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DRIVE-BY PHOTOGRAPHYArtist Danny Singer captures his images while behind the wheel of his Volkswagen van
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YOUR NEW FIRE CHIEFHometown boy Victor Penman takes over as the new head of DNV fire services
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Homeless Action Week is here.How is the North Shore doing?
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Welcome to CityShaping LET'S TALK ABOUT OUR FUTUREAfter a successful four months of community outreach, stage one of the CityShaping process is complete. We thank the 1,000+ community members who took the time to fill out an issues & priorities survey and share their thoughts about the most important issues facing our community. The results are now being compiled and a report prepared summarizing stage one input received from the survey, online discussion forum and numerous community events.
As stage two of the CityShaping process begins, there are still many opportunities to get involved and have your say. This stage includes a deeper discussion of the issues identified and possible responses. Visit the CityShaping website at www.cnv.org/CityShaping to learn more and to register for regular updates. We encourage all residents to play a role in updating the City's Official Community Plan.
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North Van resident Yumi White has been living with stage four breast cancer for a decade.
She has never had chemotherapy; her oncologist opted to treat her cancer with hormone therapy instead.
White didn’t question him. She’d been given a year to live and living with the debilitating effects of chemotherapy was not an option.
“[Hormone therapy] was the right decision for me because I’m still here,” says the graphic designer.
It was her husband Greg who found the lumps in her breasts. There was no other indication that she was battling an internal disease.
White promptly went to her family doctor who ordered a biopsy. In the radiologist’s office, where her cancer diagnosis was confirmed, she says she was killed mentally.
“That was the day I didn’t know where I was or who I was,” recalls White of that ominous, cold day in May.
Cancer aside, physically she was not shaken. White had always con-sidered herself a couch potato but post-diagnosis she started running, dragon boating and doing the Grouse Grind, which is challenging enough for people in optimal health.
Two years later, she learned the cancer had metastasized into her lungs. In the same breath, White’s oncologist diagnosed with her with unrelated cervical cancer.
The cancer has continued to spread over the years, most recently to her bones, but it’s manageable with radiation and hormone ther-apy.
“So it is still kind of happening, but maybe [the cancer] grows very slowly in my case or the [hormone therapy] helps slow down the progression,” figures White.
An annual participant in The Weekend to End Breast Cancer, White’s team, Livestrong, has raised $250,000 over six years for breast cancer research.
The money supports ground-breaking research at the BC Cancer Agency where scientists recently found a significant connection between a natural enzyme — CA9 — and the life-threatening spread of breast cancer.
These scientists have collaborated with a medici-nal chemistry group in Florence, Italy, where they developed two drugs that block the function of CA9.
Preparing the drugs for clinic-based testing will requires 18-24 months of toxicology testing before they could potentially be introduced in a phase- one clinical trial.
White was 38 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has lost two close friends who succumbed to the disease but she remains positive.
“Doctors were treating women [with breast can-cer] in the same way, with the same medication 10 years ago,” says White. “I’m always interested in hearing about new [research] discoveries.”
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Canadian Cancer Society estimates 23,000 women in Canada will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 5,000 women will die from the disease in 2011. For more info, visit www.cancer.ca/british columbia-yukon.aspx.
A decade of cancer, without remission Yumi White (left) with her friend Anita
Cochrane, who passed away from breast cancer one year ago.
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Over the past few months, arts groups and city coun-cillors, both past and present, have weighed in on what they feel should be built on Lot 5 — the cur-
rently vacant, former Shipyards site on the waterfront. A newly designed public process, however, aims to put that dialogue in the hands of residents.
Created by Tyler Russell, owner of the Café for Contemporary Art, and Ben Woodyatt, an employee of North Shore Credit Union, the yet untitled five-month series will offer a host of events ranging from exhibitions at the café to speaking engagements and design workshops aimed at spurring interest in how to develop the oft-dis-cussed parcel of land. The series is scheduled to run from January-May.
