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B.C. First Nations sign healthcare pact Benjamin Alldritt balldritt@nsnews.com

FOR the first time since the advent of government health care, First Nations in B.C. will be overseeing their own services, thanks to a landmark pact signed at Xwemelch’stn Thursday.

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, B.C. Minister of Health Michael de Jong and Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo, who all attended the signing, are hailing the agreement as a milestone in the relationship between government and aboriginal peoples.

The pact commits the federal government to handing over responsibility for First Nations healthcare planning and delivery in B.C. to a new First Nations Health Authority, work that is currently handled by Health Canada.

“This will streamline administration,” Aglukkaq said, “encourage the integration of federal and provincially funded health services See Authority page 3

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

FEDERAL Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq (left), B.C. Health Minister Michael De Jong and Grand Chief Doug Kelly share a smile while signing a landmark First Nations Health agreement at Xwemelch’stn (Capilano 5 Reserve) Thursday morning.

Grizzlies bearing down on N. Shore Single bear on Grouse possible after recent sighting 40 km away

James Weldon

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THE slow but sure expansion of southwestern B.C.’s grizzly population means it’s likely just a matter of time before the animals appear in the North Shore’s mountains, according to a government expert.

Bruce McLellan, a provincial wildlife research ecologist who has been studying the bears for 35 years, says rising numbers and some recent nearby sightings suggest isolated individuals could make their way to the grizzly-free local backwoods any day.

“They’re gradually recovering in many places, particularly up around Pemberton,” said McLellan. “It would not surprise me if a young male ends up on Grouse Mountain.”

The researcher’s comments come on the heels of media reports that a professional photographer had captured footage of grizzlies in the upper Pitt River in August, about 40 kilometres from North Vancouver, using a remotely activated camera.

That would be the closest modern sighting so far, said McLellan. Up until then, the nearest had been in the Squamish area.

He cautioned, however, that the news shouldn’t worry bearwary North Shore residents, as it will probably be decades — if ever — before a substantial population establishes itself in the area.

“There’s no direct evidence we’ve got these animals ready

to spill over in the hundreds,” said McLellan. “Grizzly bears, from a North American large-mammal perspective, are pretty slow to increase.”

Researchers believe grizzlies were once well established in the southern coastal mountains, although it’s hard to say how many would have frequented the Lower Mainland, as large local First Nations communities may have kept the bears at bay.

When Europeans began moving to the region in numbers about 150 years ago, the grizzlies went into rapid decline, hunted by the new arrivals.

“We had the gold rush years,” said McLellan. “A lot of miners and prospectors and people all over who had no love for grizzly bears shot them all.”

The animals were actively hunted into the 1950s or 1960s, he said.

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Judge faults RCMP on charter rights Breath test delay causes drunk case to be tossed

James Weldon jweldon@nsnews.com

A judge has criticized North Vancouver RCMP policy after a 14-minute delay in administering a breath test forced her to toss out a case against a suspected drunk driver.

In an Oct. 3 ruling, Judge Carol Baird Ellan said that the actions of a constable-in-training in an incident last year violated a driver’s charter rights, leaving her no choice but to dismiss a charge of failing to provide a breath sample even though “the defendant overtly refused.”

The accused, Kevin John Hughes, was driving up Lonsdale Avenue June 25, 2010 when North Vancouver RCMP Const. Jennifer Witt reportedly saw him run a red light. When she pulled him over, said the officer, she smelled alcohol on his breath.

After several minor delays, Witt told Hughes to blow into a roadside screening device. Hughes

tried three times, making “a horse-like sound” and appearing to block the mouthpiece with his tongue, according to the constable. Witt offered to switch out the straw, but Hughes then said he had changed his mind, she testified. Witt arrested the driver for refusing to supply a sample and took him back to the station.

Hughes, a stocky man in his middle years with long blond hair, defended himself in court, attacking the Crown’s case on several fronts, from the officer’s credibility to the reliability of the device. Baird Ellan dismissed all of his arguments except one hinging on the timing of the breath test.

About 14 minutes passed between the moment Witt smelled alcohol on Hughes’s breath and the moment she got him to blow into the device.

In that time, she took his licence and registration, walked to her car where she called for backup and ran his information, returned to his vehicle, asked him to step out, explained how the roadside screening device worked and then got him to blow. That, in Baird Ellan’s view, was too long.

When an officer in Canada stops someone they suspect of drunk driving, that person’s charter rights are considered temporarily suspended for practical reasons to allow the officer to take a

breath sample.

This suspension, dubbed the “forthwith window,” is extremely short, and a drunk driving suspect detained for longer must be allowed to call a lawyer, said Baird Ellan. The exact duration of the window isn’t clear, but case law cited by the judge suggests it’s closer to six minutes than to 14. In her view, the clock started running when the constable smelled liquor, but Hughes didn’t have an opportunity to contact legal counsel until he got back to the detachment. Witt testified that she doesn’t allow suspects to use a cellphone at roadside for safety reasons.

That lag time rendered the detention illegal, Baird Ellan ruled, and she tossed the case. Hughes was visibly emotional at the result, wiping away tears and hugging a supporter.

In her reasons, the judge didn’t blame the constable, but rather the detachment.

“The delay to the making of the demand is essentially unexplained other than by the need to wait for backup,” the judge wrote. “That is a policy decision of the RCMP not to staff a patrol vehicle with more than one officer, and in this case, one who was under training.”

“I see this as another example of North Vancouver RCMP departmental policy . . . defying the plain dictates of the case law regarding

the need to comply with charter rights.”

Speaking to the North Shore News after the judgment, spokesman Sgt. Peter DeVries defended the detachment.

There is no departmental policy against allowing a suspect to contact a lawyer at roadside, he said, regardless of the number of officers present. Nonetheless, in an isolated place, it can be dangerous for an officer working alone to do that, as the suspect could conceivably use the unmonitored phone call to call in friends to extract him from the situation by force, said DeVries.

“I’m not saying that is necessarily (likely) to happen, but we’re in the business of accounting for the rare occasion,” he said. “We have to make sure we allow people to exercise their right in a way that doesn’t compromise . . . safety.”

Drunk driving investigations are especially complex when it comes to balancing rights with other considerations, said DeVries.

“I’m just giving you the tip of the iceberg in terms of what’s going through a police officer’s mind,” he said. “There’s nothing that was done by the officer in this case (that didn’t adhere to) what’s considered our best practices.”

The detachment would nonetheless ensure its membership was aware of the case with an eye to learning from it, he said.

St. Edmund’s celebrates its centennial Authority to control

Benjamin Alldritt balldritt@nsnews.com

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ST. Edmund’s Catholic Church is marking a century of service to the faithful in North Vancouver.

On Saturday, Oct. 15, at 4 p.m., the church at the end of Ottawa Gardens will welcome worshippers old and new to mark 100 years in the community. Archbishop Michael Miller of the Vancouver archdiocese will help lead the centennial mass.

The oldest Catholic church on the North Shore, St. Edmund’s was named after a medieval archbishop of Canterbury, a man who was canonized only seven years after his death in 1240.

His name was chosen for the church and school due to his reputation as both a scholar and a man of great faith.

“I’ve been at St. Edmund’s since 1960,” said parishioner Douglas McDonald. “It’s a place where everyone is together for a common purpose, to hear God’s word See Congregation page 5

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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

REV. Jerald D’Souza outside St. Edmund’s Roman Catholic Church which celebrates its 100th year of worship Saturday with a special mass led by Archbishop Michael Miller.

Another highway stop, another hit WVPD vehicle OCTOBER is shaping up to be a bad month for West Vancouver police vehicles.

NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

A tow-truck driver prepares to remove a WVPD vehicle hit and damaged by a stolen vehicle Wednesday.

The Upper Levels Highway was partially closed for several hours Wednesday morning after a stolen Nissan pickup truck plowed into a WVPD utility vehicle that was parked near the Caulfeild exit apparently trying to prevent the suspects’ escape.

The early-morning crash comes just eight days after a distressed driver in a stolen car rammed a parked WVPD patrol unit that was attempting to do the same thing a few kilometres east of Wednesday’s scene.

The two occupants of the truck involved in this week’s collision were taken to hospital with minor injuries, according to police. Crack patterns in the

wreck suggested at least one of them had hit his head on the inside of the pickup’s windshield.

The incident began just before 4 a.m. when a West Vancouver patrol responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in the 5700-block of Marine Drive. The unit ordered the truck to pull over, but the driver reportedly hit the gas and tried to escape.

The suspects allegedly fled uphill to Hwy. 1, where they collided with the waiting SUV. The officer driving the damaged vehicle was unhurt.

The two men, 55 and 41, both described as homeless, were due to appear in North Vancouver provincial court following their release from hospital. Investigators said they will recommend charges of possession of stolen property and flight.

The men are known to police.

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and allow health-care decision to be made closer to home.”

“If you look at how our people engage with the system,” said Joe Gallagher, CEO of the First Nations Health Society, “We usually don’t access services until we’re really, really sick, as opposed to some of the early-on preventative pieces. If you look at dentistry for example, the way the program works, it’s actually a deterrent for dentists to take on First Nations clients because the federal government has created too much bureaucracy to access the fees for services.”

Many of the details are still to be worked out over the next two years, but Gallagher said the agreement will allow First Nations to determine which services should be delivered by existing provincial health authorities.

Ottawa is providing $17 million in transition funding, along with $83.5 million from the province. Once the handover is complete, the federal government will provide $380 million each year for the First Nations authority, a number that is expected to rise with population and cost increases.

Byron Joseph, co-chair of the Squamish Nation Council, also praised the agreement and said he looked forward to a First Nations Health Authority putting a new emphasis on mental health issues, particularly for residential school survivors and their families.

“I think listening might have been becoming a problem,” he said of Health Canada. “We are feeling the generational impacts from that system today. There needs to be a lot of help in the mental health area. It’s been low on the totem pole for so long.”

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Male bears roam big territory From page 1

But since then, efforts to protect the bears in this part of the province have been paying off, and their numbers are starting to climb. The animals have been slow to take over new territory, however, with each generation of females setting up their own ranges 20 kilometres at most from their mothers’.

Their progress into this area may be especially grinding, as local forests offer inferior grizzly habitat, and the densely populated berry-eating machines that are our black bears may make it difficult for the bigger species to get a toehold, said McLellan.

That doesn’t mean the occasional young male won’t show up in the near future, however. A male grizzly’s territory can span 1,000 kilometres, he said, putting our local mountains well within striking distance of itinerant bears from, say, Pitt River.

While grizzlies — particularly mothers with cubs — can be more aggressive than black bears, people can easily share

territory with them without any serious issues, said McLellan.

“It’s not going to happen for decades that you’ll ever have enough bears around to be a concern at all,” he said. “(And then) your town will be like most towns in the province.”

McLellan has spent decades living in areas with dense grizzly populations, and has never had a problem, he said.

The best way to avoid trouble in the bears’ territory is to make a lot of noise, allowing them the chance to clear off before you get close. In the event of an encounter with a mother and cubs, people should back away slowly, crouching to make themselves look small, said McLellan.

“What you don’t want is for her to think you’re a threat,” he said. “They can flip from being a nice, mellow, quiet bear to being pretty wound up real fast. . . . and if you ever are (attacked) by a mother with cubs, that’s when the play dead comes in. She’ll probably just come up and sniff you and scare the hell out of you and then go away.”

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Congregation numbers hold steady at 800 From page 3

and to act out what God wants for people. Myself, I teach religion at the school. I help the different priests and the young children who come up to the altar.”

McDonald has seen a lot of people and priests come and go over the past 50 years. Old photos of the church, he says, reveal the streetcar tracks running beside it. He has also seen a demographic shift from a predominantly European group to a more ethnically diverse one.

The current pastor at St. Edmund’s is Reverend Jerald D’Souza. He has tended to his flock in North Vancouver for two years now, and says the church’s congregation is holding steady

at about 800 people.

“We help people, especially those who come to the door. We help the youth in our parish and the poor families. People are very loving and they help the neighbourhood. People in our parish are good Christians,” he said.

Opened by the Sisters of Child Jesus in 1991, the school originally had 57 students in grades 1 through 12. Today, St. Edmund’s has focused on the elementary end of the system, and sees almost 200 students from kindergarten to Grade 7.

Among those who have passed through the church’s school is current City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto.

“It’s a good education and good values, I would say,” said D’Souza. “The school and church are complementary.”

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Tricky treaties I

RONIC or serendipitous? You decide. One day after the B.C. Treaty Commission’s chief commissioner suggested that this province’s treaty talks be shut down entirely if they cannot be sped up, a major health agreement is signed between B.C. First Nations and the provincial and federal governments?

The agreement will create a provincial First Nations health authority that will eventually determine where and how $380 million of federal money will be spent each year.

The decision, made outside of and separately from ongoing treaty talks, creates a governance structure that will ultimately be responsible for itself, however it interfaces with provincial health services.

Long overdue, perhaps.

Meanwhile, treaty commissioner Sophie Pierce is clearly frustrated with what she has not achieved in her three-year term and is asking for a one-year extension to her mandate.

She told other media Wednesday that if problems cannot be fixed within that time frame, it should signal the end of a process that has lasted 19 years and produced just two signed treaties.

Pierce says 16 more treaties could soon be completed if there was any sense of urgency to the debate, but suggested the process has become an ongoing government program.

First Nations have spent $500 million on the treaty process to date.

Like Pierce, we believe in the economic benefits of treaties, but wonder if the federal government is more interested in a social agenda.

Forget exposure, Clark may need armour

FACE it, Liberals.

Christy Clark’s election campaign is bombing.

Large.

The former talk-show host is governing like a former talkshow host.

And dresses like a siren?

A V-neck vamp? Blogger and former North Vancouver New Democrat MLA David Schreck’s claim that Clark showed improper “cleavage” in her legislature attire set off a sideshow that actually helped her. It diverted attention from a bad week or 20 for the premier.

Here’s a wild, vagrant thought: Is there a Jenny Kwan in the Liberal ranks? Who, like Kwan, a New Democrat lightweight, could break ranks where party heavyweights fear to punch, emboldened only when the leader’s decked and the count nearing 10?

Kwan, cat’s-paw for a few NDP Marxist clones and obscure grumblers, frontstabbed leader Carole James, inflicted party wounds not yet healed, and brought on political carnivore Adrian Dix. All right, I’m mixing

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Trevor Lautens metaphors. The point is that the Liberal centre-right coalition includes, like the NDP, the sullen, the sour, the disappointed. And they have more reason to question Clark’s early leadership than the NDP had to undercut James, a good woman and attractive leader who’d greatly raised party fortunes in two elections and successfully reached out to business and the vital swing centre.

The latest opinion poll showed the NDP ahead by seven points. A shattering of the Liberal coalition well before

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the May 2013 election isn’t beyond possibility. Bill Vander Zalm and Mike Harcourt could testify to small mutinies that grew.

No need, no space to catalogue all Clark’s bungles.

She personally approved attack commercials that helpfully raised the profile of (still) scarcely known Conservative John Cummins. And, for many, the dig “Just what we need, another unprincipled politician,” who “says one thing and does another,” sailed over Cummins and squarely evoked memories of you-knowwho.

Latest: Family Day, a gimmick so crude the NDP supports it, but not the arithmetic of large and small business while recession circles the economy.

As for pressuring Crown prosecutors and ultimately judges to introduce television cameras to the accused Stanley Cup rioters’ trials, targeting them alone: Talk about playing to the all-purpose angries in the peanut section. Clark’s pitch isn’t populist, it’s demagoguery, a faint stench of Stalinist and

Maoist “people’s courts.”

Yes, it’s early days on a tough job. Cut the lady some slack. But if Clark doesn’t start shaping up soon, the Liberal/ business establishment could get nervous as the election approaches. In which case Clark needn’t worry about revealing her cleavage but covering her asterisk — the * in the books followed by: “Brief premier of British Columbia, resigned after party revolt.”

••• Says here that David Hahn made a cool, classy exit from B.C. Ferries. Which reminds me: The two no-win government jobs are public transportation (the bitching never ceases), and children and family welfare (the media play the sad stories like violins).

When Premier Bill Bennett assigned the latter ministry to rival Grace McCarthy in the early 1980s, it was, as Bugs Bunny would say, “coitains” for her queenly image.

••• Notice? Municipal elections are on Nov. 19. Even the gossip has been sparse. Nominations close today. Maybe a surprise or

two will pop up. Coun. Michael Smith looks unopposed for mayor in West Van. After one term Coun. Shannon Walker is retiring. Issues: Density, zero budget increase. Hottest race: Can anyone end Coun.

Bill Soprovich’s poll-topping record?.

••• I have some sympathy for the explosively growing (not to become, I pray, the growingly explosive) Occupy Wall Street movement, with a branch starting in Vancouver. The gap between the vastly rich, and the hard-pressed worker, the unemployed and underemployed, threatens to become social dynamite.

••• Cottages to Community: The Story of West Vancouver’s Neighbourhoods is the town’s (early) 100th birthday gift to itself. Get it for the pictures but stay for the words.

The text by Francis Mansbridge defines elegance without pretension. Equal billing to curator John Moir.

It’s beautifully, tastefully published by the West Vancouver Historical Society

(full disclosure, chairman Jim Carter was deputy minister of education and mentor when I was a consultant in Victoria 30 years ago). Expect wrenching nostalgia — yes, even for the canneries at Cypress Park and Caulfeild, driven out by the twitching noses of residents and leaving the town without industry.

All praise that the production was not by an offshore house but by Canada’s own excellent Friesens (Agent YR 2973 tips me to the fact that David Friesen has retired from the family firm to West Van).

As advertised, it chronicles each WV neighbourhood rather than unfolding a single municipal narrative, and it’s better for it. It’s an interesting contrast to the 75th anniversary book, Bruce Ramsey’s A Place of Excellence: A Chronicle of West Vancouver 1912-1987, a comparison that hurts neither.

The present book is widely available (speaking of excellent taste, my copy is from The Avant Gardener). Buy it now and for posterity. tlautens@telus.net

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Big changes planned for education system

THE recent Throne Speech signalled that big changes lie ahead for B.C.’s public education system, and these will likely dwarf anything seen in recent memory.

The speech talked of modernizing how we educate kids, and the changes have the potential of being radical ones.

As well, it hinted the power of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation is about to be diminished on several fronts, notably when it comes to disciplining teachers and controlling how teachers move around the system. The government appears ready to wrest more control over what happens in classrooms, and that means clipping the BCTF’s wings.

Our graduation rate hasn’t improved in years, and is stuck at about 80 per cent.

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So attempts will be made to substantially change the education experience of kids in the intermediate and senior grades. Those in the younger grades won’t be affected as much.

There will be more emphasis on distance learning, particularly of the interactive kind. This area has been growing in popularity in recent years, as classrooms have become less relevant to

many kids.

The problem with relevancy can’t be easily dismissed. When you think of it, has what happens in the classroom on a daily basis really changed all that much since, say, the 1960s?

The disconnect between the classroom and students can be seen by the increasing number of kids who have opted for the distance learning option (one of the most popular physics teachers in B.C., for example, is a teacher in the small town of Lumby who teaches kids from around the province).

Distance learning will continue to grow, and individualized learning will also likely get more emphasis as well. Instead of being stuck in a curriculum that holds little interest, a student may be given the resources to shape a course along their own lines that encompasses several areas of learning.

These are all lofty goals,

and I wonder whether there will truly be enough resources in the system to see them come to fruition (and distance learning has not necessarily led to better outcomes for many kids). But education reformers have been pushing for these kinds of changes for years, and the implementation of those changes is about to speed up.

But the nature of teaching is about to change as well.

Look for the government to pressure — likely through financial incentives or penalties — various university faculties of education to improve training of teachers and to find ways of measuring outcomes and providing accountability.

Two other big changes that will affect teachers have been hiding in plain sight for some time now. They are part of the proposals from the B.C. Public Schools Employers Association, which is attempting to bargain a new contract with the teachers union.

