODSAFE

HMARTIN LUTHER CHURCH HUGE GARAGE SALE SAT APRIL 28th 9 - 2pm 505 East 46th Avenue Furniture, household.

Something for everyone!!!

See you there!

1410

1 DAY COURSES – ONLY $62 BEST VALUE GUARANTEED Classes Every Saturday, Sunday & Monday Taught by Certified Public Health Inspectors ADVANCE Continuing Education BC’s #1 Foodsafe Choice

www.advance-education.com

604-272-7213

TRAIN WITH BC’S LARGEST AND MOST RESPECTED CAREER TRAINER

SUDOKU SUDOKU

• COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORKER - SOCIAL SERVICES • HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT * With Evening Courses Available

Furniture

• ADVANCED BUSINESS

ALL FURNITURE & contents of 1 bdrm apt good cond, best offer, must sell. Sth Van 604-301-1950

MANAGEMENT & E - COMMERCE

• ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

BOXSPRING AND mattress, doublesize, 2 years old, excellent condition, very clean, $80. Brass headboard $25. 604-677-8895

1420

JOIN US ON:

Tutoring Services

★COMPUTER LESSONS★

Beginners, Internet, E-mail etc.

Digital Photo, also Installation.

Spring Special $210 for 8 hrs or $30/hr. Call Sol 604-266-2414

To advertise call

604-630-3300 MOVING - Excellent Furniture in Great Condition Solid 48" Oak Dining Table, leaf + 4 chairs $425; Almost new 8’ cotton sofa $275; Queen Solid Pine 4-poster bed $200; Solid Oak Media Centre $25; New bone low-flo toilet - not used $50; Double Maple Bed $25; 18 Spd Mountain Bike $40 email: marandway@telus.net

A35

Garage Sale

• MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best Price, Best Quality.

All Shapes & Colors Available.

Call 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper

GLASS Table & 4 Chairs $475, Onyx Coffee Tble $250 Onyx Nest $275 Call: (604) 948-9862

2080

Education

COMPOST FOR SALE Composted cow manure.

Great for gardens. $5 per yard Call: (604)-854-0669 Call: (604) 798-3498

2075

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

East Vancouver Campus:

604-251-4473 Vancouver Campus: 604-683-7400 www.sprottshaw.com

AUCTION CALENDAR 2020

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Auctions

“MAJOR” 2

DAY AUCTION

Food / Restaurant / U-Brew Equipment plus New Refrigeration & Kitchen Equipment MAPLE TABLE $350, four chairs $235; Garden Harvest dishes, 64 pcs $175.

Call: (604) 307-0404

2100

Tools & Equipment

TOOL XCHANGE 604-973-0229 Tool Consignment Store www.toolxchange.ca

2135

SATURDAY, APRIL 28th @ 11 AM and SUNDAY, APRIL 29th @ 11 AM

Viewing Times: Friday, April 27th – 9:00 am - 4:30 pm Saturday, April 28th – 9:00 am throughout the Auction Day Sunday, April 29th – 9:00 am throughout the Auction Day

Wanted to Buy

STAMPS wanted Collector looking to buy stamp collections. email: swisshouse@shaw.ca COLLECTOR LOOKING for old photo negatives & slides. Email: coaster1@eastlink.ca

3020

Childcare Wanted

F/T LIVE in nanny, college grad ok, 2 girls 6 & 12.$9.50/hr, 40 hrs/ wk, incl rm&board 604-321-2031

Clean Sweep?

FOOD/RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT: • Walk-in Coolers & Freezers • Mahog. 20’ Bar • Curved Booths • 100’s Diners & Bar Stools • Tables • Pass Thru Dishwashers • Glass & Solid Coolers & Freezers • Adamatic 2 Deck Oven • Southbend Kitchen Equip • Ranges • Deep Fryers • 4 Canopies • Mixers • Ice Machines • S/S Work Tables & Counters • Ice Cream Machines • Gelato Cases • Refrig. & Hot Food Display & Deli Cases • Tilting Skillets & Kettles • Coffee & Capp. Machines • Espresso Grinders • Pos/Cash & Phone Systems • Meat Slicers & Band Saw • Patty Machine • Huge Asst.

Smalls/Glass & Dish Wares • Cutlery • Pots & Pans • Utensils • Stained Glass & Jewellery Display Cases • 2 Persian Carpets • Lockers • Doyon Ovens • Pot Stoves • Back Bars • Refrig. Sand. & Pizza Prep Tables • Plus Much More . . . U-BREW EQUIPMENT: • 6 S/S Copper Clad Brew Kettles • Heat Exchange • Viessman Boiler • Abacus Labeling/Conveyor Sys. • Spartan Kegs & Washer • Beer Plate Filters • Can Sealers • Tin Cans/Lids • 150 Large Glass Carboys • Brass Jaw Corker • Crown Cappers • Six Packer for Cans • Drying Trees • Plus TOOLS: • 2 Metal Band Saws • Shop Vac • Generators • Welder • Ladders • Drills • Pressure Washer • Air Compressor • Engine Analyzers • Pallet Jacks • Plus Much More . . .

20. Egg cells 1. A Traditional baby carriage 20. Cumulus Egg cells rain cloud 5. fencing sword 21.

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S.E. Asian penninsula 30.

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A stretch of shallow waer 31.

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DOWN DOWN

2720 No. 5 Road, Richmond, B.C.

604-244-9350

Sell it in the Classifieds!

FOR MORE DETAILS & PHOTOS VISIT: www.lovesauctions.com

630.3300

To advertise in the Classifieds call: 604-630-3300

604

ACROSS ACROSS 1. Traditional baby carriage

1.

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2. Comprehend Comprehend written written words words 3.

3. Feel Feel ill ill 4.

4. 1/1000 1/1000 of of an an ampere ampere 5.

5. Dorothy’s Dorothy’s auntie auntie 6.

6. Chum Chum 7. Greek colony founded by Xenophanes 8. Philly football team 9. Sensory brain parts 11. Marysville, CA college 12. Language spoken in Bratislava 14. Wet, sticky earth 15. Emergency Medical Service

16.

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21. Sodium Sodium 22.

22. Addams Addams Family Family cousin cousin 23.

23. 3rd 3rd tone tone of of the the scale scale 24.

Pear variety 24. Pear variety 25.

25. Two-toed Two-toed sloth sloth 27. -__, denotes past 28. Alaskan town 29. The family bufonidae 32. Centilitre 33. Earl’s jurisdiction 34. Extreme 35. Show a response 37. Touchdown 38. Rhenium 39. Potato state

Apr. 24/12 Apr. 24/12

46. Suspect to be false 46. In Suspect to be of false 48. the middle 48. Give In theshelter middletoof 49.

49. Give shelter to 51.

51. Lace Lace edging edging of of small small loops loops 52.

52. Cadet Cadet 54.

54. Device Device for for data data over over phone phone lines lines 55.

Being considered 55. Being considered individually individually 56.

56. Raised Raised speaking speaking platform platform

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42. Pitressin Pitressin 43.

43. A A tropical tropical constrictor constrictor 44.

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012

REAL ESTATE 6002

Agents

6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-30

Are you looking to make a move this year?