Throughout the process, Russell and Woodyatt plan to partner with other groups interested in the site to bolster the discussions. For the design sessions, Russell said he plans to paint the walls of the café’s gallery black and allow all those interested to draw what they feel belongs on Lot 5.
Russell and Woodyatt are scheduled to take the idea to council on Oct. 24.
“We want the city to participate in this,” said Russell.“We want to get people talking. What do residents want?
We need that input.”While Lot 5 has been the focus of recent waterfront arts
discussions, staff at the Presentation House Gallery are embarking on a “feasibility study” meant to test the gal-lery’s capacity to fundraise enough money to move into the Cates Tugs building, its desired location. Reid Shier, direc-tor of the Presentation House Gallery, said it will cost $9.5 million to renovate the property.
“We are very interested in the Cates building and it is our priority should it come available,” said Shier.
“A standalone facility is our priority, but we would con-sider maybe one other partner.”
Beginning this month, Shier said his staff will be conduct-ing upwards of 40 interviews with gallery supporters. The $9.5 million price tag, he added, includes “all the bells and whistles” involved in the move, such as new lighting, paint and any requisite equipment.
Fundraising capabilities notwithstanding, separate arts facilities in the area may not be an effective use of land, said Coun. Rod Clark.
“I absolutely welcome a discussion of the arts on the waterfront. I asked our staff to investigate the use of the machine shop as part of an integrated arts facility on Lot 5,” said Clark.
“But a facility of all three [gallery, museum and theatre]. I’m not interested in a carbon copy of Presentation House but it is efficient to have all three in the same building.”
Clark said he applauds the ambition of arts groups, including the museum, even though hopes of a new facil-ity in the Onni development proposed for the Safeway site at 13th Street and Lonsdale Avenue have been abandoned. But he questioned whether taxpayers would be interested in shouldering the burden that comes with standalone facili-ties. The gallery, theatre and museum are all subsidized, in part, by the city.
Clark, who spearheaded the development of the com-munity amenity fund after Wesgroup Proprieties pledged to give $1 million to the gallery in exchange for the density required for its development in Central Lonsdale, also ques-tioned the renovation of the landmark Cates building if the gallery were to take over the space.
“To close over that iconic opening, in my opinion, defeats the purpose of that building,” said Clark.
“I think a decision in that area is overdue. One thing I’m hearing from the community is they don’t like that piece of ground [Lot 5]. They want to see something. With respect to the gallery, theatre and museum we have to get on with it and put a shovel in the ground.”
ARTIST’S RENDERING - Café for Contemporary Art owner Tyler Russell stands in front of Lot 5, the currently vacant former Shipyards site at the foot of Lonsdale. Sean Kolenko photo
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The District of North Vancouver’s newly mint-ed fire chief is 15 minutes late when he final-ly makes the station, a blinking BlackBerry
in-hand, where it remains for the duration of our interview.
At a fresh-faced 47 years, Victor Penman has spent half of his life on the district’s fire service and is the youngest North Shore fire chief in recent memory; an honour he credits to his North Van upbringing, his early aspirations and simple good timing.
But he’s already finding the new nine-to-five he took over from retired chief Doug Trussler on Oct. 1 to be “much more politicized” than the operations-oriented deputy chief job he left behind. He’s just come from a morning of meet-ings with district officials and seems slightly out of breath.
A district boy from birth, Penman went to high school at Carson Graham secondary before taking classes in financial management at what was then Capilano College, now a university.
But it was Victor’s brother, Barrie Penman, then seven years into his own firefighting career, who put the fire bug in his little brother’s ear.
“My whole family was really involved in the public service and I knew that that would be something I’d eventually want to do too,” Penman says, seated in his office at Lynn Valley’s Fire Hall No. 1, the room sparsely decorated with Bruce Springsteen posters and a black and white photo of the World Trade Center.
