Vancouver Courier June 30 2010

Sandra ThomasStaff writer

A controversial RV park created to accom-modate visitors to the 2010 Olympics not onlyfailed to make a profit, it cost the park board$70,000.

Phyllis Tyers, president of the North WestPoint Grey Home Owners’ Association, saidshe and many of her neighbours were dread-ing the Olympics because of concerns regard-ing the RV camps. They were supposed tohold 300 vehicles at Spanish Banks and Jeri-

cho Beach, across the road from the residents’homes. “We started a petition and made apresentation to the park board, but it turnedout that was a waste of time because nobodyshowed up,” said Tyers. “It was a non-event.”

According to a short report compiled byPhilip Josephs, acting co-director of StanleyDistrict, only 145 spots were used with guestsstaying an average five days. It cost the parkboard $144,000 to create the RV parks, includ-ing $115,000 to hire a contractor to managethem for seven months.

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Olympic RV park lost moneyPoint Grey residents opposed site at Spanish Banks, Jericho Beach

Park board poised for $80 million spending spreeSandra ThomasStaff writer

With help from federal in-frastructure grants and theneed to spend money whileit’s still available, the parkboard has voted to moveahead with $80 millionin recreation and outdoorprojects.

“The $80 million has tobe spent in one year,” saidpark board chair Aaron Jas-per. “We’re just waiting forthe OK from city hall, butI’m confident that’s not aproblem.”

Last year the federal andprovincial governments ded-icated $20 billion for what’scalled the InfrastructureStimulus Fund for “shovel-ready” projects across B.C.to create employment during

the recession. The projectsmust also be mostly complet-ed by March 2011. The parkboard is combining $14 mil-lion in infrastructure grantswith 2010 capital plan funds,which must also be spent be-fore the end of 2011. Jaspersaid in previous years mon-ey earmarked for a projectcould be reserved no matterhow many years it took forthat job’s completion.

That’s no longer the casefor most projects, Jaspersaid. If $5 million earmarkedfor a project isn’t spent with-in a three-year capital plantimeline, that money couldgo back to general revenue.Jasper added the park boardhad $20 million left overfrom the 2005-2008 capitalplan, which had originallybeen earmarked for projects

put on hold because of con-struction related to the 2010Olympics. And while the cityallowed the park board to in-clude that $20 million in its2010 operating budget, Jas-per isn’t certain that will bethe case in the future.

“The city is really tighten-ing its belt,” said Jasper. “Ifyou say Project X is going toget done by a certain time, ithad better be done.”

Once city council givesthe board approval to moveforward, the $80 millionwill be divided amonglarge and small projects,the highlights of which are$19.4 million towards thenew visitor centre at Van-Dusen Garden and $18.75million for the new TroutLake Community Centre.See COMMISSIONER on page 4

Projects must be mostly completed by March 2011

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Resident slams park board over ‘real lack of priorities’

Continued from page 1Additional projects in-

clude $11.35 million forthe conversion of the for-mer Olympic curling venueat Hillcrest Park to a newcommunity and recreationcentre, $7 million to repairthe seawall in Stanley Parkand on English Bay, $3 mil-lion to build four artificialfields at Trillium, Memorial

South and Jericho parks,and the redevelopment ofFraserview, Grandview andNorquay parks.

The $80 million budgetis one of the largest an-nual investments in capitalimprovements and infra-structure approved for thepark bard in several years.Last November, budgetcuts from the city led to

the park board laying offstaff members, ending itssupport for a long-runningbefore and after-school day-care program at ChamplainHeights Community Schooland the proposed closureof the Children’s Farmyardin Stanley Park and the 40-year-old Bloedel Conserva-tory in Queen ElizabethPark. Parks staff also rec-

ommended cutting hoursand programs at commu-nity centres, pools and icerinks. “We’ve been througha rough year,” said Jasper.

NPA commissioner IanRobertson told the Courierthat while the capital spend-ing announcement is goodnews for the park board, hesaid the Vision Vancouvercommissioners on the board

voted in favour of the oper-ating budget cuts, whichmeant the end to commu-nity centre programs acrossthe city. “This is not newnews,” said Robertson. “ButI think the reason it was an-nounced last week was totry and cover up the signifi-cant cuts Vision Vancouverapproved to this operatingbudget.”

Jasper acknowledgesmany residents have criti-cized the Vision Vancouver-dominated city council andpark board for dedicating$25 million for bike lanes,when vital programs arebeing cut due to a lack offunds.

“But $80 million is noth-ing to sneeze at,” he said.

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Commissioner notes cuts to community centre programs

Continued from page 1Other expenses included a shut-

tle bus, sanitary pump-outs and theuse of the Jericho Sailing Centrefor showers. Some items, such asfencing and portable toilets, weredonated through sponsorship.

In total, the park board took inalmost $75,000, which left a defi-cit just short of $70,000.

Tyers said the park board shouldhave done its homework beforeapproving the plan. She also be-lieves the RV parks were a donedeal before any public consulta-tion was completed. She addedthat $70,000 could have betterbeen spent on saving the BloedelConservatory or to pay for com-munity centre programs at riskdue to operating budget cuts.

“I think there’s a real lack ofpriorities,” she said.

But Josephs defends the plan andsays it was based on informationthe park board received at the time,which wasn’t entirely accurate.

He said before the RV campswere approved, the Capilano RVPark in North Vancouver told thepark board that it was “sold out”

a year before with Olympic visi-tors from the U.S. What the parkboard didn’t know is that Cap-ilano didn’t insist on deposits atthe time of booking reservations.As it turns out, said Joseph, only20 to 30 of those reservationswere honoured.

“It was a bit misleading,” hesaid. “And the RV park in Co-quitlam thought the same thing,but they only had two reserva-tions show up so it was closeddown.”

“I feel we did a fair job in doingour homework,” said Josephs.

He added that prior to the startof the Games, the Vancouver Or-ganizing Committee releasedmany hotel rooms it had previ-ously reserved. As a result, onlythe three Jericho Beach sites wereused and the proposed camp atSpanish Banks never opened.

Still, said Josephs, about 400campers in those 145 RVs enjoyedthemselves at Jericho Beach.

“RV patrons from all over NorthAmerica and even some from Eu-rope were very happy with theamenities at Jericho, especially

the services available at the sail-ing club, one of the board’s part-ners in this venture,” Josephswrote in his report. “There wereno reported problems with the

surrounding neighbourhood.”On the other hand, said Jo-

sephs, the Roundhouse and FalseCreek community centre rent-als generated a net surplus of

$555,000 towards capital projects.As well, broadcasting agreements,filming and parking made another$63,000.

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Top secretI interrupted a top secretmeeting the other day atcity hall.

Man, I love doing that.It would have been more

exciting had I known it wasgoing on.

I popped in to the thirdfloor lobby, where themayor’s office and councilchambers are located, foranother reason.

A public meeting wasscheduled for 9:30 a.m.,but I showed up earlyhoping to poll councillorsabout controversial com-ments Canadian SecurityIntelligence Service direc-tor Richard Fadden made toCBC News.

It was my lucky day.In a matter of minutes, I

completed a series of shortinterviews with councillors

and wrote a quick story.For readers who missed it,I posted it on our websitelast Thursday.

Councillors were there fora meeting with Transporta-tion Minister Shirley Bondand Peter Fassbender, thechair of the mayors’ councilon regional transportationand mayor of Langley.

City manager Penny Bal-lem was there, too. So wasthe city’s director of plan-ning, Brent Toderian.

So what was the topic?Translink spokesman Ken

Hardie stopped me at thedoor to the chambers be-fore I could find out. I wastold it was off-limits to thepress. Security was alsotold to lock the doors to thechambers’ balcony.

Councillors aren’t al-lowed to talk about it be-cause it was one of those“in camera” meetings. Musthave been a big deal.

Stay tuned.

Oil and waterAs guest columnist TomSandborn mentioned lastweek, Mayor Gregor Rob-ertson has called a specialcouncil meeting for July 5to discuss the status of oil

tankers in Burrard Inlet.Now I have a partial list

of who will attend:• B.C. Chamber of Ship-

ping• B.C. Ministry of Envi-

ronment• Burrard Clean Opera-

tions• Georgia Strait Alliance• Pacific Pilotage Author-

ity• Oceanographer Peter

BakerThe mayor’s office issued

an email dispatch June 25,saying a steady increase ofcrude shipments has gonethrough Burrard Inlet andoccurred “largely awayfrom the public eye.”

Added the mayor: “I’mhopeful that this meetingwill not only bring moreawareness to the issue of oiltankers in the inlet, but thatwe will have an opportunityto ask questions and get aclear risk assessment of thecurrent situation. We need

to make sure we’re doingeverything we can to protectour coastline, our marinelife and our economy.”

The meeting is scheduledto begin at 1:30 p.m.

Viaduct workDemolish the Georgia andDunsmuir viaducts!

Or not.Or maybe just one.Or…Council unanimously ap-

proved a study June 24 to

consider what to do withthe 1972-era monstrositiesthat connect Chinatownto downtown. The studycould cost up to $695,000,according to a city report.

The viaducts serve as avital link “for transporta-tion movements to andfrom the downtown fromthe east side of Vancouverand points beyond,” the re-port said.

But upgrades could costmore than $1 million overthe next five years.

As I reported in Novem-ber 2009, Vision Vancou-ver Coun. Geoff Meggs andrenowned architect BingThom want the viaductsdemolished. And in theirplace, create park space,build affordable housing,put up a few more condosand add some retail.

Motorists need not wor-ry—smaller, more designfriendly off-ramps and on-ramps could link up Expoand Pacific boulevards, theysaid. “We’re not talkingabout eliminating traffic,we’re talking about chang-ing its direction and man-aging it in a different way,”Meggs told me in the fall.

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Pondering his futureNPA park board commissioner IanRobertson can’t say whether he’llrun for mayor, council or parkboard in the 2011 civic election.

“I’m undecided,” Robertsontold me last Friday morning dur-ing a phone interview.

Robertson says he was caughtoff guard by the NPA’s announce-ment last week that the civicparty will hold an early nomina-tion meeting this November, witha second nomination meeting tofollow next spring.

“To be honest, I wasn’t preparedfor this early nomination,” he says.

What Robertson did confirm isthat if he runs for mayor or coun-cil it would likely mean he’d haveto give up his job as director ofsales for Rocky Mountaineer.

Robertson, who’s serving hissecond term on park board and isits lone NPA commissioner, sayshe loves his job and the companyhe works for, so he’d have to con-sider his options carefully beforedeciding his political future.

“I have to balance that carefullyand weigh it out,” says Robertson.

He admitted his name has been“bandied” about as a possible may-oral candidate, but I couldn’t get him

to reveal any more information.He did tell me he plans to make

up his mind within the next threeto six months.

Summer campsThe park board is offering sum-mer day camp programs at allof its 23 community centres this

summer for children and youththree to 14 years old. Many of thecamps offer theme weeks, excur-sions to parks, pools and beaches,and field trips to regional destina-tions such as water slides and sci-ence centres.

All day campers aged six to 12years also learn about respect,

responsibility, cooperation andpeaceful conflict resolution aspart of the Play it Fair program.(When I attended summer camp,we just did crafts and roastedmarshmallows.)

Day camp program fees, ages,themes and outings vary from cen-tre to centre. Adapted programs

are also available for children andyouth six to 18 years old who needmore support to attend day camp.

Visit vancouverparks.ca, browsefor programs online and choose“day camp” from the category listfor details, or contact your localcommunity centre directly.

Funding for FraserviewYouth sports groups in the ridingof Vancouver-Fraserview receivedgood news last week from the pro-vincial government, which has ded-icated $200,000 in gaming grants tosupport their upcoming season.

Vancouver-Fraserview youthsports groups receiving fundinginclude Vancouver Minor HockeyAssociation ($100,000), Killar-ney Centre Figure Skating Club($35,000), Killarney Youth Soc-cer Association ($32,100), Killar-ney Girls Ice Hockey Association($21,350) and Vancouver Killar-ney Minor Lacrosse Association($15,040).

Plus HST, pleaseDespite former premier Bill VanderZalm’s best efforts, it looks like theHST will be rearing its ugly headeverywhere tomorrow, includingthe park board. The park boardhas included the HST in its Flexi-pass prices since May, but only forthe portion valid after July 1. Nowthe HST will be automatically in-cluded on all passes.

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School board may close up to three Collingwood schools

Parent prepares to fight for elementary schoolNaoibh O’ConnorStaff writer

Shantel Northgraves won’t enjoya relaxing summer this year. She’schairwoman of Graham Bruce el-ementary’s parent advisory com-mittee. Bruce is one of 11 schoolsthe Vancouver School Board isconsidering closing.