One of the changes will be a yearly evaluation of a teachers’ performance (again, I’m not sure the resources are in the system to ensure an effective evaluation).

The other — and this is huge — will be no longer using seniority as an automatic determinant in transferring or posting teachers between schools or classrooms. For years, poor

teachers have been able to hang onto their positions while younger, better trained ones can’t dislodge them.

A big problem in the system is the poor retention rate of young teachers. About 30 per cent of them leave the profession within five years, and one reason for that is thought to be an inflexible system that doesn’t meet their needs.

The B.C. College of Teachers is also about to be transformed. The BCTF will no longer be able to single-handedly block any discipline of teachers, and what constitutes proper “professional standards” will

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WORK to install faregates at the Lonsdale Quay SeaBus terminal began Tuesday, part of a retrofit going on across the TransLink system.

Crews will start with installing wires and platforms for the faregates to be installed at the entrance to the tunnel leading to the SeaBus, according to Drew Snider, TransLink spokesman.

“What people are going to see is a lot of boardings going up, boards that block off the area where the construction work is happening,”

said Snider. “It means around the entrances they’ll have to walk around them, though the entrances will still be accessible and there will be lots of signs out there.”

Skytrain stations and the West Coast Express stations are being retrofitted at the same time, with construction expected to last through winter. The faregates, along with a new electronic fare card called the Compass card, are expected to be operational in early 2013.

Teachers’ pro days could change From page 7 not be dictated by the BCTF (although the union will retain a significant role).

Also, there may be changes to what constitutes professional development days.

There are six pro-D days a year, and they cost taxpayers $66 million a year, but the vast majority of people have no idea what they are actually used for and whether or not they are effective.

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INQUIRING REPORTER THE new NHL season is already deep in controversy.

Brendan Shanahan is the new dispenser of justice and has already handed out hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and dozens of game suspensions.

But with the league’s best player still nursing a concussion and debate raging over whether fighting or any contact with a player’s head should be allowed, hockey is a sport divided. No one wants to see their favourite player laid out on the ice, but fans also don’t want to see their team hobbled by lengthy suspensions. Where is the middle ground?

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Em Moore-Volzke North Vancouver I think that’s a question for the fans, not the league. The NHL gets more viewers with fights. The league is doing what brings in ratings.

Has the NHL done enough to ensure player safety?

Aaron Mitton Vancouver They’ve pissed off every general manager and commentator, given the amount of suspensions so far.

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Abigail Stewart North Vancouver There could be stricter rules. They shouldn’t be allowed to do that stuff. It shouldn’t be a street fight.

People get seriously injured.

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Representatives of the Seymour Art Gallery and Curves North Vancouver hosted Zumba for the Arts, a fundraiser for the Deep Cove art gallery at Mosquito Creek Bar and Grill Oct. 7. More than 80 guests were in attendance and enjoyed a silent auction, prize draws and a zumba demonstration, a popular Latindance-inspired fitness workout.

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Lynn Coady branches out in The Antagonist: Page 18 Footloose busts out the same old moves: Page 20 Film fest — Making movies a risky business in Iran Page 21 Pianist Avan Yu returns home for Lions Gate Sinfonia’s season debut: Page 36

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MAVIS Staples picked up her first Grammy Award this year for her latest release, You Are Not Alone, produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy.

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Other-worldly Bjork thinking outside the box on Biophilia: Page 37 Enter to win tickets to see the Campbell Brothers at the Vogue: Page 40 More online at www.nsnews.com/ entertainment twitter.com/ NSNPulse

■ Mavis Staples with special guest Allen Toussaint performs at the Chan Shun Concert Hall at UBC’s Chan Centre, Sunday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.

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DUTIFUL daughter, civil rights activist and gospel music legend Mavis Staples is still going strong in her eighth decade.

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MAVIS STAPLES Her latest recording, You Are Not Alone, produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, won a Grammy Award this year for Best Americana Album. Pitchfork reviewer Stephen M. Deusner says Staples “still sounds invigorated and ecstatic, unburdened by cynicism or disappointment. With Tweedy, she has created a record that is mindful of her own past, yet these songs sound fresh, original, and often inspiring.”

Showing no signs of slowing down any time soon Staples will perform with her band at UBC’s Chan Centre on Sunday before heading off to play in Melbourne, Australia. She spoke to the News earlier this week from her home in Chicago.

North Shore News: You were born in Chicago but your parents had arrived just a few years earlier from Mississippi — how close were your family’s ties with the South when you were growing up?

Mavis Staples: I had a very strong connection with the South. I stayed in Chicago in the summer and went to school in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Pops had four children and he said we were wearing out the shoes too fast so he sent the two youngest down to my (maternal) grandmother.

I went to school down there for about three semesters, three years, until I started crying to come home because my grandma wouldn’t let me suck my finger and she wouldn’t let me sing. I just sang a song there one time in school and someone told her that I was up at the schoolhouse singing the blues. She set me outside to get some switches and she tore my little legs up. And every lick she was saying, “You don’t sing no blues in this family you sing church songs.”

My sister Yvonne didn’t have any problem with my grandma. She actually graduated from school in Mississippi but we would come home during the summer. So I knew a lot about it. My father, when we started travelling he would take us to certain places and show us certain things. He showed us where he proposed to my mother down in Drew, Mississippi. He showed us the corner where he bought his first little guitar — he put it in the layaway, it was a hardware store. He would listen to Charlie Patton — his father was a sharecropper and they were down on Dockery’s Farm down in Drew, Mississippi and Charlie Patton was there. Pops loved the way he played guitar so he wanted to play guitar. He told See Pops page 38

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CALENDAR GALLERIES Artists for Kids Gallery: 810 West 21st St., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., weekends from noon to 4 p.m. Info: 604-9033798 or www.artists4kidscom.

ArtStarts Gallery: 808 Richards St., Vancouver.

Big Ideas: Vancouver Biennale will host an exhibit featuring the work of high school students that runs until Nov. 18. Info: www.vancouverbiennale.com.

Bellevue Gallery: 2475 Bellevue Ave., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.5:30 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and outside gallery hours by appointment. Info: www.bellevuegallery.ca.

Snow Asylum: The latest works by Marion Liewellyn will be on display until Oct. 13 to Nov. 12.

Buckland Southerst Gallery: 2460 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-922-1915. www. bucklandsoutherst.com.

Henry Huai Xu’s paintings will be on display until Oct. 21. Opening reception: Friday, Oct. 14, 6-9 p.m.

Cafe for Contemporary Art: 140 East Esplanade, North Vancouver. Hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Info: 778340-3379 or cafeforcontemporaryart@gmail.com.

Caroun Art Gallery: 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver. Info: www.caroun.net, 778-372-0765 or artgallery@caroun.com. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 8 p.m.

A Group Exhibition of paintings by Iranian artists will run until Oct. 29. Reception: Saturday, Oct. 15, 4-9 p.m.

CityScape Community Art Space: 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-988-6844 or www. nvartscouncil.ca. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

Absorption, Reflection, Illumination: An exhibition of abstracted sculpture, paintings and tailored sources of light by Peter Pierobon, Sibeal Foyle and Kent Anderson will run until Oct. 22.

The Gift Box: Small, impulse-buy gift items will be for sale until Jan. 30, 2012. Works from artists Jen Ellis, Mary Blaze, Heike Kapp, Ana Isabel and Lina Cutnam on sale until Oct. 31.

District Foyer Gallery: 355 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.See more page 15

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CALENDAR From page 14 4:30 p.m. Info: 604-988-6844 or www.nvartscouncil.ca.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition that explores decay in different mediums with stone sculptures

by Oliver Harwood and acrylic paintings of vintage trucks and tractors by Warren Oneschuk until Oct. 19.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present an exhibition of mystical scenic photography by Alan Maples and one of a kind whimsical wood sculptures by Marco Berera from Oct. 19 to Dec. 7. Opening reception: Thursday, Oct. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

District Library Gallery: 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Info: www. nvartscouncil.ca.

The North Vancouver Community Arts Council will present a photography exhibition of Daniel deRegt’s work until Nov. 9.

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Mysteries and Histories: Totemic forms and other new works by Susanna Blunt will be on display from Oct. 18 to 30.

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James Tabasi’s work will be exhibited until Oct. 31 to raise funds for the new HOpe Centre for Mental Health at Lions Gate Hospital.

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BLUESMAN John Hammond played to a sold out house at Kay Meek Centre on Tuesday night with Steve Dawson opening the show. Hammond, a 2011 Blues Hall of Fame inductee, has recorded 33 albums since releasing his debut in 1962. The entire concert was taped by the CBC — check CBC Radio 2 FM 105.7 listings for an upcoming broadcast.

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CALENDAR From page 15 Vancouver. Info: 604-990-3700, ext. 8016 or www.northvanmuseum.ca/.

Entwined Histories: An exhibition of Native arts and artifacts showcasing the collection of Maisie Hurley, a non-native activist, until Nov. 6.

Presentation House Gallery: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Gallery hours: Wednesday -Sunday, noon5 p.m. Info: 604-986-1351 or www. presentationhousegall.com.

Tulsa and The Park: An exhibition of photographs by Larry Clark on underworld drug use, sex and violence in Tulsa, Oklahoma and prints by Kohei Yoshiyuki of outdoor sex in Japan will run until Oct. 30.

Ron Andrews Community Space: 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-980-7182.

Scapes: Colleen Cosgrove and Brenda Cross’ works of pastel on archival paper will be on display until Oct. 30.

Seymour Art Gallery: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

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Drive-by: A digital panorama of photographs taken by Danny Singer while driving through the city of Vancouver will run from Oct. 18 to Nov. 27. Opening reception: Tuesday, Oct. 18, 7-9 p.m. Artists’s talk: Sunday, Oct. 30, 2 p.m.

Curator’s talk: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2 p.m.

Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Info: 604-925-7292 or www. silkpurse.ca.

Critters: Patricia Vaughan’s watercolour and mixed media paintings of animals will be on display until Oct. 16.

Intercontinental Inspirations: Multimedia paintings depicting people and places of inspiration by Shashi Kappor will be on display from Oct. 18 to 30. Opening reception: Tuesday, Oct. 18, 6-8 p.m.

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The Art of the Fool: Original works inspired by the Jokerworld collection will be on display until Nov. 22.

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Art in the Hall — Colour Reigns: Gordon Davis’ paintings of landscapes and flowers will be on display until Nov. 4.

West Vancouver Museum: 680 17th St., West Vancouver. Museum hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info: 604-925-7295 or www. westvancouvermuseum.ca.

Longing: Sonny Assu’s sculptures and photographs will be on display until Nov. 5. Artist talk: Wednesday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m.

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BOOKS

Coady branches out in latest novel The Antagonist shortlisted for this year’s Giller Prize

■ Lynn Coady is among the featured writers at the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Oct. 18-23. Coady is set to appear Oct. 21, 22 and 23. Tickets and info: www. writersfest.bc.ca.

Erin McPhee emcphee@nsnews.com

LYNN Coady laughs when she explains she found out she’d been shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize via Twitter.

“I managed to put it out of my mind right up until the night before,” says Coady, reached Wednesday from Edmonton, Alta., her home base. “And then the night before, I’m like ‘Well, sleep’s not going to come easy.’ And it didn’t.

You try not to care about these things but then you start thinking about what a big difference it would make to your book sales and career in general and, you know, just generally how much of an honour it would be.”

Treating the social networking site as a sort of modern day radio, and opting to “tune in” to events as they’re happening, Coady, 41, logged in and realized a few of the people in her feed were actually in the room where the Giller announcement was being made in Toronto, Oct. 4.

Writers shortlisted for this year’s prize include: Coady, for The Antagonist, released last month by Anansi, her first Giller nomination; David Bezmozgis (The Free World); Patrick deWitt (The Sisters Brothers); Esi Edugyan (Half-Blood Blues); Zsuzsi Gartner (Better Living Through Plastic Explosives); and, Michael Ondaatje (The Cat’s Table). The winner will be announced Nov. 8.

Coady quickly joined the tweet fest, adding “Mother of pearl!” followed shortly by “Husb: “Oh God, it’ll be like living with Kanye.”

“I think he was kidding. Have I been like Kanye? I’d like to think not. Every once in a while I like to refer to myself in the third person.

You know, who doesn’t?” she says.

Coady’s sense of humour plays an important role in her fiction; her stories, while at times tragic in nature, feature characters tending to “wisecrack their way through their pain.” It also plays an important role in her Globe and Mail column, Group Therapy, whereby a relationship question is posed, readers weigh in and the ever-optimistic and compassionate Coady gets the last word.

The Antagonist, Coady’s fifth book, tells the

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LYNN Coady is currently serving as writer-in-residence at Edmonton’s Grant MacEwan University. story of Gordon Rankin. ‘Rank,’ a hulk of a man, is called upon as an enforcer in a variety of capacities over the course of his life — chasing punks out of his father’s ice cream shop, on the ice as a hockey player and a bouncer in a dive bar. As an adult, Rank discovers Adam, a trusted confidant from 20 years ago, has made use of his story, incorporating it into a novel. Rank decides to set the record straight and fires off email after email to his old friend, endeavouring to tell his

own story, which proves much harder than he originally thought.

The Antagonist came together in two ways following the publication of Coady’s previous novel, 2006’s Mean Boy. One character, Charles Slaughter (a sideline character just as Rank is in Adam’s novel) kept trying to take over the book. Coady found herself compulsively focusing on Slaughter, yet it wasn’t his story so she ended up having to cut a lot of him out.

“When I finished Mean Boy I really strongly felt like I wasn’t finished with that character and there was more to be said. I kind of put a pin in him, but I didn’t want to reproduce the character of Charles Slaughter. I knew that I’d have to come at him in a different way,” she says.

The second contributing factor was an incident that occurred while Coady was touring the book. For Mean Boy, she’d used the biography of a poet, John Thompson, whose work she greatly admired, to help structure its plot. Thompson passed away in 1976 and had been a professor at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B. During a reading at the Maritime school, people who had known Thompson expressed anger at what Coady had done.

“That moment of standing up at the podium, having people stand up and tell me basically I didn’t have a right to the story I had written, that it didn’t belong to me, was a really interesting moment. That’s how it all kind of clicked into place. I knew how I was going to bring Charles Slaughter back. I kind of conceived of Rank as having read Mean Boy and seen the character of Charles Slaughter and recognized himself and decide he wants to tell his story, and that’s The Antagonist,” she says.

However, the question of where the line is for writers, in terms of using actual people and events as inspiration, remains. Coady believes incorporating aspects of real life into fictional tales is okay. Raised Catholic, if she didn’t, then she wouldn’t be able to do so as she’d be unable to live with the guilt, she says.

“I think every writer has to set their own boundaries and it’s always going to be a question whether or not they’ve crossed the line of being unethical. It’s not something we can define. There are no hard (and) fast borders,” she says.

Coady hoped that in the writing of The Antagonist, she would come up with a solid argument for what writers do when they’re taking from their own lives and borrowing from others’.

“I thought I could come up with some kind of ironclad justification for it but it’s still all pretty up in the air for me,” she says.

Nonetheless, she feels the best means of explaining her perspective is to have someone sit down and attempt to write their own novel.

“Then they would understand how it works, how it’s a semi-conscious process and how they’re tapping into something that’s not necessarily under your control when you’re creating a fictional world. That really was the seed for The Antagonist, that’s what I imagined happening to Rank from the very beginning,” she says.

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BOOKS

Earlier work firmly rooted on East Coast From page 18

The Antagonist, while in the same vein as her previous works, is evident of a few shifts in Coady’s perspective. Originally from Cape Breton, in recent years she’s called Vancouver and now Edmonton home, settling there in 2008.

“A lot of my work was geographically situated quite firmly on the East Coast for a long time. But The Antagonist is more of Canada and I think that it’s just a result of me not having lived on the East Coast for a really long time,” she says.

She’s naturally grown and changed as a person and therefore has an interest in writing about characters more like her now.

“When I was 20, I still felt in some ways very oppressed by small town Atlantic Canada and a lot of my characters were very much of that world and couldn’t conceive of what the world outside it was like. All they could really do was look across the causeway and dream and yearn.

Whereas Rank, he’s shaken all that off. He’s of the world. He’s of Canada in a broader sense and he just thinks of the Maritimes as the place he’s from. He’s not threatened by it and oppressed by it in the same way as some of my earlier characters,” she says.

This is the first time Coady has written from the point of view of such an angry character.

“That was really energizing for me when I was writing,” she says, and in turn something that has resonated with readers.

“Creative Writing 101, they always say, ‘The story has to have conflict’ and Rank is all conflict so I think that’s where a big part of the draw comes from,” she says.

In addition to touring The Antagonist, Coady is busy with her Globe column, which she’s been writing for two years.

“It’s just the perfect gig for a writer,” she says. “It’s all these little nuggets of human conflict. . . . It’s like all these people are sending me the beginnings of a short story and asking me to write the ending.”

She’s also the co-founder and editor of Eighteen Bridges (eighteenbridges.com), a new general interest Canadian magazine focused on feature-length narrative non-fiction, set to release its third issue in mid-November.

“We wanted it to be known for really great writing, above and beyond everything else, and have broad appeal. . . . We just thought there’s a need for this and there’s a craving for it,” she says.

Coady is also currently serving as writerin-residence at Edmonton’s Grant MacEwan University.

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A20 - North Shore News - Friday, October 14, 2011

FILM

Footloose busts out the same old moves

■ Footloose. Directed by Craig Brewer.

Starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough and Dennis Quaid.

Rating: 6 (out of 10)

Julie Crawford Contributing Writer

I can’t dance. When dating, I made my boyfriends dance with my funkier friends, a fatal decision on at least one occasion.

When I was a teenager, a cute dancing partner, after marveling at my lack of lower mobility, actually gripped my legs and tried to move them around the dance floor, as though I had just come out of a coma.

I’m not quite as bad as Elaine in Seinfeld; more like Joan Cusack in Sixteen Candles (and she wore a back brace, if you remember).

That’s why 1984’s Footloose resonated for me.

From the moment all those sneaker, pump and boot-clad feet started dancing in the opening credits, it wasn’t about how well one could dance, but his God-given right to.

Not so with the shiny new Footloose, directed

by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) and starring pro dancers Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough.

Hough won Dancing With The Stars twice; Wormald was a fixture on MTV’s Dancelife, as well as the big screen’s Centre Stage and Turn it Up. Now that we’ve been groomed to expect flawless gyration on the dance floor — thanks to music videos, films like the Step Up franchise and TV’s terrifying reality show Dance Moms — it makes sense that filmmakers would forsake acting chops for dance moves. These days average acting is OK, but sloppy dancing is not to be tolerated.

We all know the story. Big-city boy Ren MacCormack (Wormald) moves to a small town where dancing, among other teenage pursuits, has been banned. The town is still hurting from

the deaths of five high school seniors three years previous: dancing, alcohol and loud music were named as co-conspirators. Still stinging is the church preacher (Dennis Quaid) and his daughter Ariel (Hough) who lost a family member in the accident. Ariel is turning into a wild child before daddy’s eyes, though he turns a blind eye.

Ren notices, however. While wrestling with feelings for Ariel, Ren makes it his mission to overturn the city ordinance on dancing, with the help of endearing podunk Willard (Miles Teller) and a few passages pulled from the Bible.

Brewer’s adaptation is slavishly similar to the original Footloose, a decision guaranteed to rustle in a whole new generation of viewers without alienating fans of the original version. So Ren wears a tie on the first day of school, drives a beat-up yellow Volkswagen and listens to Quiet Riot. Some of the songs get an update, but they’re still there. And Willard learns to dance to “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” in the same sequence Sean Penn did years ago.

