West Vancouver Beacon | January/February 2019 | Edition 32

THE No. 32

BEACON Shedding light on the communities from Lions Bay to West Bay

January/February 2019

Beginnings: a new day and a new year.

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Sunrise from the ridge in Upper Caulfeild.

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spend a lot of time at Caulfeild Village Starbucks. My first book was launched there, exactly nine years ago and it’s still my favourite place to write. The energy changes continually as people of all ages come and go. And I love the unexpected conversations with people I don’t know. Like Mare Pasternak-Evans.

I noticed Mare (rhymes with flair) long before the day she brought my extra-hot non-dairy Americano Misto to the table where I was tap-tapping away at my laptop, so lost in thought that I’d forgotten all about my order. And it’s not just her purple hair that makes her stand out – although purple is my favourite colour. It’s the way she moves the air with her presence. And the way she treats people. She is a force of nature. Like the first spring day after a long winter.

Mare graduated from Rockridge Secondary in 2012. “I have a long list of teachers I really liked,” she says. “They were awesome, even though I wasn’t a great student.” She has a list of high school highlights that include 24 hours of art with art teacher Carrie Lehman, a trip to Bamfield with Mr. Harding, helping with drama classes and keeping score for volleyball games. But it was youth worker Linda Harrison, who most deeply impacted her life. “She helped me through so much,” says Mare. “She meant everything to me.” When Linda passed away in 2016, Mare had Linda’s initials tattooed behind her ear.

On her left forearm she has another tattoo, the quote she lives by: Do no harm. Help when you can. Return good for evil. “It’s my reminder of how to live. Branded on my body.” The words are framed with flower buds and leafy stems that Mare says is “a made-up plant. It was originally just a doodle.” She mentions a few other guidelines for living: “Always overestimate someone’s ability. Assume they can do more. And always keep your eyes open and pay attention so you don’t miss any aha moments.”

An only child, Mare and her parents moved to Horseshoe Bay from Ontario when she was nine years old and she remembers how thrilling it was to walk to the general store on her own. Besides the safety of this community, the thing she most loves about living here is the wildlife: “My dad and I still get excited about seeing eagles when we’re driving on the highway. I’ll never be desensitized to the wildlife. It’s so trippy.”

When I ask her whether she’d like to

time travel to the past or the future she says, “Never forwards. It’s gotta be a surprise.” She pauses, thinking, and then says. “No. I like this time. I like the progress we’ve made. Regardless of the bad stuff going on, I’m cognisant of the strides we’ve made as a whole. For me, now’s a good time to be alive because I’m wholeheartedly accepted as a person.”

Mare has had almost every entry-level job you could have and loves working at Starbucks. “My customers get all of me, all my attention and passion.” And you can see it in the way their eyes light up when she greets them. Like old friends. Her hope for 2019 is that all her fellow employees will be happy. She also wants this to be the year that she starts putting all the things that she’s had in the back of her head in motion. She has a list of 100 countries to visit, and six languages she’d like to learn. And I’m sure this is just the beginning. We wish you a wonderful new year Mare. Thank-you for making our village a brighter place.

Mare with Dave, Brenda, Dale and Chris.

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Contributing writer, Elspeth Bradbury Chris Stringer

an instant success as Elspeth shared her vast knowledge and passion for our natural surroundings. hen Lindy and I Her home on the edge began planning the inception of of Lighthouse Park proves a vantage point the Beacon we agreed that for her connections West Vancouver’s history with the array of inand abundance of natural assets would complement teresting topics that our desire to focus on the emerge from it. She knows nature specialcommunity and its people. ists for hummingbirds, Two excellent pictorial red-headed frogs, salmon books had been written on the streams, bats at Gleneagles, topics. Francis Mansbridge repaddle-boarding off the coast, counted the history in Cottages to Community and Elspeth Bradbury endangered plant species as Elspeth well as invasive species and had completed the comprehensive West Vancouver, A View through the Trees. on and on. When she decided on a topic We invited them both to join our writing for which she had no contact she went out team in volunteer capacities and both gra- and found one.

Elspeth has been so much more than a ciously accepted. Francis and Elspeth lecontributing writer. During the Beacon’s gitimized our fledgling newspaper.

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Elspeth remained supportive. She has led our Beacon team with her buoyancy and positive enthusiasm for which Lindy and I continue to be sincerely grateful.

We will miss her professionalism and energy and her impeccably Elspeth’s book is ava ilable at the library. organized ‘ready-togo’ articles – an editorial dream.

After five years and 31 editions of the Look for more on this in the March BeaBeacon, Elspeth is moving on to spend con. Elspeth will continue to write for us more time on her many other interests. occasionally.