Contact Sarah Dennis 778-896-0619

for a free Market Analysis on your home + Receive a free Report outlining 5 things to do before you sell your home!

www.saradennis.ca denniss@sutton.com 778-896-0619

Real Estate Services

6005

ADAM LLOYD 604.526.2888 Re/Max Advantage Realty Buy or Sell with Me and Use My Truck for Free! www.AdamLloyd.ca adamlloyd@remax.net

Sun April 22, 2pm to 4pm #412-10082 132nd St, Surrey Top floor, bright, open concept, 2 BR & 2 full baths, reno’d, w/d, Walk to amens/transit. $249,000.

Mala, Sutton 778-859-4458

ED GOSS Park Georgia Realty

Serving you for 28 years www.edgoss.com Call 604-644-0141

For Sale by Owner

6015

uSELLaHOME.com

673 Homes 62 businesses FSBO Sell your home, only $99. 604-574-5243 Sry Centre ground level 1500sf 2br 2ba 45+ tnhouse $254,900 868-7716 id5516 Sry Fleetwood immaculate 1785sf 3br 2.5ba tnhouse $419,900 507-8186 id5525 S. Sry beautifully updated 976sf 2br 2ba +55 condo $208K 542-0233 id5527

THOM CREEK Ranch - House for Sale By Owner. In Chilliwack’s premier retirement complex. 2090 sq ft finished plus 294 unfinished ready to model. In the top row with superb, unspoilable views of the City, mountains and way beyond.

Excellent Clubhouse. Friendly neighbours $440,000 negotiable.

No HST. 604-824-1892

6020 SELLING /BUYING

Surrey

Houses - Sale

6020-01

Real Estate

★ WE BUY HOMES ★ Damaged Homes! Pretty Homes!

Any Condition! No Fees! No Risk!

Quick Cash! Convenient! Private! ( 604) 657-9422 www.webuyhomesbc.com

❏WE BUY HOMES❏

Any Price, Any Location Any Condition. No Fees! No Risk!

ROGER BASI Interested In Selling Your Home?

Lets Talk!!! Remax Award Winner 100% Club. Certified in Feng Shui Home Stager. List and Sell your home with me & receive $500.00 towards moving costs.

Cell: (604) 618-2820 www.rogerbasi.com

6007

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

NANAIMO BUSINESSES For Sale. Candy store with great volume $149,900; Bagel shop kitchen equipment $75,000; Other businesses too; 1-800-779-4966; 1-250-802-3650; Rob Boyle, Coast Realty Group; www.HomeAndLife.ca

6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-06

Chilliwack

604-435-5555 / 604-786-4663 www.HomeBuyingCenter.ca

New Westminster

N. WEST: 2 BR, Sunny west exp, inste W/D + 4 appls, F/P, sec prkg, locker. Rentals/Pets OK. Near skytrain/transit. $215,500.

HIRA • Sutton• 604-318-9474

6008-22

North Vancouver

N. VAN: Townhouse; 5 BR, 1800sf, $479,900. Condo’s: 1 BR ocean view, concrete $344,900.

1 BR, 680sf, updated $238,900.

1 BR, 7 appls, 4 yr new $309,900.

HIRA • Sutton• 604-318-9474

6008-30

Surrey

Houses - Sale

6020-22

6020-14

7243 199 Street, Langley Beautiful 4 BR family home with legal bsmt ste, central location, $629,000. Sutton West Coast RUPE MANN 778 240-7914

6020-18

Maple Ridge/ Pitt Mead.

QUEENS PARK Heritage Home, 5 bdrms + family room, updated bthrms, custom kitchen + eating area, lrg living & dining, wood flrs thru out, 2 fireplaces, full bsmt, new roof & eaves, newer paint, garage & carport, lane access, 44 x 137 lot. $948,000. 410 5th St. Martin 604-220-2129

6020-30

Port Moody

3BDRM/2.5BTH 3875 Bedwell Bay Road, Waterfront Access, 1/4 dock share $999,000 Call: (604) 328-8127 email: taracaldwell@remax.net

6020-34

Surrey

HOUSE ON 1/2 acre lot, rented, future developement, good investment. $695K 604-324-0655

Mission

Fabulous Summer Home Terrific Retirement Home Country Bed & Breakfast $537,500 USD * 2,750 sqft./ on .95 acres* * 4 Bedrooms * 3.25 Bathrooms * Oversized 2 Car Garage * Carport & Outbuilding * Drive onto Beautiful Samish Island, just North of Anacortes, Wa., to this custom Craftsman home with 25 feet of waterfront with adjacent road access. Park like setting. Two level exotic wood deck with views of Padilla Bay. Master with high ceilings, walk in closet, attached bath and solid Carerra marble surfaces.

Bonus room upstairs. Extensive hardwoods, solid fir doors, walkin pantry, plenty of indoor storage, maple cabinets.

For more information pls call:

604-724-7652

Fila/Mastiff Guard Dog Pups owners closest friend. Thieves worst nightmare. All shots. Ready now! 604-817-5957 LABRADOODLES creams & choc’s, vet checked, dewormed, reg’s parents. $650. 604-845-4951

6020-52

Other Areas BC

NANAIMO HOME FOR SALE 351 Woodhaven Dr; wonderful lake view; 3900 sq. ft. $498,000 Other homes also available.

1-800-779-4966; 1-250-802-3650; Rob Boyle, Coast Realty Group; www.HomeAndLife.ca

Mobile Homes

− Great Location & Quiet − LANGLEY / BROOKSWOOD 2 BR single mobile, OWN lot, storage shed, 55 + Park. Pet OK. RV Parking. Maint fee $100/mo. $131,900. Agents ok. Open to Offer. By OWNER. 604-309-5974

Sat Apr 28, 1-3pm, #18- 4426- 232nd St, Langley.

Seniors Park, privacy lots of trees, newly renod 2 BR double wide, storage, large decks, air cond. 10 mins from major shopping. $46,900. 604-534-2997

6040

1-(360)395-5525. bubba@wavecable.com

Recreation Property

SHIH TZU: non sheds, Hypoallergenic, $450. Ph 1-604-861-1477 or 1-604-793-3870 - Chilliwack

MEXICAN Male Chihuahua Puppy. Sweet and playful. $600.

Call: (604) 707-0314 or email cathalynn@shaw.ca

CHOCOLATE LAB Puppies Born March 15 /12.

Both parents on site to view & CKC Reg’d. www.vancouverlabs.com Call: (778) 891-4556

Pet Services

PET’S STAIN & SCRATCH on Wood, Granite, Stone, Grout?

Call FIN Wood Stone Tile CARE 778-889-7106, member BBB A+

Cares!

3/4 ACRE lot on Fraser River, 8 km outside Lillooet on highway 12. Beautiful view with 90 ft. of river frontage. Drilled well. Build your dream home or cottage. 3.5 hrs from Vancouver. $89,000.

Mark Rawson, Re/Max Sea to Sky R.E. Lillooet. 250-256-1898.

CULTUS LAKE beautiful year round RV site grt location, low fees, all ament., $117,500. 1-604-795-9785

604-630-3300 604-998-0218

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Exclusive & Private Lake Shore Cottage, for all info: www.cottageonlake.ca $329,000 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

The Vancouver Courier has partnered with the BC SPCA to encourage responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals. Before purchasing a new puppy, ensure the seller has provided excellent care and treatment of the animal and the breeding parents. For a complete guide to finding a reputable breeder and other considerations when acquiring a new pet, visit spca.bc.ca.