The best homage to the original is the film’s “angry dance” scene in the abandoned warehouse. Wormald did it without a dance double, for while Kevin Bacon could do a mean flip from a car, he was no Patrick Swayze. It’s still an iconic scene, a powerful explosion of teen angst and frustration. (We’d probably all be a lot healthier mentally if we could just bust an angry move during the office workday.)

Then there’s Hough. I was handed a fancy FN Footloose magazine as I walked into the screening, in which Hough says “This is a role that has more depth. It’s more like the original times 10.” Uh, no. The same scenes and some line-for-line dialogue is here. But gone is Lori Singer’s gangly appeal, replaced by Hough’s pop-up-book cleavage in outfits that a preacher wouldn’t fail to notice.

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FILM VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASES IRANIAN DIRECTORS

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VANCOUVER’S annual film festival is truly an international experience.

Though it commits itself to screening films from countries as far flung as Spain, Indonesia and Hong Kong, every year it works hard to showcase cinema from Iran.

“It’s simple math, really,” Alan Franey, the director of the Vancouver International Film Festival, says of bringing Iranian films to the festival.

“You’ve got good films on one side, and then a good audience on another.

“We have a very large, well informed, well educated and well cultured Iranian community here in Vancouver, that I understand is second only in size to that of Los Angeles. I don’t know if that’s still true, but it’s a very significant community here.”

Every year sees a bevy of screenings of Iranian film, and every year sees filmmakers put themselves at risk of reprisal for making anything that contradicts their government’s line.

This year alone, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, a co-director of the work This is Not a Film, was among six filmmakers arrested by the Iranian authorities on charges of espionage. His film, codirected with Jafar Panahi, was ironically about a filmmaker

trying to put together a critical work of art while under house arrest.

Franey said there is always a risk for directors making films that contradict their government’s message… a phenomenon that isn’t particular to Iran.

“This particular phenomenon is all too familiar,” he says. “It’s not just Iran, there’s a number of other countries where prominent filmmakers who have international reputations are at odds with the government that really wants to repress or contain independent voices.

“Beyond the human rights and the political issues, there’s the question of esthetic freedom and the value of their work, which is significant.”

The 2011 festival has seen Iranian films emerge among its most popular screenings.

They included A Separation, the story of a couple struggling over whether to stay behind in a country dominated by religious zealots, or else escape to the west, where they can give their children a chance at a better life.

The festival also screened Circumstance, the story of two young women carrying on a romantic relationship in Tehran’s underground club scene whilst ducking the watchful gaze of one of their siblings, a reformed drug addict now working tangentially for the Iranian secret police.

Also screening at the festival was The Green Wave, a documentary that, with a mix of animations and on-camera interviews, has drawn some comparison to Waltz with Bashir, an Israeli film that screened at the 2008 festival.

Jan Kruger, a German-

based producer of The Green Wave, doesn’t eschew the comparison but he says it wasn’t an inspiration for the flm, which aims to document by dramatizing blog posts, Twitter feeds and Facebook updates the 2009 Green Revolution, which saw

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Brighter Lights, Thicker Glasses will perform a mix of original, folk, pop, swing, Afro and calypso tunes Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Admission: $10.

Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West

Lee Lewis in a tribute show Friday, Oct. 21 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $40.

Abra Cadabra: A tribute to the music of ABBA Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $27.50.

Presentation House Theatre: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

Jazz at Presentation House Studio: A weekly series embracing the full spectrum of jazz and improvised

Vancouver. Tickets: www.kaymeekcentre.com or 604913-3634.

Strange Eventful History: A medley of poems interwoven with music Saturday, Oct. 15 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $15/$10.

Vancouver Recital Society: Maxim Rysanov will perform on the viola with Eldar Nebolsin on the piano Sunday, Oct. 16 at 3 p.m. Tickets: $52.50.

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Filmmakers walk a fine line in Iran

From page 21

Ahadi, at the world premiere of an earlier film they made together in June 2009 when they heard about what was unfolding in Iran.

“We started following with iPhones the elections and the situation in Iran,” he says.

“The whole team was actually shocked. We were there a couple of days at that festival, a team of Germans and Iranians, they were all devastated.”

Ahadi told him that very day that he had to make a movie about the revolution, that it would be the only way of bringing his voice to his people.

“From the very beginning he said, I have to do this movie because I have to do it as a filmmaker,” Kruger says.

The film recounts in brutal detail the attempts by the Iranian government to shut down its opposition. Well documented already in social media, tactics to shut down dissent included beating, raping and torturing dissidents… and, in one particularly disturbing incident, riding through the streets on motorcycles and slashing passersby with knives.

Kruger admits that there were attempts by people affiliated with the Iranian regime to stop the movie getting released, but he won’t give too many specifics.

“I’m not supposed to talk about that totally freely,” he says. “But I can say so much, yes, there were some, I think you say suppressions by the regime. Not to me personally, but to other people involved in this movie, and they keep their voices really really low on comments on that movie because they don’t want to push it in their country.”

Original film was good as popcorn fare

From page 20

fault, but her overwrought delivery is. Too many people deify the original movie, which was good popcorn fare but far from a classic, but we miss the recklessness that Singer brought to her role. Hough is lithe everywhere else but in her performance: her stiffness makes the romance between Ariel and Ren a little hard to buy into.

Thankfully, Brewer keeps the energy high with two key dance sequences (the drive-in; a country music bar) and lots of movement that carries the viewer away from the film’s shortcomings. It’s an upbeat morality tale for the next generation, a fair nostalgia trip for fans of the original, and those of us who wish we could dance.

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to FASHION & STYLE

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Plaid is pretty in pink for fall

DEAR MATTIE:

What colours are in fashion this fall season?

Excited in Edgemont

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Dear Edgemont: From what I have been hearing ladies want and need some colour in their fall wardrobe. Lucky for you, colour is in the air. You will be inspired with all the new and bold colours, exuding a sense of daringness and self-confidence. Colour is definitely making a statement that looks luxurious.

Although, the look of all black is still in fashion, try some of the new jewel tones and see how you like the look. Jewel tones are the new, sophisticated colours this fall season.

Look for emerald, ruby, sapphire, magenta, amethyst and many more.

Of the popular jewel tones, emerald is starting to stand out as the favourite. Emerald is a versatile colour in that you can wear it as a blouse, blazer, and even in one of the colours of the popular tweeds, checks and plaids that are emerging.

Jewel tones are eye-catching.

They look best in a fabric that is soft and shiny. They look good in rayon, chiffon, silk, satin, velvet and wool.

You will start to see them everywhere.

If you find that they may be too bold for you, there is a lighter version out there. Rose, aquamarine, opal, and topaz in a washed out shade is also available.

Pink is also starting to show up as the favourite of the lighter jewel tones. It can be found from a bolder version to a light dusty rose. Many ladies sometimes have a problem with pink because it may look too feminine or soft. Pink is the new boardroom colour. It looks great with all professional wear. It also has a complimentary feature, as it flatters almost every complexion.

Accessories is a category which is definitely embracing the jewel tones.

Handbags and shoes in shiny patent or crocodile leather are hot this fall. As I mentioned earlier, black is always popular, but why not try something new in emerald, ruby or sapphire.

If you’re not into a The Wizard of Oz pair of shoes, then a small shiny jewel tone clutch can be a great addition to your wardrobe. Watches are an inexpensive way to also add jewel tones to your look because they have straps in many colours. And, you can make a bolder statement, as it is so small compared to rest of your outfit.

Plaids, checks and tweeds have become very popular this season. They are trendy in that they are not conservative. The traditional pattern has been replaced with exaggerated shapes and weaving. Mostly the colours range from black, brown to grey. If you look, you will find jewel tone threads are appearing in the patterns. You can best find this look in skirts, blazers, coats and scarves.

A very trendy look this season is the python. Even in its traditional colours, this print is fashion forward. You will see the python in many jewel tones and mostly the bold ones. I would recommend a light investment such as a wallet or a glass case.

This fall season brings many new bolder ideas with a strong statement. Jewel tones have life in them, let them speak for you.

Adieu, Mattie

Eek-O Friendly Costume Swap: Bring a costume to swap or donate to support the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre and take any costume you need this Saturday, Oct. 15, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Lavish & Lime, 272 East First St., North Vancouver. Both kids and adult costumes are welcome, along with accessories.

There will also be colouring and face painting.

Scarlet Lounge presents A Day of Hope next Tuesday, Oct. 18, 3-8 p.m. in the salon, 1868 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. The event is in support of cancer survivor Edith Karsai, with 30 per cent of the proceeds to be donated to the Canadian Lung Association and the remainder to go towards Karsai’s care.

There will be a sale of Design

by Nuala Jewelry. Door prizes, raffle and refreshments. Silent auction closes at 7:30 p.m.

Info: 604-922-5778.

Personal Appearance: On Wednesday, Oct. 19, 5 p.m. at Sephora Pacific Centre, meet the Japanese-inspired lifestyle brand tokidoki’s creator Simone Legno and be the first to experience his exclusive new holiday makeup collection, 24 Karat. Arrive early (store opens at 10 a.m.) for a chance to get a limited-edition tokidoki T-shirt or skate deck autographed by the artist — minimum purchase required.

Info: 778-331-3942.

Mattie à la Mode is a monthly fashion advice column. Mattie is a freelance writer and fashion expert.

She can be reached via email: mattiealamode@gmail.com.

Or visit her blog mattiealamode.com.

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Join us for Taize Prayer October 16th • 4pm

LOCATION: St. Agnes Anglican Church 530 East 12th Street, North Vancouver INFO: (604)-985-0408 & (604) 987-0432 Co-sponsored by St. Andrews United Church

Experience prayer in a way not commonly practised.

Take a journey to your heart where the God of silence rests.

Listen to the voice that calls from within.

Whatever your faith tradition you are invited to this Christian prayer practice that is contemplative, communal, dynamic and reflective.

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From page 23 Show: The men of the 2012 Firefighters Calendar, including North Vancouverite Matthew Haines, will take to the Main Stage at the West Coast Women’s Show, Oct. 21-23 at Tradex in Abbotsford. On Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m., catch the Calendar Firefighters Fashion Show (benefiting the Firefighters Charitable Foundation) or the 911 Fashion Show on Saturday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. Admission: $12, $9 for seniors and youth, $4 for children ages six to 12.

Cash only at the gate. Info: www.westcoastwomen.net.

— Compiled by Layne Christensen Fashion File is a weekly column.

Priority is given to North Shore events and organizations.

If your business or charity is planning an event, send info as early as possible to lchristensen@ nsnews.com.

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LESLIE Konatz, of North Shore Neighbourhood House, and Shera Allibhai, of Capilano Mall, play dress up at the recent Girly Bling and Fashion Fling second-hand clothing sale. Event proceeds will help support NSNH’s healthy family initiatives.

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AFTER taking it easy all summer long, many of us are trying to get back in shape.

While the gym or a yoga class isn’t a fashion show, it’s

nice to be stylish when you’re there — an oversized T-shirt and sweat pants just don’t cut it anymore. But workout clothes don’t come cheap.

Luckily, Old Navy has launched Active, a sportswear line featuring affordable items that are suitable for most activities, including running, yoga and pilates.

Pieces include sports bras and camis; compression tanks with built-in shelf bras; compression crop and fulllength leggings with zippered venting panels, pique mesh at the back of the knees for ease of movement and ventilation and quick-drying fabric; side shirred compression capris and pants with zippered pockets to store keys or iPods; and jackets. They come in solids and patterns that use turquoise, lime green, hot

pink and violet, to name a few. There are also a variety of men’s tops, shorts and pants available.

Recently, Old Navy teamed up with The Bar Method Vancouver to launch the line.

Ladies were invited to choose an outfit and then test it out with a Bar Method workout, which incorporates interval training, isometrics and dance conditioning.

My outfit, full-length leggings and a compression tank, held up a lot better than my shaky quads. The material was smooth and comfortable, and the tank provided enough support that I didn’t need to wear a sports bra.

Prices for the line range from $16.50 to $47.

There’s an Old Navy on the North Shore, located in The Village at Park Royal. The

Bar Method, which is a terrific workout, will also be coming to West Vancouver in the next couple of months.

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Get To Know Pat What sorts of media do you enjoy?

I listen to CBC Radio when I’m in my vehicle or at home in the mornings.

How do you spend your spare time?

I coach the Grade 7 girls’ basketball team at Cleveland elementary. It’s my 21st year doing that. Two of our daughters went to Cleveland. Last year, and it’s the second time while I’ve been there, we won the championship. The girls were thrilled. That was a particular delight.

What sort of technology does your business use?

We have the website, that’s essential. But other than a scale to weigh parcels and a calculator to do the cash on each night, we’re not a high-tech environment.

Are you involved with any community groups?

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I’m a director of the Parkinson’s Society of B.C. and I’m the president of the Edgemont Village Business Association. It makes for a full life.

BC Playthings

PAT GALLAHER

B

uilding a small business selling toys is hard enough.

Building one that shuns the latest passing fads takes some real commitment.

That’s what Pat Gallaher has. His Edgemont Village store, B.C. Playthings, has just celebrated 35 years in business, delivering what he calls “child-centred, not profit-centred” toys. Renowned children’s entertainers Norman Foote and Charlotte Diamond came by to help mark the occasion.

“We buy things that will involve a child, so they won’t be a spectator,” he said. “They’ll be a participant in their play. We avoid things that encourage or promote violence. We don’t tend to carry licensed things because you’re paying for the licence, not just the product. To give an example, if you buy a sand pail with an image of Donald Duck on the side, you’re paying 25 to 35 per cent more than you should because you’re paying for the licence — or they’ve cut corners on the manufacturing so they can squeeze out the extra.”

But if you’re looking for blocks, dolls, art supplies, puppets, train sets, or other timeless, genuine toys, B.C. Playthings is the place to go.

Gallaher was the first male graduate of Capilano’s early childhood education program, in 1975. Shortly after, he and some of his fellow preschool teachers had an idea to start a buying co-op for preschools and daycares.

“We put on a few meetings,” Gallaher recalled. “First meeting, 20 people came. Second meeting, six people came.

Third meeting, two people came.”

The plan came to nothing, but Gallaher had already put a lot of time into researching suppliers across North America and Europe.

“I was reluctant to let all this energy go to waste. I’m not sure I knew what I was starting but I started B.C. Playthings in my house for the first two years.”

While he worked full-time at the college’s bookstore to pay

BC Playthings the bills, Gallaher’s wife Hermila handled what was largely a mail-order business. After two and half years, they were able to open a small storefront and Gallaher devoted all his time to the business.

“Like any small business, it’s more than full-time if you’re really committed. But I have a passion for it, which is one of the reasons I’ve lasted 35 years,” he said.

Another reason for the business’ endurance is the countless hours of help Gallaher received from his family.

“Over the years, my sister worked in the company for a number of years. Up until recently my Mom has worked one afternoon a week for thirty years. One of my daughters was a packer when she was a teenager. Our mail order was so big then we had people whose only job was to come in and pack parcels.

Another daughter created our website. Like many tiny or small businesses, I couldn’t afford to pay someone to do that. I’m blessed to have that input for family members.”

Today, Gallaher’s youngest daughter Bree has taken a leading role in the store.

“I’d never want to hang the company around one of their necks like an anvil,” he said. “Everyone has their own ambitions in life. But she’s worked there since she was 12 years old and she’s caught part of my passion. She’s there for the right reasons.”

Almost all of B.C. Playthings’ business is through the storefront now, although customers still often browse through the excellent, exhaustive website. The bulk of the marketing, said Gallaher, is word of mouth — from teacher to parent, neighbour to neighbour, and parent to child.

“I must say one of the most rewarding things on a personal basis is being in the store when three people walk in the door and you can tell they are three generations of a family.

Sometimes the person in the middle will say ‘Mum, didn’t I have one of those when I was little?’ And the grandmother says ‘Yes, we got it at B.C. Playthings.’ And my heart sings.”

key to success We believe childhood is an adventure of exploration.

Well-chosen playthings provide opportunities for discovery.

find us at 3070 Edgemont Blvd, N. Vancouver telephone 604 986 4111 email bcplaythings123@gmail.com internet www.bcplaythings.com

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Get To Know Joanne What are your hobbies?

I love reading. I’ve always been interested in psychology and studying what makes people tick. I’ve been a Toastmaster for 25 years. I’m a past district governor. And I’m not a golfer, but I like putting.

What technology makes your life easier?

Our accounting software is attached to our accountant. It’s more valuable for me to spend my time looking after our customers and making sure the store looks good.

Are you involved in any community groups?

The North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce.

What’s the biggest advance in your industry?

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Microfibre. People like it because cats don’t claw it and it cleans well.

Couch Potato

JOANNE, JUDY AND RITA

I

t didn’t take long for Joanne Morrison to figure out what she wanted to do with her life.

“When I was kid one of the first things I would do is go to antique stores,” she said. “So when I was allowed to take the bus, besides going skating, that’s what I would do. And I thought I’d love to have a furniture store — like this one. I had no idea back then how you got new furniture because I was about 14. I read decorating magazines, put wallpaper on my boxes in the closet so they looked prettier.

It’s always been an interest.”

Joanne has turned that early interest into a career, selling furniture for major stores and representing manufacturers. She even ended up marrying someone in the furniture industry.

In 2009, they purchased Couch Potato, at 14th and Pemberton. These days, Joanne shares the sales floor with Judy and Rita. Her son also helps with the store, making this even more like a family-run business.

The store’s light, open space helps her customers get the right pieces in the right colours for the right rooms.

“We try to make it easy for customers,” Joanne said. “We have all our fabrics in fairly large sizes and they are hung up so you can see them. It just makes them so easy to work with. We show a lot of styles on the floor and the sizes things can come in. Obviously we can’t show them all, but we’ll show a sofa and chair, but it also comes in a chair and a half, or an apartment sofa and a love seat. You choose a style for comfort and size in

the room and then they get to pick a fabric. Some customers take the fabric home so they can see it in their own lighting.”

As a small businessperson, besides connecting people with the right furniture, Joanne enjoys the variety of selecting styles and fabrics for the store, moving furniture and even keeping things clean.

“You really get to do it all,” she laughed.

But the core of her work is still connecting people with the right furniture.

“It’s really nice when we’re doing well and I feel I’ve had an influence on that,” she said. “We had this nice guy from Richmond call and ask if there is a Couch Potato closer to him and I said ‘Sorry, no.’ He had a bad back and was looking for a chair and ottoman. He made the trip here from Richmond and we looked at what would fit him best for size. Now he sends his friends here. When someone insists their friend has to drive all the way here from Richmond, that’s really rewarding to know it meant that much to him.”

Although some clients do hail from south of the bridges, the bulk of Couch Potato’s business comes from the North Shore.

“People here are very loyal to North Shore businesses. We really see a range of people though — people just starting out, singles, young marrieds, couples who are downsizing. Lots of people are doing renovations right now.”

key to success For me it’s about our customers’ comfort and helping them to enjoy their home. When they tell their friends about us, that’s my best reward! find us at 1405 Pemberton Ave, N. Vancouver Mon-Fri 9:30am-5:30pm Sun 12pm - 5pm telephone 604 988 8271

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Get To Know Me What charity groups are you involved with?

Sunshine Dreams for Kids is the charity we support. We’ve sent kids to Disneyland and bought wheelchairs and so on. We help fufill dreams of kids that are disadvantaged.

It is very rewarding knowing when working together as a team, our support can really make a difference to these kids.

Do you play any sports?

Hockey. Hockey, hockey, hockey.

Usually on the wing, but I can play anywhere. I’m on an adult recreational team. I love watching the Giants play and I think the Canucks are going to go all the way this season!!

Did you consider any other careers?

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My background was in the constuction field. I have built homes and done a lot of design work. It gives me great satisfaction to create something for someone’s enjoyment.

And of course this kind of work experience is beneficial in helping customers decide what flooring is best for which application.

It is great knowledge to have when I go on site to do estimates and get into some great discussions!