AN INVITATION TO NATURE ENTHUSIASTS Elspeth’s vision for the future of The Mountain to the Sea articles is that enthusiasts with interests or involvement in nature be encouraged to write about it in this space. So we are inviting anyone who would like to write about their interest or involvement in any aspect of nature in our community to email the editor at lindypfeil@westvanbeacon.ca.

If you are aware of a person or group that fits this theme and would like to write about them, please contact Lindy.

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Hollyburn and a special family cabin BY

Don Grant

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he cabins on Hollyburn Ridge form the only remaining cabin community1 on the North Shore mountains.

One cabin, ‘North Plus Fours’ 2, is unique in that the same family has owned the cabin since it was built in 1936. ‘North Plus Fours’ connects us with a time, a place and a way of life only a few can remember today.

What was it like to be a Hollyburner in the early days? In his 1927 article, The Ski

Hill, Pollough Pogue gives us a glimpse.

“The hikers who climb the Hollyburn trail to the ski camp now show the real spirit of outdoor sport; the snow lies deep on the trail and the hiking is not easy. Hundreds of enthusiasts, mushing in single file have ploughed a narrow furrow difficult to walk in. But after three hours of slipping and staggering up the trail, you arrive at last on the top of the mountain, a very beautiful and fascinating place. Before you reach the ski camp you hear wild yells and loud laughter ringing through the sedate fir woods.

This hilarity tells you that the ski hill is not far away.”

Four decades later, Naomi Wilson Mac Innes described Hollyburn as it was during its ‘golden age’ (1927-1939). “Today I took a short 30-minute uphill stroll and was transported to the land of my youth. I was surrounded by the ghosts of the past ghosts who have walked with me through all these years. This unique paradise came free to anyone ambitious enough to expend the necessary energy to reach it - a beautiful Shangri-La that masqueraded by the name

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Hollyburn Lodge in the 1930s.

of Hollyburn. In the late 1930s we were one big family, we who hiked, skied, chopped wood, built log cabins and escaped each weekend to the marvellous playland, fondly referred to as ‘up the hill.’ Only one percent of the total population of Vancouver were aware of this life at the top of the mountain.

We skiers were pioneering what has become the most popular winter sport today.”

Among the many Hollyburn friends who came to Naomi’s mind that day were Thelma and Jack Hutchinson, both mentioned in her memoir. Thelma and Jack were the first to occupy ‘North Plus Fours’. More recently, their daughter, Ruth Alsemgeest shared these thoughts. “My parents were very active on Hollyburn in the 1930s and 40s. Thelma was secretary for the Vancouver Ski Club, a competitive skier, and an accomplished amateur photographer. She took hundreds of photos on Hollyburn during the 1930s and ‘40s which survive with detailed captions in her albums to this day.

Jack served for many years in various capacities, including a judge at ski jumping tournaments, an official at cross-country, downhill, and slalom competitions, president of the Vancouver Ski Club, and chairman of the Vancouver Ski Zone. He also foresaw the creation of a park on Hollyburn Mountain. In his role as chairman of the Hollyburn Ridge Ski Promotion Committee, Jack petitioned the provincial governments of the day at least twice, in 1938 and 1944, and possibly also in 1946 for the protection and preservation of the Cypress Bowl area for downhill skiing. In his 1944 letter to Premier Hart he predicts the ability of hosting a “major skiing event” in future, and states that, “If located near any Eastern Canadian, American, or European city, (Cypress Bowl’s) slopes in winter would be

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black with skiers and its woods and trails thronged by hikers and nature lovers in summer.” Unfortunately, his attempts were rejected.

Ruth continues: “My parents spent much of their free time up on the mountain during those years before my brothers and I arrived. They celebrated ten straight Christmas seasons at the cabin, backpacking a turkey for roasting and all the trimmings for several guests from their Vancouver home by the usual route - streetcar through downtown, ferry across Burrard Inlet, and a hike straight up the mountain from the foot of 22nd Street! The original ‘Plus Fours’ cabin was located a short way south on the mountain and burned down many years ago. Its clearing, though more overgrown each year, is still visible and a great berry-picking spot in summer. That cabin belonged to Vic Stevens (Thelma’s brother), and Les May, two more pioneer names from those early days, while they were still bachelors. Along with their wives, our auntie Molly, daughter of Pollough Pogue, and Leila May, they were very much a part of Hollyburn’s vibrant social scene.

Jack passed away in 1975, and so never witnessed the eventual realization of the vision that he and his executive teams, including Fred Hudson and Thelma, worked so hard to achieve. And yet, today, perhaps due in some small way to the inspiration of his long-ago leadership, Cypress Provincial Park is a permanent West Coast treasure, Cypress Bowl excelled as a 2010 Winter Olympics venue, and our Hollyburn-Strachan-Black Mountain paradise attracts winter and summer sports enthusiasts from around the world.