Northgraves was shocked tolearn last week that her chil-dren’s school at 3633 Tanner St.in Collingwood was on the VSB’spre-notification list.

“It’s at a horrible time. It’ssummer. People have plans. Thiscomes out of the blue—no ad-vance warning. It’s a blindside,”Northgraves said. “So we’re work-ing hard right now and gettingthings organized to be preparedto plead our case.”

Bruce is one of three schools inCollingwood eyed for closure—theother two are Carleton elementaryand Collingwood annex.

Board chair Patti Bacchus toldthe Courier last week that Bruce’senrolment is 241, but it has roomfor 345 putting it at 70 per cent ofcapacity.

Northgraves, who has three

children at the school, finishingup Grades 3, 5 and 6, disputesthose figures. “I would love forsomebody to come through hereand show me where that extra ca-pacity is to house more students.I’m here every single day. I’m in-volved in my kids’ classes. I knowwhat’s going on and there is notan empty space,” she said. “There

really truly isn’t. It’s not like wehave empty classrooms full ofdesks gathering dust or portablesstill on the grounds that are sit-ting empty—all of that has beenremoved.”

The parent group has launcheda petition to save the school andplans to work through the holi-day months building a case. It

also hopes to work with parentsat Collingwood annex and Car-leton, but Northgraves recognizesschools across Vancouver will becompeting to stay open. “Howcan you say my school is betterthan your school without causinghard feelings?” she said.

This summer, district staff willanalyze each school and prepare areport for trustees by late Septem-ber or early October, according toa letter sent home to parents andstaff from superintendent SteveCardwell.

At that point, trustees will de-cide which, if any, of the schoolson the pre-notification list willproceed to public consultation.

If a school is still being con-sidered for closure at that point,consultation will be organizedso trustees can make a decisionby Dec. 31 to provide affectedschools with enough notice thattheir school will close at the endof the 2010/11 school year.

The VSB is creating a sectionon its website to keep the publicinformed about the school closureprocess.

“I respect that the prospect ofschool closure will be unsettling

and that you will have many ques-tions about what may happen,”Cardwell wrote. “While I cannotoffer all the answers at this time,I can assure you that the schooldistrict is committed to conduct-ing an open, and inclusive publicconsultation process.”

The Vancouver ElementarySchool Teachers’ Association hasposted a message on its websiteacknowledging school closuresare difficult and it’s a long list ofschools being named at one time.

“It is indicative of the seriousnature of the underfunding prob-lem that this school district andalmost every other school districtin this province are facing,” VES-TA states. “It will be important toavoid pitting one school commu-nity against another—a challenge,to be sure, because the role of theneighbourhood schools in ourcommunities, and the value eachcommunity will place upon eachof the schools in the list above.”

Meanwhile, the B.C. Educa-tion Coalition has also created apage on its site about the schoolclosures at stopeducationcuts.org,under the Vancouver heading.

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PAC chair Shantel Northgraves has three children at GrahamBruce elementary in Collingwood.

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“Now Mr. Spock, there’s really something aboutall this that I don’t understand, so maybe youcould explain it to me, logically of course...”

That famous Capt. James T. Kirk quote from the“Galileo Seven” episode from Star Trek: The Origi-nal Series, pretty much sums up how I was feelingas I wandered around the Star Trek convention atthe Sheraton Wall Centre Saturday afternoon.

To be honest, I’m no Trekkie. It wasn’t like Iwas heading out to “boldly go where no man hasgone before,” but for this woman, attending aStar Trek convention was a memorable first.

The crowd was a mix of devotees in streetclothes and Star Trek T-shirts, alongside aficiona-dos who put the word “fan” in fanatical. Thesetrue fans were dressed as everything from the fa-mous Red Shirts, many of whom typically diedduring the line of duty in the original TV series, toAndorians, complete with blue skin and cranialantennae, to green-skinned Orions, a humanoidalien species found in the Star Trek universe.

Initially, I was a bit surprised at the shapes andsizes unabashedly squeezed into the tight pantsand shirts that make up the Star Trek commanduniform. The short, the tall, the skinny and theextremely not-so-skinny sported their uniformswith such obvious pride and enthusiasm thateven I failed to come up with a single sarcasticremark. Instead, it was the words of Capt. Kirkthat once again summed up my feelings, “No, I’mfrom Iowa. I only work in outer space.”

Funnily enough, while the Star Trek conven-tion was unfolding, a wedding was taking placeon the same floor of the North Tower of the Wall

Centre. Mixed amongst the Klingons, Vulcansand Red Shirts were beautiful young women inbridesmaid dresses moving between rooms. Atone point I saw the bride, gorgeous in a whitedress and veil, travelling up the escalator alonesurrounded by Capt. Kirk look-alikes. It was avery Vegas moment.

My partner and I began our tour of the con-vention in the ballroom where the vendors wereset up. I checked in with Klingonese-speakingCharles Bae, who was featured in a Courier ar-ticle I wrote last week about the convention, tosee how the sales of his replica Klingon disruptorweapons—modelled after ones used in the 1960sTV series—were going. By the time we arrivedaround 2 p.m., he was sold out of the weaponsand the model kits of the same weapon.

We wandered around the room checking out T-shirts, mugs and autographed photographs before

we headed down to the bottom floor of the WallCentre to watch the auction of Star Trek posters,photographs, banners and memorabilia.

It was during the auction where the truefans, many sporting $360 Gold Weekend passesaround their necks, put their money where theirphasers are. We arrived in time for a banner ofMr. Spock to go on the auction block. The pur-chase of the banner also guaranteed front-of-the-line privileges for an autograph session with ac-tor Leonard Nimoy, for which fans paid an extra$80. The bidding for that banner started at $50and quickly escalated to $400 from a fan who ap-parently wasn’t going to take no for an answer.Another auction item of interest was a set of au-tographed photos from some of the key charac-ters from the TV series Star Trek Voyager. Whenit was mentioned the set included a signed pho-tograph of human/Borg character Seven of Nine,portrayed by actor Jeri Ryan, I could have swornmy partner started to raise his hand. But he musthave seen the “you’ve got to be kidding” look inmy eyes because he quickly settled back into hisseat. That set of photographs sold for $350, but itwasn’t the holy grail of the auction that broughtin the big bucks.

A large Capt. Kirk banner, including a montageof images of actor William Shatner from famousStar Trek scenes, which also came with frontof the line signing privileges, had the crowd onits feet. Bidding went from $50 to $500 in warpspeed. And it was, in the words of Capt. Kirk onlife from Star Trek: Generations, “fun.”

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To the editor:Re: “New downtown bike lanes garner

mixed reviews,” June 18.The argument that money should not be

spent on bicycle lanes when only five percent of the population rides is ignorant.The main reason why the number of ridersis low is the dearth of safe bicycling lanes.Studies and surveys have consistentlyshown that more people will choose cyclingif they feel safe in traffic. How can Vancou-ver expect to reach the 20 to 28 per cent

figure of Denmark and the Netherlands ifit fails to provide safe cycling routes? Asthe “Cycling in Cities” group at UBC pointsout, “There is growing evidence that cy-clists are safer when they ride on dedicatedcycling infrastructure, separated from mo-tor vehicles and pedestrians, as is morecommon in Europe.”

Vancouver city council should be laudedfor progressive thinking.

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REAL LIFE LOSES WITH CONSUMER LABEL

Where is the pie chartfor joy, fear and hope?I am not a consumer.In the technical sense, inthe sense used by econo-mists and politicians, ofcourse, that’s exactly what Iam. I purchase both goodsand services almost everyday. Like more than 30 mil-lion other anonymous carbonblobs, I push the Canadianeconomy along.But, if you want to earnmy undying hatred, pleaserefer to me as a consumer.Because that’s what I’veaspired to be all my life.Someone who mindlesslyconsumes. A member of theconsumer society.Medieval societies didn’thave single blanket terms forall their people. Nobles andpeasants lived on radicallydifferent planes of existence,and the order of things wasthought to be ordained by Godin what’s now referred to asthe Great Chain of Being. Butwith the American and Frenchrevolutions, with the rise ofa middle and then a workingclass, change came roaring in.People were placed ona more equal footing. Theshort-lived first French Re-public saw “Citizen” becomethe address of choice. Someforms of address, like Misteror Miss, could be broadly ap-plied across all social andeconomic classes.Before the end of the ColdWar, it was pretty uncommonto hear people—even in theavowedly capitalist West—re-ferred to only as consumers.We were citizens, or “the [fillin nationality] people,” orjust people. If an electionwas coming, we became vot-ers.But something strangehappened between the fall ofthe Berlin Wall and the daythe planes struck the TwinTowers.Maybe it was the loss of a(seemingly) implacable andpowerful foe in the form ofthe Soviet bloc. Maybe it wasthe rise of the communica-tions age. Maybe we just lostour minds slowly, and no onenoticed.As I write this, Googleshows 20,700,000 resultsfor the phrase “Canadianconsumer,” almost doublethe 11,200,000 that turn upfor “Canadian citizen.” Othersearch engines produce simi-lar results.We constantly hear aboutthe mood of this bizarre col-lective entity, “the Canadianconsumer.” Its confidenceis up or down, its mood isstable or fickle. Stockbrokersand public policy makers

read these entrails and sendmillions of dollars flowinghere and there.Little by little, the primaryworth of a human being hasbeen reduced to the eco-nomic. Whatever keeps theeconomy going—consum-ing—is good. Whatever slowsit, whether unemployment orsaving money, is now bad.Every day, a new studycomes out about productiv-ity or spending, or personaldebt. Every event is reducedto its monetary component.How many work hours werelost playing Pac Man onGoogle?How much money has theBP oil spill cost the stockmarket?How will the Euro crisis af-fect capital markets?Will the rise of the Chineseconsumer buoy the econo-my?This monetization of theuniverse has bizarre conse-quences. We can find outhow much lung cancer coststhe economy. Someone hasworked out the lost hoursof work, the cost of medicalcare and insurance.But find me a chart thatshows tears shed at hospitalbedsides. I can tell you howmuch it costs to raise a childfrom infancy, but where isthe pie chart showing paren-tal joy, fear and hope?Because these things—thethings we actually live for—are not measured, they arelosing relevance. Our societyis driven by the economy,and the economy is drivenby an endless round of con-sumption—of things we don’tneed—for its own sake.I don’t know about you, butmy life is about more thanconsuming. There are a lotof things I care about, a fewabout which I am passionate.None of them are defined bybuying crap.I am not a vending ma-chine. I am not a robot. I amnot a statistic, a number, ananonymous ant in the hill.I am not a consumer.

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Courier should stay out of Middle East debate

Don’t turn schools into ideology battlefield

To the editor:Re: Cartoon, June 5.I was disappointed to see

that the Courier has decidedto do what the mainstreammedia is doing: bashing thestate of Israel and criticizingour government for backingour only true ally in the Mid-dle East with the cartoon byGeoff Olson.

Prime Minister StephenHarper is expressing what isonly natural to the majorityof Canadians who will iden-tify with the common valuesof the only democratic coun-try in the Middle East, Israel,

and not with those of theo-cratic fascist corrupted re-gimes that do not even careabout the sufferings of theirown people and use Israel ascapegoat.

Palestinians in the WestBank and Gaza Strip receiveone of the highest levels ofaid in the world. Where is allthat money going?

Israel, on the other hand,has contributed to the ad-vancement of agriculture,computer sciences, electron-ics, genetics, medicine, op-tics, solar energy and variousfields of engineering. Science

and technology in Israel isone of the country’s mostdeveloped sectors. The per-centage of Israelis engagedin scientific and technologi-cal inquiry, and the amountspent on research and de-velopment (R&D) in relationto gross domestic product(GDP) is amongst the high-est in the world.

The Courier is better offnot taking sides in the Mid-dle East debate. Most peoplein Vancouver don’t care any-way.

Gabriel Patrich,Vancouver

To the editor:Re “Elementary teachers target bottled

water in schools,” June 2.When did the Vancouver Elementary

School Teachers’ Association (VESTA) be-come so authoritarian? Has VESTA con-sulted other stakeholders yet on this issue?Instead of asking the board to ban bottled

water, shouldn’t they focus on ensuringtap water in schools is clean and safe andeducating their students about the environ-mental impact that comes with bottle wa-ter? School is a place of learning. We mustnot turn it into an ideology battlefield.

Anni Chen,Vancouver

The main reason more people don’t cycle in Vancouver is due to a lack of safebiking lanes, surmises one reader.