End of the Roll

BRAD JOHNSON

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rad Johnson’s only regret in opening an End of the Roll store in the North Shore is that he hadn’t done it sooner.

Brad had owned End of the Roll franchises before, and knew he had a good reason to be picky.

He needed a large enough building to play to End of the Roll’s strength — size. Finding the right building and location took several years. “It might have taken some time but the North Shore is a fantastic market” he says. “We have a very strong clientele.

“What separates us from everyone else is the fact that End of the Roll is the biggest Canadian Flooring Retailer. We stand alone, compared to anyone. Our strongest point is our size and our buying power.” Brad says. “Because of our size, we buy the most from the suppliers, so we can negotiate a better price than what an independent store would do. In retail sales it’s all about how much you can buy at once. In doing so we are able to provide our customers with the best value at End of the Roll.”

Keeping all that volume in the building means Johnson’s store can move on customer’s requests right away without having to wait for an order to arrive from a distant warehouse. “We can install quickly. People can come in, pick their product and we’ll have it installed usually within a week. If you had to do a special order, it could take up to two weeks.”

What some homeowners might not know is that, despite the name, End of the Roll offers more than just carpets.

“We are one of the few in the Vancouver area that has

inventory on the floor. We have full rolls of carpet, vinyl, laminate, flooring accessories, and area rugs — a lot of people don’t know that we’re big into area rugs, and hardwood as well.

The only thing we don’t do is ceramic tile.”

While turning over that big inventory, Brad and his staff of six keep their ears to the floor when it comes to interior design trends.

“Colour shades and style are ever changing depending on the trends. The product we’re selling today wasn’t a big seller a year or two ago. It comes and goes and you have to keep up with the times. We get a lot of feedback from our customers. They guide us as to where style is going. When trends pick up in a certain direction, we’ll take our inventory in that direction.”

Now an authorized HGTV HOME Flooring by Shaw Dealer, End of the Roll customers have access to view Shaw Floor options through their comprehensive website www.hgtv.com.

They encourage their customers to visit that to be inspired, be educated and choose Shaw floors for beauty, comfort and lifetime warranties that protect against…. life.

Catering primarily to homeowners rather than builders, Johnson knows he has to keep their browsing and buying experience a pleasant one.

“The system we follow is to make it simple and easy for our customers, we have samples ready for them to peruse and to take home as well to help them decide before they buy. Here at End of the Roll we make customer service our competitive edge.”

key to success It is my team.

They all take pride to work together to do the job well. This commitment is how we have kept the satisfaction and trust of our customers. find us at 1570 Main St, N. Vancouver telephone 604 985 4200 email northvan@endoftheroll.com internet www.endoftheroll.com

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Get To Know Me What are you reading or watching right now?

I read so many textbooks and research papers that it’s hard to find the time to read a good fiction book. But I really enjoy watching Dancing with the Stars with my wife.

What are your hobbies or interests?

Racing is a huge interest, but it’s kind of a selfish thing. Maybe when I’m older and have some money kicking around I’ll take it up again. I’m newly married so most of my energy is focused on that right now.

But I’m still a closet F1 fan, and I play a lot of recreational hockey. We’ve got a great hockey subculture here. I like to get outside as well. The first thing my wife and I did when we got here was buy a couple of bikes.

NEWS Photo Mike Wakefield

Are you involved with any charity or commmunity groups?

Gregory R. Stevens, BA

CIM

TD WATERHOUSE INVESTMENT ADVISOR

G

When I got here I was really looking to get involved with the community. The Rotary Club seemed like a great way to network and also give back. I serve on their community service committee. Right now we are looking at a way to help people who are hearing impaired. We have a hearing foundation in St. Paul’s Hospital and we help drill clean water wells in Africa.

regory Stevens knows a thing or two about performance. Before he started managing the investment portfolios of his West Vancouver clients, Greg was part of a NASCAR pit crew and frequently found his way into the driver’s seat in Formula 2000.

“It was a really good time, pursuing that dream,” he said.

“Growing up in Alberta, there wasn’t much to do except slide your car around and I did that quite a bit.”

After “getting that out of his system,” Greg came back to the other half of his education.

“I really enjoyed math and pursued economics because of that. I really thought it was interesting how businesses decided on price and how governments made decisions that best suit everyone,” he said.

Greg started his banking career with Toronto Dominion literally on the ground floor, as a teller.

“That was my foot in the door,” he recalled, “but I always knew the investment side of things was where my interests laid.

So I updated all my securities licences as fast as possible and made my superiors painfully aware of where I wanted to go and how quickly I thought I could go there.”

You don’t have to talk to Greg long before his passion for his work comes through. The importance of good advice hit home for him early on, he said, when he saw how badly his sister’s file was being handled.

“I found most of the investments were designed to produce fees for the advisor,” he said. “There’s a lot of people in the same boat. They haven’t had those conversations with their advisor about education and understanding what their portfolio was

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doing and where it was supposed to go – how to save, how to plan, how to budget, and what to expect from the economy.”

Greg manages about 40 households’ money now, and says the North Shore has been “a great environment.”

“People on the North Shore are pretty down to earth and it’s easy for me to relate to them,” he said.

“I have a range of clients. Families, business owners and professionals. For the most part I work with people who need help – they don’t have the time. Typically they are running a business themselves or they’re a professional working long hours. It’s quite a mix and that’s one of the best parts of the job, meeting people and learning about their experiences. I have a client from India who came here as a teacher and she wrote a cookbook based on what she learned from her mother, who learned from her mother and so on. So now I have this cookbook with recipes that are probably hundreds of years old.”

While it’s rewarding, Greg said that level of intimacy – “an uncommon understanding,” he calls it – is also his biggest challenge.

“It’s a huge job. My job is to build a relationship with the client, understand their values and their core beliefs, and try to apply that to their portfolio. It’s a lot of trust and a lot of responsibility.”

Part of that trust, Greg said, as well as working towards his clients’ varied investment performance goals, is providing a frank assessment of the economy and his own industry.

“I think there’s a lot of skepticism – for good reason – with how the markets and the industry are looked at,” he said.

“That’s one of the challenges, making sure people are acutely aware of the fact that I share their values and I’m looking out for their interests.”

key to success You have to have passion andbelieve in what you’re doing. You have to have conviction. find me at 520-17th St, W. Vancouver telephone 604 981 4410 email greg.stevens@td.com internet www.advisors.tdwaterhouse.ca/greg.stevens

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Get To Know Me What books or films have you enjoyed lately?

I recently read The Help and saw the movie, I spent many of my summers in the 60s in the southern states and the author did an amazing job of capturing the truth of what went on then. I also read Secret Sister and it made me even more motivated to speak at women’s groups on believing in and following your dreams.

How do you spend whatever free time you have?

I love to cook so I entertain a fair amount.

I also have a house in Palm Desert and go there as often as I can get away.

What’s your favourite gadget?

I think I must have most of them – Blackberry, iPad, laptop and computer – and I don’t have a favourite because I have mastered none of them. These gadgets definitely make it easier to work when away from home and keep in contact every day.

NEWS Photo Mike Wakefield

What is the biggest change in your industry?

Holly’s Salons & Schools

HOLLY BACK

A

sk Holly Back what it takes to be successful in business and in life, and without hesitation she’ll say commitment and balance.

As a wife, mother, grandmother, businesswomen, local politician and tireless volunteer, it sometimes is a bit of a juggling act to create that balance, but she seems to achieve it effortlessly.

When people are thinking of going into business for themselves they will often come to Holly for advice. The first question she asks them is, “How much time are you able to commit to this business and still keep a good healthy balance with your family?”

After leaving a teaching position at Carson Graham secondary in 1998 and completing her masters of education degree, the lifelong North Vancouver resident decided to fuse her experiences in hairdressing and education. It is a novel business model: a hairdressing school and salon under one roof.

The salon has appreciated a slow steady growth that has maintained a family team spirit amongst the staff. They have more then tripled in size over the past 14 years. “A few staff have left over the years to see if the grass really is greener on the other side but I am very happy they have recently returned to our team. We missed them, said Holly” The school has taken a different approach to education than in the beginning. They have created a boutique-style school model, with smaller class sizes and a more relaxed learning environment. One of North America’s top stylists liked this model so well he chose Holly’s school for his son to attend.

Over the years their students have not only become great stylists

Holly’s Salons & Schools throughout the province but also many of them have opened their own salons and created jobs for others. “I am very proud when my former students call me for help to open their own businesss” said Holly with a smile. “It is a great feeling to watch these people follow your footsteps in their career paths.”

“Seeing the success of both my staff and students is extremely rewarding for me,” she added.

Holly understands the importance of being involved in the community. She volunteers to speak at a variety of events on many different topics including fashion of today, starting a business, building self-esteem, and even some ideas on home fashion renovation.

The team at Holly’s also understands the value of giving back to their community. They pitch in to help out at different events – as many as 75 fundraisers for cancer each year – as well as just about every school silent auction on the North Shore. Holly’s gives thousands of dollars and hours of time annually to these events and they are proud to do it.

In between launching her own charity events, picking up awards such as Women of Distinction, Best Employer, Business Person of the Year, North Shore News Readers’ Choice (12 years running) Chatelaine Magazine Women of Inspiration for Canada, and North Shore Outlook Women of Excellence, she also found time to serve as Trustee for the North Vancouver School Board of Education for the past 3 years. At the next municipal election in November you will probably see her name on the ballot for District of North Vancouver councillor, and continuing to serve her community in a new and positive way.

Our industry is forever changing. It is fashion. I think that is why I got into it.

I love change, it is healthy.

One big change I would like to believe that has happened over the years is that salon owners are more like colleagues now rather then competitors.

key to success Integrity honesty and respect.

Keep a healthy balance in your life with work and family because when one hurts, the other suffers.

find us at 140 East 14th St., N. Vancouver telephone 604 904 3437 email hollyb@hollyshair.com internet www.hollyshair.com

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Get To Know Trevor and John Hobbies?

Trevor: I like to golf. I like to watch golf on TV, believe it or not. I like spending time with my family. John: I love the outdoors, riding my ATV and enjoying my boat. I strive to find a good work/family balance.

What gadgets do you carry?

Trevor: I have an iPhone but I only use about one per cent of its capacity. John: I have one of those too. Technology today is so amazing.

What charity groups are you involved with?

We donate materials to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. We help out the local schools with either donations or materials when they want to build a playground. We donate money to Boy Scouts of Canada.

We do fundraising for cancer and also for Remembrance Day. There’s a bunch more.We want to give back. Without the community we wouldn’t be here.

NEWS Photo Mike Wakefield

What’s the biggest change for your business?

The insulating value of homes. Better insulation, better windows, better doors.

Those sort of things help not only the homeowner but our ecology as well.

Irly Building Centre

TREVOR STEPHENSON AND JOHN HORSNELL

A

s the 1970s drew to a close, Trevor Stephenson and his business partner were looking for a new challenge.

“The building business can be up and down pretty dramatically depending on the economy,” Trevor said. “Plus it’s seasonal, you’re working outside in the rain. We thought we’d like to be in the building supply business.

So we gave it a try — it seemed an exciting opportunity.”

Thirty-three years later, Trevor has made the most of that opportunity. Now partnering with John Horsnell, Woodstop Building Supplies has thrived in Lynn Valley, expanding into the neighbouring property after a few years and just recently spinning off a dedicated door and window outlet, North Shore Door. Already an Irly Building-affliated centre, Woodstop has also just signed up with TIM-BR MART, bringing a wider range of goods through the doors at sharper prices.

Whether you’re looking for hardware or materials, from plumbing to electrical to lumber to paint, Woodstop’s got what you need to turn an idea into reality. Along with their gear, some people need a bit of experienced advice.

“On the contractor side, most of them are pretty confident about what they want,” Trevor said. “But we do a lot of special order business, where they come in with a request and we’ll do some research to get them what they need to complete a job — match a door, match a window, that kind of thing. With the retail customers, they come here because of the longevity we’ve had and the knowledge of our staff. So they certainly come here if they want to build a deck or fix their plumbing or do their electrical or put some drywall or insulation up — we can help them with that.”

DIVISION OF WOODSTOP BUILDING SUPPLIES

Most of his customers are from the North Shore, and Trevor estimates 85 per cent of them are contractors. But even a seasoned professional appreciates the hands-on approach of the 14 Woodstop employees, many of who have decades of experience in the building industry.

“That gives us an edge over the big-box stores. That’s the feedback we get from our customers — ‘I bought what I wanted there and they wouldn’t help me load it.’ We’ll help you put the gyproc on your car, help you put the lumber in, that sort of thing. Whereas at big-box stores, you’re often on your own.”

That kind of service requires hard work and long hours. Both John and Trevor are in the office before 7 a.m. each morning, ordering stock and managing the larger business.

“I’m basically the general manager, with all the business and office duties that go with that, but I’m involved in the sales side of it as well, and John is an excellent complement – he is the ‘attention-to-details guy” Trevor said. “The most challenging part is on the retail side. People expect things instantaneously and they want you to be open 24-7. We try to accommodate that as best we can. We are open seven days a week. North Shore’s homeowners expect the best in customer service and we constantly strive to be the best.

Trevor relishes dealing with a variety of people and the challenge of running a small business.

“It keeps you occupied, that’s for sure,” he said, “just being able to open the doors every day and employ as many people as we do. We also help local charities and we serve the community.

I think those are all pretty good things.”

key to success Optimism.

Persistence would be another one.

You have to constantly work at being successful.

find us at 1335 Draycott Rd., N Vancouver telephone 604 986 5281 internet www.irlybuildingcentre.com

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Get To Know Me We asked Dr. Liebenberg: Favourite technological gadget?

None. My favourite “gadgets” are my bicycles; North Shore riding is the best in the world and the trails are literally in our back yard. Two of my daughters rode the Gran Fondo with me in Sept - priceless! – Who needs technological gadgets?

Favourite music?

I appreciate all types of music, yet never tire of classical music. Music from the baroque period is my favorite, although my Beethoven collection would be my “stranded on an island” choice.

What are you reading?

I am reading In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate a local physician who directed Vancouver’s downtown eastside medical clinic for ten years. The book is disturbing as it examines addiction and homelessness within our city, realities that only affect us when we take a wrong turn into Gastown. The message I have gained thus far is that we all need to achieve greater humility in how we face the world and the people we’d like to think of as lesser individuals.

NEWS Photo Mike Wakefield

If you weren’t a dentist, what would you do?

Westview Dental Clinic DR. WILLIAM LIEBENBERG

N

orth Shore dentist Dr. William Liebenberg has finally got his dream team together; he beams as he says, “Molly has been part of the office for over ten years now, and continues to be the most amazing person on the planet. There are literally hundreds of young adults who adore her for the kind and loving care she delivered at their first dental experience back when they were barely out of diapers!

Cherry has taken over the position of resident full time oral hygienist, with 16 years of experience as a dentist she now limits her practice to hygiene and has the hands and heart of an angel. Christie our certified dental assistant comes from a prosthodontic background and as such has proven to be a valuable team member and approaches her duties with diligence, compassion and excellence.

Our wonderful receptionist Leah has left for Toronto to pursue her career in journalism and Nargis, a recent (and top) graduate from the dental receptionist program has surprised us with her non flustered organized approach to running our front office. She is kind, considerate and empathetic towards the needs of our patients.

A total bonus was the addition of my daughter Tamryn, who is thinking of pursuing a career in oral hygiene and is for now testing the waters and has brought her organizational skills to our office and has everybody performing at optimal efficiency.

Liebenberg owns and runs the Westview Dental Clinic in

North Vancouver. They offer esthetic and clinical dental services and are always welcoming new patients as well as keeping their loyal client base in excellent dental health. As we know, a visit to the dentist isn’t everyone’s favourite experience, and for some, the event can be panic-inducing. For Liebenberg, taking the time to minimize anxiety for every patient and making the dental experience as relaxing as possible is the reason he’s here. He and his five-person team are constantly refining and tweaking their approach to patient care.

Liebenberg is convinced that the first dental visits of a child’s life are critical to their life-long relationship with dental care and he and his team go out of their way to make children feel so happy that they’ll never fear the dentist.

“We literally treat everyone like we want to be treated, it’s that simple.” Liebenberg says. “Every time we have a staff meeting, we discuss what we as individuals value in a five-star customer care facility” To Liebenberg, serving the community is a privilege, not a quick buck. Alongside his practice, he has taught clinical dentistry around the world, and has published over 130 articles on the subject.

“We’re here for the patients. It’s more than dental care. It’s actually health care. Although, it is the source of our income, the focus is on providing care in a diligent, competent and respectful manner.”

I’d be a combination of a carpenter and an artist. I marvel at the creative potential of the imprecise effort of abstract art as opposed to the precision of dentistry.

The allure of a blank canvas can be all consuming. A meditation in itself.

key to success Treat people how you want to be treated.

They may forget the treatment provided but they always remember how you made them feel.

find us at # 201 - 2609 Westview Dr, N. Vancouver telephone 604 985 3999 email williamliebenberg@shaw.ca

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CALENDAR From page 22 music Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Tickets: $10 at the door.

Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Info and reservations: 604-925-7292 or www.silkpurse.ca.

200 Years of Liszt: Don Mowatt will celebrate the life and music of Franz Liszt through dramatization and song with Carolyn Finlay as Listz’s daughter and pianist Krystyna Tucka, Thursday, Oct. 20 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15/$12.

Dixieland Jazz: A performance by Lloyd Arntzen, Peter Vanderhorst and the Red Onion Rhythm Kings Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20/$18.

Vancouver Masonic Centre: 1495 West Eighth Ave., Vancouver.

Colour of My Dreams: North Vancouver pianist Vlada Mars will perform a benefit concert for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20/$15/$10.

Info: 778-554-6277 or www.vladamars.com.

The Vogue Theatre: 918 Granville St., Vancouver.

Cap Global Roots Series: The Campbell Brothers will perform a concert of African-American gospel music Saturday, Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $29-$42.

West Vancouver Memorial Library: 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-925-7407 or www.westvanlib.org.

Friday Night Concert Series: Guitarist and singer/songwriter Don Alder will perform Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Free.

AUSTRIAN Jagerhof Restaurant

$$$

Hurricane Grill

$$

Food and service that will blow you away.Tons of TVs for all your sports action. Steak & Prawn Thursday. Prime Rib Fridays.

Weekend brunch.

Inexpensive ($9-12) $ $ Fine Dining ($15-25) $ $ $ $ Live Music Open Mic/Karaoke DJ Big Screen Sports WiFi

north shore’s entertainment guide

Wheelchair Accessible

$$

Excellent seafood and British dishes on the Waterfront. Friday and Saturday, Prime Rib Dinner.

Sunday,Turkey Dinner.Weekends and Holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny. Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

2nd Floor Lonsdale Quay Market, N. Van. 604-987-3322

CASUAL DINING The MarinaSide Grill

$

1352 Lonsdale Ave., N. Van. 604-988-9885

Fatburger

BRITISH

Moderate ($13-15) $ $ $

Neighbourhood Noodles House

EAT-IN/TAKE-OUT

999 Marine Drive, N. Van. 604-983-9444

The Cheshire Cheese Restaurant & Bar

GREEK

North Shore’s best variety & quality Chinese food.Serving Lunch & Dinner 7 days a week.Eat in,10% off takeout.Free delivery min.$20.00 order within 3 kms.

BAR & GRILL

LEGEND

THEATRE Capilano University Performing Arts Theatre: 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. Tickets: 604-990-7810 or www.capilanou. ca/nscucentre.

Cap Theatre Series — 7 Stories: A comedy about a man contemplating suicide on the seventh-storey ledge of a building is confronted by the stories of the people who live inside Oct. 19-22 at 8 p.m. and Oct. 22 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $22/$14/$8.

Deep Cove Shaw Theatre: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

Info and tickets: 604-929-3200 or www.deepcovestage.com.