The Hutchinson Alsemgeest family cabin, ‘North Plus Fours’, was built by master carpenter, Joseph Braithwaite, my father’s beloved stepfather, as a wedding gift for his only child and new daughter-in-law. It continues to be much loved and appreciated by

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BRIAN POMFRET

JOE GARDENER

Tips for winter gardening

JANUARY - In January we can be blanketed in full-on drifts of snow or bask in the warmth of spring-like days. There is a significant amount of colour that could be in your garden at this time of year including the vibrant stemcolour of twig dogwoods.

Some things to consider: • Make sure the crowns of tender perennials are mulched and if lifted by frost press back down.

• Keep an eye on those evergreen magnolias as they are quite susceptible to the weight of snow.

• Your forsythia and witch hazel might be blooming now so go out there and bring in a few branches.

• This is the time for dormant pruning of ornamental trees, except birch as they ‘bleed’ sap.

• If you have wintering geranium cuttings, check and throw out failures.

• If you ordered bare root roses you can plant now if the soil is not frozen, as well as any hardy shrubs or trees.

• This is a great time to be planning your garden, ordering seeds and preparing cold frames.

FEBRUARY - This is often the month that we most love living on the west coast with spring bulbs poking through the ground and buds beginning to burst, promising good things to come! Snowdrops are at their best.

Some things to ponder: •M idway through this month is the time to consider cutting back ferns and most ornamental grasses.

•C ultivate your garden beds and start weeding.

•F inish dormant pruning of fruit trees and if you have not done so spray with dormant oil and lime sulphur.

•L ater on this month apply dolomite lime to your lawns.

•C heck out your compost pile and turn it over keeping it a bit moist.

•Y ou can hard prune your hardy fuchsia and buddleia (butterfly bush) as they flower on this year’s wood.

•C ultivate soil next to evergreen hedges. Apply a light dressing of fertilizer or well-rotted manure.

Wandering through West Van winters BY

Ann Frost

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alking in a Winter Wonderland?

Well, during the great snowy winter of 1955 there was no walking - only skiing or sledding. Buses couldn’t get through on Mathers, so the roads were closed.

But you could take your sled to the top of 25th and whiz down the hill till it flattened out close to the bottom.

And who remembers Walter’s Ski Shack?

You could take him any old pair of skis and he would help you refurbish them so you could

use them on the local slopes. He even knew how to re-edge skis! And then there was the sporting goods shop in North Vancouver where you could take all the skis, boots, jackets and other equipment that your children had outgrown, hang them up in the shop and then let your children pick larger ones. A modernday example of Alice in Wonderland’s “clean cups, move down!” And it only cost a fraction of the value of the equipment you were surrendering or choosing.

Ski equipment today is a far cry from what served way back then. And the ski slopes and access to them have changed too. Remember when we graduated from rope tows to Poma

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lifts and T-bars? And now you have covered gondolas transporting you from mountain to mountain at Whistler. It is always hard to decide if things were better then or now.

And as we move into a new year, we might want to think about what we would do if we could go back in time. Would you drive up the old highway to Squamish, assuming your dad would let you have the car? Watch Bonanza with your family? Go crab-fishing and have a crab feast afterward? Indulge in Woodward’s famous ‘sad’ donuts? And for those of you who weren’t around then, they were donuts that emerged from the donut machine a little the worse for wear. Sold at a discount, they tasted

Photo: courtesy of West Vancouver Memorial Library archives, 1054.WVML Walter’s Ski Shack, 1465 Clyde Avenue, 1965.

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True confessions of a Bookophile BY

Charles Mayrs

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es, I really do like books. But my real pleasure, besides painting, poetry, drawing and photography, is in the actual art of making books. My writings and illustrations strive to be works of art. The goal for a book artist is to create a classic that is visually and intellectuality exceptional; a limited edition publication that will attract private collectors and university libraries.

My journey began in the late 1950s at the Vancouver School of Art. I was a naïve young student who was lucky enough to have an excellent design and typography teacher, Robert Reid. Bob taught me the principles of good graphic design and the beautiful art of

letterpress printing. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, after graduating from art school in 1961, I ended up having a 36-year career in two different advertising agencies. I must admit, it was an exciting and fruitful time, especially during the 1960s Mad Men years (but that’s another story.) However, my passion for the art of bookmaking was in limbo, until I finally escaped the advertising world in 1997. A short time later, I stumbled upon Black Stone Press on Granville Island, owned by creative guru, letterpress printer David Clifford and his bookbinding daughter Yasmine. Voila! I found a home for my future tomes.