Wu beating needs more scrutiny

matthewclaxton

To the editor:Re: “Cops deny beating, dragging man

from home,” June 9.I am deeply saddened by Mike Howell’s ar-

ticle. I feel very sorry for the innocent victimMr. Wu. The police officers are supposed toprotect the citizens but they appear to hurt thecitizens instead. This is not the first incident

covered in the media. I can’t believe that suchbrutal behavior keeps coming from the policeofficers. What is going on in the VancouverPolice Department? It is time for Chief JimChu to seriously examine the conducts of hisofficers. We want our taxes well spent.

Kelly Lo,Vancouver


Vehicles return after one-year absence

ATVs back on beach patrolMike HowellStaff writer

Cops on all-terrain vehicles will againbe a regular sight on the beaches thissummer.

After a one-year absence because offunding, the Vancouver Police Depart-ment received $34,687 from the Vancou-ver Police Foundation to acquire threevehicles, commonly known as ATVs.

Const. Jana McGuinness, a VPD me-dia relations officer, said in an emailmessage the funding “allows us toacquire some ATVs that we are goingto test this summer to make sure theyare the best choice we can make forpublic safety and the environment.”

Police Chief Jim Chu talked aboutthe ATV patrols in an interview withthe Courier last month. Chu pointedout the advantages of the vehicles forofficers when patrolling the beach.

“The beaches are large areas to cov-er and it’s very difficult with bicycles,especially when you get in the sandand if you seize a bunch of cases ofbeer,” the chief said. “We even triedhorses down there but the horsescan’t be deployed for lengthy periodsof time away from their stables. Theall-terrain vehicles are the best way togo because you can cover large areasand carry seized property, get throughthe sand and keep the beaches safe.”

In the past, officers on ATVs workedvarying hours of the day, seven daysa week in partnership with the parkboard. They covered an area fromAcadia Beach, near the University ofB.C., to Granville Island.

Officers poured out liquor, extin-guished beach fires, checked knownsexual offenders hanging around kids,investigated indecent acts and observedgang members drinking on the beach.

One of the VPD’s goals in its 2008-2012 strategic plan is to have morevisible policing in the city. Chu saidthat visibility is what people wantmore than anything when discussingpolicing needs.

“They want to see officers in theirneighbourhoods, walking the beats, rid-ing the bikes—people want to see VPDofficers. So as much as we can, we wantto help deliver more visible policing.”

Chu wants to implement the depart-ment’s so-called metro teams, whichcould see up to 35 officers working nightsto respond to busy spots in the city.

“We’re hoping there’s a turnaroundin the city finances to bring those of-

ficers on board,” the chief said.Even though crime is on a down-

ward trend in the city and across thecountry, Chu said the VPD’s need formore police has to be put into context.He pointed to violent crime, ganglandviolence and property crime.

“Our property crime rates are closeto double what you see in other ma-jor cities like Toronto and Montreal.Violent crime, gang violence, youknow all about that. The other thingis, with Canadian legislation and courtdecisions, the average case is so muchmore complicated and time consumingto proceed with than it’s ever been.”

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Canada Day performance features legendary bandleader Dal Richards

Kitsilano Showboat celebrates 75 yearsCheryl RossiStaff writer

The Kitsilano Showboatkicks off its 75th anniver-sary Canada Day with anafternoon of free perfor-mances culminating withlegendary bandleader DalRichards at 7 p.m.

Richards first performedon the scenic outdoor stagein 1936 with the KitsilanoBoys Band, according toBarry Leinbach, presidentof the Kitsilano ShowboatSociety.

The continuous opera-tion of the stage, whichfeatures emerging artists,some professionals, butmainly amateurs, can beattributed in large part tolongtime volunteer BeaLeinbach, a whip-smart butphysically faltering womanin her late 80s who stillacts as Kitsilano ShowboatSociety’s board chair and isLeinbach’s mom.

Leinbach remembers hisfather storing sections ofthe then plywood backdropin their backyard over win-ter, then his dad repaint-ing the riverboat scene andstrapping the backdrop tothe roof of their car to dressthe stage for summer.

Canadian rock and rollerBobby Curtola, who Lein-bach described as Canada’sMichael Jackson of the late1950s and ’60s, used todraw large crowds to theShowboat.

“Some of the radio sta-tions would sponsor a nightand whoever was in townat Isy’s or the Cave or anyof the nightclubs, theywould bring them down toShowboat at 8 o’clock andthen they would go off anddo their gigs at the supperclubs or various venues,”Leinbach said. “The audi-ence would just go wild.”

Late park board commis-

sioner Bert Emery helpedfound the Showboat in 1935to keep Depression-era the-atre performers practisingtheir craft.

Vehicle lights illuminatedearly performances. Van-couver’s Golden Jubilee in1936 brought funding forthe site’s first temporarystage, paving the way forthe RCMP Musical Ride andexhibition diving from an80-foot tower.

Kosta ChatziSpiros start-ed volunteering at Show-boat as a teenager in 1981.He initially thought he’d tireof tap dance performances,but he returned year afteryear, enjoying “CaptainBea’s” mentorship and theprofusion of talented localsingers and dancers.

While pursuing his Mas-ters of Business Admin-istration in recent years,ChatziSpiros researched thebusiness of non-profit per-forming arts organizationsaround the world, creatinga plan for Showboat to sus-tain its culture heritage.

“Sure enough, I foundout that there is somethingreally magical about theShowboat,” said ChatziSpi-ros, who found no othersimilar venues that ran withsuch continuity.

He credits Bea and localperforming arts instructorsfor its vitality.

Bea has volunteered forup to 40 different organiza-tions, receiving an Order ofCanada.

The history of Showboatand Bea’s work have beendocumented in a new bookmeant to raise money forthe society. Volunteers andentertainers keep the venueanimated with no pay.

Legions of Vancouver-raised folks of all ages haveperformed at Showboat,and ChatziSpiros says thesociety plans to keep thecommunity component ofthe venue alive.

“And don’t let it become,for example, the ScotiabankShowboat,” he said. “Ama-teur arts need a place likethis.”

Outdoor performancesrun from 7 to 9 p.m. everyMonday, Wednesday, Fridayand Saturday until Aug. 20,with donations collected athalftime.

The Canada Day celebra-tion starts at 3 p.m. withchildren’s entertainers,dancers, then Richards. Formore information, go towww.kitsilanoshowboat.com.

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President Barry Leinbach (left) and volunteer Kosta ChatziSpiroslook forward to this year’s Kitsilano Showboat.

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Right versus leftEvery now and then I’mstopped on the street and

asked by a broadcast orprint reporter to commenton a story they’re workingon. I decline and identifymyself as a reporter for alocal newspaper. I figurereporters shouldn’t be in-terviewing reporters to geta “regular person on thestreet” comment.

Last week I was watchingGlobal B.C.’s News HourFinal to catch up on whathappened at the school

board meeting, which Icouldn’t attend.

It was the night when theboard adopted the 2010/11budget. Vision Vancou-ver and COPE trustees hadspent weeks blaming theprovincial Liberal govern-ment—namely EducationMinister Margaret MacDi-armid for the $16 millionshortfall.

The reporter interviewedtwo “parents” for reac-

tion. One was identifiedas “Mike Klassen, parent”Here’s the exchange:

Reporter: And some par-ents aren’t happy with theboard either.

Klassen: I’m afraid thatthis board has done a lotof—a big disservice to ourschools by scaring the liv-ing daylights out of par-ents and making them feellike there isn’t a futurefor this school system.The fact is it’s a fantasticschool system.

Who is Klassen? He hasa child at McBride annex—one of the schools beingconsidered for closure, soit makes sense he’d be in-terested in the story.

But I’m not sure “parent”is an adequate attribution.You be the judge.

Klassen is listed as “edi-tor” for citycaucus.com, awebsite devoted to civicpolitics and co-founded byDaniel Fontaine, who wasformer NPA mayor SamSullivan’s chief of staff.

Klassen describes him-self as a veteran of civic,provincial and federalelection campaigns forthe past three decadesand the site points outhe’s played a “pivotal roleproviding communica-tions and organizational

support to the successful2004 Knowards campaignalongside then city coun-cillor Sam Sullivan andtwice managed the elec-tion campaigns of a pro-vincial cabinet minister.”

Who was that minister?Liberal Colin Hansen.

In Klassen’s post aboutthe school board meet-ing on citycaucus.com,he takes aim at the Vi-sion/COPE alliance onthe board, remarking, “Atlast night’s budget meet-ing we heard all the usu-al rhetoric. We saw a fewparent reps in supportof a fledgling Mandarinprogram, but the roomwas otherwise filled withunion reps in support ofthe Vision/COPE trusteeswar on Victoria.”

Columnist Allen Garrhas mentioned Klassenin the Courier before, inJanuary 2009. Garr wrotethat Global’s Tony Par-sons interviewed Klassenas “one citizen” who toreinto the city giving themayor [Vision’s GregorRobertson] “heat” aboutthe city’s reaction to asnow storm.

My fellow reporter MikeHowell also pointed out ina 2009 12th and Cambie col-umn that Klassen was cap-

tured in a Vancouver Sunphoto pumping the fist ofPremier Gordon Campbellat Campbell’s campaign of-fice and Klassen was sport-ing a Gordon Campbellbadge.

Julianne Doctor, theother parent interviewedin the TV report, was alsoidentified simply as a “par-ent.”

She’s outgoing chair ofthe District Parent AdvisoryCouncil, and as such waselected to speak on behalfof parents, so it’s reason-able that she would com-ment on the budget.

But Doctor also has apolitical bent and acknowl-edges being a “proud wav-ing socialist.”

She hasn’t maintaineda membership in anypolitical party, but hasjoined Vision, COPE andthe NDP at various timesto try and get a particu-lar individual elected,including school boardchair and Vision trusteePatti Bacchus. Doctorsaid she’s attended partyfundraisers when invited.She’s also a foundingmember of B.C. Societyfor Public Education, agroup that evolved out ofSave Our Schools.

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Spy agency’s allegations ‘cast aspersions,’says Coun. Jang

CSIS claims of China’s influence over politicians puzzles councillorsMike HowellStaff writer

City councillors are shocked byallegations made by the head ofCanada’s spy agency that severalunnamed municipal politicians inB.C. are under the influence of oneor more foreign governments.

Councillors described the allega-tions made last week by CanadianSecurity Intelligence Service directorRichard Fadden as bizarre.

“I was stunned because I couldn’timagine what he was talking about,”said Vision Vancouver Coun. GeoffMeggs of Fadden’s comments to CBCNews. “If there’s a violation of thelaw going on, then [CSIS’s] obliga-tion is to charge somebody and letthe person defend themselves. What

they did instead was cast a cloudover everybody.”

Fadden’s allegations came as adelegation from Guangzhou, Chi-na was in town to explore greeneconomic development opportuni-ties. Guangzhou is one of Vancou-ver’s sister cities. Fadden hinted inhis interview with CBC that Chinawas one of the countries wieldinginfluence on B.C. municipal politi-cians. Fadden also suggested twounnamed cabinet ministers fromtwo provinces were being influ-enced by foreign governments.

Vision councillors Kerry Jang andGeorge Chow met with the Guang-zhou delegation but Jang said Fad-den’s comments didn’t come up inconversation. Jang doesn’t believethe allegations would sour the city’s

relationship with Guangzhou. “Ithink everybody recognizes that Mr.Fadden’s comments were bizarreand showed an incredible lack ofjudgment,” he said.

But, Jangsaid,hewasworriedhowhis Chinese ancestry coupled withhis role as a city councillor wouldnow be perceived by the public. Hepointed out there are very few coun-cillors in B.C. of Chinese heritage. “Ifyou’re going to come out and castsuspicion or aspersions—whateverword you want to use—then man upand name some names and show usthe evidence,” he said. “I personallyfeel I need an explanation from thisguy because I was quite offended, Iwas quite upset. I was guilty by asso-ciation and I think that’s absolutelywrong.”

Chow noted Fadden has sincedownplayed his comments, sayingCSIS has investigated and reportedon such threats for many years. But,Chow said, the allegations are seri-ous and Fadden should provide moredetail. “It’s puzzling,” he said. “Ifhe has nothing to back it up, whywould he say something like that?It’s almost like catching spies by pub-lic innuendo.”

What’s more, councillors don’thave the power to make policy chang-es in Vancouver that would, say, ben-efit a foreign government or organiza-tion, he added. “We take care of landuse, we take out the garbage, we fixthe potholes, we give you clean waterand we look after community centres,parks and we help the police—that’sit,” Chow said.

NPA Coun. Suzanne Anton hada different take on Fadden’s com-ments, saying she’s not going “to gooverboard fretting about it.” Faddenwas simply stating a political reality,Anton said.