Book of Days: A dark comic mystery will run Wednesdays to Saturdays until Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. Admission: $18/$16.

Jericho Arts Centre: 1675 Discovery St., Vancouver.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: A musical comedy where Vaudeville meets Rome until Oct. 22 at 8 p.m.

Admission: $30/$20. Tickets: www.jerichoartscentre.com or 604-

CHINESE

Best Little Schnitzel House in Town 71 Lonsdale Ave, N. Van. 604-980-4316

Bargain Fare ($5-8) $

West Vancouver United Church: 2062 Esquimalt Ave., West Vancouver.

Over the River and Through the Woods: A celebration of Thanksgiving in hymns and song by the Pacific Spirit Children’s Choir, EnChor and the Vancouver Community College Madrigal Singers Sunday, Oct. 16 at 3 p.m. A pumpkin pie reception will follow the concert. Admission by donation with proceeds to the North Shore Lookout Society.

$

Enjoy your waterfront dining experience with our extensive menus.From eggs bennie and big juicy burgers during our popular brunches to our famous prime rib, scallop salad,clam chowder,king crab,steaks,lamb,seafood style cordon bleu.Room’s available for private parties and a large free parking lot.

1653 Columbia St, N. Van. 2 blks South of Main & Mtn Hwy under bridge 604-988-0038 www.marinagrill.com

$$

This iconic burger joint has paired up with B.C.’s own famous Breakfast Legend, Ricky’s All Day Grill to bring you the best of both worlds: hand-cut Home Style Onion Rings, hand-scooped real Ice Cream Shakes, and the juiciest burgers in town, made with 100% AAA Alberta beef as well as Ricky’s Famous Big Breakfasts, beautiful Bennies and All Day Breakfast selections.

1995 Lonsdale Ave., N. Van. 604-904-4430 www.fatburger.com

$$

Now featuring Live Music every Friday @ 8pm. Open everyday @ Noon for lunch.Voted one of the top 5 Greek restaurants in the Lower Mainland.With our outstanding food, reasonable prices, friendly service and candle-lit charm you will see why so many people call it their favourite restaurant. Call for delivery/take out tonight or come in for a relaxing Mediterranean experience.

1356 Marine Dr, N. Van. 604-985-7955

INDIAN Handi Cuisine of India

The Observatory

$$$$

The Salmon House

$$$$

An epicurean experience 3700’ above the twinkling lights of Vancouver.

Grouse Mtn, 6400 Nancy Greene Way, N. Van. 604-998-4403

Serving spectacular views and fine, indigenous west coast cuisine for over 30 years. Lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch. Live entertainment in Coho Lounge on weekend evenings.

2229 Folkestone Way, W. Van. Reservations: www.salmonhouse.com or call 604-926-3212

$$

Reader’s Choice 2006 Winner offering Authentic Indian Cuisine.

Open for lunch and dinner,7 days a week.Weekend buffet,ocean view,free delivery.

1340 Marine Dr., W. Van. 604-925-5262 www.handi-restaurant.com

FRENCH $$$

A West Vancouver Favorite for 25 years. Daily specials.

1373 Marine Dr. (2nd flr) W. Van. 604-926-4913

Where one spicy sauce does not fit all. Readers’ Choice award winning restaurant for 5 years!

Open for Lunch & Dinner.

Lunch Buffet $10.95.

116 East 15th St, N. Van. 604-986-7555 www.palkirestaurant.com

MALAYSIAN Tamarind Hill Malaysian Cuisine

DANCE Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Tickets: www.kaymeekcentre.com or 604-913-3634.

Woza Afrika — Youth 4 Youth: The ProArte dancers will perform the Afro-fusion dance opera Muti Usina Zita with original music followed by several youth choirs Saturday, Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m.

All proceeds will go to youth education in Gugulethu and other See more page 34

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Palki Best Indian Cuisine $ $

FINE DINING

Chez Michel

Kypriaki Taverna

224-8007, ext. 3.

Presentation House Theatre: 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets and info: 604-990-3474 or www.phtheatre.org.

Kismet One to One Hundred: Four artists set out across Canada to interview 100 people — ages one to 100 — to find out what they believe about kismet, until Oct. 22, Tuesday to Saturday at 8 p.m., Saturday matinee at 4 p.m. and Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets: $12-$28. At the matinee on Saturday, Oct. 15 you can pay only what you think the show was worth and then stick around for a barbecue on the house immediately after the show.

Theatre at Hendry Hall: 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver.

Reservations: 604-983-2633 or www.northvanplayers.ca.

The Woman in Black: An English ghost story will run Oct. 21, 22, 26-29 and Nov. 2-5 with a preview on Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $18/$16.

$$

The pinnacle of Malaysian Cuisine.

We are open 7 days a week for lunch & dinner. Hours of operation are Monday-Sunday 11:30am3:00pm for lunch,Sunday-Thursday 5:00pm-9:30pm for dinner and Friday/Saturday 5:00pm-10:00pm for dinner.

10% discount for take out with min. $25 order.

1440 Lonsdale Avenue, N. Van. 604 990 0111 www.tamarindhill.ca

The Black Bear Pub

SEAFOOD $$

Voted Best Pub on the North Shore for a reason. Extensive menu with weekly & daily food/ drink features plus full Take-Out menu. Free parking and close to public transit. 20 plus drafts on tap. Reserve your special event or party today [8-30 ppl - excluding Fridays]. Follow the Bear on Facebook & Twitter.

1177 Lynn Valley Road, N. Van 604.990.8880 www.blackbearpub.com

The Rusty Gull

$$

A Lower Lonsdale legend for 23 years. Home to the best in live music Wed, Fri, Sat & Sun nights. Great food selection that surpasses the norm.The best weekend breakfasts ‘til 2pm.

Great selection of import draft.All Canucks PPV games on the big screens.

175 East 1st St., N. Van. 604-988-5585

Sailor Hagar’s Neighbourhood Pub

$$

C-Lovers Fish & Chips

$$

The best fish & chips on the North Shore!

Marine Dr. @ Pemberton, N. Van. 604-980-9993

The Fish House In Stanley Park

$$$

While strolling in the park,enjoy exceptional seafood in one of our unique dining rooms,patios,or oyster bar. Weekend brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Afternoon tea,daily from 2 p.m.to 4 p.m. Come and join us... we are just a bridge away!

8901 Stanley Park Drive, Van (Where the west end meets Stanley Park) 604-681-7275 www.fishhousestanleypark.com

Montgomery’s Fish & Chips$

The fastest growing Fish & Chips on the North Shore.

International Food Court, Lonsdale Quay Market 604-929-8416

THAI Thai PudPong Restaurant

$$

Offers an excellent menu, the best craft brewed ales & lagers in Vancouver, live music, satellite sports, pool table, dart boards & heated patio with a spectacular city view.

86 Semisch Ave., N. Van. 604-984-3087

West Vancouver’s original Thai Restaurant. Serving authentic Thai cuisine. Open Monday-Friday for lunch. 7 days a week for dinner.

1474 Marine Dr., W. Van. 604-921-1069 www.thaipudpong.com

Village Tap House

WEST COAST

$$

Damn good pub! We try to take everything that’s good about a pub, and leave out what’s not, then add lots more good… Start with a comfortable room around a giant fireplace, add 20 ice cold brews on tap, really damn good food, some awesome events, and pretty much the most personable group of folks you’ll ever meet… and welcome to the Village Tap House! Come in for dinner, to catch the game on our dozens of high-def flat screens, or check the events page to see what’s happening this week.

1C - 900 Main Street, Village at Park Royal, West Vancouver 604-922-8882 info@villagetaphouse.com

The Lobby Restaurant at the Pinnacle Hotel

$$$

Inspired by BC’s natural abundance of fabulous seafood and the freshest of ingredients, dishes are prepared to reflect west coast cuisine. Open 7-days a week for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night lounge.

138 Victory Ship Way, N. Van. 604-973-8000 www.pinnaclepierhotel.com

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kay meek centre

1700 Mathers Ave, West Vancouver

VANCOUVER RECITAL SOCIETY AT KAY MEEK CENTRE

Sponsored by Amica at West Vancouver A Wellness and Vitailty™ Residence

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CALENDAR From page 33 townships in South Africa.

Tickets: $35/$20.

CLUBS AND PUBS Jack Lonsdale’s Pub: 1433 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9867333.

Live music every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m.

La Zuppa: 1544 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-986-6556.

Fiesta Flamenco every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, tapas and wine, 6:30 p.m., music, 8:30 p.m.

Ocean Club Restaurant and Lounge: 105-100 Park Royal, West Vancouver. Info: 604-9262326.

Live jazz every Tuesday, 7 p.m.;

Maxim Rysanov viola

SUN NOV 16 3 PM

Pre-performance talk at 2:15pm

Oxford Times wrote, “Hearing him play is like hearing music for the first time.” Indeed, Maxim Rysanov has established himself as one of the world’s best and most charismatic viola players.

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Friday, October 14, 2011 - North Shore News - A35

A36 - North Shore News - Friday, October 14, 2011

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Pianist returns home for Sinfonia debut

Avan Yu will help the ensemble celebrate Liszt’s 200th birthday ■ Lions Gate Sinfonia at Centennial Theatre, Saturday, Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

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ONE of the world’s most acclaimed young pianists will take the stage at Centennial Theatre tomorrow to help Lions Gate Sinfonia open their season.

Avan Yu, 24, is taking a break from his studies in Berlin to perform, among other pieces, Franz Liszt’s intricate piano concerto No. 1.

It’s also a homecoming of sorts for Yu. Originally from Hong Kong, he received much of his musical instruction in Lions Bay, studying with Kenneth Broadway and Ralph Markham, who themselves enjoyed a distinguished 20-year performing career before moving into teaching in 1999.

“I’m really looking forward to this performance,” Yu says, speaking with the North Shore News from Berlin. “It’s always wonderful to play back home. I’ll get to see a lot of family and friends too. The different thing about playing in North Vancouver is you actually know a lot of the people you’re playing with. Not only the audience members but the conductor and the violinists and so on. I’ve known a lot of these people for years.”

Yu said the opportunity to perform alongside many of his early mentors, including conductor Clyde Mitchell, will be a very personal moment.

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ORIGINALLY from Hong Kong, pianist Avan Yu received much of his musical instruction in Lions Bay, studying with Kenneth Broadway and Ralph Markham.

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■ Bjork — Biophilia (Warner Music) Rating: 9 (out of 10) Naturalist Edward O. Wilson’s hypothesis that there is an instinctive bond between human beings and other living systems supplied Björk Guðmundsdóttir with the title and science for her latest project. She’s taken care of the esthetics herself.

Biophilia inextricably bundles her organic musical thoughts with the technology used to produce them. She brought in various electronic gizmos as part of the creative process and a live preview earlier this year in Manchester, England featured her performing with an Icelandic choir and custom-made instruments (such as a Tesla coil, gamelan percussion and four “gravity harps” suspended on pendulums) controlled by iPads.

This musical arsenal is also at her disposal on the Biophilia recording. The clicks and whirs of the sonic flow effortlessly move back and forth between pop music and sound experimentation. Like a shamanistic Charles Ives Bjork is creating a universal symphony one app at a time. Brilliant, essential music.

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Something of a pop star in her own country her 2003 album (Yol Bolsin) with the late French producer Hector Zazou mixed traditional Eastern concepts with Western modernism.

Nazarkhan’s latest releaseTortadur sticks strictly to the rich traditional Central Asian repertoire and features her performing with a who’s who of classically-trained Uzbek musicians.

— John Goodman ■ Various Artists — The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams (Sony Music) Rating: 7 (out of 10) Four notebooks of Hank Williams lyrics moved around Nashville vaults for decades before Bob Dylan was given a chance to take a look at them.

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Pops learned to play blues with the best 33rd, or 35th or 37th — we called it the “Dirty Thirties.”

We lived in the “Dirty Thirties” and we all went to Doolittle Grammar School. They were in a higher grade, they were all older than me. I was the youngest but my brother, Sam Cooke and all of these guys would get together. I remember hearing them in the summertime downstairs singing doowop.

That was another one who was there — Pookie Hudson — he was with The Spaniels. He sang “Goodbye sweetheart, well it’s time to go.” That was the best time of my life.

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us he was making 10 cents a day and he would save his dimes.

He put that guitar on the layaway until he had enough to get it out and then he taught himself to play the guitar. But I’m very familiar with the South.

North Shore News: Your father was very familiar with the blues, wasn’t he?

Mavis Staples: Yes, he was, because Charlie Patton was down on Dockery Farms, as was Howlin’ Wolf. Pops was a kid and then down in Mississippi you heard the blues all the time anyway. For years we sang with our father — we were singing gospel and we didn’t realize Pops was actually playing the blues over the top. He’s a bluesman but he didn’t go that route — he wanted to sing gospel and play the blues on his guitar.

North Shore News: We never hear too much about your mother, Oceola Ware.

Mavis Staples: Oceola Ware. You didn’t want to hear my mother sing. We would be on the floor begging, “Mama, Mama, please stop.” Our sides would be hurting from laughing, she just couldn’t carry a tune but she was the world’s greatest cook and homemaker.

My mother was the best mom in the world. Everybody says things like that about their mother and father. My mother she didn’t use any recipes she would just mix up whatever she wanted to cook with a whole lot of love in it. She made a sweet potato pie that Pops would give to the disc jockeys.

The disc jockeys started saying, “The Staple Singers don’t need no payola, because they have pieola.” Sweet potato pie.

And Brother Ray Charles — lots of entertainers would come to our house and mama would cook for them. Ray Charles he came for dinner and mama served that sweet potato pie and he started rocking and tapping his feet saying, “We could start a franchise with these sweet potato pies. We could make big ones, little ones, we could get rich or something.”

Mama she made the best and the one who makes the sweet potato pie closest to my mother in the family is my brother Pervis. All of us would watch her. My sister Yvonne she cooks just like mama because Yvonne learned from my grandmother

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THE Staple Singers originally sang gospel tunes accompanied only by Pops’ guitar. and mother. When Pervis made that first sweet potato pie I couldn’t believe it, it was so close to Mama’s. She was our spiritual guide and every time we’d leave town to go out on the road she would pray with us.

North Shore News: What part of Chicago were you living in as a kid?

Mavis Staples: When I was a kid we lived on the South Side on 35th and Wabash and then we moved to the West Side. I think we lived on the West Side for maybe two years and then we moved back to the South Side. When I was a youngster we lived on 35th Street. I went to Doolittle Grammar School and I tell you this was a neighbourhood — Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls, Curtis Mayfield and Johnnie Taylor all of us lived on

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North Shore News: I read an interview with your dad where he said that he and Pervis sang lead for about two years and then you took over.

Mavis Staples: Pervis was the lead and I was the baritone.

Pervis reached puberty and his voice changed overnight.

Pops said, “Mavis you’re going to have to sing the lead Pervis can’t get up there and I told him, “Oh no, Daddy, I don’t want to sing lead, I love background.” I thought baritone was the prettiest voice in the background and Pops he had a little belt that he had cut it about the size of a ruler and that’s what he would get my little legs with when I was bad. I kept telling him, “No, no Daddy I don’t want to sing lead,’ and he started reaching for that little piece of belt and I said, ‘OK Daddy I’ll sing that lead.” From that time on I was singing lead. Pops, he would sing swing lead, we called it swing lead, you know, call and answer. So Pervis had to start singing baritone. And that’s the way it was, that’s the way we started.

North Shore News: You said your father made you sing older songs. As a kid who were some of your favourite singers?

Mavis Staples: Sister Mahalia Jackson was my favourite. She was my idol. She was the very first female voice that I heard.

Pops had all of these big 78 records and they were all male — the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Nightingales, the Blind Boys. One day I was back in my little play area and I heard this lady’s voice and it moved me all up into the living room where my father was and I sat on the floor and listened to it until it was over and I asked dad, I said, “Who was that?” and he said, “Baby you liked that?” I said, “Yes sir, I liked that,” and he said, “That was Mahalia Jackson and she was singing See Nothing page 39

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Friday, October 14, 2011 - North Shore News - A39

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Nothing but gospel was heard in the home From page 38

‘Move On Up A Little Higher.’ ” I also liked to hear the Sallie Martin Singers and Bessie Griffin and Dorothy Love Coates.

I loved those ladies. Albertina Walker with The Caravans because that’s all that I was allowed to hear. Pops wouldn’t allow us to hear any other music than gospel. The only time that I would hear R&B is when I would go to school and we would play it at lunch time. You put a quarter in the jukebox and I would hear some James Brown but we weren’t allowed to play that in the house. It was way later that Pops came through, he kind of got more broadminded.

I must have been about 15 or 16 when Pops started letting us turn the radio on to R&B stations. He liked the music too, he heard good music in R&B. That was good music back in the day. He started letting us turn it on at home. We still couldn’t play cards. Today I don’t know how to play cards.

He wouldn’t let us have any cards in the house. Now my baby sister Cynthia, Cynthia came so late behind me I think Pops was tired — I was the baby for 12 years and then Cynthia came along. She can shuffle and deal cards like somebody in Las Vegas.

North Shore News: You grew up with Curtis Mayfield.

Mavis Staples: Yes we did we went to grammar school together. We kind of parted ways for awhile as we were growing up but it turned out that Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions — I was 18 or 19 — it turned out that we lived on the same block. They had three little houses in a row and my father had bought a four-flat building and he was walking down the street and he bumped into Curtis and he said, “Hey Curtis, do you live around here?” and he said, “Yea, Pops I live right down there.” They lived in three little bungalows in a row. This was on 89th Street we had moved from 35th Street. We were still on 35th Street when we recorded ‘Uncloudy Day’ but Pops started making more money than what his job was paying him. We moved to higher ground.

(Sings) ‘Movin’ on up.’ Now the only one who is still down in the ‘Dirty Thirties’ is the Ice Man, Jerry Butler. He still lives down there but it’s more of a modern area now.

North Shore News: How did you meet Jeff Tweedy?

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Mavis Staples: We were singing at a place called The Hideout on the North Side of Chicago. The Wilco band, all of them, live on the North Side, I live on the South Side and all of them came to that show. I was recording a live album there.

I didn’t know who Jeff Tweedy was but it was someone who wanted to meet me and I’m always ready to meet new people. He came to the dressing room and commended me on the show. He thought it was great and we took pictures

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We set up a time for Jeff and I to meet at a restaurant. I See Tweedy page 40

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picked the restaurant for us to have lunch and we talked.

He let me in to his life I let him into my life. When he started talking about family that sold me on him because my father has always instilled in us the importance of family. Family is the strongest unit in the world, always stick with your family. He would talk about his wife and his children. He was always listening to the Staple Singers and he loved my father. I was just really comfortable with him, we talked for maybe two and a half hours.

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something funny and that loosened him up because he was kind of shy at first but he started talking. We had a good time. We had a good meeting and from that he got my number and he called me about a week later and said, “Mavis, I’ve put some songs on my computer and I want to know if you will come over to the Wilco loft to hear these songs and see if there is anything that you like well enough to record.”

So I went over to Wilco’s loft and he started playing these songs and he was playing some songs that my father used to play for me when I was a kid. You know like ‘Wonderful Saviour’ and ‘Creep Along Moses’ and I said, “That’s the Golden Gate Jubilee Singers where did you get that? That’s older than me, those songs were recorded in the early ’30s. I said, “You’re a young man with an old soul.”

He had 13 songs and I think I chose seven or eight of them. Then he said, “Mavis I have this title in my head I want to write this song for you.’ He said, “You Are Not Alone’” and he started giving me some of the meat of the song and my skin was moving on my bones. I said, “Tweedy you’ve got to write that.”

Low and behold the two songs that he wrote for the CD were the last two songs that we recorded.

I actually watched him write ‘Only the Lord Knows’ and I watched him struggle with ‘You Are Not Alone.’