To create a letterpress book from scratch is somewhat daunting. What is the subject matter and to whom is it directed? Should the

words be poetry or prose? What about the visuals? Drawings? Paintings? Photographs?

What typefaces should one use? Also, the paper stock can make or break the quality of a fine press book. Once these hurdles are overcome, the journey (and rewards) of producing a letterpress book begins.

To date, I have produced fourteen limited edition books. All are housed in the Rare Books and Special Collections of UBC, SFU and Vancouver Public Library. A favourite of mine is Fables and Life’s Little Lessons: twenty-four original fables illustrated with black pigment ink and coloured pencils. My latest book, Beguiling West Vancouver, is a seventyfour page volume with original hand-printed photographs, along with words reflecting my curious musings of this beguiling commu-

Photo: Char les Mayr Bear and Mon key have a sli ght altercatio n.

nity. Also adding to the lure of both these books, is the paper. A soft, slightly pebbled, deckled-edge page, with words stamped and indented onto their surface by a vintage Heidelberg or Vandercook press.

Magical. It’s simply magical.

Bats need your help BY

anielle Dagenais, MSc, PAg D and Mandy Kellner

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lthough summer has passed and bats have headed to their hibernation site to tucker down for the winter, bats still need your help. “The conservation of bats in B.C. has always been important, since over half the species in this province are considered at risk.

With the discovery of White-nose Syndrome in Washington State, bat conservation is more important than ever,” says Mandy Kellner, Coordinator for the B.C. Community Bat Program.

White-nose Syndrome (WNS) is a disease that affects hibernating bats. It is caused by an introduced fungus, first detected in North America in a cave in New York in 2006. The fun-

gus lives on the cave walls and spreads to bats while they hibernate by rooting into their skin.

The fungus can be easily transported by bats and humans and spreads to new locations every year. Since it was discovered, it has spread to 33 states and 7 provinces in North America, decimating bat populations along the way. “Luckily, WNS is not yet in B.C.,” continues Kellner. “But we are preparing for its arrival by raising awareness about bats, working with landowners who have bats in buildings, enhancing bat habitat, monitoring populations and by working with cavers.”

Monitoring for WNS occurs every winter, and this winter may be crucial as the fungus is just south of the border. The Community Bat Programs of B.C. wishes to collect any dead bats found between November 1 and May 31 for

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formation about bats in buildings, conducts site visits to advise landowners on handling bats and managing bats in buildings, coordinates the Annual Bat Count in the summer, picks up dead bats and ships them for testing, and delivers presentations on bats. To find out more about the B.C. Community Bat Program and options for helping local bat populations, visit www.bcbats. ca or call or 1-855-922-2287.

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Adventures at VIFF BY

Bonnie Kagna

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he Venice International Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the ‘Big Three’ film festivals (along with those held in Cannes and Berlin). The 75th Venice Film Festival took place this year from 29 August to 8 September. I was there with my husband, Caulfeild’s own Alan MacFarlane, an actor, stuntman and producer who doubles for Mel Gibson in the Vancouver production of Dragged Across Concrete.

Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, the movie stars, amongst others, Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn and local actor Justine Warrington. It was thrilling to share the red carpet premiere of Dragged Across Concrete

in Venice, Italy.

The films, presented over 11 days, are both features and shorts, from all countries and all genres, along with restorations from Hollywood’s classic library. Screenings take place on Lido, the island across the Grand Lagoon from Venice, where the 9 Cinema Theatres, mostly bright red buildings, present entries to the press, industry VIPs and the public. The Sala Grande, with its long red carpet, is the premier location.

Opening night is usually black tie and women’s fashions range from magnificent gowns to the most unusual outfits. Paparazzi abound, crowding the Hotel Excelsior dock during the day and the red carpet at night. The theatre areas are dotted with comfortable outdoor bars and eating areas where actors, directors, producers and the-

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Bonnie and Alan, “Not Mel,” at the gala dinner.

Alan and Mel Gibson on set.

atregoers mingle, chat and take photos.

We were extremely fortunate to have accommodations overlooking the Grand Lagoon at the beautiful Hotel Pensione Wildner with its incredibly hospitable staff. It is located just steps away from water transportation via vaporetto or water bus to Lido

and the surrounding Islands, or to the airport and train station.

Since retiring from Telus, where he worked for 35 years, Alan has worked in over 400 productions for cinema and television. The Venice Film Festival has to be one of our favourite adventures.

The de rigueur of rubber gloves BY

Kim Clarke

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ature is messy and if you are faint of heart, take heed. The observation that I am about to share with you is not pretty, but it is purposeful.

So, let’s just say I have a ‘thing’ for crows and ravens, a “raven lunatic” to quote my night shirt. Or at least I did. Until last week.