4060

Metaphysical

TRUE ADVICE! TRUE Clarity!

TRUE PSYCHICS!1-877-3423032 or 1-900-528-6256 or mobile # 4486 (18+) $3.19/min. www.truepsychics.ca

GARAGE SALE

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300 GETAWAY ON GALIANO ISLAND (Lt.27 Stewart Rd).

Completely furnished home & cabin on .9 acre w/private beach, deep water mourage, $999,000.

604-802-8711. View website for more info, photos & virtual tour: www.yourlinktorealestate.ca

6075

RENTALS

6540

Houses - Rent

STOP RENTING-RENT TO OWN ● No Qualification - Low Down ● CHILLIWACK - 9557 Williams, 3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on

Sunshine Coast

49’x171’lot, Exc investment. $888/M

LANGLEY - 4 - 20159 68th Ave, TOWNHOUSE, 3bd, bright, quiet, family end unit, garage...$1,488/M Call Kristen today (604)786-4663 www.HomeBuyingCenter.ca

MUST SELL!!! $217,000. 200ft ocean front. Hardy Island, 10 acres, sheltered bay, deep moorage, drilled well, septic approved, 5 min ot BC Ferry term, prop/fuel delivery, cell/internet, reasonable offers only. Call Rick 604-582-6907 or 604-230-8117

6082

Warehouse

WHISTLER (Function Junction) 1150 sq ft., bathroom, bay door, mezzanine. 5 yrs old. Sell by owner $225k or lease $1200./mo 604-817-8140 darenmarcoux@gmail.com

VICTORIA/E 53RD AVE, 5 br older renod clean & cozy house, hardwood flrs, close to all amen, all appls, $2175. 604-325-8857

Clutter Taking Over?

21

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GARAGE SALE AD 3 lines in print 1 online ad, 5 photos, many lines Garage Sale Kit

Includes one 3 line guaranteed classified ad for items you didn’t sell!

Give us a call: 604.630.3300 Or place online: vancourier.com EXCEPTIONAL LAKEVIEW Lots from $140,000. Nice trees.

No time limit to build. Owner wants to retire. Will carry financing.

Also: 1 spectacular 3 acre parcel $390,000. 1-250-558-7888 www.orlandoprojects.com

POMERANIANS 5 WEEKS Shots included. Born March 15. $800. (778) 867-7802

MIN PIN red male, shots, puppy package, 8 weeks, very smart, cute, cuddly. $650. 604-719-4404

Okanagen/ Interior

10 ACRES OF OKANAGAN VIEW PROPERTY FOR SALE There are several suitable building sites on the property with spectacular views of city of Penticton, and both Lakes. Power at lot line and only 10 minutes from the full service Hospital. This beautiful property is being sold by the owner at only $299,000.

Contact: donaclair11@gmail.com for further details, or call 250-493-5737.

Dogs

SAVE A LIFE. Wonderful rescue dogs from Foreclosed Upon Pets. Spay/neutered, regular vaccinations & rabies, microchipped. $449 adoption fee, avail at your local Petcetera stores.

3540

9418 Marshall Rd, Bow, WA

MISSION MULTI family 10 legal rental homes on 6.5 acres, with $92,000 net income. $1,099,000 www.saxvik.com 604-838-8692

604-630-3300

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

St. Bernese Puppies Gorgeous mix of St Bernard (dry mouth) and Bernese Mountain dog. Pups will be ready mid May. Striking markings. Call now to reserve your favorite Call: (604) 7960116 email: s.klass@telus.net

Robert & Nancy Chaney, (for sale by owners)

6065

3508

Cats BASSET HOUND Puppies 1st.

Shots and De-Wormed. Born Feb.10. Have Parents. $500.

Phone 604-820-0629 Mission.

One call does it all...

Sat April 21, 2pm to 4pm 7837 120A St, Surrey Unit 123: 2BR, 2bath, $265,000.

Unit 222: 3 BR, 2bath, $297,900.

Reno’d T/H’s close to all amens.

Mala, Sutton 778-859-4458

3507

WANTED We Buy Homes & Town Homes anywhere in the Lower Mainland.

NO real estate commission.

Call Inna @ 778-858-8825

DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL (Maple Ridge) 5 acres w/ no water course owner occupied 2 storey home in Thornhill’s designated Urban Reserve, $1,550,000.

No real estate commission.

Call Inna @ 778-858-8825

6020-20

Out Of Town Property

New Westminster

www.bcforeclosures.com 5 BR home from $23,500 down $2,235/mo. 604-538-8888, Alain @ Sutton WC Realty W. Rock

Langley/ Aldergrove

6050

Dogs

BENGAL KITTENS, vet ✔ 1st shots dewormed, sweet natured, $600 Mission 1-604-814-1235

6035

1 BDRM Condo in Chwk, 780sf, 55+ bldg, $88,000. (furnished) 604-219-8485 or 604-583-2510

6008-18

6020

3508

Call Today to Place Your Ad in

MARKETPLACE

604-630-3300

WE GUARANTEE IT!

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR + den glvl ste, Victoria/ Prestwick Dr, hardwood flrs, fp, NS/NP, $850/mo incls hydro, avail May 1, 604-325-7991 2 BR laneway house, $1200 + utils, 2657 East 8th, also 2 br ste Apr 15th, $900 incl utils, ns np, 1 br ste $800 incl util 604-537-4276 5725 HOLLAND St. 3 bdrm, 2 ba, w/d, parking, Avail now, no pets, n/s, $2300 nr UBC 778-706-2595 LARGE BACH grnd lvl, nr Granville/Oak, Marpole shops, own entry, ns np, no subletting $800 incl utils except phone, avail now 604-263-3368 VAN W 64th/Heather, Clean spacious 2 BR bsmt, 1000sf, ns/np, May 6, nr bus/skytrn, $1000 includes utils, 604-327-1106

Find your perfect home at

househunting.ca

5005

Accounting/ Bookkeeping

Roger Chung, CGA Tax, bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, acct systems. #221 - 515 West Pender www.rogerchung.com 604 628-1960

5035

Financial Services

Looking for business, personal or title loan?

Now get up to $1.5m business or personal loan, with interest rate starting from 1.9% bad credit welcome!

Call now to apply 1-866 642-1867 www.exapplication.com

5040

Business Opps/ Franchises

A Great Janitorial Franchise Opportunity

*Annual starting revenue of $12,000-$120,000 *Guaranteed cleaning contracts *Professional training provided *Financing available *Ongoing support *Low down payment required Contact Coverall of BC A Respected Worldwide Leader in Franchised Office Cleaning!

604.434.7744 • info@coverallbc.com

www.coverall.com

5060

Legal Services

CRIMINAL RECORD? Money-back guarantee.

100,000+ Record Removals since 1989. A+ BBB Rating. Only $45.50/month - Assures EMPLOYMENT & TRAVEL FREEDOM. Call for FREE INFO BOOKLET - 1-8-NOW-PARDON (1-866-972-7366) www.RemoveYourRecord.com

HOME SERVICES 8025

Body Work

ESCAPE SPA New Arrival!