Penman’s mother, Dorothy, was one of the first female judges in the province. His sister is a teach-er and her husband an officer with the RCMP. Add to that brother Barrie’s own promotion to fire chief
in the City of North Vancouver and what emerges is the makings of a Penman public service dynasty in North Vancouver.
In fact, Penman’s wife, Carla, is a district fire lieutenant on the department’s ladder trucks, “doing the dangerous stuff while I’m in the comfort of my office,” he says. The two met at the station and today have four children.
“But we have a conflict-of-interest policy that doesn’t allow direct reporting to family members,” Penman laughs, “so that’s been another motivator for me to keep getting promoted so I can stay at least a couple ranks ahead of her.”
Joking aside, Penman admits there have been days during his nearly 24-year career that he’d rather have been on any fire brigade but his home-town’s.
“That’s definitely the downside to doing emer-gency [services] where you grow up. Over the years, several of the people I’ve responded to have been
someone I know or the family of someone I know.”Looking ahead, Penman anticipates his legacy as
chief will be as the overseer of an increasingly tech-savvy fire service, expanding on recent additions like an upgraded communications relay system in the district’s fire trucks that allows real-time situ-ation updates between regional dispatchers and attending fire vehicles.
Recent municipal budgets being what they are, however, Penman may have to brush up on his politicking — something he clearly dreads — to push through any technological or personnel expansion of his 120-firefighter force in the current economy.
“It’s true that it’s the toughest time to be chief is in a recession,” he says. “But we’ll just have to get creative with funding and with delivering the best services possible.”
A career politician Penman is not. Though the public service may well be bred in his bones.
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Creating a more vibrant Lonsdale corridor
Editor,Recent letters have expressed concern
over development along the Lonsdale Avenue corridor resulting in increased den-sity and traffic.
As Lonsdale Avenue is well serviced by TransLink, I consider this corridor to be an ideal area to encourage increased density. All of the current and proposed develop-ments are pretty close to transit routes.
In addition, replacing archaic stores
such as Extra Foods at 17th Street and the Safeway at 13th and Lonsdale will greatly enhance the area. The current stores are hardly architectural masterpieces, having been built well over 40 years ago. In order for the developments to be economically viable for the builder additional density needs to be included in the projects, and, as previously mentioned, the Lonsdale corri-dor is an ideal place to facilitate this.
Plans to modernize the Lonsdale area are to be commended and will make it a more vibrant place to live.
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— LETTER OF THE WEEK—
Insomnia, anxiety, allergic reactions, palpitations and withdrawal. Is this a list of symptoms from an illegal drug?
No, it’s what adults have known for years are the down-sides of drinking too much coffee and tea.
Unfortunately, now the kids are emulating their parents by drinking energy drinks that typically have twice the caffeine of regular pop and just about as much as a cup of drip cof-fee.
The kids think these drinks are cool, their logos are eye-catching and they are easy to get at corner stores and gro-cery outlets.
A single can of Red Bull or even Monster falls within Health Canada guidelines for caffeine consumption for older teens but what happens if two or more are drunk in a day?
Teens may then face some of the health concerns that adults face when they drink too much coffee (see above).
Should the government have taken a tougher stance and prevented these drinks from being sold anywhere but phar-macies?
It’s hard to say. The more adults try to regulate teen behaviour, the more challenges they face.
And the fact that caffeine is mildly addictive is not lost on companies marketing their products to kids in new and innovative ways. The popularity of these beverages among teens looking for a light buzz is reminiscent of the older generations’ interest in cigarettes.
For teens, water is just plain boring, pop is old-school and so is juice, although neither are great as they are typically full of sugar.
Of course, energy drinks are not as bad as cigarettes and legions of adults are drinking caffeinated beverages without too many side effects.
But are we comfortable with kids picking up an energy drink at lunch or on the way home from school? Probably not.