There I was, on my morning dog drag, easing into the day when a crow landed on the curb beside me. It eyeballed something delicious at the side of the road and hopped down to take a closer look. Most days the crows in Horseshoe Bay are quite spoiled.

They have their pick of all the delicious-

ness that the community has to offer. It is not unusual for them to be seen with Subway wrappers, end bits of halibut, or the discarded seafood delights that have been dropped by the gulls. But on this day, rather than the usual surf choices, the crow opted for some turf fare, a mouse of the deceased persuasion, to be exact. I was fascinated by his breakfast of choice and Konkie the dog was sniffing a blade of grass, thoroughly. He was not in any mood to move and for once I was in no hurry. I had nature to watch.

My crow friend was a skillful filleter. He de-spined and eviscerated with precision.

He ate his find with nary a crumb left behind. Except on his beak. He noticed the tidbit and flew to the nearest hand rail. He

scraped his beak back and forth as if on a leather barber strop until his beak shone and was clean. Once cleansed he flew away, satiated and shiny, for now. I would have been satisfied if this had been the end of the story. But this is where it becomes gruesome. So this is when you should look away if you have had enough natural order of things. Where the crow had cleaned his beak was now under the palm of the hand of a pedestrian out for a solitary saunter.

The hand that grasped the handrail then made its way to the hair of said pedestrian.

Ew. But as things go in my little world, it didn’t stay an ‘ew’ moment for long. I was transported back to my childhood, sitting

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in a theatre watching the musical South Pacific. The strains of my favourite song from that movie, “I’m going to wash that man right out of my hair,” wafted through my memory banks. A little altered with the word ‘mouse’ inserted but the ‘ew’ removed and now made pleasurable by this serendipitous sing-along.

Nature is messy, sure, but it is also filled with helpful hygiene tips if you pay attention.

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Exploring the Greek Cyclades BY

Johann van Rooyen

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ou cannot travel too far in Greece without bumping into some mythical Greek god. My wife and I discovered this very quickly while exploring the Cyclades last summer. You could ‘taste’ it in the wines of Naxos, the island where Dionysus, the god of wine, found his future wife Ariadne, after she was deserted by her lover. Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, was also raised on Naxos island and it is home to the marble remnants of the unfinished temple of Apollo built in 530 BC, called the Portara.

Naxos, with its iridescent Aegean light, azure seas and mazes of white-washed alleyways, was our favourite of the four Cyclades islands. The greenest of the islands, it’s covered by citrus orchards, fig and olive trees and vineyards. Its many small villages, where the locals are extremely friendly, are connected by hiking paths, the best of which are found in the Tragaia Valley. We hiked through ancient olive trees, derelict farmhouses, temple ruins and churches. We stayed in the main city, Naxos Town, a maze of medieval twisting alleys built of marble from the Temple of Apollo and upon the remnants of a Venetian castle. The town is full of tavernas specializing in fresh seafood, many displaying row upon row of drying octopus. The best beaches are to the south, including the partly-nudist wind-surfing Plaka beach. We spent three days in desert-like Agiassos, where my wife briefly lived her dream of being a modern-day Shirley Valentine.

Then it was on to Paros, a smaller island with whitewashed villages, blue-domed

churches and a lively nightlife. We took an airconditioned bus from the main town, Paroikia, to our hotel in the small seaside town of Drios. The hour-long drive took us across the island, over a small mountain and past several ancient villages. It cost $5 and provided spectacular views of the distant seas and islands.

Our final stop was Ano Koufonissi, a small 4 km² island with a population of 366, surrounded by turquoise water, three beautiful beaches and a multitude of private coves. With many hiking and cycling paths, the island can be crossed by foot in about two hours. We stayed in the Myrto Hotel close to the harbour and were treated like family by the owners; we frequently experienced this kind of hospitality on the less-busy islands. Koufonissi has several affordable seafood and souvlaki tavernas.

I had outstanding grilled octopus for about $5 and a litre of good house wine cost only $4. There are daily ferries from Naxos, with a spectacular two-hour route stopping at several small islands.

Travel between the four islands was by way of highly efficient ferries. The ferry operations are a sight to behold, with fast-loading cars and pedestrians sharing the same boarding ramps at the same time. Service on board is good with food and alcohol available!

For Canadians who want to stay for longer periods, Greece offers short-term residency by way of a one-year visa, renewable if you can prove sufficient funds of €2,000 per month to support your stay. Greece also offers a residency-by-investment scheme. For an investment of €250,000 in a Greek property, you will receive a resident visa initially for five years.

The residence permits do not allow employment, but investors can run a business.