“People have been jockeying forposition ever since human historybegan,” she said. “If you really thinkabout it, he’s just stating the obviousthat local organizations and foreignorganizations all try to get their footin the door—developers try and gettheir foot in the door.”

Robertson issued a statement lastweek regarding Fadden’s comments,saying “it’s frustrating and unfortu-nate that local elected officials in B.C.had aspersions cast upon them with-out any justification.”

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Fifteen years later, Mr.Ingrassia has continued the story in the much lessupbeat, Crash Course, The American AutomobileIndustry’s Road from Glory to Disaster publishedby Random House in 2010. It focuses on GM andChrysler, but their stories would not be completewithout the inevitable comparisons with Ford andthe Japanese automakers. And as one reviewer putit, “Also square in the cross-hairs is the role of theUAW in the debacle that has become Americanauto manufacturing.”

An ‘important’ business case study, for sure, butroad safety champions will also find it fascinatingas they search (almost in vain) for the role (anyrole) that the development of safety technologies,a focus on building safer vehicles or other safetyconcerns may have played in the unfolding trag-edy. The nastiest sub-plot is recounted quickly:Ralph Nader’s expose, Unsafe at Any Speed ofthe risk from the allegedly unstable rear-enginedCorvair, GM’s attempted answer to the unexpectedcompetition from the “Think Small” Volkswagon.A media storm erupted at that time over GM’sadmitted “routine investigation [of Nader] througha reputable law firm.”

Mr. Ingrassia certainly does not underestimatethe effect of the Corvair ‘sub-plot.’ Indeed he saysit is, “almost impossible to overstate the magnitudeof the Corvair disaster for General Motors, indeedfor the entire American auto industry. …TheCorvair added General Motors—and by extension,all of corporate America—to the list of organiza-

tions not to be trusted.In some ways, GM’scorporate reputationwould never recover.”And he alludes to oneof the possible con-tributing reasons forthe non-role of road-safety in the story, alack of encourage-ment for: “any aspira-tions harbored by thecompany’s engineersto pursue innovativetechnology, as opposed

to styling or horsepower, as the path to commercialsuccess.”

The breakdown in quality control that followedfrom the creation of the General Motors AssemblyDivision in 1971 is also detailed. Unionized work-ers reacted to the increased line speed and reduc-tion in quality inspectors by resorting to sabotage.Ingrassia describes Time magazine’s report of“Autos [regularly] rolling off the line with slitupholstery, scratched paint, dented bodies, bentgearshift levers, cut ignition wires, and loose ormissing bolts.” Clearly, at a certain point qualityissues shade into safety issues.

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Camilla Tibbs welcomed actor Eric McCormack tothe 28th Jessie Richardson Live Theatre Awards. Listof winners at jessies.ca

Theatre critics Jerry Wasserman, the Courier’s JoLedingham, Colin Thomas and Peter Birnie served upa Jessie to A&W commercial actor Ryan Beil.

Outgoing SFU President Michael Stevenson and hiswife Jan Whitford were feted at a Hotel Vancouverfarewell gala attended by alumni and friends.

At a Four Seasons Whistler wingding, ElenaBeveridge, Paula Del Bosco, Denise Wood and Luckyfundraised for WAG, the Whistler Animal Shelter.

We are such a food-forward city we even have an EndiveGala celebrating the Belgian veggie. Held at Pacific RimHotel’s Oru, Food Network chef Ned Bell headlined.

Anthony Li and sailors Charity Plamondon and RuanVibegaard welcomed partygoers to the VGH OralHealth Centre benefit at the Hyatt.

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At The Slice golf tournament and dinner, PeterMatino and comic Roman Danylo helped raise$107,000 for the Burnaby Hospital Foundation.

A fond farewell: Alumni and friends gathered at Hotel Van-couver to bid farewell to SFU President Michael Stevensonand his wife Jan Whitford. Eight-hundred guests, includingincoming chief Andrew Petter, attended the fond farewellblack-tie gala for the university’s longest standing presi-dent. In honour of his many accomplishments, includingthe SFU Contemporary Arts move to the Woodward’s site,a Presidential Legacy Endowment Fund was announced inStevenson’s name to fund graduate scholarships.All aboard: It was smooth sailing for gala chairs Dr. An-thony and Grace Li. The husband and wife fronted theChinese Canadian Dental Society of B.C.’s Bon VoyageCaptain’s Night-themed gala extravaganza at the HyattHotel. Over 300 fellow cruisers took the maiden voyageof the CCDSBC. The cruise around the world event net-ted $50,000 for VGH’s Department of Dentistry Oral HealthCentre.Fore: Golf enthusiasts hit the links of Riverway Golf Coursein support of the Burnaby Hospital Foundation’s signaturesoiree The Slice. Acting BHF President Marcia Harrisonwelcomed 300 guests to the annual golf tournament andHilton Metrotown dinner. More than $100,000 was raisedfor much-needed life-saving emergency equipment.

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He’s from a flagging mining town that needs to diversify.Now 22-year-old University of B.C. business student Tha-to Makgolane has galvanized a group from Vancouver towork with leaders and potential leaders in his South Afri-can hometown.

In just two months, Makgolane joined with Jeff Kroeker,Sauder School of Business professor at UBC, Aklilu Mulat,the CEO of the HOPE International development agencyand a band of business students to get the bridge-buildingArc Initiative off the ground. They’ve rallied alumni andmembers of the business community to travel with themto Phalaborwa next month to learn about the town’s needsand share expertise.

“When you have a type of local connection, it gives a lev-el of credibility and ownership over the project,” Makgolanesaid on the phone June 22 from Johannesburg, where he’dtaken in the Ghana versus Germany World Cup match.

Makgolane, a fourth-year business student in accounting,transportation and logistics, insists Westerners can’t continueto save Africans and tell them what they need. He’s beenin Phalaborwa since mid-May, working with the local Pal-abora Foundation to learn the needs of the community and tolaunch a business idea competition for young entrepreneurs.

Tomorrow, six other Sauder students will travel to his town,which was built around a copper mine in the 1950s. The mineis co-owned by Rio Tinto. Students will stay with host familiesand complete six-week internships with local businesses.

“I wanted to expose them to a different business en-vironment because I think the perception many of themhave of what we are and what is in Africa stands to bechallenged,” Makgolane said.

Sauder alumni and Vancouver business people willlead a three-day workshop for up to 60 local governmentand business leaders in mining, tourism and other fields,alongside a handful of local presenters at the end of July.

Makgolane wants to focus on building leadership skills rath-er than the usual tangible outcomes of projects, which funderstend to be fond of. “Especially with Phalaborwa now, we needleaders that can see beyond mining,” he said.

The Arc Initiative will award a minimum total of $10,000in seed money to at least three business projects throughits ideas competition that’s targeted to entrepreneurs aged18 to 35.

“Part of the objective with the project was to say toyoung people in the town we need to take ownership ofour own employment, what kind of business activity andwhat kind of businesses can we come up with that willemploy ourselves but also others,” Makgolane said.

Alessia Yaworsky, a fourth year Sauder marketing studentwho’s heading to Phalaborwa, said Makgolane’s desire togive back to his hometown has fuelled the Arc effort. She’spleased by the involvement of business leaders.

“It is easy to get carried away in the corporate and profitaspects of it all,” she said. “We are applying these busi-ness strategies in a global development sense, and that iswhat I believe is special about this project.”

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seven, you may ask: what does he know aboutgrilling? Admittedly not a hell of a lot, but Ihave grilled up a mean meal in my time. Goesto show, summertime and the grilling is easy.Furthermore, I have observed from the bestchefs.Take note(s).

Getting readyStep one - clean your grill. Nasty bacteria cangrow on food particles left on the grill. Fire upthe barbie and while the grill is hot, use a heavywire brush to remove any bits left on the grill.It will keep your food from sticking.

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If you’ve got a built-in igniter, you’ve gotyour work cut out for you. (Honey, it’s timeto get a new barbecue). If you’re doing thingsthe old fashioned way, stick your BBQ lighterinto the hole on the side of the grill, and lightit. Before grilling, make sure the BBQ is hot,hot hot!

Once you start, put a lid on it! Pabst says,“Be sure to cook with a closed lid, so that thetemperature maintains a consistent high heat.”Resist the urge to constantly check your food.That includes poking and prodding it. Thetemperature of your BBQ changes each timeyou open the lid, and even the best tempera-ture gauge will not react instantly. Even worse,you’ll lose precious juice and moisture fromyour meat, making it less tender and less tasty.

Have a misting bottle handy. When you’renot cooling yourself with it, have one nearbyfor flare-ups, especially when cooking with fat-tier meats. Throwing water on a grease fire isa no-no, but a mild Evian mist will keep thingsunder wraps.

Bring on the meat!Marinades and brines and rubs, oh my! What-ever! Unless you have the time and sophisti-cation, we’re going au natural! More time towork the company and tan. Goldfish PacificKitchen executive chef William Tse agrees.“Keep it simple silly (KISS); BBQ food should

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Before putting your meat on the grill, gentlyrinse the meat and pat dry to remove any odorsor materials that may be on the surface due tohandling. This allows the meat to accept thedesired seasonings and create better browning.

Trim excess fat off your meat prior to grill-ing. This will reduce the amount of drippingscreated and diminish flare-ups. But do leave athin layer of fat to preserve juiciness. You canalways trim the rest off afterwards.

Save the sauce for last. When grilling meatapply sweet sauces made with sugar, honey orsyrup near the end to prevent burning. Savourysauces, such as soy and teriyaki, can be appliedthroughout the grilling process.

Other quick grillsDon’t forget to have your veggies! Onions,peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, eggplant, zuc-chini and squash are all personal faves. Justbrush a light coating of olive oil, sprinkle somesalt and pepper to taste and then toss straighton the BBQ or slide the vegetables on to askewer or wrap in foil.

Say yes to seafood. Not everyone realizes justhow easy it is to grill seafood. Clams, musselsand oysters are a snap on the grill. Just placeon a medium hot fire and cook until opened.The smoky fire will give these marvelous mol-lusks a great flavour when you dip them in a

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This Canada Day, we have a lot tocelebrate. Our athletes won 14 goldmedals at the Winter Olympics -more than any nation has ever won

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• Make a donation to help the poorest ofthe poor. Visit an international children’scharity like Christian Children’s Fundof Canada to help the most vulnerablevictims of poverty. You can provide cleanwater to an entire community or pur-chase mosquito nets to protect childrenfrom malaria. Go online to www.ccfcana-da.ca for more ways to give.ARTICLE COURTESY WWW.NEWSCANADA.COM.


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Don Davies (M.P. for VancouverKingsway) says:Canada Day is a special day for all ofus. It is a time when we can all reflecton the blessing of living in one of thebest places on earth. As a nation ofimmigrants and First Nations, Canadarepresents a society that aspires totolerance, acceptance and respect.

It can be an occasion to give thanks toall those who came before us, whosecontributions and efforts helped buildthe society we live in today. I hope thatwe can all work together to continue tobuild a Canada that is compassionate,thoughtful and just.

As we spend time with family, friendsand neighbours, let us celebrate acountry that allows us to live in peaceand pursue happiness.

From my family to yours, I wish you ahappy and safe Canada Day.

Libby Davies (M.P. for Vancouver East) states:On this Canada Day I am reflecting on the spirit of East Vancouver, and howit inspires me. I see people who come from every corner of the globe to makea better life for themselves in our great country. They may struggle quietly toadjust to a strange, but welcoming, land.

And although their journey may have been a hard and lonely one, they eventuallylearn the language, settle in and become friends and neighbours. They are anintegral part of the fabric of the East Van that I love so much. Because of this,I’m proud to be Canadian, and also proud to be in East Van!

Ujjal Dosangh, P.C., Q.C.(M.P. for Vancouver South) wishes:I would like to wish everyone in VancouverSouth a very happy Canada Day. On thisday, let us think of all of those who havehelped make this country into the beautifulplace it is today, those in harm’s way invarious parts of the world, and especiallyour troops in Afghanistan.

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Joyce Murray (M.P. for Vancouver Quadra) declares:Canada - a nation of people who came from the world over to join ourindigenous peoples, to seek a new and better life. I shared in this very Canadianstory, arriving in Vancouver as a wide-eyed seven-year-old immigrant fromSouth Africa.

Canada’s history of immigration defined our nation’s unique character, creatinga citizenry that truly represents the peoples of the world. Out of necessity welearned to live together, and we built a nation. Our heritage of diversity makesCanada a global citizen, uniquely suited to lead by example, to help show anoften fractured world how to come together to build a global community. A greatprivilege and responsibility! Wishing you all a safe holiday.