At the very least, parents should be educating themselves as to what their children are ingesting.
Health Canada’s suggested limits for daily caffeine intake are roughly 2.5 mg per kilogram of body weight. This guide-line will mean little or nothing to the average kid looking for a bit of a buzz and acceptance among his peers.
But parents can at least use the new content disclosure rules to find out whether their kids’ drinks measure up.
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B He’s back and he’s just as cheeky as ever. A standing “O” for North Vancouver actor Jay Brazeau who’s looking fit
as a fiddle after suffering a minor stroke earlier this year. C Blonde bombshell April Telek was born and raised on the North Shore. Look for her in the upcoming TV mini-series “Hell on Wheels” – a drama/adventure based on the construction of Union Pacific’s Transcontinental Railroad. D Shawn Williamson, president of Brightlight Pictures, cuddles up to his lady as he welcomes the glitterati to the first big film festival party. ECharles Zuckermann gets a chance to schmooze with director/producer Carl Bessai who is best known for his work on films like “Normal,” “Emile” and his newest – “Sisters and Brothers.” F West Vancouver entertainment lawyer Arthur
Evrensel is always in demand – and yes, as a matter of fact, he does know the owner (brother Jack Evrensel). G Actress Gabrielle Rose and partner Hrothgar Mathews are truly a dynamic duo having worked with some of the biggest names in both Vancouver and Hollywood. H Stuntman/actor Mike Dopud, left, has broken a bone or two in movies with Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham and Vin Diesel, while actor Lochlyn Munro has co-starred alongside Hollywood heavies like Will Ferrell, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Clint Eastwood.I North Vancouver’s Tamara Daroshin is proud to have dad Walter as her date this evening for the Vancouver International Film Festival’s opening night gala.
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He came from money, she from what she describes as an abusive relationship. Neither expected to be homeless.
"I certainly didn't think I'd be almost 40 years old and living in a homeless shelter," says the pretty 39-year-old. He, a haggard 53, says he's never leaving.
Teresa and Andrew don't know each other but their paths have brought them to be neigh-bours at the North Shore Shelter.
They are among the 117 homeless counted on the North Shore this summer — though housing advocacy groups like Hollyburn Family Services, the North Shore Homelessness Task Force and the Lookout Society put the actual figure at at least 300 people.
Lookout runs this 45-bed shelter plus two floors of private single-room occupancy housing upstairs for an additional 25 beds, making 70 warm places to sleep for anyone with nowhere else to go. But there's a waiting list, and a cost. But it's a cost we're paying anyway.
According to a July study published by the Public Health Association of B.C. and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, homelessness and its associated health and legal impacts cost British Columbians between $8.1 and $9.2 billion per year, while a comprehensive
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On an average month, the North Shore Shelter runs at 104 per cent of its capacity. In the fall and winter months, that includes the dozens of additional emergency weather mats that staff throw down on any available floor space when the weather outside is below -2 C. And yet, every night, the shelter turns away homeless men, women and youth for lack of beds.
Tonight, Teresa and Andrew are inside, in the shelter's single-room suites.He grew up a hockey player in Toronto — a promising one too, he says. An all-star.One night returning from hockey, a 15-year-old Andrew was in the back seat of the family car,
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the logging town of Mackenzie. B.C., where first he found "only another bar to spend my money," but later, a woman he loved.
The two were married. And then they weren't. After their divorce, she moved back in with her family in West Vancouver's British Properties and he followed her home, heartbroken.
By then, Andrew's family money had run out and he took a job at the historic Horne Brothers Shingle Mill on the North Vancouver waterfront. He liked the work enough and made some fast friends. But hard times eventually fell on the factory and fell harder on the workers who were let go without warning, he says.
"From then on, I was in the unemployment line," Andrew shrugs. The former roof builder was now without a roof himself.