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Grace and precision in miniature Chris Stringer

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owen Islander Lucian Ploias has been building model ships for a hobby and for a living for 40 years, 22 of them in Vancouver. His model ships are exact miniature scale models of seagoing vessels, many of which still exist. Some work is commissioned by the Vancouver Maritime Museum where he is in the process of building a model of the St. Roch, the first ship to completely circumnavigate North America. Ploias also receives commissions from companies, collectors, private ship owners and governments so his models can be found displayed in museums, office board rooms, government lobbies, galleries and private collections globally.

Lucian was born and raised in Transylvania. Located in central Romania, it was behind the Iron Curtain from 1947 to 1989 and is known for its beautiful Carpathian mountain landscape and its rich history.

Ten-year-old Lucian’s modelling hobby soon became a passion and by age 18 he had won several national and international ship modelling competitions. His parents encouraged him to enter the engineering program at university. But sadly, when he graduated after the end of communist rule, there were no opportunities for a young engineering graduate in Transylvania. So he moved to Belgium to find work, taking with him his new bride, childhood sweetheart Dana. They immigrated to British Columbia in 1996. The familiar verdant mountain scenery here that resembles their homeland

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and the lifelong Ploias passion for the sea were the key reasons for selecting Vancouver.

On arriving, Lucian set out to look for engineering work when a chance meeting with the Vancouver Maritime Museum’s curator, Leonard McCann, changed his life.

“Leonard was my first Canadian friend,” says Lucian. “We had a chat and he asked me to bring him a sample of my work. I returned the following week with one of my models. Leonard asked me if I wanted a job.” That was 22 years ago.

The finest model shipyard in Canada began under the appropriate name of Transylvanian Ship Models Ltd. Its specialty is the construction of exact scale models of ships and related marine equipment in any scale and from any historical time frame.

Headquarters are located in the Maritime Museum.

Making Transylvanian model ships is an exacting, highly-detailed, painstaking process. The models are built from scratch using raw materials like exotic woods, copper and brass. There is technology available today that would shorten the process of hand-making models but Lucian believes it does not achieve the quality and detail that hand-made modelling does. His technique is known as ‘dockyard’ or ‘admiralty’ type modelling. The timeframe required to build or restore a model has run from a few months to three years. “Building my models requires considerable research into the original ship, its history and owners to make sure that my creation is an exact replica. Each model is unique. I have not built the same ship twice over my 40 year career,” says Lucian.

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student at UNBC. Docked not far from their house is their beautifully restored Grandbanks boat that they refer to as their second home. Lucian says, “I would appreciate if I could dedicate this article to Dana, my beautiful wife, who has always been supportive during the hard times as well as the good. Thank you Dana.”

It is possible to view the unique work of this extraordinary artist and meet him at the Vancouver Maritime Museum at 1905 Ogden Avenue in Kitsilano. www.transylvanian.com www.facebook.com/modelingships.

Photo provided This is a 17” model of the long boat, Juanita, that the Spanish charters used to measure the coast around English Bay and the Gulf Islands. It was commissioned by the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

Photo provided This close-up of Lucian’s intricate work is of the Mary Bower, a wooden boat built in 1942 in the UK. It was owned by an RVYC member who commissioned the model build.

Photo provided Lucian Ploias at work restoring a model of The Empress of France. This original builder’s model from 1913 is 15 feet long and weighs 1000 kgs. It was badly neglected. After 3 years and about 3,500 hours of work she was totally rebuilt.

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SCHOOLS

Design challenges at Gleneagles Ch’axáý ron Campbell A Principal, Gleneagles Ch’a xáý /

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s part of Gleneagles Ch’axáý Elementary School’s effort to build student capacity in 21st Century skills and a focus on design thinking through the B.C. Ministry of Education’s Applied Design, Skills and Technology curriculum (ADST) the school has been participating in monthly school-wide design challenges. Intermediate students are paired with their Primary buddy classes and provide mentorship and support as collaborative mixed age-groups tackle these monthly fun challenges. Part of the objective of

these learning experiences is to keep it simple, but also tap students’ innate ability to communicate, problem-solve and collaborate - crucial career skills for success in an ever-changing future. In September, students were tasked with making the tallest free-standing tower, using only 20 index cards; while in October, groups were asked to create the longest paper chain possible from a single piece of 8x11 paper. November’s focus was the marble ramp design challenge. In each of these challenges, students worked with limited resources under severe time constraints. Whatever the challenge, our students tackled them in a variety of ways, practicing skills of collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. You can check out more examples of learning at Gleneagles Ch’axay on Twitter @gleneagles_news.

Photo provided Students at Gleneagles Ch’axáý trying to create the tallest free-standing tower, using only 20 index cards.

Photo provided Focused on creating the longest chain possible in another design challenge.

Couples should resist the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” Psyched Out Ian Macpherson

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ounds pretty ominous doesn’t it? These scary riders are presumed to be the harbingers of the bitter end of the world.