Hon. Hedy Fry, P.C. (M.P. for VancouverCentre) rejoices:Each year as we celebrate Canada day,we may take for granted our citizenship inthis great country. This year perhaps weshould take time to ask what it means tobe Canadian and how we, Canadians all,can bring those values to benefit othersand become active global citizens.

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Canada Day at Canada PlaceCanada Place, Cordova Street;www.canadaplace.ca/canadaday/Time: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The 2010 eventbegins at Canada Place under the iconicwhite sails, and stretches west along citystreets to the harbour front. This year’stheme: “Our Canada”, is all about whatmakes us proud of our country, and proudto be Canadian. Admission is free. Eventruns rain or shine. Dust off your red andwhite gear and get ready to celebrate whatmakes us proud to be Canadian.

Burrard Inlet Fireworks Showwww.canadadayfireworks.ca/The 4th annual Burrard Inlet FireworksShow is a unique multi-community eventdrawing over 400,000 people and numer-ous communities together to celebrateCanada. This unique two barge simulta-neous pyrotechnic extravaganza is visible

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Canada Day Paradewww.canadaday.canadaplace.ca/Event_Info/Canada_Day_ParadeThe 2nd annual Canada Day Parade isat 7:00 pm on July 1, starting at Geor-gia and Broughton Streets and ending atThurlow and Melville Streets. Presentedby the Burrard Inlet Fireworks Societyand the Department of Canadian Heritage,the parade welcomes over 50 multicul-tural community entries and over 100,000guests!

Canada Day CelebrationLocated at Johnston St., Granville Island;www.granvilleisland.com or 604-666-5784Granville Island’s huge Canada Day cel-ebration includes a parade, a Truly Cana-dian pancake breakfast, an official CanadaDay ceremony, live jazz, performers, FalseCreek Ferry Ballet, and MELA!, a SouthAsian cultural extravaganza of song, tradi-tional dance, Bollywood fashions, mouth-watering food and more. Time: 8 a.m. to11 p.m.

Canada Day at the VancouverMaritime Museumwww.vancouvermaritimemuseum.com or604-257-8300Celebrate Canada Day at the Museum- admission and activities are free! It’s agreat opportunity to explore the Museum’sgalleries and exhibits. The Museum isopen from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m, located atVanier Park. You won’t want to miss thefamily activities, crafts and the historicalpuppet theatre.

Crab Park Canada DayFestivalCrab Park-North Foot of Main StreetCome on out to celebrate and support thisbeautiful park and hear some outstandingmusic as well!Runs between 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Yaletown Grand Prixhttp://www.yaletowngrandprix.com/about.htmlFrom 1 p.m. – 6 p.m., the race starts onMainland Street. First held in 2004, thisnow-annual Canada Day bike race attractshundreds of participants and thousandsof spectators. Bike yourself, or watch thecyclists, in this exciting high speed racearound Yaletown, and check out the kids’races for fun for the whole family.

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BROOKLINE, Vermont—The one-room,red-brick building is circular in shape. It’scalled the Round Schoolhouse and thereare five windows, equally spaced apart.

From where I stood in the middle of theroom I could see the road, the fields andthe woods: a 360-degree perspective. It wasmuch the same view as Dr. John Wilsonwould have had in the 1820s when he wasthe schoolteacher here.

The school was built to Wilson’s specifi-cations because, he said, he wanted to keepa lookout in all directions for the infamous“Captain Thunderbolt,” the highwaymanwhose exploits had turned this area into avalley of fear.

The pupils didn’t know it, but the ban-dit was closer than they thought. WhenWilson died, the undertaker took off thehigh cravat that he always wore around hisneck. Beneath it were the scars of chainssuch as a convict would carry.

“Yes, Dr. John Wilson was Captain Thun-derbolt,” says Cynthia Nau, the co-chair ofthe Brookline Historical Association. Shebelieves he designed the building in a cir-cle so that lawmen couldn’t take him bysurprise.

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According to most sources, Wilson camefrom Ayrshire, Scotland. In his youth, hetook up with a bandit called Michael Mar-tin from Kilkenny, Ireland and together, as“Captain Thunderbolt” and “Lightfoot,”they terrorized the Scots-English border.At one point, Thunderbolt was jailed for a

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apparently split up. Lightfoot was capturedand hanged in Massachusetts in 1821. Butthe law never caught up with Thunder-bolt.

Wilson was well educated and at vari-ous times passed himself off as a teacher,lawyer and doctor. After he left Brookline,he started a medical practice in nearbyNewfane. Some of his medical vials fromthat time are in Newfane’s WindhamCounty Museum. Also in the exhibit area daguerreotype (an early photographicmethod, using a metal plate) of Wilson,his cane, brass pistols and a cork false heelthat he wore in his boot.

Nau explains: “When they undressedhim after death they found that part of hisheel had been shot away and there was abullet wound in his calf.”

Wilson died in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1847.He had insisted that he should not be un-dressed after death, but the undertaker didnot know and his secret came out.

The Round Schoolhouse—the only one inAmerica—remained a school until 1928. Af-ter that, it had various uses, then lay vacantfor a long time before being donated to thetown of Brookline, which restored it.

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Cynthia Nau, left, shows visitors around the Round Schoolhouse in Brookline,Vermont. In the 1820s, its teacher was Dr. John Wilson, later unmasked as theinfamous highwayman Captain Thunderbolt.

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most. Pickingmycollege, dealingwith adversity, being thebest person andplayer I canbewere aproduct

of his guidance and it’s one of the reasons I love taking part in our club’s community programs.

Among the programs I take part in, I would say Read, Write and Roar is among my favourites because

I’ve seen firsthand what happens to a young person’s life when they grasp the ability to read.

The benefits of literacy last a lifetime and I take pride in knowing that I might be planting the seed for a

future reader.

Dean Valli in action on the field. Photo courtesy BC Lions.

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Non-ImportNon-ImportHeight: 6.05 Weight: 300Height: 6.05 Weight: 300

Born: Oct. 5, 1983, North VancouverBorn: Oct. 5, 1983, North VancouverCollege: Simon FraserCollege: Simon Fraser

Years: 5 BC / 5 CFLYears: 5 BC / 5 CFL Dean Valli (accompanied by Leo the Lion) in action at a Read,Write and Roar event. Photo courtesy BC Lions

Your BC Lions — In Their Own Words


kudos & kvetchesJazz feetThis week some of K&K’s more sophisticatedand laid-back members put on their best beretsand headed to Gastown to check out the freeVancouver International Jazz Festival activities.After navigating our way through Water Street’sgauntlet of street performers, tourists and slow-walking onlookers and pondering the mystifyingcontinued success of the Old Spaghetti Factory,we found ourselves feeling, pardon the pun,less than jazzed. Part of the problem was wehad timed our Gastown vision quest all wrong,arriving while musical acts were changing overon the various stages. But the real issue was thatwe had mistakenly expected Vancouver’s jazzfestival audience to look more like… a jazz festivalaudience. Instead of suits, skinny ties, shimmerycocktail dresses and pork pie hats, we observedan overabundance of Crocs sandals, stonewasheddenim—sometimes with pleats—oversizedT-shirts and pseudo active wear festooned with2010 Canadian Olympic Team logos. If we didn’tknow any better, we would have assumed wewere at the Celebration of Light fireworks event orwing night at Boston Pizza.

Is it too much to ask organizers to make jazz

fest a Crocs-free zone? We’d even endure thestinky folk festival fashion of bare feet over themuch-maligned holey rubber sandals, which areessentially the footwear equivalent of joggingpants. We’d go so far as to say Crocs are theantithesis of jazz. Sure, they might be laid backand easygoing, but in terms of esthetics, designand attitude they have more in common with…acoustic funk. And sorry, Kitsilano residents,there is nothing cool about acoustic funk.

BandanaramaWe watched the recent G20 protests in Torontowith a mix of fascination and disappointment—fascination because riots and mayhem are oddlyentertaining when they don’t directly affectyou, and disappointment because K&K nolonger feels comfortable wearing our favouritesummer outfit of all black clothing, hoodies andbandanas cloaking our ruggedly handsome andunconventionally pretty faces. Simply put, theymake for great sun protection.

We could go on about how a few hundredlosers hell bent on destroying property andbreaking windows of businesses are evenmore stupid than they appear if they think

their actions send a clear message about whatthey’re protesting—the oppressiveness ofglass? But that would be too easy. We’d preferto take them to task on the bandana issue.

As our parents once told us after we picketeda McDonald’s while wearing a cow’s head toprotest the fast food chain’s removal of the McRibsandwich from its menu, if you believe strongly ina cause, at least have the courage to show yourface. One can quibble over how honourable it is todisrupt other protesters’ peaceful demonstrationsor break windows like a disgruntled mob that’sjust learned Guns ‘N Roses has cancelled itsconcert, but there’s no honour in doing so behindthe anonymity of a bandana. Unless of courseyou’re ashamed of the Che Guevara tattoo yourecently got on your cheek, which people keepmistaking for a portrait of Rosie O’Donnell or acharacter from Planet of the Apes. If that’s thecase, a bandana would be acceptable. But thenagain, getting such a tattoo on your face showsa lack of forethought since everyone knows aChe Guevara tattoo is strictly a shoulder or chestthing. And don’t even think about tarnishing Che’slegacy by emblazoning his bearded kisser on yourlower back. That’s just tacky.

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entCanada Day celebrations withCohen, cycling and Crab ParkCohen concertThose of you who don’t like thesun, crowds or celebrating CanadaDay outdoors have been given arare patriotic gift as Vancity Theatrescreens Leonard Cohen: Live at theIsle of Wight, 1970. At the time, 35-year-old Cohen was at the height ofhis musical and groupie-seducingpowers. As lore has it, Cohen wasawakened at 2 a.m. from a nap inhis trailer and brought onstage toperform with his band at the thirdannual Isle Of Wight music festivalin front of an frenzied audience of600,000 who had just seen JimiHendrix perform, less than threeweeks before his death. With fel-low festival headliners Joan Baez,Kris Kristofferson, Judy Collinsand others standing sidestage inawe, the Canadian folksinger-song-writer-poet-novelist quietly tamedthe crowd with a set that included“Famous Blue Raincoat,” “Bird ona Wire,” “Suzanne” and “So Long,Marianne.” Films In Review callsthe concert film “…a glorious re-cord of [Cohen’s] mesmerizingpresence.” Show times are 6:15 and9 p.m. For more info, go to viff.orgor call 604-683-FILM (3456).

Jazz because...The Vancouver International JazzFestival keeps on rolling. Some showsto consider: Run with the Heard, theZolas and Analog Bell Service playthe Biltmore June 30. The samenight at the Commodore, Ninja Tuneartist and DJ Bonobo lays down thegrooves with Brasstronaut. On Cana-da Day, Jim Byrnes and local gospelact the Sojourners perform a noon-time show at St. Andrew’s-WesleyUnited Church, while Pacifika andSwami chill out at the Commodore.

Cycle killersBesides jazz and patriotism, July 1 isalso a fine day for a bike race as TheUnion Securities Yaletown Grand Prixis back for a seventh year of speedand spandex. Part spectator sport, itall kicks off at 1 p.m. with a series ofamateur races, while the pros line upat 4 p.m. The start and finish line islocated in the 1000 block of MainlandStreet with multiple viewing spotsfrom the patios and loading bays ofYaletown. For more info, go to www.yaletowngrandprix.com.

Crab-tasticThere might be no such thing as afree lunch, but there is such a thing asa free Crab Park Canada Day Festival.The annual music event, presented byCFRO’s Radio Bandcouver and tire-less organizer Mark Bignell includesperformances by Circus In Flames (1p.m.), Michael VanEyes’ Lot (2 p.m.)and Blackberry Wood (3 p.m.) at CrabPark at the north end of Main Street.Did we mention it’s free? For moreinfo, go to www.bandcouver.com.

Wood is goodFans of “vibrant and witty woodsculptures” finally have a reason toget up in the morning. Circle CraftGallery presents an exhibit of Pe-ter Kiss’s charmingly quirky wood-en figures with such titles as “HeTold Everyone He Was Really WellPlumbed” and “Re-Caffeination Re-

quired” July 2 to Aug. 3 at the CircleCraft Shop and Gallery in GranvilleIsland’s Net Loft. Kiss worked fortwo years as a marine biologist be-fore returning to the University ofB.C. for a degree in architecture. Heworked for six years as an architectbefore becoming a full-time artist in1990. In July 2001, he opened hisown gallery on Granville Island. Formore info, call 604-669-8021.

Circle Craft presents an exhibit of Peter Kiss’s wood sculptures.

Leonard Cohen’s 1970 concertat Isle of Wight is at VancityTheatre July 1.