***Around that time, Teresa was also finding her way to the North Shore Shelter from a "home"
which boasted a roof and four doors.She'd been sleeping in a car after fleeing what she described as an abusive relationship for the
last time. And while in early adulthood, poverty and poor mental health conspired to keep the wolf hungry at her door, it took years before Teresa realized she'd long since invited the real ani-mal of her undoing into her home.
She says women often stay in relationships because they have no place else to go. She added that once her family found out she had been intermittently homeless, they avoided her as if she were "contagious."
On finally leaving the relationship she describes as "toxic," Teresa lived in and out of her car while continued, PAGE 13
Andrew (at left) and Teresa (left inset) are both residents at the Lookout Shelter (below).
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“Coming up here has given me a real com-munity,” she says. “The roof over my head was the main thing I needed. Now I work with church groups, I volunteer at the shelter and at the Harvest [Project]. They supported me and now I can give back.”
***According to North Shore housing advo-
cates, women — especially the young — are a growing demographic among the North Shore’s homeless population, but often they are the least visible demographic; more likely to sleep in cars or on couches than in shel-ters or on the streets.
While youth homelessness is on the rise among both boys and girls since the last regional homeless count in 2008, advo-cacy groups also want to draw attention to another emerging trend on the North Shore: homeless seniors.
Advocates say adequate housing is becom-ing unaffordable for many North Shore seniors as older buildings are being torn down to make way for higher value proper-ties and seniors are left to choose between paying for medications, food or housing.
“As every older rental housing project comes down and is replaced,” Don Peters of North Shore Community Resources told North Van district council this month, “costs are higher and all kinds of people are dis-placed and just go away. They just go away.”
Last spring, the North Shore’s Lionsview Seniors Planning Society took a summary snapshot of homelessness among North Shore seniors which found that annually there are an average of 60 people older than 55 who are known among outreach workers
to be homeless. Of those, 10 to 20 are clas-sified as chronically homeless while the oth-ers are thought to be periodically without a place to live.
More worrying is that seniors are thought to be underrepresented on such “snapshot” counts because of higher instances of men-tal illness and higher mortality rates, the Lionsview study found.
More worrying still is that of the 26,930 seniors over 65 who call the North Shore home, 1,675 — or 6 per cent — have incomes below the low-income line of $15,344 for singles or $18,676 for a two-person house-hold. Of these, 1,215 North Shore seniors are thought to be in urgent housing need, spending more than half of their income on housing. This group, the study determined, are at immediate risk of becoming homeless. And still, it’s one of the North Shore’s fastest growing demographics.
In the next five years, the over-65 popula-tion is expected to grow by at least 24 per cent, according to the Lionsview study. Over the next 10 years, Lionsview staff projected the seniors population to grow by 48 per cent, jumping to 73 per cent more than the current population by 2031.
***This Saturday (Oct. 15), North Shore
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He spent six years in the financial rat race, specializing in derivatives for branches of Merrill Lynch and other firms. When he walked away from the gig in the early 1990s, he says it was time to “step up” and “do some-thing to help the world.”
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The system proposed the creation of a cor-porate bylaw that redirected a few thousand dollars to shareholders, which would then be given to an outside firm to monitor the board.
He made numerous attempts to include his idea on proxy documents — a record typically distributed prior to annual meetings that pro-vides shareholders with information about a company’s performance — but was met with resistance from directors.
After hitting the corporate wall, he turned his attention to the voting process. He saw that only 10 per cent of students at UBC were turn-ing out to vote for the school’s student council and thought his system would work well to bolster the lackluster turnout. As a result, vot-ermedia.org was born.
In 2007, he gave $8,000 of his own money to the student union to run a competition open to all media covering the university election. Throughout the election season, students voted on which media outlet they felt offered the best coverage. The winners received a share of the $8,000 commensurate with how many votes they got.
The program proved so successful that Latham sponsored it again in 2008. Since, the UBC student union has administered the pro-gram on its own.