And to psychologist John Gottman, one of the most famous relationship researchers, the Four Horsemen refer to the four processes couples may engage in which can actually lead to the destruction of their bond. In fact, Gottman is

famous for predicting with over 90% accuracy whether or not a couple will divorce after listening to them argue for only three minutes.

The key is whether or not the pestilent Four Horsemen dominate their exchange.

The first of these dangerous practices is extremely common. It is criticizing your partner.

Nothing wrong with a complaint or telling your mate how you feel, but criticism here means attacking the other’s worth, demeaning them or being habitually blameful. It is suggested that there is no such thing as constructive criticism, the optimum amount of fault-finding being zero! Even if your heart is in the right place, your attempts at correcting your spouse will

more often be met with counter-criticism or some form of defensiveness - the second Horseman. Criticism leading to defensiveness can quickly become a vicious circle.

In such seemingly hopeless and frustrating circumstances, the criticizer often increases the pressure and the defender resorts to stonewalling - the third Horseman - completely shutting down emotionally. The eventual effect on the critic is alienation from the ignoring other and a growing attitude of contempt - the final Horseman. Contempt is really like the antidote for love and very difficult to reverse once it takes hold. It involves assuming that interpersonal problems are caused by your partner’s unchangeable character flaws.

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Rethink Thinking inspires community youth BY

Rebecca Kirstein

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or the last few years, something unique has been brewing for youth just across the pond.

Victoria, B.C. has been host to ‘the Summit’ by local non-profit Rethink Thinking.

This two-day, immersive personalized learning event puts youth in the driver’s seat of their own learning, while encouraging them to connect to what drives them and what matters to them. At the Summit, they find their passion and they find their people.

It’s through this learner-led, collaborative approach that young people move from inspiration to action.

Rethink Thinking was launched in 2016 by a passionate group of educators, parents and social entrepreneurs who share a vision of supporting young people to develop the skills needed for today’s era of rapid change and interconnection. Their philosophy and approach is designed to empower youth and support creativity, innovation and holistic well-being.

The Summit has truly become the conver-

gence of education and human development.

It’s both engaging and inspiring for youth while also providing them with all-important 21st century skills. Like creativity, innovation, critical thinking and resilience. These are the skills that our kids will need to fulfill the requirements of our rapidly changing world. They also happen to be the qualities that produce happy, healthy and whole humans. The collaborative, community-based

approach also brings an entire community together to support the next generation.

A prototyped software platform supports students in their inquiries between Summits and connects them to their peers and adult mentors in real time. The beta version of the online mentorship program will be launched in 2019 to connect all youth to mentorship opportunities.

The Summit not only changes the lives of

youth, it also moves whole communities towards change. To bring the Summit to your community, check out the website at www. rethinkthinking.ca.

Photo provided Students gather to hear speakers Kori Chillibeck and Matt Moreau from the Earth Group at the 2018 Summit at the Bay.

Photo provided A student leads an impromptu dance party during a break at the Summit at the Bay in Victoria, B.C.

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“We’ve made long-lasting friendships with other Westerleigh travellers.”

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FROM THE INKWELL

The eccentric Mr. Wilbee David Roberts

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r. Wilbee lived by himself, at 4753 Pilot House Road. He was a small, elderly, gentle countryman with an accent that hailed from the English west country, probably Wiltshire. His given name was believed to be Stan, but nobody called him that. He was universally known as Mr. Wilbee.

He was retired from running a grocery.

When I first moved into the neighbourhood, many years ago, he inhabited his dear little cottage on Pilot House Road, long since torn down. The lot was impossibly small, perhaps forty feet from the road to the cliff face onto which his cottage backed. His front garden was taken up with ninety-seven rose trees, which he tended with meticulous care and no little skill. Sadly, none remain today.

All were destroyed in the name of progress.

His back garden, a rock ledge that was the foundation of the cliff face, housed his bee hives, which he looked after with the same tender care as he did his roses. I occasionally consulted him about beekeeping, for in those days I also kept bees.

When I went into my hives, I always donned a bee proof coverall, a veil and thick gloves that stretched above my elbows. Mr. Wilbee never wore this standard beekeeping armour. I watched him unpack comb after comb, laden with honey and bees. He was dressed only in shorts and an open-necked shirt; no gloves, no veil. He rarely got stung.

His secret was to smoke the bees before opening the hive. This always calms a colony.

Then he would move very slowly and gently so as not to annoy his bees. I never had the nerve, or the skill, to do this.

Mr. Wilbee was friendly, but not particularly sociable and rarely took part in Caulfeild community activities. I think he was rather shy. There was no Mrs. Wilbee and he was assumed to be a widower.