Cabinet Making

CUSTOM Kitchens & Bath purpleheartkitchens.com 604 818-7787

8030

Carpentry

CARPENTER AVAIL for general work, clean & fast service. 40 yrs exp. 604-961-5906 or 732-0533.

8055

Cleaning

A QUALITY CLEANING -7 days/ wk res/comm, senior discount low rate 778-998-9127 778-239-9609

CLEANING SERVICE. Reas rates, specializing in homes. Guar work. Refs avail. 604-715-4706

EZ CLEANING. Bonded/insured. $20/hour. Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby/N. West. 604-505-0108

8060

Concrete

LOTUS RELAXATION

Come Enjoy the Best!

9916 Lougheed Hwy., Bby. 604-421-5161 #104/204, 8364 Young Rd., Chilliwack 604-795-2230 We Are Now Hiring **RELIEVE ROAD RAGE**

604-739-3998

Try the Best 604-872-1702

HOME SERVICES Find the professionals you need to create the perfect renovation. to advertise call

604-630-3300

Fencing/Gates

West Coast Cedar Installations New or repaired outdoor cedar ★ specialists since 1991 ★ 604-270-2358 or 604-788-6458

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

ART of HARDWOOD FLOORS Installation • Refinishing • Repairs Dust Free • 604-240-3344

8160

Lawn & Garden

Spring Services

Same Day Service, Fully Insured

FREE ESTIMATES

• Lawn Maintenance • Fertilizing • Yard Clean-ups • Aeration • Pruning/Hedges • Power Raking • Rubbish Removal • Odd jobs •Yearly Maintenance Programs •

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944 CELTIC HARDWOOD FLOORS Installations & refinishing. Quality work. Reas rates. 604-293-0057 INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

8125

Gutters

AT YOUR HOME GUTTERS Van division. Installs, cleaning, repairs WCB Insured 604-340-7189

310-JIMS (5467) BOOK A JOB AT

www.jimsmowing.ca

West-side Lawn & Garden ● Lawn Cutting ● Gardening ● Landscaping

604-261-9697 Est 29 yrs

Concrete Specialist. Garages, sidewalks, exposed aggregate & patios. Santino 604.254.5551

EXPERT PRUNING Cert Arb Ornamental & fruit trees, shrubs,etc Colin Malcolm. 604-618-9741

CONCRETE SPECIALIST, patio sidewalk, driveway, exposed aggregate reas rate 604-764-2726

Waters Home Maintenance Gutter Cleaning, repairs, windows Free estimate 604-738-6606

★GARDEN SERVICES★ Lawncutting & Maintenance Call 604-726-9741

8073

Drainage

8130

Handyperson

Cameron 604-709-6230

Discount Sales / Parts + Service

* Hydro Flushing * Perimeter Drainage * Field/Yard Drainage * Sumps/Catch Basins * Foundation Crack Repairs * Compact Excavtor Services Vancouver 604-879-1415 Richmond 604-244-0220 info@hillcrestplumbing.com

Since 1989

LAWN/GARDEN CARE Mowing, hedge trimming, installation, maint & design. 604-928-4090

732-8453

LAWNS CUT Mowing, trimming & small pruning jobs. Call Andrew 604-708-1152

RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.

Drywall

PATCHING, TEXTURE / smooth ceilings, plaster walls. Small jobs.

25 years exp. Call 604-671-9901

8080

Electrical

#1 A-CERTIFIED Lic. Electrician.

New or old wiring. Reasonable rates. Lic #11967. 604-879-9394

CABINETRY, countertops, bath, kitchen, plumbing, flooring, painting, etc. Call Mic, 604-725-3127 DUSTTIN’S HANDYMAN Service All jobs Large and Small.

Competitive Rates 604-562-5711 THE HANDYMAN CAN Renos, Roofing, Repairs.

Prompt friendly service.

Free Est. Sr.Disc. 604-340-4633

8140 # 1167 LIC. $25 service charge.

Bonded. BBB, lrg & sm jobs, expert trouble shooter. 617-1774

Heating

Lorenzo & Son Plumbing & Heating (604) 312-6311 Local , lice’d plumbers & gas fitters.

A. LIC. ELECTRICIAN #19807 Semi-retired wants small jobs only.

604-689-1747, pgr 604-686-2319

8150

A Lic’d. Electrician #30582.

Rewiring & Reno, Appliance/ Plumbing. Rotor Rooter and Hydro Pressure Jetting Service, 778-998-9026 or 604-255-9026 Free Est / 24/7

Plywood Kitchen Cabinets & Refacing, Counter Tops • In business 50 years 604-879-9191

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Exp, friendly, reliable. Specializing in replacing old nob & tube wiring. Lic.#50084. 604-725-4535 LIC. ELECTRICIAN #37309 Commercial & residential renos & small jobs. 778-322-0934.

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402.

Fast same day service guar’d. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

8087

Excavating

# 1 BACKHOE, EXCAVATOR & BOBCAT

one mini, drainage, landscaping, stump / rock / cement / oil tank removal.

Water / sewer line, 24 hours Call 341-4446 or 254-6865

8090

Gardening Services 21 yrs exp.

Tree topping, West & Eastside & Rmd. Michael 604-240-2881

JUST LAWNCUTS

Hillcrest Plumbing + Heating

Thai, Philippine, Korean, Japanese.

Package & Duo. Hotel Service avail.

Qualified Massage, Excellent Service 604-569-1858 (in/out) 7 Days • 10am - 10pm DOWNTOWN MASSAGE

8090

CITYWIDE GUTTERS Continuous gutter installs, leaf protection, new & renos. BBB, Ins.WCB. 604-868-1373 citywidegutters.com

8075 7005

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

Fencing/Gates

S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING

Factory Direct Cedar Fence Panel for Sale & Installation 8291 No.5 Rd Richmond Call 604-275-3158 DECKS & FENCES, gates, front steps etc. John 778-998-5591 tarasoffconstruction.com

LAWNS MOWED, gardening, yard clean-up, power raking, aerating, hedges, gutters, rubbish.

Seniors’ discount! 604-773-0075 Ny Ton Gardening yard & lawn maint. trimming, shrubs, hedging, power raking etc. 604-782-5288 Power rake/aerate/lawn mow/ clean-up/garden/hedge/trim/ prune. Qual low $. 778-241-9706 ★ SD ENTERPRISES ★ Gardening, power raking, lawncare, landscaping, pruning, cedar fencing. Call Terry, 604-726-1931

Kitchens/Baths

Superior Cove Tops & Cabinets

Moving & Storage

8185

8175

Masonry

8155

Landscaping

MASONRY and REPAIRS •Stone Walls •Bricks •Chimneys •Slate Patio/Sidewalk •Fireplaces All Concrete Work + more. Senior discount. George • 604-365-7672

8185 Able Boys Landscaping Ltd. bobcat, turf, cedar fence, paving stones, ashphalt 604-377-3107 Greenworx Redevelopment Inc. Hedges, Pavers, Ponds & Walls, Returfing, Demos, Drainage, Jackhammering. Old Pools Filled in, irrigation. 604.782.4322

8160

Lawn & Garden

Tran Gardening & Landscape New lawns & maintenance, Power raking, Aerating, Trimming, Pruning, Weeding, Weeding, Cleanups, and Garden maintenance

Reliable - 604.723.2468

Akasha Turf Grass Mngt complete lawn restoration, aeration & fert. Res/Comm. $79. 526-6305 AVANTI GARDEN SERVICES Design/build, mtce, veg gardens, raised beds. Laura 604-264-0775

Moving & Storage

AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men

1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 Ton $ From

45

We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac

8193

Oil Tank Removal

FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

For Free Estimates Call

Off: 604-266-2120 Cell: 604-290-8592 Serving West Side since 1987

TANKTECH Certified Oil Tank Removal & Remediation Specialists. res/com. Free est. 604-328-1234

Painting/ Wallpaper

8195

ALLQUEST PAINTING Quality Work You Can Trust!