He stopped and he said, “Listen, Mavis, I’m going to give you this track so you can get familiar with the melody but these are not the true lyrics. I’m going to have them for you when you come in tomorrow” and I said, “OK.” He went home and we went into the studio the next day and he started giving me those lyrics and I started singing them and I said, “Jeff Tweedy this is the most beautiful song I have ever sung. It’s just so comforting and so real.” I enjoyed working with him. I said, “Look, Tweedy, we are going to have to do this again.” He said, “I don’t know if they’ll let me, Mavis.” I said, “Oh I’ll see to the letting you. I can’t go to somebody else after this.” He said, “I would love to produce you,” and I said, “Oh, we’ll make it happen.”

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Teachers knew pianist destined for big things From page 36

While still a young man, Yu has already made his mark on the music scene, having performed at Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa and many other premier venues around the world. He’s also picked up a handful of prizes and medals along the way, including first place in the Canadian Chopin Competition when he was only 17.

“I really enjoy performing and I really enjoy traveling,” Yu says. “Putting these things together, performing around the world, is really enjoyable.

I also really like to perform in different settings.”

But despite all his globetrotting, Yu says he still values returning to Broadway and Markham’s studio.

“I still work with them whenever I’m back in Vancouver. It’s been wonderful learning with them, not just piano playing but other types of things too, other aspects of my career. I’m very grateful to have them as my teachers.

For example, how to speak at a concert and introduce pieces — it’s got nothing to do with piano playing but the audience really appreciates it. More and more artists are doing that now. Fifty years ago no one did that, but now it’s changing. And programming, that’s a great art. There are so many pieces we could play. Making up a 90-minute program, it’s almost like creating a dish, like a cook. There’s a lot of thought that goes into it.”

Broadway and Markham say it was obvious when they first met a 15-year-old Yu that he was destined for the world’s biggest stages.

“He was learning a very advanced repetoire at a very young age, with exceptional ability right from the start,” Markham says. “It was like working with an adult.”

“He has an incredible ear,” adds Broadway. “He can hear something and then just play it. Most people, you have to explain things one idea at a time and then they go home and practice and hopefully they get better.

With Avan, we’d have him play this extremely difficult passage and say ‘You have to do this with your wrist and this with your arm and think this and feel that and so on.’

He’d think for a second then just do it. Most people would have to practise for a month.

He’s a very quick learner.”

Markham says it’s a real

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thrill to see their student’s success, and you can bet both of his mentors will be in the audience for the Saturday concert.

“We had great teachers when we were young so it’s a real reward,” he says.

“In our minds,” says

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Whelan, Patricia 1928 - 2011 It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Pat Whelan on Oct 5th 2011. She was loved and will be missed by all she touched. A celebration of her life will be held at Boal Chapel 1505 Lillooet Rd, North Vancouver on Thursday Oct 20th 2PM. A reception will follow.

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KENNEDY - James Blair 66 years, died in early September. Born to the late Blair Kennedy and Kitty Bell-Sparrow on July 31, 1945 in Port Hardy, BC, Jim was the eldest brother of 6 children. Jim grew up on the North Shore and graduated from North Vancouver Senior Secondary in 1963. He worked throughout much of his life as a manager with the Hudson’s Bay Company department store in Vancouver and West Vancouver.

At one time, he ran a store in Bastion Square in Victoria that sold imported goods from South America. Jim had many passions in life including nature, physics, and music. He excelled in classical guitar and was a respected Vancouver musician.

Jim enjoyed the thrill of skydiving and said it was the closest experience he had to flying. “Only skydivers know why the birds s i n g ”. J i m w i l l b e f o n d l y remembered by his surviving sister Moira Movanna, brother Bill Bell, and 14 nieces and nephews, all of whom loved him dearly. He was the “anchor” and “older brother” to the extended family.

An informal memorial will be held for James Kennedy in the amenity room of The Piermont building located at 108 East 14th Street in North Vancouver at 3pm on Saturday, October 15th.

KLEINSORGE - Douglas Edward July 22, 1934 – Oct. 9, 2011 It is with great sadness we announce the peaceful passing of Doug, 77 years young, at Lions Gate Hospital with family by his side. Predeceased by parents Edward, Katherine, as well as younger brother Tommy.

Survived by his loving wife of 57 years, Diane Elizabeth, sisters, Emmeline & Quinella, Daughters, Corri, Patti, Son, Shay & daughter in law Michele, Grandchildren: Randi, Shannon, Shaily, Amberly, Ben & Daniel; Great Grandchildren: Duncan, Christopher & Baby Aubree.

Doug lived his life by example, tackling any task with no holds tenacity. Running & completing 3 marathons in his sixties, One of North America’s top breeders of Pekinese, Fisherman Extraordinaire, and Mountain Climber. In his youth he left a legacy as one of Canada’s top ski jumpers. Doug’s name we believe still echoes amongst his beloved Mountain peaks. Doug’s love for wife, family, friends, pets, as well as life in general will live on in all of us. Missed but never forgotten, Doug moves onto his next great adventure! A celebration of life will be held at Boal Chapel, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver at 2:00 p.m. Monday, October 17th.

Tea to follow service at 1265 Berkley Road North Vancouver.

William Currie (“Bill”) Hughes Sept. 25, 1929 to Sept. 18, 2011

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved father and grandfather, William Currie Hughes. Dad was predeceased by adored wife, Sheila, in October 2010 and will be dearly missed by son, Bill Hughes, daughters, Susan Hart and Sandra Hughes, and their families.

Sisters, Pauline Hughes and Elizabeth Allman, mourn his loss, as do so many other family and friends.

Dad was born in Montreal, the son of Adella Currie Hughes (one of the first female law graduates in Canada) and Wilfred Perry Hughes (four-time Grey Cup winning coach and Canadian Football Hall of Famer). He was deeply grateful for the wonderful years he spent at Rothesay College in New Brunswick. In 1949 he came to Vancouver and found his true home on the West Coast where he met and married Sheila and raised our family. Dad had a long and successful career as a business owner in furniture manufacturing which benefited from his sharp mind and his skilled hands. In the 60’s and 70’s, he was active in the Liberal Party serving as campaign manager for Jack Davis in a successful bid for Parliament. Later, Dad was involved in the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club and was proud to serve as Commodore in 1982. Since his retirement, Dad enjoyed time with family and friends. He and Mom had some wonderful travels, notably France, Italy and the Cook Islands, but his favorite vacations were those spent with his children and grandchildren on Hornby Island where laughter would ring through the house. Mom and Dad were blessed with a wonderful marriage and her death on October 24th left him bereft for his sweetheart; indeed Dad died one week before their wedding anniversary having never spent an anniversary apart from his bride.

Dad was a good and generous man and provided kind words and wise counsel to many. He was a doting grandfather and took great pride and joy in Tamara, Steven, David, Graham, Ethan and Lauren.

He leaves us with a legacy of love and integrity, which comfort us at this sad time.

Our heartfelt gratitude goes to the many doctors, nurses and health professionals who fought so hard to help Dad recover during his recent stay at Lions Gate, sadly it was not meant to be. Our deepest thanks to family doctor, Ray Penner, for many years of friendship and care.

Dad’s ashes, with those of his beloved Sheila’s, will be scattered at sea on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. at Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, 3811 Point Grey Road, Vancouver. A celebration of his life will take place in the Clubhouse at 2:00 p.m.

Rest in peace.

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MORRISON - Thomas Boyes Sept. 30, 1933 – Oct.7, 2011 It is with great sadness that our family announces the passing of Tom after a courageous battle with cancer for the second time.

He is survived by his beloved wife of 56 years, Patricia (nee McGuire), his son, Tom (Kathy) and his daughter, Sheila Pat (Kim). At Tom’s request, we will not have a memorial service as his friends and colleagues are scattered throughout Canada. In lieu of travelling or sending flowers, we ask that friends, colleagues and family donate towards a Commemorative Bench in Tom’s name at the Kings Mill Walk looking out to Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver. Tom and Pat enjoyed many an afternoon watching the seals and ships here. Tom was best known as a connoisseur of book collecting, theologian, scholar, tr ans por tati on ex per t and storyteller. He was a true gentleman and the “bestest of husbands and fathers”, as we would lovingly describe him.

Tommy thanks Dad for an everlasting love of trains and books. Sheila will cherish their photography excursions and trips of exploration to bookstores. Tom will be missed very much but we are comforted with the knowledge that he is now with the Lord and no longer in pain. Many thanks to the staff at the Lion’s Gate Hospital and to Simple Cremations. Donations may be made c/o Pat Morrison, 360 West 20th Street, North Vancouver BC V7M 1Y5, Canada.

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FOUND SILVER bracelet with stones in John Lawson Park. Call to give exact description, Ask for Elias Call: (604) 922-6445

MISSING Orange tabby, Bayridge and Ripple W.V.Tufted ears.Tattoo MBL 34. Seen near Marine, Rose Crescent about Oct.5. Call: (604) 925 -3878 email: oliverdt@telus.net

LOST ABYSSINIAN CAT Last seen on Oct.7 in the vicinity of Cypress Market in West Vancouver. REWARD OFFERED!! Call: (778) 899-4270

IPOD Found Corner of Hampshire & Highland North Van. E-mail colour & playlist to identify. email: klsh1214@gmail.com

Wagner, Beatrice (Bea) Mae Aug 04, 1923 - Oct 9, 2011 Mother of Dar Kirby of High River AB, Carol Wagner (Peter Claussen) of West Vancouver and Gran to her beloved grandson, Thomas Hammond of California. Bea was an "original" Calgarian except for 7 years in Vancouver. She was predeceased by Len (husband of 45 years) in 1993, brother Vern (2010), sonin-law Dr. Michael Hammond (1997) and her beloved Aunt Catherine. Bea took up camping at age 70 and enjoyed trips around Alberta and the US. Memorial Service will be held in Calgary.

BRACELET lost Silver bracelet with gold inlay, First Nations carving. Possibly lost around 14th and Clyde in Ambleside Call Pat 604-788-9134.

Kelly, Grayce April 1922 - August 2011 Correction Born in Vancouver BC, long time resident of North Vancouver.

Grayce passed away peacefully in her sleep.

Predeceased February 2011 by her husband of 59 years "Bill".

She is survived by her devoted children, son Brent (Michele), daughter Leslee (Terry) and her loving grandchildren Shea and Trenton.

Grayce loved her family and was kind to all furry friends. She took pride in her home and was a fabulous cook.

Special thanks to Dr. Andrew Cheng, the staff of Evergreen house and to our special nurses on 6 East at Lions gate hospital.

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KEYS Found on Grand Boulevard park near 13th on Friday Oct 7th. To Claim Call:(604) 984-3347 evenings

Maude - Mary Jessie Kirk (nee Owen) It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our much loved mother, grandmother, Tutu and friend, Mary Maude on October 8, 2011. She passed away peacefully in Hollyburn House at the age of 90, on October 8. 2011. Mary was born in Carmingay, Alta., and soon after moved to B.C., eventually settling in Vernon and later in North Vancouver where she raised her family. Mary’s entire life was devoted to her family, providing her children numerous opportunities to pursue their interests and gifts. Mary excelled as a pianist and was also a golfer and curler; making many friends associated with these activities.

Mary is survived by her two sisters, Pauline and Maida, and three children; Ken (Debi) Maude, Lynn (Jim) McKay, and Ann Lubzyk, as well as nine grandchildren and eleven greatgrandchildren. Our thanks go to the staff at Hollyburn House for their exceptional care. Mum really enjoyed living there and was very much at peace. A family 'celebration of life' service will take place at a later date.

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Are you looking for the opportunity to do meaningful, fulfilling work? PLEA Community Services is looking for qualified applicants who can provide care for youth in their home on a full-time basis or on weekends for respite.

Training, support and remuneration are provided. Funding is available for modifications to better equip your home. A child at risk is waiting for an open door. Make it yours.

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Mum’s Montessori Daycare & Preschool OPEN HOUSE - OCT. 15, 11AM-2PM 530 East 12th St., N. Vancouver

We Have Spaces for 3-5’s • Daily French & Music

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General Employment

NEED EXTRA INCOME

Earn extra cash to supplement your current income or pay off your bills. Now hiring delivery contractors for the Sun, Province & National Post in the West Vancouver area. Must have reliable winterized vehicle and be available from 2am to 6am daily.

Earn up to $900/mo.

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PROJECT Assistant Support staff with project related tasks (data entry, research, & communication.)

Must be computer literate (incl. Excel) and willing to complete repetitive tasks. $14 per Hour Email to reception@ahma-bc.org

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CLINICAL RESEARCH Position Available At Ophthalmology Office Full-Time or Part-Time at UBC’s Vancouver General Hospital location for Dept of Ophthalmology. Flexible hours. Experience in clinical research in epidemiology and publishing studies preferred.

Please send resume to:

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MAINTENANCE PERSON 1

The North Vancouver District Public Library is currently looking for an on-call Maintenance Person 1 to provide maintenance and cleaning primarily at our Capilano Branch location.

Please visit our website for details:

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Park Royal is hiring energetic, outgoing, and holiday loving people to join us for this Holiday Season.

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Submit your applications to afruhm@parkroyal.ca until October 27th. Only PDF or DOC files will be accepted.

Only those selected will be contacted.

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PHARMASAVE in Caulfeild Village, West Vancouver has a full time opening for a recent

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This is an excellent o p p o r tun i t y i n a great community with very competitive wage and benefits. The successful candidate should have a willingness to work varied shifts including some evenings and weekends and enjoy advancing their career in a fast paced team environment. This is a 40 hour per week opportunity to grow your career in an expanding company.

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TU TO R D O C TOR NO R T H SHORE Tutoring for All Ages and Subjects. Experienced & Qualified Tutors. 778.340.3100 ajonescox@tutordoctor.com www.tutorsnorthshore.com

Trades/Technical

AUTO TECHNICIAN Established North Shore repair shop seeks auto tech. Top wages and benefits. Email resumes to: restivo@telus.net JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIAN, res/comm. NS/VAN Basic tools, Fax resume 604 987-4803 www.coastmountainelectric.com Leading Insulation Contractor requires experienced Installers, Foam and Fibre Sprayers and Fire Stoppers. Transportation required. Top rates paid.

Fax brief resume to 604-572-5278 or call 604-572-5288.

OLIZIM DESIGN & Const. hiring F/T Reno.Carpenter to work on Bowen Isl. Sev. yrs of exp. and compl. high school req’d. E-res: amanda@olizim.com

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Art & Collectibles

Pen Delfin

Collection of 196 different Pen Delfin pieces. Would like to sell all together for $20,000 but will sell individual pieces.

Most pieces come with original box. Please phone 604-467-8914.

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Food Products

BOB’S FRUIT STAND 3711 Delbrook. Daily 10-6. Okanagan fruit & tomatoes, corn, veggies

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For Sale Miscellaneous

ELECTRONIC TREADMILL, pulse heart monitor, $250; Electronic exercise bike $100; electric stair chair lift assembly req’d, $1200; 4 Ford p/u custom wheels, new tires fit F350 yr. 99 series, 8 stud size LT265/75RIG w/wheel chrome centres & covers, mats etc. $1200; 5th wheel hitch for Ford p/u (fits in box) $400; heavy duty upright drill press, older type new motor runs well $100; all obo.

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CERTIFIED MATH TEACHER. Exp with senior math & calculus.

Tutors all levels. 604-929-6262

Math Grade 10 and 11 Tutoring in English/Persian, first session free, $30/hr after.604 904 3685(Medina)

Alder • Birch • Maple Dry, Clean Hardwoods

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A CLEAN DRY SPLIT Maple, birch, alder. Guar lowest prices. David 604-926-0014 24H

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QUEEN BED, $50; w/d $180, 604-988-1426

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Recycler

DOUBLE SOFABED good cond , small entertainment unit & 5 shelf bookcase. U PICK UP! 604-715-5786 FREE DIRT - Delivered for free.

North & West Van. Minimum 5 yards. 604-985-4211 GARDENERS: 50 ft of 5 inch black edging; pots; glass windows for cold frames; 604 929-1592 SMALL DESK, 6 drawers, black swivel chair, book csse, free you p/u, 604-364-2029

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Licensed Group Daycare 20 years experience 12 mos - 5 yrs. ★604-929-5799★

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FROGGY Pad Licensed Daycare has limited space available for children ages 2.5 to 5. Our ECE's are devoted to fun, learning and safety. For premier childcare please call: (604) 985-3324 email: Catherine@froggypad.ca

FREE ink jet colour printer Canon RX500. You pick up Call: (604) 9218691 email: rshammond@shaw.ca

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PARROTS Baby Conures, $200 & $300 parrotlet $100 hand fed tame & friendly Call: (604) 854-3252

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UNRESERVED Auction Snowmobiles, household appliances, residential and office furniture, one utility trailer, and much more. Please visit www.van-auction.com to view catalogue. Preview days: Thurs Oct. 13 from 6 - 8pm and Fri Oct. 14 from 4 to 6pm. Auction on Sat Oct. 15., registration begins at 10am. 3500 Cornett Road, Building A1, Vancouver.

Email: info@van-auction.com

GIANT ANTIQUE AUCTION Antiques, Collectibles, Estates & Jewellery

Viewing Times: Tuesday, October 18th; 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Wednesday, October 19th; 9:00 am ’Til Auction Time

Cats

★CATS & KITTENS★ FOR ADOPTION !

604-724-7652

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Dogs

GERMAN SHORT haired Pointer pups family raised ready to go. $700 ea. Ph Gerry 604-824-7917

Preschools/ Kindergarten

★ Preschool spaces avail ★ Kindergarten to Grade 3 before/after school care ★Transport to Braemar & Carisbrooke Schools Reg Now. 604-987-3168

AUCTION CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19th @ 3 PM

NATIONAL Geographic Mags 30 year collection Perfect for school projects. Call: (604) 926-4156

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TOP KNOT FIREWOOD est 1981 Dry Alder, Birch & Maple. Pick up or delivered. Rod 604-985-7193

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TUTOR (BC Certified Teacher) Math, French, Calculus, Physics and Chemistry. 604-836-3496

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ADORABLE Lab X Puppies (6w) Well-socialized and healthy! $500 Ready to love! 778 549 8761

CKC Reg Golden Retriever Male, 8wks, vet exam, shots, dwrm, ready Oct 23 $1,200 Call: (604) 302-7715

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• ANTIQUES, COLLECTIBLES, ESTATES PLUS GOLD & SILVER JEWELLERY • VICTORIAN & EDWARDIAN FURNISHINGS • WATERFORD CRYSTAL & GLASSWARE, LIMOGES CHINA • SEVERAL PIECES MOORCROFT POTTERY & BRONZED FIGURINES • ROYAL DOULTON, HUMMEL & BESWICK FIGURINES • SEVERAL DINNER SETS, ORIENTAL PORCELAIN & CHINA • LARGE SELECTION OF STERLING SILVER PIECES & FLATWARE • PERSIAN CARPETS, NATIVE BASKETS & CARVINGS, VINTAGE LIGHTING • ARTWORK (OIL PAINTINGS, WATERCOLOURS & LIMITED EDITION PRINTS) • CONTENTS OF SEVERAL ESTATES, OLD BOOKS, COINS & STAMPS, ETC…

NOTE: HOUSEHOLD AUCTIONS HELD EVERY WEDNESDAY @ 6 PM FOR MORE DETAILS & PHOTOS VISIT: www.lovesauctions.com

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Branch Manager

Immediate opening for a Branch Manager at our Richmond location.

You will be responsible for the delivery of exceptional customer service while maintaining corporate objectives and policies. Mandate is to provide leadership, manage assets, employees and property, grow sales through the use of strong sales techniques and established industry contacts as well as representing Corix within the community. The Branch Manager supports employees in branch operations and administration.