He had three friends in the neighbourhood. One of these was Jack van Zonneveld, always known to everyone as Jack van, a Dutch Jew who lived with Mrs. Vogelsang a couple of houses up the road. Another companion was Jim McAnsh, a Scottish grain broker, who worked in Chicago and only came home on weekends. Born in a croft in the Highlands, he had made a modest fortune in the grain business. He lived next door to Mr. Wilbee and two doors east of us.

His other chum was Archbishop Martin Johnson, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver. His grace was a kindly soul, who preferred to live in Caulfeild rather than in the Archbishop’s sterile apartments annexed to the cathedral. He owned a succession of unlovely mutts, acquired from the SPCA, that only a cleric could love.

Archbishop Johnson never took part in community events. He felt that it would be inappropriate for a senior prelate of the Roman Catholic church to trespass on a generally Anglican community. He was universally respected in the neighbourhood. His house, at 4650 South Piccadilly is known, to this day, as ‘the Archbishop’s house,’ though he died 43 years ago.

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see Mr. Wilbee, Jack van and the Archbishop walking together around the neighbourhood, accompanied by the current archiepiscopal dog. On weekends, they would be joined

by Jim McAnsh. It was quite charming to observe this oddly assorted quartet enjoying each other’s company as they marched around Caulfeild, chatting. One would have thought that, given their disparate backgrounds, they would have nothing in common. But this sociable perambulation endured until they all died.

In those days, many houses in Caulfeild bore names. Ours had a plaque nailed to our front gate titled, rather unimaginatively, ‘Greyrocks,’ the name it bears to this day.

This was not to be confused with ‘Stonehaven,’ one house east of the Archbishop’s. This was owned by Alfie Evans, who ran the largest pawn-shop in Vancouver, on Hastings Street, close to the police station. During the war, Stonehaven had been rented by Sir Thomas Beecham for some months, while he was divorcing one of his several wives.

Photo provided ‘Greyrocks,’ David and Gill’s home for over 50 years.

Cathy Legate remembers that you could always hear music when you walked past it.

Mr. Wilbee had a plaque for his cottage, that in summer bore the title ‘Rosehaven.’

When winter came he turned it around and then his cottage was called ‘Birdland.’

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Waterfront cultural centre: The Silk Purse BY

Ann Frost

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ave you ever experienced a summer sunset at the Silk Purse, while listening to some of our wonderful local jazz musicians, sipping wine as the cruise ships wend their way out of the harbour?

And what about year-round Thursday morning coffee, cookies and classical music? Jazz and classical musicians alike praise the Silk Purse, many of them naming it their favourite place to perform.

Art openings take place every third week, featuring local artists, often two or three of them exhibiting together, with appies and wine by donation. These talented artists apply to showcase their works and are accepted by a distinguished presiding jury.

The You Are Here 2019 calendar features local scenes by local artists. Proceeds from the calendar support the North Shore Cultural Mapping Project which showcases the art and cultural diversity of the North Shore.

The Silk Purse.

Everyone is welcome to attend the opening reception on Tuesday, January 8 from 6 – 8 pm. The calendar would also make a great belatedChristmas present.

Upcoming art exhibitions include Annette Nieukerk and Lorna Schwenk (January 22 – February 10), SPECTRUM (February 12 – March 3), Dena Rouhbakhsh and Neda Derakhshan (March 6 – March 25) and Cherry Blossoms: A Textile Translation (March 26 – April 14).

In December, famed actor/writer Don Mowatt shared merry and moving tales of Christmases past and pianist Krsytyna Tucka performed selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. A special jazz concert with singer Jacqueline Allan, guitarist Ron Thompson and pianist Miles Black was also held.

Spring brings a co-operative venture with Capilano University, Rising Stars, showcas-

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ing talented up-and-coming musicians from the Capilano University Jazz Studies and Music Diploma programs.

The concerts, exhibitions and other cultural events are all made possible by the West Vancouver Community Arts Council, a registered non-profit established in 1968 with a mission to increase the opportunities for North Shore residents to participate in cultural activities. It was leasing the Klee Wyck house to produce visual art classes and provide affordable space for member groups to hold meetings, rehearsals and workshops. In

1991, the WVCAC was invited by the District of West Vancouver to operate the Silk Purse (which was once a honeymoon cottage) as an Arts Centre.

An annual WVCAC Individual Membership is only five dollars, with a modest ticket price for performances. Members can also rent the Silk Purse for public or private events. It comes with a wonderful grand piano, seats up to 55 people, has a spectacular south-facing water view and a lovely deck right on the ocean. Music teachers rent the facility to provide lessons for their pupils.

Visit www.westvanartscouncil.ca to learn more about the offerings of this magical place.

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HOME & LIVING

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