Interior & Exterior ★ UNBEATABLE PRICES ★ Free Est. / Written Guarantee

• Complete Renovations • Plumbing • Electrical • Master Carpenter • Painting • Wallpapering • Kitchen/Bathroom designer & installer • Floors • Ceramic • Tiles • Drywall 25 yrs. exp. $35/hr

— Mark —

Cell: 778-889-9918

Certified Plumber & Gas Fitter * Reno’s & Repairs 24 hrs/day * Furnaces * Boilers * Hot Water Heating * Reasonable Rates * Hot Water Tanks

604-731-2443

Fully Insured 20 years experience Call 604Free Estimates

7291234 INTERVAN PAINTING INTERIOR & EXTERIOR SPECIALS

Painting Contractor Residential / Commercial

• New Construction • Re-paint Interior / Exterior We Provide the High-End Quality!

WCB Insured • Free Estimates Call Henry

778-288-4560

Andrew’s Painting & Wallpaper 25yrs exp. WCB/Ins. Refs Free Est, Reas. Rates! 604-785-5651

Jean-Guy 604-626-1975

Exterior / Interior Painting.

Power washing. Good prices.

Free ests. PETER 604 812 8900

MAGIC PAINTING 604-315-7070 We do it right the first time.

30 years exp, references avail.

PROFILE CUSTOM PAINTING Int/Ext Res/Comm, power washing, ins, free ests. Reasonable Qlty Guaranteed, Handyperson small jobs. Leo 778-829-4414 ★ STAFFORD & SON ★ Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.

Reasonable rates. 604-221-4900

8200

Patios/Decks/ Railings

FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS Additions ★ Renovations Concrete Forming ★ Decks Garages ★ Bathrooms Ceramic Tile ★ Drywall Hardwood Flooring ''Satisfaction Guaranteed''

NORM, 604-466-9733 Cell: 604-841-1855

Actual Plumbing & Heating ★ 24/7★

Seniors & Military Disc.

Licensed & Insured, BBB We accept Visa, MC, Amex

604-874-4808

Drain Cleaning & Plumbing Maintenance, Restorations & Reno’s. Free Est. 604-839-5353 GLOBAL PLUMBING BBB+ Lic. Plumber/Gas fitter, $68/hr,

24/7. 604-987-7473, 604-721-6075.

HOME ADVANTAGE Contracting Ltd

Residential & Commercial Renovations licensed - Insured - WCB

For Free Estimates Call Ryan 778.809.6677 homeadvantagecontracting@gmail.com

Since 1989

RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.

732-8453

SAVE ON PLUMBING Licensed Plumber/Gas fitter, $65/HR. Same

day service. 604-987-7473 Samy

8225

Power Washing

POWERWASHING - Spring Special Affordahomeservices.ca Call Tyler 778-386-3783

ALL JOBS WELCOME! •Kitchen & Bath • Crown Moldings •Drywall •Painting •Flooring 778-858-2665 or 604-771-2201

RENOVATION ADS continued on next page

LEGALS 5505

Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

Re: The estate of JOAN WILMINGTON TAYLOR, deceased, formerly of 1003 West 33rd Avenue, Vancouver, B.C., V6M 1A1.

Creditors and others having claims against the estate of JOAN WILMINGTON TAYLOR are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to RONALD TAMBLYN, Trustee, c/o Adrian & Co., Barristers & Solicitors, 5660 Yew Street, Vancouver, BC V6M 3Y3 on or before June 30, 2012, after which date the Administrator will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Administrator then has notice.

To advertise call

604-630-3300

5505

Legal/Public Notices

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS NOTICE is hereby given that Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of MILDRED PAULINE HOLGATE, Deceased, late of Suite 605 4101 Yew Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, who died on the 15th day of March, 2012, are hereby required to send them to the undersigned Executors, on or before the 25th day of May, 2012, after after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to claims that have been received.

BMO Trust Company Patricia Louise Ratchford Executors 595 Burrard St, 9th Floor, P.O. 49500 Vancouver, B.C., V7X 1L7 Tel: 604-668-1350 Fax: 604-665-7461

Neighbourhood Consultation Operations Management Plan for 1601 West 7th Ave.

www.affordablemoversbc.com

604-708-8850

ACE OF TRADES

FAIRWAY PAINTING

Seniors Discount

NAHANEE MOVING.COM Family Owned. Evening moves available. Bonded, Insured. Non Smoking, Free Est. 604-782-3973

604-312-6311

Insured/WCB

778-997-9582

604-537-4140

Over 10 yrs. Exp. • Licenced & Insured • Professional Piano Movers

Renovations & Home Improvement

Licensed, Insured & Bonded Lic. Plumbers & Gas Fitters Over 20 years Experience Custom Renovations to Small Repairs

★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com

FREE ESTIMATES

Experienced Movers ~ 2 Men $55 ~

• • • •

• Oil Tank Removal • Work complies with city bylaws • Always fair & BC Mainland reasonable rates • Excellent references

Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance

B&Y MOVING

8240

BROTHERS MOVING & Delivery Local & Long Distance 604-720-0931 Best rates. brothersmovingservice.com

#3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby REVISION CUSTOM Home Renos. Kitchens, Baths, Bsmts Award Winner. 604-835-4033

Plumbing

$35/HOUR PER PERSON • 24/7 Abe Moving & Delivery and Rubbish Removal. 604-999-6020

CONFIDENT PAINTING LTD Int/Ext Specialist 20 yr exp. Reas rates, quality. Licensed, Ins, WCB Gardening & Lawn Services maintenance, pruning, silent lawn care. Greg 604-440-9502

8220

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• Sunrooms • Aluminum patio/deck covers • Aluminum roof • Glass railings • Aluminum fencing • Auto gates Free Estimates 604-521-2688

www.PatioCoverVancouver.com

8205

Paving/Seal Coating

ALLEN ASPHALT concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187

Meetings are scheduled to review a draft OMP for the supportive housing and resource centre project.

Location: Grace Vancouver Church, 1696 West 7th Ave. Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Agenda: Thursday, April 26 • Program Support and Methodology • Staffing and Support Services • Programs • Safety and Security Thursday, May 3 • Good Neighbour Practices • Neighbourhood Relations • 24 Hour emergency response • Evaluation Thursday, May 10 • Community Advisory Committee (Terms of Reference, selection process) Thursday, May 24 • Review of updated draft OMP

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HOME SERVICES AUTOMOTIVE Renovations

cont. from previous page

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

Actual Plumbing & Heating, 24/7, Seniors/Military Disc. Lic. & Insured BBB, 604-874-4808 ALLQUEST PAINTING Quality Work You Can Trust!