How do you spell ‘heartwarming’?

Can you spell supercalifragilisticexpi-alidocious? Neither can I. And, any-way, it’s just a word made up by Rob-ert and Richard M. Sherman for the1964 Disney film Mary Poppins.

The words that the middle schoolkids in The 25th Annual Putnam CountySpelling Bee have to spell, however, arereal but obscure, like “vug” or “syzygy.”But these youngsters are seasoned spell-ing bee-ers determined to go on to thenationals, each with their own style.

Take Leaf Coneybear (Jeremy Crit-tenden). He wears a helmet with fuzzyears, hugs a blanket and, after lookinglike he hasn’t a clue, goes into a sort oftrance and spews out the spelling—tohis complete amazement. LogainneSchwartzandgrubenierre (Alison Mac-Donald), the pigtailed lisper, writes herwords on her sleeve with her forefingerbefore replying. Olive Ostrovsky (TracyNeff) shyly approaches the microphone,fidgets and looks terrified before tenta-tively spelling her word with a hopefullift to her voice when she finishes. Mar-cy Park (Rosie Simon) pops up with her

twin ponytails bobbing, confidently de-fines the word herself, spells it and sitsdown. Chip Tolentino (Vincent Tong)is easily distracted and outraged whensomeone gets an easy word. But by farthe strangest technique is asthmaticWilliam Barfee (Josh Epstein) who,with his “magic foot,” spells the wordon the floor in a bizarre little baggy-pants dance before responding.

Director Michael Shamata could nothave assembled a better bunch to dothis funny, heart-warming show. Ev-eryone is in top form. While portray-ing adolescents, no one dumbs downor struggles too obviously to look likea kid. Each character has some en-dearing quality that makes us root forthem; and our hearts are a little brokenwhen they misspell and have to leavethe contest (ushered out by actor Mi-chael Blake as Mitch Mahoney, a streethardened character carrying out hiscourt imposed “community service”).

Running the bee are teacher RonaLisa Peretti (fabulous Sara-JeanneHosie) and quirky vice-principal Mr.Panch (Brian Linds).

With music and lyrics by WilliamFinn, book by Rachel Sheinkin and un-der the musical direction of Bruce Kel-lett, The 25th Annual Putnam CountrySpelling Bee has all the excitement of areal spelling bee, plus it gives everyonea song—and everyone here can reallysing. Tracy Neff has us just about in tearswith “I Love You,” when little Olive tells

us she thinks her dad takes the anger hefeels towards his runaway wife out onher. And Laura Krewski choreographssome big, dynamite ensemble numberslike “Pandemonium” in designer YvanMorissette’s school gym set.

One of the interesting things aboutthis show is that while appearing to befun and frivolous, it gets under the skinof each contestant: the Asian girl whoalways succeeds, the girl with an absent“birth mother” and two fathers, the boyhaving trouble adjusting to puberty, theboy who’s always been told he’s dumb,the girl whose mother has run off, theboy who’s allergic to everything and justplain weird. In getting under the skinof these kids, The 25th Annual PutnamCounty Spelling Bee gets to us, too.

And one last good gimmick: fourdifferent volunteer spellers participateat every performance. And we rootfor them, too. On opening night, wellknown Vancouver playwright and guy-around-town Dave Deveau wowed(and caught completely off-guard) Ho-sie and Linds by correctly spelling theword that was supposed to send himback to his seat. There were roars ofapproval before they got him with aword no one had ever heard of.

My supercalaphegalus (“woman’sintuition,” according to the 1942 mov-ie The Undying Monster) tells me thisshow will be a winner for the ArtsClub right through to the end of July.

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Edgy festival lets dance community strut its stuff

When the Firehall Theatre ArtsSociety founded Dancing on theEdge in 1988 so local emergingdancers and choreographers couldshowcase their talents, DonnaSpencer never imagined the festi-val would get so big.

Now, the Firehall artistic pro-ducer and festival producer saysVancouver is a “hotbed” for dancewith local talents including Am-ber Funk Barton, Shay Kuebler,Byron Chief-Moon and Noam Ga-gnon, all part of Dancing on theEdge, making waves at the bien-nial Canada Dance Festival earlierthis month in Ottawa.

“The response from that eventwas that the Vancouver contingentis doing some really exciting, verydifferent [work],” Spencer said.“The Vancouver image, in terms ofdance, is a very varied aesthetic.”

This year marks the 22nd edi-tion of Dancing on the Edge, with20 different performances by art-ists from as far away as Uruguayover 11 days at multiple venuesJuly 8 to 18. Dancers will trig-ger fragments of sound with re-mote Wiis attached to their bod-ies, while others cavort throughQueen Elizabeth Park. It all cul-minates with a dance party on topof Sunrise Market, July 18.

Karen Jamieson, who will leada procession of dancers from theCarnegie Community Centre to

the Sunrise Market party, hasbeen involved in Dancing on theEdge since its inception. In thattime, she’s seen the festival evolveto include choreographers likeherself and Joe Laughlin (a.k.a.Joe Ink) and their communityoutreach work, different practiceswith site-specific works and theinclusion of emerging and estab-lished professional artists with arange of venues.

“You get a feeling of what goeson in this city and something of theexcitement of it,” Jamieson said.

A show called Edge Two at the

Firehall July 15 and 17 will featurea piece by Barton and two piecesby Montreal’s Sinha Danse, onewhere dancers also act as musi-cians when the remote Wiis ontheir bodies supported by interac-tive software signal bits of sound.

On July 8 and 9, Barton andKuebler will reprise their Dancingon the Edge-commissioned piecefrom 2008, which received stand-ing ovations at the recent CanadaDance Festival, Status Quo, andwas inspired by channel surfingand swiftly shifts from solo to en-semble work and combines con-

temporary technique with urbandance.

“It’s got a lot of mixed flavours,”Spencer said. “They’re two of theyoung hot choreographers in Van-couver right now.”

Move: The Company will per-form Josh Beamish’s Sold Doubtto instrumental versions of NoDoubt’s greatest hits at the Van-couver Playhouse July 9 and 10.

Those keen to spend summernights outdoors, can check outMal de Mer, a performance madeup of sea songs, Scottish jigs andexplosive gestures at Portside, or

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outside and by donation can fol-low emcee Tara Cheyenne Frie-denberg as she leads audiencesaround Queen Elizabeth Park forfour different performances, in-cluding a 1980s-inspired rock ‘n’roll duet complete with Dee Snid-er from Twisted Sister-like hair,July 14 to 17.

Chief-Moon’s Coyote Arts Per-cussive Performance kicks offthe festival at the Firehall, July 8,with a newly commissioned inter-disciplinary dance/media work,Ihtsi-pai-tapi-yopa: Essence ofLife, which explores connectionsto Mother Earth.

Those inspired to shake theirbooties after watching the pleth-ora of dance on offer can bust amove at the dance party on top ofSunrise Market, July 18, startingat 8 p.m.

While Dancing on the Edgehas expanded awareness of therange of dance in Vancouver andbeyond, Spencer concedes TVshows including So You ThinkYou Can Dance have also playeda part.

“What it’s done is it’s madepeople more aware that there’snot just social dance, there’s alsoperformance dance,” Spencersaid. “I still talk to people and Isay I work in dance and they as-sume it’s some kind of social,ballroom dance.”

She adds, “Any kind of pop cul-ture movement that endorses art,in a weird way, is good.”

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1 BR deluxe condo. UBC Hamp-ton Pl. 4th flr, view, wd, ug prkg.carpet, balc. ns, np, $1500,1-888-892-3502 1-604-892-0262

2 BR Condo $1595. 5 appl, f/p,n/p, n/s. 16th & Cambie Availnow. Viewing/info: 604-738-4100

609-1333 W. Georgia St. 2 br, 2connected bath, hardwood, stain-less, 940sf, lease, np, ns, now,$1900, Eric K. 604-723-7368

BACH & 1 BR, Newly Reno’d, clsto shop & transit, secured, inclsheat, h/w, prkg, Start @ $675.604-325-1385 www.remirealty.ca

BBY, 4575 Grange, 1 or 2 BRApt, nice & spac, hardwood flrs,parking, across fr Metrotown, N/s,N/p. Call Ariana 604-616-2824

BEAUTIFUL APTS. 1 & 2 BRavail. Special rates. Open HouseFRI & SAT @ 8665 Shaughnessy

Call 604-327-9419

BURNABY CENTREMetrotown Area - Bby

Updated Studio & 1 BR Apts.Rental Incentives Offered.Rent includes heat and hotwater.

CALL (604) [email protected]

6508 Apt/Condos6508DAVIE/HORNBY 1 BR + den,prkg, new reno, 1 yr lease, ns np$1450. Avail now. Refs req’d604-728-5063

EAST VNCR. Near 7th & Clark.VIEW. Upper lrg 2 BR ste, newlyreno’d, hardwood floors. Av now.No pets. $1100. 604-218-7660

GINGER Crosstown, ScienceWorld! Deluxe 1 BR condo, allappls, strge, bike locker, sec’dprkg, Media/amenties rm & more.NS/NP. Avail now. 604-861-6303

NEW 3 Bdrm+Den Suite, grd flrn/s, drugs, pets! $1200+20% utilsTim 778-840-7125 [email protected]

6540 Houses - Rent6540

1770 E 60 Ave. 2 br, 1 bath,1400sf, huge deck, yard, quiet, 1year lease, np, ns, $1400, July 1,Eric 604-723-7368 (Prop Mngt)

RENTALS

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CHILLIWACK – 9557 Williams St,3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on49x171’ lot, excellent investmentproperty in heart of town, close toshops & schools............... $888/MSOUTH SURREY/WHITE ROCK –15532 Madrona Dr., 3 bdrm,HOUSE, on Cul-de-Sac in quietfamily neighborhood, huge yard,new roof, double garage.. $1,688/MCall Kristen 604 435-5555 or 786-4663

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6540 Houses - Rent6540

SRY, NEWTON EAST. 6 BR, 3.5baths. Incl s/c bsmt suite. $15,000down & $3,100/mo. Home worth$540,000. Call [email protected]

6570 Out Of Town6570CULTUS LAKE Cottage avail-able for short or long term rental.Fully furn 2BR, BBQ & sunnydeck. Near beach. 604-813-7535

6602 Suites/PartialHouses6602

1 BDRM g/l ste, in brand newhome, 5 min to skytrn, $850 inclutils, cable, internet, w/d. Np pets,avail July 1, call 604-436-4417

1 BR bsmt suite. Near Rupert &19th Ave. $780 incls heat, hydro,wireless internet, sh’d W/D. NS/NP. Near bus stop. 604-779-1658

BBY N Reno 1 BR bsmt suite,$850 inc utils/cbl, alarm. Exc loc.N/S, N/P. Immed! 604-833-0888

KITS, 1 bdrm garden level suite,incl storage, utils, use of deck &yard, Nr shops/bus, NS, NP,Avail. July 1st. 604-734-0512.

HOME SERVICES8040 Carpet/Flooring

Installation8040★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Artistry of Hardwood FloorsRefinish, sanding, install, dustlessWE PAY THE HST 604-219-6944

CURLYS CARPET REPAIRRepair/Re-Stretching

www.curlyscarpetrepair.com604-282-6630

8055 Cleaning8055CLEANING SERVICE. Reasrates, specializing in homes. Guarwork. Refs avail. 604-715-4706

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FORExperienced, Meticulous, ReliableCleaning, res/com. 604-537-8796

JANE’s • House CleaningA thorough job every time!

Call ★ 778-800-9612

LIDIA’S EUROPEAN Cleaning.Res/Com. Specializing in detailcleaning. Bonded. 604-541-9255

OFFICES & HOMES. Free est.778-859-8008 or 604-957-0690,email: [email protected]

QUALITY CLEANING. Exc refs.Res/com. Move in/out. Carpets +pressure wash’g. 778-895-3522

8080 Electrical8080

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RENOVATIONS &SERVICE PANELSProfessional, Quick, Reliable

• REASONABLE RATES• FULLY GUARANTEED• LICENCED & BONDED

The current choiceserving the

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Lic. 22308

All Kinds of Work andReasonable Rates.