Municipal Waterworks, Irrigation and Mechanical products or industry experience required. To apply and for more information visit:

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UPS is looking for DRIVER HELPERS to work in Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Tri-Cities, North Shore, New Westminster, Burnaby, Richmond, Delta, Surrey, White Rock • Work close to home, 3-5 hours a day • Meet with the UPS Driver in the delivery area • Shifts are from Monday to Friday • Deliver packages on foot (On-foot Courier) • Strong Customer Service skills required • Uniforms and Training are provided Send your resumes to:

UPS HUMAN RESOURCES Fax: 604-295-3566 Email: upsjobsbc@ups.com

Only those contacted will be considered. UPS is committed to diversity.

Job Listings, From A-Z

From advertising executive or banker to x-ray technician or zookeeper, you'll find it in the Employment Section.

To advertise in Employment call 604-630-3300

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GARAGE SALES WEST VANCOUVER HOUSE Demo Sale!

Sat. Oct. 15th & Sun. Oct 16th, 8am - 4pm 5136 PITCAIRN PL. Entire house fixtures, kitchen bath doors trees plants etc.

West Van Garage Sale Sat & Sun Oct 15th & 16th 9am -1pm 3360 Mathers Ave. Clothing, shoes, books, p ic t u r es, g a r d e n t o o l s, household & misc & more!

No earlybirds!

West Vancouver Charity Thrift Sale!

Sat. Oct. 15th 10am - 2pm St. Anthonyls Parish Hall 2347 Inglewood Ave. Clothing, fashion Assess. jewellery, housewarrs, dishes, books, linens, toys, games, craft supplies etc. etc.

Highlands United Church FLEA MARKET

Highlands United Church 3255 Edgemont Blvd.

Saturday, Oct 15th 9am - 3pm

North Vancouver Garage Sale!

Sat. Oct. 15, 9am - 12 noon 533 E. 10th St. Fridge, stove, dw, power tools, exc. quality ladies designer clothes size 10 -12, furn, antiques, china, books, cd’s & electronics.

North Van.

NORTH VAN MOVING SALE Sat Oct 15ht 10 AM - 4PM #101 - 1518 Bowser Ave Oak dining suite, sofa/chairs, kitchen ware, household, misc all must go!

Moving Sale!

Sat. & Sun. Oct 15th & 16th, 10am - 6pm 1287 Berkley Rd. Hottub, books, tools, china cabinet, sofa, piano etc.

North Vancouver

North Nan Estate & Cul-De-Sac Sale Sat Oct 15th 9am- 12 990 Sonora Place

Moving Sale!

Fri. Oct 14th, Sat. Oct 15th & Sun. Oct 16th - 8am - 4pm 1509 Mahon Ave. Antique furn. armoire, oriental vases, tools, household items etc.

Antique Sale!

20 Tables of Antiques, Collectibles & Home Decor Sat. Oct 15th. 10am - 3pm St. David’s United Church 1525 Taylor Way Art, jewellery, antiques & collectibles, art glass & pottery, books, vintage clothing & textiles, accessories, vintage toys, home decor, furniture and so much more!

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

GARAGE SALE

MAKE IT A SUCCESS! Call 604-630-3300

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INTERNATIONAL PLAZA 1989 Marine Drive NORTH VANCOUVER

Bach from $830 1 Bdrm from $1,015 2 Bdrm from $1,323 City & Mtn. Views.

Includes heat & hot water.

Pool, Jacuzzi, sauna & tennis courts on site.

Security & video monitoring.

On major bus route.

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2 BEDROOM: 365 East 2nd St. Bright unit w/ balcony, SW facing in quiet building- 1 Bath , hard/w & d/w. $1175/mo incl heat & h/w Nov 1st. 604-726-4884 2 BR, $1100, hardwood, Nov 1, central Lonsdale, heat/hot water incl’d, no pets, 604-986-6418 2 BR, corner, Lonsdale & 6, hardwood, new paint & kitchen, cat ok $1200, Nov. 604-986-4927

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2004 Fullerton Ave 908-7368, 2 BR, 1 bth, prkg, no pet, gym, pool, Nov 1, lease, $1100

1 BR, $825, central Lonsdale, large suite, balc. heat, prking, hw, coin wd, ns, np, 604-921-6410

EVERGREEN - 161 East 17th St. A 1 br spacious, clean well maint, np, ns. Nov. 1st 604-990-8907

1 BR $825 Nov. 1, 18th & Lonsdale carpet, incl heat & hw. 1 yr lease. np, ns, 604-988-4692

Beautiful Views

1 Br. $900 avail Nov. 15.

Heat incl’d, quiet, gated prkg. no pets, walk to seabus. 1 year lease 163 West 5th. 604-980-7501

1 bdrm- $1,275 Spacious, pool, storage, heat & hw, dw, quiet,

1 BR $950. large, bright, garden level, carpet, ns, np, near seabus, quiet bldg. 604-618-8338 1 br bright, central Lonsdale, parking available, heat, cable & hot water, cat ok 604-988-1346

MOVING / GARAGE SALE Sat, Oct 15th 10am - 3pm 228 West 17th St Furniture, household items.

Lots of good stuff!!

NORTH VANCOUVER Garage Sale 1612 Sutherland Avenue Grand Boulevard: Sunday October 16, 8 AM-1 PM, Huge garage sale - linens, crystal, clothes, housewares.

Rain or Shine.

NORTH VANCOUVER, Garage Sale, 976 Lillooet Road Sunday October 16, 9 AM- 1PM Retro Furniture - Red & Grey Arborite Table & Chairs, Chesterfield & Chair, Clothing - most never worn! Purses & Shoes, Games, Electronics, Various collectibles & household items.

Rain or Shine.

6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-11

North Van Apt. Rentals

MOUNTAIN VILLAGE APTS. 2 BR now & Nov 1. 604-988-3828 www.mountainvillage.ca BACHELOR SUITE: 365 East 2nd Street, N Vancouver : Bright, south facing suite in quiet building. Private entrance: $750/mo incl heat, h/w & hydro avl Nov 1st, phone 604.726.4884.

TUCKTON PL. 1520 Chesterfield Ave 2 BR $1,295 No Pets. Wdays 990-2971 Wkends 778-340-7406

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

MARINE/19TH, 2 bdrm, newly decorated, no pets, no smoking, 3 appl, $1675. 604-925-8851

1 BR, central Ambleside, small concrete bldg, bright, balc, corner ns, np, Nov 1. 604-808-1029

North Vancouver

GREAT LOCATION! 145 West Keith Road.

Bachelor, 1 BR & 2 BR Avail Now & Nov 1. Ocean view. Indoor pool. Concrete bldg. Heat & Hot Water incls.

1 WHOLE FLOOR Waterfront, West Van 2800 sf, 3 br, den, $6,500 long term 604-926-9818 Luxury Over The Seawall!

3 & 1 Br. pool rec. rm, pet ok 2190 Bellevue Ave 604-926-6287

172 VICTORY Ship Way @The Pier: Brand New. 7 appl, air/c,1 br $1700 Anson Rlty 604-671-7263 1br 240 St Andrews, new h/wood, paint, lrg wrap patio. $950 incl utils, Nov 1st. 604-551-0890

2BDRM, Lonsdale & 19th, North Vancouver Pretty spaces suite, clean quiet small bldg, no pets, $1300, Oct 15, Call: 604-904-4420

TIME BUILDING, 155 W 1st St, stunning views, Designer colours make this very large 2 br & 2 bath, Lower Lonsdale top flr condo ideal. Granite counter & SS appls, np ns, $2300. 1 prkg + storage.

Avail Nov 1. Tim 604-925-3171

Financial Services

5035

Cut Your Debt by up to 70% DEBT Forgiveness Program Avoid Bankruptcy, Stops Creditor Calls. Much lower Payments at 0% Interest.

We work for You, not Your Creditors.

Call 1-866-690-3328 BEAUTIFUL STANDARD Poodle pups, CKC reg. apricot, deliver avail. 1-250-256-0518 paganwoodgallery@telus.net

www.4pillars.ca

5050

Investment

*10.5% TARGETED ROI PAID MONTHLY

BERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG PUPS, P/B, 1st shots, $1250 ea. very friendly. 778-551-1901

• Federally Regulated – Audited Annually • RRSP, RIFF, RESP, LIRA, etc.

Eligible • Backed by the hard asset of Real Estate To find out more contact:

Jarome Lochkrin at 778-388-9820 or info@thealternative.ca

*Historical performance does not guarantee future returns.

5070

Money to Loan

NEED A LOAN URGENTLY?

ENGLISH BULLDOG puppies Champion breed, high quality, beautiful colours, 604-513-0092

Consolidate or get a personal/ business loan for up to $1 MILLION. With interest rates starting at 1.9%. Bad credit no problem. Apply at www.easytrustgroup.com or call 1-855-222-1228

Need Cash Today?

Business Services

5017

GET Noticed Results-oriented professional resume writing service will set you apart from the competition.

Free consultation (604)929-8786.

✔Do you Own a Car? ✔Borrow up to $10000.00 ✔No Credit Checks! ✔Cash same day, local office www.REALCARCASH.com

604.777.5046

1775 Bellevue Avenue HOLLYBURN PLAZA 2 BR - Avail November 1st For $1950/mo. Fully Reno’d, granite countertops, Breathtaking ocean view, new appls, d/w, new kitchen & bath rm cabinets, 2 balc, 1.5 baths, HW floors, Walk to shops & restaurants. Steps to Seawall, transit & beaches. Sorry, no pets.

Call 604-922-4724 to view.

Legal/Public Notices

5505

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Notice is Hereby Given that Creditors and others, having claims against the Estate of: Agnes Buttar Mulholland (Deceased), 525 Clyde Avenue, West Vancouver, BC. V7T 1C4.

Who died on May 15, 2011, are hereby required to send the particulars thereof to the undersigned Executor. JANET HARMON,C/O David H. Stoller Barrister & Solicitor,801 – 100 Park Royal South, West Vancouver BC V7T 1A2, on or before November 21, 2011, after which date the Estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

JANET HARMON, Executor NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS R: the estate of Adam John Shoesmith, deceased, formerly of 2039 McLallen Court, North Vancovuer, British Columbia Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Adam Shoesmith are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the administrator, c/o Hawthorne & Company, Barristers & Solicitors, #208 - 1899 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5C 5T1, on or before November 15, 2011, 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.

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6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

WESTWIND APTS. 2025 Bellevue Ave, W Van 2 BR, ocean views, cat OK, Senior discount.

Parking/Storage. 604-913-0734

195 21st Street BELLEVUE TOWER 1 BR $1650, Nov 1.

Prestigious bldg next to seawall.

Beautifully renovated, granite c/tops, h/w flrs, new appls, d/w new kitchen & bath rm cabinets, indoor pool. Facing NW w/ ocean views. Steps to community centre, shops, transit & restaurants. Sorry, No Pets.

Call 604-922-8815 to view.

BAYVIEW APTS

1550 Duchess Ave, W. Van. Studio & 1 Br Move-in Bonus Fitness rm out door pool, nr shops, transit & Seawall. 1 yr lease, N/pets.

Heat, hw incl’d. Member of Crime Free Multi-Housing Program. 604-922-4322

Park Royal Towers

6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

STUNNING 2BR. 2 baths, over 1300sf Dundarave penthouse, Nov. 1, 2 prkg, $4250 incls heat hw & gas, Patrick O’Donnell at Prudential Sussex 604-839-3863 WHITEHALL APT’S 1640 Esquimalt Ave 1 BR. Avail M-Fri 990-2971 Wknds 604-926-9997

6505-13

Other Areas Apt. Rentals

2BDRM/2BTH 213-1212 Main St. Squamish BC Brand new 1,100 sq. ft. condo at Coastal Village in Squamish. Secure underground parking. Stainless steel kitchen.

Granite counters. Washer dryer. High ceilings, spacious views with private balcony. Small pets OK $1,325 Monthly Call: (604) 894-3311 sraina@shaw.ca

6522

1 & 2 Bdrm Suites 1BR (700-770 sq.ft.)

2 BR (1070 sq. ft.)

Spectacular Views, Walk to Shops & Transit Hardwood Floors Pool Rent includes all utilities.

1-877-273-8716 935 Marine Drive

6540

Houses - Rent

WWW.EASYRENT.CA W. Vanc.

1144 Lawson Ave. 4 br +den, 2 bath, all appl, nr Elem/High schl, NOW, $3895 604-662-3279 2 BR, Spectcular view of Deep Cove lrg deck, living rm, Panorama Dr. new reno entire main flr, dw, fp, covered prkg Avail Now, $2400 + utils, Call 604-722-2345 3 BR Upper Lonsdale fam & rec room, 2.5 bath, gas fp, 5 appl, 2,500sf, $2900 np, 604-990-9546 6 BR, 2.5 bath + den, Tempe Hghts n/s, n/p, walk to school/mall Jan 1st. $2,950. 778-898-3088 DEEP COVE semi waterfront, 1 BR, office, fp, wd, 2 car garage, Nov 1. $1875, ns 604-929-5191

HIGHLAND DR. 908-7368, 3 BR, 2.5 baths, garage, pet ok, Nov 1, lease $2700.

Furnished Accommodation

2 BR, central Ambleside, garden level, furnished & fully equipped, own entry & wd, dw, cover’d prkg, ns, np, $1300+util. 604-808-1029

A SHORT STAY 4-6 mth terms Renos, family, execs, 1, 2 br p/house.

604-987-2691 www.vancouvershortstay.com

Avail 3-6mth Nov 1. furn rooms $800 - $1000 incls. Grand Blvd. grandmanor.net 604-988-6082

7005

Body Work

DISCRETE mature European lady on North Shore for sensual massage. ANITA, 604-808-5589

7010

Personals

full body rub sauna & steam Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai

Sun-Thur 10-Midnight Fri/Sat 10am-1pm

Angel Massage 604-294-8038

402-3701 Hastings St., Burnaby LUXURY RELAXATION SPA 778-340-2778 1053 Marine Dr, North Van

7015

Escort Services ALYISSA

604.618.2362

BUSTY HOT BLACK GIRL GENTLEMEN! Attractive discreet European lady is available for 604 451-0175 company.

★ HOTT PARTY GIRLS ★ ★

Amber & Amy 604-727-8450 Get LUCKY everytime 24hrs

From the City to the Valley Call Today

604-630-3300 or place your ad online at

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6600

Storage

STORE YOUR RV in West Van Gated, 24 hour security. $150/mth.

Oct 1st - May 15th. Capilano River RV Park 604-987-4722

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BDRM, bright garden ste, max 1, ns, cat ok, w/d, Upper Lonsdale, $840 avail now 604-838-1936

1 BR. Ambleside garden suite, suit 1, share wd, utils incl’d, $890, NS, NP, Nov 1, 604-926-6686 1 BR+DEN large new bright suite, gas fp, wd, np, ns, $1180. Avail now, Northlands 604-924-9910 2 BR +, 1 bath, 1400 sf, Grouse Woods, completely renovated, lower level, shared tennis court, np, ref reqd $1650. 604-441-7559 2 BR above grnd, dw, own w/d, open plan bright, storage, quiet, $1250+% util, immed, L. Valley 604-985-2457 or 604-369-2457 2 BR grnd lvl, bright, recent reno, share wd, ns, np Grand Blvd ref’s, $1250 incl Nov 1. 604-340-5116

1 BR +den lower Lonsdale, FURN. 1100sf. NOW - Apr. 1, ns, $1500incl utils 604-986-2504

Completely Renovated

Call 604-986-3356 1 BR, Woodcroft, reno’d, ocean view, $1145, incld all utils, gym & pool, ns, np, 604-925-6290

Dogs

CHOC LAB puppies, vet checked, family raised, ready to go. $480. Call 1-604-701-1587

concrete, by shops, Cat Ok

604-985-2926

3508

Furniture, tools, house decor, outdoor lighting, misc.

NORTH VAN

West Vanc.

cont. from previous page

3BDRM/2BTH 3480 Manning Pl. Beautiful Rancher. 1400 Sqft. Pets OK. Walk to parks, shops, rec center & library. 3 Beds + Den & 2 Baths. $2300/month Tel: 778 862 0235 OR 604 929 7775 russ@russcanada.com

6595

Shared Accommodation

6595-45

North Vancouver

HOLIDAY? RELOCATION? Short term rental, North Van turnkey $88/day 604-988-0083

LOVELY PRIVATE room, suits ns female, kitchen, dining & living rms, $525 incl heat/light, furn. cable, net, computer, Nov. 1st, 2 blks to Lonsdale, 778-885-8864

HOMAWAY INNS Specializing in furn accom at reas rates. call 604-723-7820 or visit www.homawayinns.com

SHARED ACCOMODATIONS very large room, TV, internet, all incl. Suits student or working person. $465 /mo 604-889-3597

2 BR. Kits - 8/Balaclava,1100sf. fully furn & equip’d garden suite, incld light heat cable, own entry, 1 yr lease preferred, 6 mo neg. refs. $2200, Nov 1. 604-738-8664 2BR Central Lonsdale 1,000 sf bsmt suite, private level entry to s/facing back yard. Bright, new carpet, gas f/p, wet bar, private patio, storage, share wd. Quiet closE to bus, hosp, theatre, rec and trails. NS NP $1475 incl utils.

Call (604)729-8701 3 BR, 1 bath, Blueridge area, f/p, all appls, pool, own w/d, ns np, Nov 1, $2300, 778-709-5925 HORSESHOE BAY Studio, suits 1 NS, near shops, bus & beach $450 all incls 604-921-8828 HUGE 1 BR Ambleside Bsmt Suite, priv. gated entr. Own W/D. 2 Bus rts. Inclusive. Single occ.

N/S N/P $1100 Ref. 604 7821221

HOME SERVICES 8030

Carpentry

8090

Fencing/Gates

TRIM RITE INTERIORS. Home Renovations. Lloyd S. Tel: (604)788 0947 trimriteinteriors@gmail.com

Affordable Fencing & Decking Quality workmanship for 25 yrs. on the N. Shore, 604-929-6669

STRUCTURAL CHANGES, framing, finishing, repairs. Professional & precise, 778-233-0559

Good Neighbour Fence & Deck Year round service.

Reasonable rates 604-987-4522

8050

Chimney Services

SANTA’S CHIMNEY SERVICES Lifetime Guar. 778-340-0324 www.santaschimneyservices.com

8055

Fireplaces

PRO GAS - North Shore Gas fireplaces. Repair & safety inspection. 604-925-1341 www.progas.ca

Flooring/ Refinishing

8105

Cleaning

$18/HR. Quality House cleaning.

604-983-3477 www.qualityhc.com EUROPEAN CLEANING Service. 15 yrs experience, excellent refs. Call Ivana 604-987-9290

8060

8100

Concrete

Hardwood Floor Refinishing Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

Century Hardwood Floors 604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

CONCRETE FORMING & framing. 20 years exp.

Call John 604-562-1122

THE ART OF HARDWOOD FLOORS

N.C.B. CONCRETE LTD. Specializing in residential concrete. Repair, removal and new installation. Patio specialists.

604-988-9523, 604-988-9495

Dust Free.

Affordable Rates!

Free Estimates.

8065

Contracting

Call: 604-240-3344 Golden Hardwood & Laminate Prof install, refinishing, sanding, and repairs. 778-858-7263

8073

DRAIN TILES & WATER LINES Without Digging a Trench 604-985-4000

LIONS GATE DRAINAGE & SEWER 15% OFF - 604-973-0290

8075

8125

Gutters

NO HST!

til Oct. 31 (labor only) • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention 25 year Warranteed Leaf & Needle Guard WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee

604-340-7189 atyourhomeservicesgroup.ca

Drywall

ACE DRYWALL. Avail immed.

Board, tape, spraytex, repairs. 16 yr exp. No job too small. Mike 604-808-2432, 604-985-4321 AFFORDABLE, Reliable, Quality Guaranteed. Boarding, Taping, Spraytex.