778 997-9582 ALMA Building & Renovations New Homes, Renovations, Kitchen, Bath, Basement, Laneway, Res/Comm ★604-880-1120 Alma-BuildingAndRenovations.com

Bathroom & Kitchen Reno’s ★ FREE ESTIMATES★ 604-839-5353 ★ BATHROOM SPECIALIST★ Tiles, tub, vanity, plumbing, paint framing. From start to finish. Over 20 yrs exp. Peter 604-715-0030 Complete Bathroom Reno’s Suites, Kitchens,Tiling, Skylights, Windows, Doors. 604-521-1567 DANICO CONSTRUCTION LTD. All kinds of renos, additions, bsmts, kitchens & bath, hardwood flrs.Finish carpentry specialists.

Over 20 yrs exp. 604-313-8050

8250

NO JOB TOO SMALL! Licensed prof. carpenter. 25 yrs exp. Reas. rates. Friendly svc. 604-782-6959

9110

Collectibles & Classics

A Eastwest Roofing & Siding Re-roofing, Gutter, Free Est, BBB Member, 10% disc, Seniors Disc, 604-812-9721, 604-783-6437

Canam Roofing 778-881-1417 Residential roofing, new, reroofing & repairs. Peace of mind warranty. www.canamroofing.ca Crown Roofing & Drainage Residental Div. Roofing installations & repairs. 1-877-602-7346

1966 CHEV PU V8 – 4 spd. collector plates, interior like new. $6,500 604-796-2866

1968 THUNDERBIRD 429 quadra jet, 2 dr cpe, reblt mtr, new brakes &lines & paint, $9,500 604-376-8363

1969 FORD Falcon Futura 302 auto, fully restored, immac paint & body, numerous high performance options. $13,500. Photos at www.photobucket.com/69falcon Call 604-307-0201

Samra Bros. Roofing Ltd. 40 yrs+ Cedar / Fiberglass / Torch On Free Estimates. 604-946-4333 ROOF LEAKS? Have your roof checked.

Free est. 604-738-6606

SAVE on ROOFING Ltd Reroofing / Repair / New Roof Fully Ins. WCB. 10% disc, Work Gtd, Free Est. 778-319-5001

8255

Sundecks & Stairs Form work, Int/Ext finishing.

Mike 604-290-3082

8250

Roofing

Jack’s Rubbish Best Price Guaranteed Fully Insured

$35/HOUR PER PERSON • 24/7 Abe Moving & Delivery and Rubbish Removal. 604-999-6020

Call for your free estimate now

'Haul anything...but dead bodies!!'

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604-984-6560

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POINT GREY ROOFING LTD. Established 1946

•• Cedar Cedar Shakes Shakes •• Flat Flat Roofing Roofing • Asphalt Shingles Asphalt Shingles ••Roof Maintenance

• Roof Maintenance

★ NO HST ★

604-379-2641

604-379-2641

FRASERVIEW COAST TO COAST ROOFING LTD. ROOFING 15 Years Experience RE-ROOF & REPAIR SPECIALIST ~ No Job Too Small ~

Luxury Cars

1987 ROLLS Royce S. Spirit Beautiful cond. 96k, all records, local Carter car, 24yrs one owner. $26,500 obo 604-644-6061.

220-JUNK (5865)

604-

JACK’S RUBBISH Removal Friendly, Fast & Cheap 604-266-4444

RUBBISH REMOVAL Reasonable rates - Free Est. Pat 604-224-2112, anytime

RUBBISH REMOVAL Reasonable Rates, Free Est. Call Gary 604-897-3614

1990 BENTLEY Mulsane 4 Dr Sedan, leather upholstery. Like New. ONLY 42,000 kms, $25,000 obo. Lgly. Ralph 778-988-2055

1999 BENTLEY Arnage Stunning sapphire on cream interior. Quick 4.4L twin turbo. Non smoker, No accidents. Mint. Looks new! $54,900. Call 604-889-2525

Tree Services

MAGNOLIA TREE Service & Landscape, fence install, yard reno’s, excavating, irrigation 604-214-0661

1981 LINCOLN Town car, signature series, stock, collector plates, $5000 obo 604-792-6367

9125

Domestic

2003 CHEVY Cavalier. Only 59,600 kms!! 2 door, 5spd, 2.2L ecotech engine; runs perfect! Has remote start and CD player. Very clean car - inside & out. Excellent on gas and very reliable! Aircared with no accidents. Asking $5300 obo. 604-999-4098 1995 FORD Mustang convertible, new top, Aircared, V6, auto, good cond $3200. 604-984-7574

1995 FERRARI F355 GTB. Meticulously cared for. Canadian car. Recent full engine out service, new clutch and release bearing, Tubi exhaust, Hyperflow cats, wheel spacers. Drives and looks perfect! A must see! $54,900. Call 778-834-6069

8335

Gary, 604-897-3614

2001 CHEV cavalier, 2dr auto, low k, clean, reliable, best offer, must sell, Sth Van 604-828-7474

2005 ASTON Martin DB9. 'James Bond style car!' Silver metallic.

23,000 km. 6.0, V12, 450 hp. New tires. 1 owner. You deserve the best! $87,980. 604-781-7614.

2007 BMW 525I, black, loaded, leather, sunroof, very clean, 122K, $24,900. 604-999-4097

9130

Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

Visit us online to receive a special discount:

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Boats

9522

RV’s/Trailers

1996 ITASCA Class A M/H 28ft, new awning, exc cond. 100,000 kms. $16,000 obo. 604-574-3141 1997 WILDERNESS 22ft, good cond, sleeps 5, fridge/freezer. $5,500 obo. Tony 604-464-1072

2005 AUDI S4. Quattro (AWD).

102,000 km. Blk leather. Incl 2 set of wheels & tires. 6 speed. Power everything! Exc cond. $19,500.

Call/text Rick @ 778-847-2975.

2006 HYUNDAI TIBURON SE. 103K km. Leather, mint, sunroof, a/c, CD, alarm. 2.0 L, 4 cyl. No accid. $10,900. 604-839-6253

2000 FORD Travelaire Mtrhome Superduty, 25ft, 125,000kms, exc cond, $16,000obo. 604-531-2109 2008 SPORTSMEN 28’ 5th wheel, all equip’d, spotless. Reduced $19,900. 604-230-2728

27’ CLASS C Fleetwood Jamboree RV sleeps 6,fully equipped. A-1 cond runs great. $15,000 obo. 604-947-9214

2000 FORD Explorer 4x4, fully loaded, 150K, exc cond, white, air cared. $3,750. 604-218-8499

2009 DODGE p/u 150 hemi SLT, loaded, matching canopy, rhino lined, show room cond. 8,000 org km ’s, $25,000. 1-604-613-3727 1-604-796-9060

2006 VW Golf 4-door, 2.0L auto, 77,000 km, books/records, as new. $10,800. 604-987-3876.

D24627

9160

2010 KAWASAKI Vulcan 900 custom, 5200km, mint, extras, wrty. $7000, 604 556-8862

Scrap Car Removal

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle Removal Ask about $500 Credit!!! $$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200

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Sports & Imports

2002 GMC Adventurer. Great camping with snowbird option! 106,000 kms Excellent 20’ motorhome. Sleeps 4, with oven, microwave, fridge & new stereo system. Low km, little used. $20,000. (604) 833-4537

1994 PONTIAC Trans Am GT red with grey int., well maint., lady driven $4800. Serious inquires 1992 SAAB 9000, 4 cyl, auto, only. Ph 604-997-2583 loaded, runs great, affordable luxry, $2400, obo, 604-984-4490

2H

E

ROAD RANGER 5TH WHEEL 24 FT. Rear bath, queen bed, new tires. New cond. $11,950.