This year, Latham has taken his idea to municipal politics, offering $5,000 to be split amongst bloggers covering the upcoming elec-tions in North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.
The winner in each of the five municipali-ties will receive the largest percentage of the $1,000 earmarked for each area.
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is the kind of thing I’m looking for. I want these organizations to do the boring research,” says Latham.
“And help voters vote for a candidate that they recommend.”
But, unlike newspapers or broadcast journal-ism, anyone with an Internet connection and a computer can create a blog. Such freedom, admits Latham, can allow those with strong par-tisan affiliations to enter an election discussion. But over time, he adds, because there is money to be made and reputations at stake, the best and most credible bloggers “rise to the top.”
In 2008, for instance, Latham did a test run in Vancouver, a municipality well served by political blogs, to see what the results would be.
The winners were Frances Bula, decorated former Vancouver Sun reporter, David Eby, of the BC Civil Liberties Association and The Tyee, edited by well-known journalist David Beers. Based on those results, Latham is con-sidering including reporters in this year’s cam-paign with blogs affiliated with, and hosted by, their respective employers.
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“Discussions have made me more aware of things in the community,” says Sharpe.
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It’s been said the mind has a way of playing tricks on us. In his latest project, currently showing at the Seymour Art
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“The way my seedy mind works, I find that stuff more interest-ing,” says Singer, poring over a mural of photographs laid out in his living room.
There is no stopping along the way to take photos, this is “drive-by shooting,” he says.
A camera rig fashioned from a piece of metal meteorological equipment that once recorded humidity, which Singer salvaged from a junk yard, hangs from the inside frame of the passenger window of his Volkswagen Eurovan. A remote control for the camera sits on the steering wheel.
Singer begins scanning his surroundings the moment the rear wheel pushes off the curb; his eyes shift left to right, left to right.
When he catches a glimpse of a striking piece of architecture or an eccentric person: Click, click, click goes the camera’s shutter, in rapid succession. Sometimes it’s aimless shooting, but with a desired result.
“I ended up with stuff that I didn’t know I was getting,” explains Singer.
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sion of a moment in time. In reality, those images are intermixed with snippets of photos taken 10 years ago when Singer started this project, from the iconic white lettering that spells out Canada on a cylindrical train car resting adjacent to the Low Level Road to messages of hope scrawled on a boarded-up windows at The Bay downtown after this June’s Stanley Cup riot.
Singer’s intention behind melding distorted scenes of the past 10 years overtop of one another is to show fragmentary images can trigger memories and emotion that blur and fade as time passes.
“Life is not a straight line or a series of perfect photographs through the years, there are constantly curves being thrown at you; illness, unemployment,” figures Singer.
He used a 35 mm film camera at the beginning, but when he picked up the project again this summer he switched to the Cadillac of digital cameras: the Canon EOS 1D Mark III, 10.1 megapixel, yet the desired effect was grainy images.
“If anything I downgraded the stuff I shot this summer,” he says. The way in which he captures his muses begs the question:
how does Singer maintain control of his van while snapping away? “That’s a very good question,” he laughs. “We shouldn’t talk about that. And my car is not an automatic. I would shift gears, look and photograph.”
At one point he took a safer approach to his art, allowing his brother to drive him around. That experiment did not yield an artist’s innovation.
“It’s a totally different outcome,” says Singer. “When you have that kind of control the image become studied.”
The mural he created for this exhibit, which stretches 70 feet long and three feet high and wraps around the inside of the Seymour Art Galley, appropriately ends with a snapshot of Deep Cove. It was originally to be called Drive-By Shooting, but Singer was told that might scare away people from the exhibition, so he dropped the word “shooting”. He says visi-tors to the gallery will experience exactly what he did in the car and decide what to focus on.
“I’m not sure if you will remember it at the end, but if you do it will just be a snapshot,” says Singer.