Dave 604-984-7476

Installed • Cleaned • Repaired

*Drywall * Taping * Texture * Stucco*Painting * Steel stud framing Quality Home 604-725-8925

A CLEAR CHOICE WINDOW CLEANING! Gutters, pressure washing, insured. 604-328-0865

8080

Electrical

604-876-4604

North Shore Gutters. Sales & Install 5’’ continuous gutter, minor repairs, cleaning. 604-988-5294

8130 Bringing You a BRIGHT Future!

Please visit us at

www.TCAelectric.ca 778-229-9480

The current choice serving the Lower Mainland for more than 15 years.

All Kinds of Work and Reasonable Rates.

Contact us today for a free estimate.

Max: 604-341-6059 Licensed & Bonded

Lic. 22308

A LICENSED electrician #19807 semi-retired, small jobs only.

604-689-1747 pgr 604-686-2319

Handyperson

Complete Home Maint./Repairs Certified Trained Pros.

For that small job.

Rates you can afford.

RJR Small Projects Division Part of RJR group

604-202-6118 Odd Job Services - Home & Garden - Rain or Shine

- Indoor/Outdoor - Clean up, removal, etc.

North Shore Do All Services.

Michael 778-868-5079

DNE ELECTRIC Lic #89267 ALL Your Electrical Needs.

Panel Upgrading. Reasonable Free Estimate 604-999-2332 LONSDALE ELECTRIC lic#1756 Panel changes & renos 604-988-7232, 604-842-0687

Call Derek 604-351-4140

ALL HOME REPAIRS semiretired master carpenter. Kitchen, stairs, sundecks, etc. All work guar. Karl 604-985-5144

To advertise call

604-630-3300

8130

Handyperson

ENGINEER will fix/setup appliances, TV or computer, low rates, quality work. Call George: (778) 968-8112

8185

Moving & Storage

Local North Van owner 20 yrs est.

PRO GAS - North Shore Furnaces, boilers, gas fitting, heat pumps. Service & installation.

604-925-1341 www.progas.ca

8150

MSOT Design & Const Outdated Kitchen Outdated Kitchenoror Bathroom?

Bathroom?

Weoffer offer complete We complete design // build build service design service CallMike Mike 604.761.4448 604.761.4448 Call

8155

604.682.1122

Kitchens/Baths

Landscaping

Garden Services

Certified Horticulturists Design • Planting • Maintenance Fall Clean-ups. Call Scott. www.KatsuraLandscaping.ca

10x10 STORAGE LOCKER $135 MOVING EVERYWHERE BEST PRICES ANYWHERE 604-710-2008 MOVERS.CA Best West Moving fast, 7 days/ week, short notice moves, great mid-month rates. 604-319-1010

Paving/Seal Coating

8205

DRIVEWAYS - Asphalt & Pavers. 10+ yrs exp WCB reasonable rates 604-618-2949

You Want It We’ve Got It

Find Whatever You’re Looking for in the Classifieds.

Men with new truck, careful moving, rubbish removal, recycle, deliveries. Reas. 604-928-1527

8160

ER+

Lawn & Garden Maintenance Tree Pruning Hedge Trimming Garden Clean Up Garbage Removal All Your Garden Emergencies & More www.garden-er.com

778 378 8911

A.All Area Gardening Service • New Lawns • Maintenance • Pruning • Trimming • Topping • General Clean up

A.A. BEST PRO GARDEN SERVICES LTD.

Lawn Maint., General Clean-Up, Power Raking, Moss Control, Aerating.

Trim, Top, Prune. All types of lawn & garden applications. Free Est.

604-726-9152, 604-984-1988 Serafina Garden Services Maintenance, design, organic reassonable rates. 604-984-4433

HEDGE TRIMMING, fall clean up, debris removal, odd jobs & gutter cleaning. Darren 604-339-6504 It’s Time to put your garden to sleep. Call Seymour lawn main for all your fall needs.

604-990-1252 and www.seymourlawnmaint.ca Ny Ton Gardening clean up trimming, shrubs, hedging, pruning & topping, 604-782-5288

604-988-5294

NO OVERTIME BEST RATES Call Today for Your Free Quote

Serving the North Shore since 1963

FALL SPECIAL - 10% OFF Power washing - houses, windows & gutters 604-929-3252

604-889-6409

POWER WASHING Fast and thorough - we use only top quality equipment for the best results at lowest costs. Res, Comm, Strata - 778-233-0559

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Clean Sweep?

PLUMBING & DRAINAGE 604-729-6695

PLUMBERS

ALL-PRO TANK REMOVAL & Detection Best Price Guaranteed Free Est 778-223-8265

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

Painting & Design Ltd.

FALL 3 ROOM SPECIAL

495

$ .00 Includes 3 gallons Benjamin Moore Paint WCB/Liability Insurance

Call for details

Todd Birch:

604-922-9777

A CLEAN PAINT JOB. Quality 1 room from $127. Int-ext, WCB 22 yrs exp. Cell: 604-727-2700 ACCURATE PAINTING - Int & ext. Competitive prices. 15+ yrs exp. Henry cell 604-754-9661 Excellent Pro Painting Service 20 yrs exp, refs, warranty. Reas, res/comm Richard 604-618-0205 FALL SPECIALS PRICES!! ★ STAFFORD & SON ★ Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.

Reasonable rates. 604-809-3842

Binder:

604-726-9153 604-926-1526

•Power Washing • Window Cleaning • Gutter Cleaning

PLUMBING & HEATING NO JOB TOO SMALL

Water Lines (without Digging) Sewer Lines (without Diggging) Install. Draintiles. 604-985-4000

Lawn & Garden

garden

HOME SERVICES LTD

DELBROOK

Oil Tank Removal

Custom Landscape Installs

DHALIWAL GARDENING & Landscaping. Full yard mtce, trimming, pruning 604-889-0263

Power Washing

NORTH SHORE

BUDGET PLUMBING, No travel charge, No hidden fees. Free Estimate. $60/hour 604-726-0474

PACIFIC LANDSCAPE CONSTRUCTION LTD. Paving Stones & Walls, Drainage & Grading, Irrigation & Lighting, New Lawn Installs, Outdoor Kitchens

8225

Plumbing

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

TwoGuysWithATruck.ca Moving, Storage, Free EST 604-628-7136. Visa, OK

8193

8220

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

604-518-5661

GREAT LOOKING Landscapes Full service landscape & garden maint. Call Dave: 604-764-7220

ALL YOUR electrical & reno needs. Lic’d electrician #37940.

Bonded & insured 604-842-5276 ALP ELECTRIC #89724 Low price, small job ok. Free ests Satisfaction guar 604-765-3329

BABCOCK HEATING Time to SERVICE your Natural Gas Furnace & or Fireplace You may qualify for a $25 grocery gift card from FORTIS BC. Offer valid until Oct. 31/11

604-839-1225

NORTH VANCOUVER YOUR HOME ROOFING

Drainage

Heating

Installations Refinishing & Repairs

INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices.

Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

NEED to Renovate? Let us help you create a space that you will love. Call: 604.725.5042

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

30 years exp, references avail.

OSZVALD’S PAINTING (1974) Int & ext painting, pressure washing, papering, taping, texturing.

Res & comm 604-980-4249 QUALITY painting & wallpapering. Experienced & professional, Call Arlene at 604-910-3270.

SAM’S PAINTING Quick & Affordable, Int/ext North Shore Co. 778-319-2690 TRITON PAINTING. Large or small jobs. Quality guar. Est 1994 Int/ ext, Res/comm Mike, 604-366-4270

8200

Patios/Decks/ Railings

Central Decking Co.

• Build & Rebuild – waterproof decks • Specialize in seamless polyurethane membrane deck coatings • Sundecks – Balconies – Patios

604-618-0631

centraldecking@gmail.com www.centraldecking.ca

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LOCAL PLUMBER - Licensed, insured,GASFITTING, renos, Repairs. VISA 604-929-6956 SAVE ON PLUMBING! Licenced Plumber/Gas fitter, $68/HR. Same day service. 604-987-7473 Samy

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6005

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6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-04

Burnaby

1BR 1690 Augusta Ave Bby 678 sqft SFU area $204,900 Open Sunday Oct 16th 2−4pm. Call: (604) 710−8430 www.roryc.ca

6008-22

North Vancouver

2BDRM/2 full BTH 1405-121 W16 Ave,N Van $ 569000 967 sf corner unit, beautiful view,Large windows,Open plan incl granite countertop, gas F/P,gas Stove,Open house Sundays call (604) 288-9696

6015

For Sale by Owner

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Sell your home, only $99. 604-574-5243 Chilliwack executive 4416sf 7br 4.5ba with 2br suite, view $609K 729-6678 id5436 Langley Open House Sat/Sun 2-4 #423, 8888-202st. top fl 1030sf 2br 2ba condo +55 age restriction $319,900 576-8404 id5427 Mission Reduced 2700sf 5br 3ba fabulous suite 7191sf lot $439K 287-2860 id5409 Richmond immaculate 2151sf 3br 2.5ba exec. townhouse $888K 275-6846 id5440 Sry Price Reduced top flr 70sf corner unit +65 condo, $129,500, 805-4124 id5423 Sry economical living for seniors 1200sf 2br 2ba townhouse $210K 597-8141 id5438 White Rock immaculate 2640sf 4br 2.5ba on large 7977sf lot $775K 541-0188 id5437

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6020

6020

Houses - Sale

6020-01

Houses - Sale

6020-34

Real Estate

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Condos/ Townhouses

6008-26

Lots & Acreage

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6008

6030

Empty your Garage Fill Your Wallet

M A K E I T A S U CC E S S !

Call 604-630-3300

6008

Condos/ Townhouses

Port Moody

PRICE REDUCED! NOW $319,900 College Park, Port Moody OPEN HOUSE SAT. 1:30-3:30PM

Best Value in Pt. Moody 301B Evergreen Drive

Large,3bdrm.,3bathtownhome.

3 levels, approx. 1800 sq. ft.

Features include: Large living room w/wood-burning F/P & view of greenbelt; basement w/2nd living, laundry & storage.

Top floor has 3 bdrms, 4-pce bath & ensuite. Complex has indoor pool. Close to elementary school, parks & beaches.

Jess LaFramboise 604-815-7190

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HOME SERVICES cont. from previous page

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

LOW COST CONSTRUCTION Renos, additions, kitchens, suites, drywall tile. 604-657-9904

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A48 - North Shore News - Friday, October 14, 2011

REV

YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE ROAD

Braking News

Brendan McAleer

Escape to get overdue update

NEWS photo Paul McGrath

THE Dodge Charger, redesigned for 2011, still looks great but now has a vastly improved interior that makes it much more fun to drive. It is available at Destination Chrysler on North Vancouver’s Marine Drive.

of the popular 1990s Dodge Intrepid in the curve of the rear deck, and a more sculpted and purposeful look to the new hood.

One thing you can’t miss is the new front grille, which shoots out aggressively from between the headlamps similar to a Ram pickup truck. The look has been expertly translated to the sedan, enabling it to stand out from the crowd in nearly any setting.

The interior is just a huge step up, with a simple and effective layout that is both inviting and functional.

The Charger isn’t as fancy as some of its competitors, and it doesn’t want to be.

That’s a vast improvement over last year’s model, which simply couldn’t meet today’s standards.

Best of all, the cabin has a much higher-quality feel, with soft-touch materials and thoughtful aluminum trim.

Most people would have been happy if the plastic was less

2013 Ford Escape ditches the V-6 While the Ford Escape is still a hot seller in the Canadian market, there’s no denying that it’s getting long in the tooth, design-wise. Walk into a Ford showroom filled with sleek Focuses, muscular Edges and swoopy Mustangs, and you might be forgiven for thinking the Escape is a bit of an ugly truckling.

Introduced in 2000 as a 2001 model, the Escape has been refreshed exactly once, but it still has decade-old underpinnings and a big lump of a V-6 that produces a reasonable 240 horsepower, but a fairly ho-hum 223 foot-pounds of torque. Well, the new 2013 Escape is on the way, and you can say goodbye to six cylinders.

It’s more evidence that we’re entering a new golden age of turbocharging, as the 2013 Escape will retain the 2.5-litre four-cylinder base model, but add two new turbocharged engines: one a 1.6litre engine with around 180 h.p. and a powerful new 2.0litre producing 247 h.p. and 275 foot-pounds of torque.

What do all these numbers mean? More down-low grunt, but with greater fuel savings, especially for highway driving.

What’s more, the Escape’s

See Interior page 51

See Infiniti page 52

2011 Dodge Charger

Charger fast and friendly THE Dodge Charger that debuted for the 2006 model year was everything we had come to expect from Chrysler over the past decade — both good and bad.

Columnist David Chao reviews the 2012 Mini Countryman in next week’s Rev.

On one hand, it looked superb, with a bold, muscular design that set it apart from the gangster-themed Chrysler 300, and offered the size and space necessary to serve as a practical family sedan. On the other hand, the Charger’s interior quality was two decades out of date, with mediocre construction and cheap plastics throughout the cabin. As a result, the Charger was great to look at and useful to own, but far from satisfying when it came to actually sitting in the car.

With this in mind, can you guess where the biggest improvements have been made in the 2011 Charger?

Riding on the same LX platform as the original, the redesigned Charger has

Behind The Wheel David Chao

experienced some major upgrades both outside and — more importantly — inside.

Although it rides on the same LX platform as its predecessor, the restyled Charger is fresh and original, with an interior that is first class.

That’s saying a lot for an automaker that has been heavily criticized over the past decade, and it suggests that the Fiat influence has been far more beneficial toward Chrysler than was the Mercedes-Benz experiment. Of course, in many ways that just

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makes sense. The old Chrysler was stuck in its ways, building big, imposing vehicles with bigger engines, and what it really needed was a dose of friendliness — not something for which Mercedes-Benz is known. Fiat, in contrast, builds wonderfully fun-loving vehicles such as the 500 subcompact, bringing with it an attitude that is both carefree and sensible at the same time.

If this friendlier approach holds true, the American automaker will benefit considerably from the completely different and long overdue perspective brought by its Italian counterpart. And if the 2011 Dodge Charger is a hint of what’s to come, we’re about to see some of the best Chrysler, Dodge, and Jeep products ever produced.

Design The Charger’s five-year-old exterior has been completely redone, keeping the general profile and tough attitude while trading the puffed-up bodywork for svelte lines and smooth curves. There’s a hint

A biweekly roundup of automotive news, good, bad and just plain weird:

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Friday, October 14, 2011 - North Shore News - A49

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THE Charger’s trunk is huge and with folding rear seats and a lid that opens almost vertically it’s easy to get stuff in and out but the lid can be tough to close. dictable, though not as sharp as it could be.

Environment Going beyond the attractive interior design, the cabin is a generally nice place to be, with lots of head and legroom, large storage spaces throughout, and useful touches such as illuminated cup holders. It’s as practical as any family sedan gets.

Controls are laid out well, and the wide, driver-focused console positions the standard UConnectTouch screen high up, where it’s easy to see.

The upgraded touch interface is excellent, proving much easier to navigate and use than the control-wheel interfaces favoured by many automakers these days.

Where cargo is concerned, the Charger is no slouch: the trunk is huge, with folding rear seats and a trunk lid that opens almost vertically, making it easy to get stuff in and out. The only downside is that the lid could be difficult for shorter people to grab — a two-stage trunklid would be the best of both worlds.

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Performance Power comes from a 3.6litre V-6 with 292 h.p. and 260 foot-pounds of torque, a 5.7-litre V-8 with 370 h.p. and 395 foot-pounds of torque, or the upcoming SRT8’s 6.4-litre V-8, which generates a staggering 470 h.p. and 470 foot-pounds of torque. The base engine will be more than enough for most drivers, propelling the sedan with plenty of power and torque.

For now, all engines come with a five-speed automatic that’s fairly mundane.

However, a new, eight-speed automatic is on the way for the 2012 model year, delivering smoother shifts and improved fuel economy.

All-wheel drive is available for the otherwise rear-wheeldrive Charger, but to get it you have to opt for the upmarket R/T model at a price of $39,995. It would be nice to see Dodge offer a less-expensive AWD trim level.

Mid-size family sedans have gotten increasingly sporty over the years, and the Charger raises the average, with solid handling that blends old-school muscle-car fun with modern driving characteristics.

The steering is quick and pre-

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new Euro-design is going to up the curb appeal from boxy to modern. We’ve seen the current Vertrek concepts, and the rumour is that the 2013 Escape is going to look a lot like it. Here’s a question though, the current model has many fans simply because it’s an honest, utilitarian sort of a rig in a world of over-styled cute-utes. How will this new Escape fare with more traditional buyers?

Infiniti puts Sebastian Vettel FX SUV into production

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It seems like you can’t run a proper luxury company unless you’re going to put out a range of hi-po barnstormers.

Infiniti is not quite last to the party on this one — Acura still doesn’t have a performance division — but a single IPL version of the G37 coupe is not quite a performance arm. In fact, that car is only lightly tweaked compared to some of the totally tuned options from competing brands.

Infiniti has always been the Japanese BMW: they need some serious halo cars.

Here’s one right here, a special version of the already potent FX sports SUV, bearing the name of current F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel. It’s a wicked-looking ride, in all white with black wheels and extra aero trim. The sharkish-looking FX has also been lowered and 30 more horses of extra oomph have been squeezed out of its 5.0-litre V8 engine for a total of 414 h.p. and a top speed of more than 300 kilometres per hour.

All well and good but, “who is Sebastian Vettel?” you may be wondering. Well, I just told you: the current F1 world champion for the second year in a row, and the driver for Red Bull racing which has a

partnership with Infiniti (hence the tie-in). However, there’s no denying that F1 superstars aren’t well known on this side of the pond, so it remains to be seen how Infiniti intends to sell this and other tuned-up models.

White takes first place as most popular paint choice Here’s something you may have subconsciously noticed on the road: more and more new cars are being sold in white.

For a long time out there it was a sea of silver and grey, but there’s been a shift towards white in the buying colour palette recently, and it’s just pipped silver as the best seller.

Here, according to paint manufacturer PPG, is the breakdown: 20 per cent of North Americans chose white for their new cars, with silver taking 19 per cent, black 18 per cent and grey 15 per cent.

In other parts of the world, those results were sometimes reversed, with Europeans favouring black and Asian markets choosing silver most often.

What does this mean?

Nothing really, there’s always a four-way tug of war between white-grey-silver-black.

However, I suppose you could interpret the results and make the deduction that buying that pink BMW isn’t such a good idea, resale-wise.

2013 Camaro ZL1 is most powerful Chevy convertible Chevy’s pony car, the Camaro, had to take a little break from production a few years back, as it was getting the sales stuffing knocked out of it by the Mustang. Camaros were interesting, sure, but the ‘Stang was always the big seller.

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THE Buick Regal looks and feels great and, like the Charger, is playing a role in reviving its maker’s brand. driving characteristics, but rivals it for practicality.

Volkswagen CC At a price of $33,375, the CC (formerly the Passat CC) comes with a turbocharged 2.0-litre inline-four with 200 h.p. and 207 foot-pounds of torque, or a 3.6-litre V-6 with 280 h.p. and 265 foot-pounds

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inline-four producing 182 h.p. and 172 foot-pounds of torque, or a turbocharged 2.0-litre inline-four tuned for 220 h.p. and 260 foot-pounds of torque or 270 h.p. and 295 foot-pounds of torque.

The Regal is a stunning sedan that looks and feels great, and plays a similar role to the Charger in reviving the Buick brand. However, a V-6 option would be nice to calm down the front-wheel drive sedan.

Ford Taurus The $27,999 Taurus features an impressive 3.5-litre V-6 with 263 h.p. and 249 foot-pounds of torque, or a turbocharged version with 365 h.p. and 350 foot-pounds of torque. It’s available with either front- or all-wheel drive.

Large and in charge, the Taurus is an imposing vehicle that lacks the Charger’s sporty

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