Call: (604) 325-7871 or email: glendoro@telus.net

9525

1992 SAAB 9000, 4 cyl, auto, loaded, runs great, affordable luxry, $2400, obo, 604-984-4490

RV/Camper Rentals

2008 HONDA Civic, 4 dr, silver, auto, 60,000kms, excl cond, fully loaded, $11,500. 604 518-3166 2011 HYUNDAI ACCENT GL 4 dr, loaded. 25,500 km. $11,795.

Exc cond. 1-604-793-5520 (5961) 2011 HYUNDAI ACCENT GL 4 dr, loaded. 25,500 km. $11,795.

Exc cond. 1-604-793-5520 (5961)

1995 BMW 328I Convertible, 88,000kms, leather int, new tires/ brakes, $7,999. 604 536-4293 1995 MAZDA 626, 4 dr, 209K, good cond, a/cared to 2013, $1375 obo, 778-387-9034 (Rich) 1995 BMW 328I Convertible, 88,000kms, leather int, new tires/ brakes, $7,999. 604 536-4293

2007 Honda Accord Sdn Auto, 69,400kms, V6, sunroof, great condition, no accidents $16,990. (604) 603-4015

1995 MAZDA 626, 4 dr, 209K, good cond, a/cared to 2013, $1375 obo, 778-387-9034 (Rich)

9173

Vans

1995 SEA Breeze 31 (Class A) Fully equipped, exc. cond., tow car avail $22,500 obo 604-746-5898'

Which SUV sips gas like a subcompact?

1995 MERCEDES E320 Cabriolet Exc cond; local, 109K, NO accid. $15,800 Rare 778-773-1398

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2007 PT CRUISER. Hot deal!

Auto, low kms, very clean. Cream exterior, grey interior. A/C. Mag wheels. Spoiler. Aircared. Rear wiper. $6,795 obo. 778-242-2018

1995 MERCEDES E320 Cabriolet Exc cond; local, 109K, NO accid. $15,800 Rare 778-773-1398 1995 SUBARU Legacy wagon good run cond 242,000 k, s/roof, $2600. 604-985-8495 eves pls.

1985 DODGE tradesman van standup & walk in van, offers to $2,000. 604-985-5144 lve message pls.

1988 CHEV 20 work van, 3/4 ton, Aircared, original owner, good running order $2750 obo 604-986-2430 bberbea@shaw.ca

1995 SUBARU Legacy wagon good run cond 242,000 k, s/roof, $2600. 604-985-8495 eves pls.

1.877.602.7346

Vans

CHEVY UPLANDER 2005. V-6, auto, 7 pass., grey, A/C, power locks & windows, cruise, tilt, 93K km. Runs very well. $6,400.

604-241-2530 or 604-375-2570

9515

J & L Tri City Truck Services Ltd. 2320 Rogers Avenue Coquitlam.

Service & Repairs on all Makes of Heavy Duty Trucks & Trailers.

Licenced Mechanics 604 544-1115 or 778 836-2119

9155

9173

2002 WINDSTAR (Ford) 137 kms, good cond., $4300. 604-845-4766 after 4pm or all day wkends

2005 HUNTER 33 Sailboat, $95,900. Moored @ Point Roberts. Call Greg 778-686-5299 2003 MAZDA Prote´ge´ 5, 5 spd, 140K km, new water pump, timing belt & front wheel bearings, sunroof, pwr windows, locks, cruise, nice cond. $7,700.

778-227-2010

1994 PONTIAC Trans Am GT red with grey int., well maint., lady driven $4800. Serious inquires only. Ph 604-997-2583

THE SCRAPPER 2006 LINCOLN LS, 1 owner 26,000K, garage kept, immac, loaded, dark wine colour ext, blk leather int, $18,500 + HST. Call 604 584-4704 or 778 228-2721

1996 MAZDA Precidia MX-3, std, 181K, exc cond, air cared. $1650 obo. (Richmond) 778-881-6478

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Sports & Imports

2001 CORVETTE Z06 black on black, absolute mint cond, 55k.

Must sell! $32,000. 604-574-7629

TODAY'S PUZZLE ANSWERS Tried & True Since 1902

9160

Serious Inquiries only Call OWNER 604-612-5536 for further information.

2007 FORD Ranger XL, 90,000 km, seats 5, silver, 1 owner.

Asking $8500 obo. 778-896-2142

9145

Window Cleaning

WHITE ROSE Window Cleaning.

Inside and out. Gutters cleared and cleaned too! 604-274-0285

■ all equipment included ■ Ready to operate ■ Established business

2002 Toyota Sequoia Automatic 305,000 kms 1 owner, top condition, all records, new Michelins. $13,900 email: randyenomoto@gmail.com

STUDENT WORKS Disposal & Recycling. Trips start at $49.

John 778-288-8009 www.studentworksdisposal.com

8315

Services & Repairs

1990 GMC Suburban. 4 WD, underdrive, blue, well kept. New Bluetooth. $6,000. 604-584-0324

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9129

1997 PORSCHE 911 C2S Wide body. Silver on black. Last of the air cooled, hand built 911’s.

Tiptronic. Mint cond. Many extras!

117K km. $36,999. 604-630-2500

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www.BurrellAuto.com 3094 Westwood St, Port Coq 604 945-4999.

2925 Murray St, Port Moody 604 461-7995.

1996 BENTLEY, 1 owner, only 73,000 km, just serviced, collector plates, immac. $31,800.

604-987-3876. D#24627

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2008 CADILLAC Escalade EXT $39,888. (604) 626-4548 www.bypassautosales.ca #30576

1982 EXCALIBUR Phaeton Totally done! The best in North America. $69,000. 604-240-9098

Rubbish Removal

Disposal & Recycling

9150

Avail in North Vancouver ★ with DEALERS LICENSE ★

POINT GREY ROOFING Commercial/Residential Est. 1946 .. We do good work!!

Call 604-379-2641

REPAIRS & RENOVATIONS Electrical, plumbing, carpentry, all work to code. 27 yrs on West Side Call Greg 604-644-4554

Domestic

NORTH WEST ROOFING Re-Roofing & Repair. WCB & liability insur. Jag, 778-892-1530

RENOS: bath, kitchen, deck, basement, flooring, finishing www.fb.com/MycoConstruction Call: (604) 369-8877

Reno’s, Additions & New Construction Specialize in Concrete Forming/Framing. 604-218-3064

9125

AUTOMOTIVE Repair Shop

A Eastcan Roofing & Siding Ltd Re-Roof, Repair. Ins. WCB. BBB. 604-562-0957 or 604-961-0324

FAIRWAY PAINTING 604 729-1234 GET OUT YOUR LIST! We do all the fussy little jobs no one else wants to do. Workmanship & Satisfaction Guaranteed.