Contact us today for a free estimate.Max: 604-341-6059

Licensed & Bonded

#1 A-CERTIFIED Lic. Electrician.New or old wiring. Reasonablerates. Lic #11967. 604-879-9394

A. LIC. ELECTRICIAN #19807Semi-retired wants small jobs only.604-689-1747, pgr 604-686-2319

A Lic’d. Electrician #30582. Re-wiring & Reno, Appliance/Plumb-ing. Rotor Rooter & Hydro Pres-s u r e J e t t i n g S e r v i c e ,604-255-9026 - 778-998-9026Free Estimates / 24 Hr Service

ELECTRIC AVE Installations.Electrian lic# 99207, Res/comm,www.electric-ave.ca 604-215-0562

ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR:Exp, friendly, reliable. Specializ-ing in replacing old nob & tubewiring. Lic.#50084. 604-725-4535

Electrician Lic#95323, Bonded,Affordable Com/Res. No Job toosmall. 25yrs exp. 604 727-2306

LEO ELECTRICLic, Bonded, Insured

Com & resid, professional work# 93554. 778-883-0302

LIC. ELECTRICIAN #37309Commercial & residential renos

& small jobs. 778-322-0934.

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 servicecall. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fastsame day service guaranteed. Welove small jobs! 604-568-1899

8087 Excavating8087# 1 BACKHOE,EXCAVATOR &

BOBCATone mini, drainage,

landscaping, stump / rock /cement / oil tank removal.

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

8090 Fencing/Gates8090S & S

LANDSCAPING &FENCING

Factory Direct Cedar FencePanel for Sale & Installation8291 No.5 Rd Richmond

Call 604-275-3158

THE FENCE GUY InsuredB.C.T.Q Tradesmen 1994Call Dave 604-781-9110

8105 Floor Covering8105* Level Tile & Flooring *Tile - Hardwood - Carpet - Vinyl

40% OFFALL OVERSTOCK ITEMSFREE grout on all tile work

604.568.TILE (8453)leveltileandflooring.com

ALL FLOOR COVERINGSRepair & Replace. Material sales

Dwight, 604-732-3057I’ll show you the inexpensive routewww.fccarpets.shawwebspace.ca

8155 Landscaping8155

• Exceptional HedgeShearing & Pruning

• Clean-Up Jobs• Hedge Removal & Replacement• Small Tree Removal• Softscape Design & Installation• Turf & Seeded Lawn ReplacementResidential / Commercial / Strata

26 Years Experience

604-809-5296(LAWN)

Quality Year RoundQuality Year RoundLawn & Garden MaintenanceLawn & Garden Maintenance

8160 Lawn & Garden8160

WILDWOOD LANDSCAPINGHedge Trimmimg & Tree

Pruning & Hedge RemovalSpring Clean Up

Chaffer Control & LawnRestoration. Comm/Strata/Res

Aerating & Power Raking.Free Estimates.604-893-5745

Chau Le Gardening new lawn,maint. & cleanup trimming shrubstopping hedges 604-782-5288

8185 Moving &Storage8185

AFFORDABLE MOVING

604-537-4140www.affordablemoversbc.com

1 to 3 Men1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 Ton

From $45We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac

Licenced & InsuredLocal & Long DistanceFREE ESTIMATES

Seniors Discount

AJK MOVING LTD.Moving. Storage. Deliveries

Local & Long DistanceMOVERS.... Residential.Commercial. Industrial.Truck for Clean-ups

garage, basement, backyard.

(604) 875-9072 873-5292

Experienced Movers~ 2 Men $50 ~• Includes all Taxes

• Licenced & Insured• Efficient & Reliable

B&Y MOVING

604-708-8850

Local 604 Movers✔ Reasonable Rates✔ Large & small Moves✔ Friendly well trained staff!✔ Flat Rates Available.

604-767-0565

Local 604 Movers✔ Reasonable Rates✔ Large & small Moves✔ Friendly well trained staff!✔ Flat Rates Available.

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Western Canada’s Moving Solution

604-765-0244Free Estimates

ESTCANMOVING SYSTEMSW

$30 P/HR. Abe Moving & Delivery& Rubbish Removal. ★ Available24 hours. Abe at: 604-999-6020

8060 Concrete8060

CONCRETE SPECIALISTSidewalk, Driveway, Patio

Exposed Aggregate,remove & replacing

Reasonable rates. 35 yrs. exp.For free estimates call Mario

253-0049

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

CONCRETE SPECIALIST, patiosidewalk, driveway, exposed ag-gregate reas rate 604-764-2726

L & L CONCRETE. All types:Stamped, Waterproofing, Wash &Sealing Larry 778-882-0098

8073 Drainage8073Crown Roofing & Drainage

Residental Div. Drainage install-ation & repair. 604-327-3086

DRAIN TILES & WATER LINESWithout Digging a Trench

604-739-2000

Mia Casa − Drain Tile/Sewer LineWater Line Repairs / Replace-men t & C lean ing . V ince604-941-6060, Al 604-783-3142

8075 Drywall8075*Drywall * Taping * Texture *Stucco*Painting * Steel stud fram-ing Quality Home 604-725-8925

PRO DRYWALL Service, board-ing, taping, 35 years exp. Qualitywork! Reas rates, 604-716-5287

VICTORIA DRYWALL LTD.25 yrs exp. Reno’s & New Constr.

Call Bruno ★ 604-313-2763

VINCE’S MAGIC Drywalling &textured ceiling repairs. Bonded604-307-2295 / 778-340-5208

CONCRETE Removal / ReplaceSmall jobs welcome ● Fencerepair. Free est. Mario 254-0148

ALL KINDS of Concrete Work,Tile & Brick. Free Estimate.604-767-5915 Call Rocky

A. FOUNDATIONS, Retainingwalls, Stairs, Driveways, Side-walks. Any concrete project. Wealso do all types of block, & stonew o r k . F r e e e s t s . B a s i l e604-617-5813 Tom 604-690-3316

8110 Floor Refinishing8110ANYTHING IN WOOD

Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing.Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275

Artistry of Hardwood FloorsRefinish, sanding, install, dustless604-219-6944 We cover the HST

CELTIC HARDWOOD FLOORSInstallations & refinishing. Qualitywork. Reas rates. 604-293-0057

INSTALLATION REFINISHING,Sanding. Free est, great prices.Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508

8120 Glass Mirrors8120ANGEL GLASS, Comm/Resid-ential, store fronts, windows &doors, custom shower & tubenclosures, patio doors, mirrorsetc. 2837 Kingsway, Vancouver.604-603-9655

8125 Gutters8125

Full Seamless GutterInstallation/Repairs

SoffitsAll jobs Guaranteed.

Fully insured/WCB coveredWill beat any

competitors price

604-439-9417DYNAMIC GUTTERS & Exteri-ors. Full seamless gutters. Install-ation repairs & soffits. All jobsguaranteed. Fully insured, bon-ded, WCB. Will beat any compet-itors price. 604-439-9417

Edgemont Gutters. Sales &Install 5’’ continuous gutter, minorrepairs, cleaning. 604-420-4800

Professional PowerwashGutters cleaned & repairedSince 1984, 604-339-0949

8130 Handyperson8130

AaronR CONSTRepairs & Renos, small

repairs welcome.Insured, WCB,

Licensed.604-318-4390

aaronrconstruction.com

DRAINAGE❍TILING❍PaintingLandscape Concrete Kitchen/Bath.Frank 604.809.1488 Free Est

HOME REPAIRS - No job toosmall. Carpentry, painting, fencing,drywall, baseboards, lam flooring,deck repairs, p/washing, gutters.Brian, 604-266-2547 / 785-4184

8140 Heating8140Lorenzo & Son Plumbing &

Heating (604) 312-6311Local Licensed Plumbers & Gas Fitters

8150 Kitchens/Baths8150Counter Tops,

Custom Cabinets& Refacing

• In business 50 years604-879-9191

Superior Cove Tops& Cabinets

#3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby

AAA ADVANCE MOVINGExperts in all kinds of Moving,Storage & Packing. Different fromthe Rest. 604-861-8885

AMIGO'S MOVING.Delivery. Storage. No Job tooSmall or Big. Clean up, Garage,Basement. Call 604-782-9511

EAGLE EYESoar with the best

It’s your move778-883-2538

KIM’S MOVING & DELIVERYReasonable rates.

24/7 days. Call 604-565-6110

ONLY $19 per hourlight moving, cleanups. Also

Home repairs 604-771-0911

POPEYE’S MOVINGScott 604-377-2503

www.popeyesmovingbc.com

VAN EXPRESS MOVINGSmooth & Efficient Movers.

Seniors 10% Disc. 778-318-1299

8193 Oil Tank Removal8193

Off: 604-266-2120Cell: 604-290-8592

FLECKCONTRACTING LTD.• Oil Tank Removal• Work complies

with city bylaws• Always fair &

reasonable rates• Excellent references

BC Mainland

ServingWest Side

since 1987

For Free Estimates Call

Exp. Reliable Gardener. Yrdcleanups/renos, pruning, hedges& hand weeding. Ron 604-202-2176

EXPERT PRUNING Cert Arb Or-namental & fruit trees, shrubs,etcColin Malcolm 604-618-9741

EXPERT PRUNING Cert Arb Or-namental & fruit trees, shrubs,etcColin Malcolm 604-618-9741

Gardening Services 21 yrs exp.Tree topping, West & Eastside &Rmd. Michael 604-240-2881

iGarden Mowing,Full garden maintenance & land-scape services. Power raking,aerating, fertilizing, gutter clean-ing. 1st two cuts for the price of 1.Free Est. 778-991-5296

NICKDAN MASONRY All stonework & masonry jobs, GreatRates, Free Est 604-724-3539

★ FREE ESTIMATES ★

Brick, Block, Cultured Stone &Glass Block. Willie 604-612-1600

STORMWORKSOil Tank RemovalRecommended

InsuredReasonable Rates

604-724-3670

JAPANESE GARDENER Landscape &maintenance, clean-ups, trimming.Reas, free est, 25 yrs exp 604-986-8126

T.TRAN-604-723-2468, newlawns, garden/beds, weeding,clean up, pruning, trees. Reliable.

8175 Masonry8175

Masonry& Stone

Pavers - Allen BlockStone - Fireplaces

Stucco / Tile Repairs

604-951-4000

Don’tstrugglecutting

your grass.

Hire a Lawn Careprofessional.

See section 8160 inthe Home Services.

To advertise call604-630-3300

Call 604-630-3300to place your ad

@placeyouradonline@http://classified.van.net Need a Handyman?

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9110 Collectibles &Classics9110

1991 MERCEDES 420 SEL.superb cond. Thousands spenton making it 100% mechanicallyperfect. Body 99%. Interior 100%.An appreciating classic. $9800obo. David. 604-728-0291 oremail [email protected]

1993 BMW M5, rare 340HP 3.8,only 121km, all books/records.$22,800. 604-987-3876. D24627

9125 Domestic9125

1995 CADILLAC DEVILLE, likenew, 50k, new battery & tires,pearl, $5995 obo. 604-721-5026

9145 Scrap CarRemoval9145

(604) 209-2026

FREEScrap/CarRemoval

No Wheels No Problem

2 HOUR2 HOURFamily Owned & Operated

Service From Call

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle RemovalAsk about $500 Credit!!!

$$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200

THE SCRAPPERSCRAP CAR &TRUCK REMOVALCASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

604-790-39002 HOUR SERVICE

9155 Sport Utilities/4x4’s/Trucks9155

2001 GMC S10 ext cab, white,200k kms, 4.3 L, V6, Excl cond,$3,450. 604 728-8867

2005 NISSAN Xterra SE. yellow83.5ks, exc cond, free oil changefor life. $15,900, 604-760-5354

NISSAN X-TRAIL BonaVista2006 AWD, 78,000 kms, silver,A/C, Sunroof, Heated seats, Newtires/brakes. No accidents. Ph.604-715-7060

9160 Sports &Imports9160

1999 VW Beetle 102,000 km.Automatic transmission, 2.0 L,black, power windows and locks,AC, excellent gas mileage, goodtires, reliable $4,500 or obo Call:604-836-5593

2002 KIA Spectra GSX. Newparts. Standard, AC, Power, CD.149,000KM. Some scratches604-925-2220. $3000 OBO

9160 Sports &Imports9160

1990 MERCEDES 560 SELAirCared, fully loaded, leather, heated

seats, pw, pl, alarm, pwr sunroof,pwr seats, CD, new tires & brakes,228,000 km, runs well. $3000 obo.