Drive-By runs from Tuesday, Oct. 18 until Nov. 27 at the Seymour Art Gallery, 4360 Gallant Ave. For more information visit seymourartgallery.com.
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‘Getting back out there and attacking again’
Longboarding champ launches new business, eyes
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SEAN KOLENKOS T A F F R E P O R T E R
For former longboarding world champion and entrepreneur Kevin Reimer, things are looking up.
The North Vancouver resident has hoisted numerous trophies, designed and marketed his own line of longboard trucks and is currently preparing the release of his own set of wheels. Well-known North Van board makers Rayne Longboards are his primary sponsors. And he’s only 22 years old.
But after breaking both his tibia and fibula in a practice run four months ago in Britannia Beach, Reimer’s sights are anywhere but the clouds. He’s focused on growing his businesses and reclaiming the top spot competitively — as soon as possible.
“I’m focusing on the business for sure, but once that’s established I’m getting back out there and attacking again,” Reimer told The Outlook.
“The plan is to climb back to the top. I’m working with a physiotherapist and a trainer now and hoping to get back to racing.”
As a teenager, Reimer started off street skat-ing, his board more a means of exploration and transportation than a vehicle to make a living. He quickly, however, realized you could ride down hills. And he liked it.
Fast forward a few years and his work on the hills has taken Reimer to Europe, South America, Australia and across the United States where he’s competed against the world’s top longboarders.
He’s set to return to the international scene later this month, with plans to do a few runs in a tournament in Brazil on Oct. 26. Afterwards, he’ll head to South Africa and Puerto Rico.
Growing up on the west side of Vancouver, Reimer said he dreamed of moving to the North Shore as a teenager to conquer the hilly terrain that defines the area.
But that ideal landscape hasn’t come without difficulties for residents and the longboarding community alike.
Last summer, Glenna Evans was killed after colliding with a van in the Mount Seymour area days before her 28th birthday. Since the accident, municipalities have mulled how to handle long-boarding on local streets. Currently, longboard-ing is permitted on North Van streets, with the exception of those with speed limits exceeding
50 kilometres per hour.In July, the District of North Vancouver hosted
a well-attended public meeting to explore ways municipal governments can regulate the growing sport.
Reimer applauded the “forward thinking” dis-trict for holding the meeting and acknowledged the challenge faced by governments in attemptingto strike a balance between various groups using the roads, for pleasure or otherwise.
He says his sport is here to stay and those involved take their place on the hills and roads seriously, forging connections with the land in ways motorists, cyclists or pedestrians don’t understand.
“It’s a relationship to a lot of people, commu-nities and the urban landscape that we’re a part of everyday,” he said.
“You can enjoy the city in a way that it’s not made for, but it works really well for.”
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BACK ON BOARD - North Van’s Kevin Reimer is still recovering from breaking both his tibia and fibula during a practice run crash. Sean Kolenko photo
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT - Outlook publisher Greg Laviolette donates $981.58 to Li Boesen, executive director of North Shore Community Resources. The donation will ‘go to support community programs for multiple services from for everyone from infants to seniors,’ Boesen said. The not-for-profit group has been helping North and West Vancouver residents in need for more than 30 years.Todd Coyne photo
outstanding PUMPKIN PATCH KIDS - Drop by Lynn Valley elementary this Saturday (Oct. 15) for the school’s annual Pumpkin Patch party. Lots of family fun, including: carnival-style games, face-painting, music, food and, of course, plenty of pumpkins to choose from. From 11-3 p.m. at 3207 Institute Road.Submitted photo
WELCOME HOME - Dr. Riley Senft arrived in West Van on Oct. 7 after his 6,600-km journey across Canada to bring awareness to Prostate Cancer. He was welcomed by 1000-plus supporters at Ambleside Beach, including hundreds of students from Collingwood School, his alma mater. Check out www.StepIntoAction.ca for updates on the Step Into Action team’s goal to raise $1 million. Jeanette Duey photo
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