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2000 PONTIAC Montana, 7 pass, good cond, 138,000 km, $3,500 obo 604-987-2691

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Village people

Plenty to do, from parades to poetry!

Apr. 27 and Saturday, Apr. 28.

Friday is the first event day with free balloons available at many Kerrisdale businesses located between Maple and Larch Streets along West 41st Avenue. A roving band will delight passersby while the younger set gets some quality “facetime” with an artful face painter just outside of the RBC building.

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end out good vibes for sunny weather and spring into the new, warmer season with one of Vancouver’s longest traditions – Carnival Days in Kerrisdale Village.

Cheery and magnolia blossoms will scent the air and carpet the sidewalks as free entertainers amuse shoppers intent on some of the best sidewalk sale buys ever. All the festivities are set for the weekend of Friday,

And if balloon animals are your passion, look for Bell E. Buttons roving throughout the village along with Filletta Fish whose juggling skills have brought a smile to Kerrisdale patrons for many a season. As well, catch the soulful vibes of the Soul Survivors under the Clock between 12 noon and 4 pm - a Kerrisdale classic.

Saturday is the big event day when at 10 am the Kerrisdale Business Association kicks off things with

its annual community parade.

Marching bands, antique cars, pipe bands, mascots, service and athletic clubs join in with the area’s 57 Little League teams to kick off baseball season at Elm Park. Be sure to line up early along West 41st Avenue between Maple and Larch Streets to get a good view of the parade which starts at 10 am on Saturday, Apr. 28.

Also, visit TD Canada Trust and help paint a community mural while being filled-up with free lemonade dispensed from backpacks!

Back for its final year is a creative writing event, Pooch Poetry! Read an

original poem or song about your canine cutie and win the top prize – designation as Kerrisdale’s Top Dog -along with other doggie treats.

Dogs must accompany readers on a leash. Sign up at 12 noon at North Yew Street and West 41st Avenue.

Recitations will start at 12:30 pm. The poetry will be followed by one of Kerrisdale’s “fave” band, Faith & Desire.

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Arbutus Connection Band

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he focus on Saturday morning will be the parade, which will kick off promptly at 10 am from West 41st Avenue and Maple Street and continue to Elm Park at West 41st and Larch. After the parade is over, and while wandering the avenues of Kerrisdale this weekend, shoppers will also be able to savour additional musical treats in the form of on-the-street performances by some all-time favourites.

See the roster on page B4 for all the noise on street bands.

Kerrisdale Clothing Co.

Online, the official merchandise store, is having its grand opening.

Go to www.kerrisdalebaseball.com to order. You’ll support Kerrisdale Little League because 25 per cent of profits from the sale of sportswear and merchandise go back to the teams.

Shown: Women SS Flash Polo, 100% Breathable Polyester single jersey knit with snag resistant fabric, knitted collar with contrast tipping and logo.

Pets and Prose

Carnival Days is a family event, and no one is more a part of your family circle than your pet! Back this year is a creative writing event, Pooch Poetry! Read an original poem or song about your canine cutie and win the top prize – designation as Kerrisdale’s Top Dog - along with other doggie treats. Dogs must accompany readers on a leash. Sign up at 12 noon at North Yew Street and West 41st Avenue.

Recitations will start at 12:30 pm, and Kerrisdale’s Top Dog winner will be featured in next year’s Parade.

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Little League baseball On Saturday at 9:30 a.m., kids from the neighbourhood will take part in the Kerrisdale Parade. All teams meet in front of Kerrisdale Arena in full uniform; the teams include: Major A & Major B; Minor A & Minor B; Tee Ball; Blastball. The parade concludes at Elm Park, where kids, coaches and umpires alike, along with their families and other cheerleading sorts, will open the 2012 baseball season.

Kerrisdale Little League gives thanks to the wonderful organizations that sponsor their teams. All Little League families and residents in Kerrisdale are encouraged to support these businesses. Go to the website for a complete list.

Hills of Kerrisdale Kerrisdale Lumber Minervas Provident Security Odlum Brown

Kerrisdale Dairy Queen Orange Julius Pottinger Gaherty Secret Garden Tea Company

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etting ready for both spring spruce-up and summer entertaining takes time and inclination.

If you’re searching for some inspiration, head down to the venerable Kerrisdale Lumber Company at 6191 West Boulevard www.kerrisdalelumber.com; 604-2614274) where Reza Mofakham and his team have all your needs covered.

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Featuring an outstanding variety of indoor and outdoor living accessories, the whole family will enjoy visiting the store.

Benjamin Moore Paint (6111 W. Boulevard, www. benjaminmoore.ca; 604264-9255) is a recognized brand name, and is wellknown for great sales and service. It’s strolling distance

Farrow and Ball www. farrow-ball.com), is located inside Kerrisdale Heritage Paint and Paper (6131 W. Boulevard; 604-266-0022).

Farrow and Ball manufactures traditional paper and paint, reflecting historical British colours.

Kerrisdale Equipment (6103 W. Boulevard; www. kerrisdaleequipment. com; 604-266-8393) is a full service equipment rental store offering a broad range of tools and equipment.

Go online to order a free pocket-friendly catalogue – The Little Red Book!

West Side Window Coverings & Design - Located on W. 41st; see today’s Home & Garden for more on window décor.

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ome of Vancouver’s best shops give Kerrisdale as their address and no matter what your age or disposable income, there’s a store for you in Kerrisdale Village. From the best couture for baby to an oasis for your urban puppy, every age and taste can be accommodated in the more than 200 shops, all perfectly intermingled with coffee houses, eateries and galleries offering plenty of comfy downtime for the happy shopper.

And where else can the entire family meet for lunch after having found clothing stores for every single age and taste. Not to be forgotten are those businesses that make cocooning at home all the more cozy. In Kerrisdale Village you’ll discover stores that make staying home all the better with furnishings and flowers and all things decorative, from the best in landscape paintings to fresh floral masterpieces for the table.

And don’t forget Mother’s Day – coming up on May 13 – where you’ll want to get that perfect gift that shows Mom you really care.

Here are some shops that will help you splurge on mom:

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At NAOT, the shoes and handbags from Europe are of the finest leathers, some with designs you won’t find anywhere else. Combining comfort with impeccable style, it’s Naot your average shoe store!

Mom will be very pleased with a gorgeous arrangement from Scenterpiece florists. And for the garden, there are rhododendrons and flowering plants to beautify your surroundings.

Stroll on down to WH Puddifoot Ltd. at 2375 W. 41st, a stalwart purveyor of table settings including china, flatware and crystal, plus linens and assorted household goods or décor like the finest in glass birds…

Take a walk on the wild side… How about gifting Mom with a great pair of walking shoes from Ronsons? The sidewalk sale table will be brimming with fab finds that won’t pinch your pocketbook.

Hobbs Gifts is like a pearl in the oyster with its rare and beautiful gifts and decor items. Ask the friendly staff what might be just right for your mom. From greenery to groovy, it’s all there.

The Thomas Hobbs window is always a sight to behold, with its artful array of special and whimsical treasures, plus nifty items for the home that are special and one of a kind.

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