604.845.5010

2005 CRYSLER CROSSFIRE2005. Low kms, heated seats,p/w, p/l. $17,500. 778-887-6567

2006 VW JETTA TDI, deisel,41ks, mint, top model, f/load$15,900 obo. 778-386-0431

2008 HONDA Civic, Auto, 4 dr,silver, grey int, all power, a/c, 27Kkms, $13,000. 604 518-3166

9173 Vans91732002 DODGE Caravan, 7 pass, 6cyl, 5 dr, 106k kms, roof rack, aircared, no accd. $5250 obo.By Owner. 604-525-9641

2002 PONTIAC Montana, 8 pass,138k kms, all power, siding dr.$4,350. 604 570-0157

9515 Boats9515WANTED. 12, 14 or 16 footaluminum boat, with or withoutmotor or trailer. 604-319-5720

9522 Motorhomes/RVs95222006 - 22FT double axel, whiteJayco trailor, used for 5 short tripsexc. cond. sleeps 5, full load. ac,etc. $15,000 OBO. 604-940-0310

9540 Trailers/Tents/Campers9540

2003 32’ Cougar by Keystone5th wheel. In exc cond; two largeslides; lots of solid oak cabinets,oak table w/4 oak chairs; 2 armchairs, ent. unit; a/c, furnace; hy-draulic front jacks; large awning;heated underbelly; corner shower;queen bed, closet, dresser; newwasher/dryer; lg living room win-dow; skylight; too many extras tomention. $21,000. 604.316.1018

2004 HYUNDAI Sonata, immac,loaded, luxury version. only 69K,1 year warr. remaining, dark greyw/tinted rear, black leather int, 4snows, 1 owner, paid $35,000,now $11,900 obo. 604-926-1206

HOME SERVICES8195 Painting/

Wallpaper8195

CANSTAR PAINTINGThe Quality You Trust!

Interior & Exterior ProjectsProf. Crew of Master Painters

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729-1234

Plumbing, Drainage,Repairs & InstallationMain sewer lines, water lines,

camera inspections, plugged drains,hot water tanks and drain tiles.

24/7 Emergency availableSat/Sun/Holidays.

Licensed, Insured, Bonded.

604-618-4988

RED SEALDrainage & Plumbing Inc.

Certified Plumber& Gas Fitter

* Reno’s & Repairs 24 hrs/day* Furnaces * Boilers * Hot Water

Heating * Reasonable Rates* Hot Water Tanks

604-731-2443

YOUR WAYPlumbing & RenovationsFull Kitchen & Bath Reno’s

• Plumbing Service - all types• H/W tanks • Plugged drains

No job too small!‘Old Home Specialist’

Steve ✔ 604-324-3351

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• Plumbing Service - all types• H/W tanks • Plugged drains

No job too small!‘Old Home Specialist’

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8220 Plumbing8220

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

Small Repairs

604-312-6311

8205 Paving/SealCoating8205

ALLEN Asphalt, concrete, brick,drains, foundations, walls, mem-branes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187

WEST-COAT SERVICESPaint, hardwood flr refinishing.WCB ins. Domenic 604-376-4232

TOP PAINTING Res & Comm.Reasonable rates • Free EstimateTop Quality! Joe 604-782-1377

★ STAFFORD & SON ★

Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.Reasonable rates. 604-221-4900

POINT GREY PAINTING LTDInt/Ext - Quality GuaranteedFree Est * Early Bird Discounts

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CONFIDENT PAINTING LTDInt/Ext Specialist 20 yr exp. Reasrates, quality. Licensed, Ins, WCB

Jean-Guy 604-626-1975

AAA Professional int/ext painter& wall paperer. Guar work. Freeest. John 604-318-2059 (Kits)w

8220 Plumbing8220★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★

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BS & SONS gas heating & plum-bing. Certified. Renos, h/w tanks,boilers, drains. 24 hrs. 671-6815

PLUMBERSWater Lines (without digging)Sewer Lines (without digging)Install. Drain tiles. 604-739-2000

HIGHMARKPLUMBING.COMHeating, Gas fitting, Drainage.Excavation. 604-945-6060

Lorenzo & Son Plumbing &Heating (604) 312-6311

Local Licensed Plumbers & Gas Fitters

8225 Power Washing8225Edgemont Building Mainten-ance. Power Washing, Window &Gutter Cleaning. 604-420-4800

PRO KING MAINTENANCEPressure washing, window clean-ing, gutters, painting, small reno’sWCB, 15yrs exp... 604-780-2224

8240 Renovations &Home Improvement8240

AUTOMOTIVE

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#1 ALL TYPES of Renos & AdditionsCustom cabinets, millwork, etc.Guar.22+ yrs Paul 604-618-7926

★ BATHROOM SPECIALIST★

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BEARING WALLS removed,floors leveled, cathedral ceilings,garage leveled, door and windowopenings. 604-787-7484

8240 Renovations &Home Improvement8240

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KITCHEN & BATHSHome renovations, 30+ years

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MATCO DESIGN - Renovations*Additions*Quality Work *Ref’s604-720-1564 [email protected]

Moon Const Building Services.Specialize in Concrete, Forming& Framing. Call Patrick 218-3064

QUALITY RENO’S, res. & comm.kitchen, bath & bsmt specialists.refs avail. call Greg 604-889-6055

QUALITY WORKCall Mike @ 604-321-5035 for all

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STEPS, RAILINGS, DECKSEuropean Master Carpenter. RefsFree est. Frank, 778-230-0018

8250 Roofing8250

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A controversial RV park created to accom-modate visitors to the 2010 Olympics not onlyfailed to make a profit, it cost the park board$70,000.

Phyllis Tyers, president of the North WestPoint Grey Home Owners’ Association, saidshe and many of her neighbours were dread-ing the Olympics because of concerns regard-ing the RV camps. They were supposed tohold 300 vehicles at Spanish Banks and Jeri-

cho Beach, across the road from the residents’homes. “We started a petition and made apresentation to the park board, but it turnedout that was a waste of time because nobodyshowed up,” said Tyers. “It was a non-event.”

According to a short report compiled byPhilip Josephs, acting co-director of StanleyDistrict, only 145 spots were used with guestsstaying an average five days. It cost the parkboard $144,000 to create the RV parks, includ-ing $115,000 to hire a contractor to managethem for seven months.

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Olympic RV park lost moneyPoint Grey residents opposed site at Spanish Banks, Jericho Beach

Park board poised for $80 million spending spreeSandra ThomasStaff writer

With help from federal in-frastructure grants and theneed to spend money whileit’s still available, the parkboard has voted to moveahead with $80 millionin recreation and outdoorprojects.

“The $80 million has tobe spent in one year,” saidpark board chair Aaron Jas-per. “We’re just waiting forthe OK from city hall, butI’m confident that’s not aproblem.”

Last year the federal andprovincial governments ded-icated $20 billion for what’scalled the InfrastructureStimulus Fund for “shovel-ready” projects across B.C.to create employment during

the recession. The projectsmust also be mostly complet-ed by March 2011. The parkboard is combining $14 mil-lion in infrastructure grantswith 2010 capital plan funds,which must also be spent be-fore the end of 2011. Jaspersaid in previous years mon-ey earmarked for a projectcould be reserved no matterhow many years it took forthat job’s completion.

That’s no longer the casefor most projects, Jaspersaid. If $5 million earmarkedfor a project isn’t spent with-in a three-year capital plantimeline, that money couldgo back to general revenue.Jasper added the park boardhad $20 million left overfrom the 2005-2008 capitalplan, which had originallybeen earmarked for projects

put on hold because of con-struction related to the 2010Olympics. And while the cityallowed the park board to in-clude that $20 million in its2010 operating budget, Jas-per isn’t certain that will bethe case in the future.

“The city is really tighten-ing its belt,” said Jasper. “Ifyou say Project X is going toget done by a certain time, ithad better be done.”

Once city council givesthe board approval to moveforward, the $80 millionwill be divided amonglarge and small projects,the highlights of which are$19.4 million towards thenew visitor centre at Van-Dusen Garden and $18.75million for the new TroutLake Community Centre.See COMMISSIONER on page 4

Projects must be mostly completed by March 2011

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The park board will invest $19.4 million in a new visitor centre at VanDusenGarden. photo Dan Toulgoet

W06 THE VANCOUVER COURIER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 2010

Pondering his futureNPA park board commissioner IanRobertson can’t say whether he’llrun for mayor, council or parkboard in the 2011 civic election.

“I’m undecided,” Robertsontold me last Friday morning dur-ing a phone interview.

Robertson says he was caughtoff guard by the NPA’s announce-ment last week that the civicparty will hold an early nomina-tion meeting this November, witha second nomination meeting tofollow next spring.

“To be honest, I wasn’t preparedfor this early nomination,” he says.

What Robertson did confirm isthat if he runs for mayor or coun-cil it would likely mean he’d haveto give up his job as director ofsales for Rocky Mountaineer.

Robertson, who’s serving hissecond term on park board and isits lone NPA commissioner, sayshe loves his job and the companyhe works for, so he’d have to con-sider his options carefully beforedeciding his political future.

“I have to balance that carefullyand weigh it out,” says Robertson.

He admitted his name has been“bandied” about as a possible may-oral candidate, but I couldn’t get him

to reveal any more information.He did tell me he plans to make

up his mind within the next threeto six months.

Summer campsThe park board is offering sum-mer day camp programs at allof its 23 community centres this

summer for children and youththree to 14 years old. Many of thecamps offer theme weeks, excur-sions to parks, pools and beaches,and field trips to regional destina-tions such as water slides and sci-ence centres.

All day campers aged six to 12years also learn about respect,

responsibility, cooperation andpeaceful conflict resolution aspart of the Play it Fair program.(When I attended summer camp,we just did crafts and roastedmarshmallows.)

Day camp program fees, ages,themes and outings vary from cen-tre to centre. Adapted programs

are also available for children andyouth six to 18 years old who needmore support to attend day camp.

Visit vancouverparks.ca, browsefor programs online and choose“day camp” from the category listfor details, or contact your localcommunity centre directly.

Funding for FraserviewYouth sports groups in the ridingof Vancouver-Fraserview receivedgood news last week from the pro-vincial government, which has ded-icated $200,000 in gaming grants tosupport their upcoming season.

Vancouver-Fraserview youthsports groups receiving fundinginclude Vancouver Minor HockeyAssociation ($100,000), Killar-ney Centre Figure Skating Club($35,000), Killarney Youth Soc-cer Association ($32,100), Killar-ney Girls Ice Hockey Association($21,350) and Vancouver Killar-ney Minor Lacrosse Association($15,040).

Plus HST, pleaseDespite former premier Bill VanderZalm’s best efforts, it looks like theHST will be rearing its ugly headeverywhere tomorrow, includingthe park board. The park boardhas included the HST in its Flexi-pass prices since May, but only forthe portion valid after July 1. Nowthe HST will be automatically in-cluded on all passes.

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“Now Mr. Spock, there’s really something aboutall this that I don’t understand, so maybe youcould explain it to me, logically of course...”

That famous Capt. James T. Kirk quote from the“Galileo Seven” episode from Star Trek: The Origi-nal Series, pretty much sums up how I was feelingas I wandered around the Star Trek convention atthe Sheraton Wall Centre Saturday afternoon.

To be honest, I’m no Trekkie. It wasn’t like Iwas heading out to “boldly go where no man hasgone before,” but for this woman, attending aStar Trek convention was a memorable first.

The crowd was a mix of devotees in streetclothes and Star Trek T-shirts, alongside aficiona-dos who put the word “fan” in fanatical. Thesetrue fans were dressed as everything from the fa-mous Red Shirts, many of whom typically diedduring the line of duty in the original TV series, toAndorians, complete with blue skin and cranialantennae, to green-skinned Orions, a humanoidalien species found in the Star Trek universe.

Initially, I was a bit surprised at the shapes andsizes unabashedly squeezed into the tight pantsand shirts that make up the Star Trek commanduniform. The short, the tall, the skinny and theextremely not-so-skinny sported their uniformswith such obvious pride and enthusiasm thateven I failed to come up with a single sarcasticremark. Instead, it was the words of Capt. Kirkthat once again summed up my feelings, “No, I’mfrom Iowa. I only work in outer space.”

Funnily enough, while the Star Trek conven-tion was unfolding, a wedding was taking placeon the same floor of the North Tower of the Wall

Centre. Mixed amongst the Klingons, Vulcansand Red Shirts were beautiful young women inbridesmaid dresses moving between rooms. Atone point I saw the bride, gorgeous in a whitedress and veil, travelling up the escalator alonesurrounded by Capt. Kirk look-alikes. It was avery Vegas moment.

My partner and I began our tour of the con-vention in the ballroom where the vendors wereset up. I checked in with Klingonese-speakingCharles Bae, who was featured in a Courier ar-ticle I wrote last week about the convention, tosee how the sales of his replica Klingon disruptorweapons—modelled after ones used in the 1960sTV series—were going. By the time we arrivedaround 2 p.m., he was sold out of the weaponsand the model kits of the same weapon.

We wandered around the room checking out T-shirts, mugs and autographed photographs before

we headed down to the bottom floor of the WallCentre to watch the auction of Star Trek posters,photographs, banners and memorabilia.

It was during the auction where the truefans, many sporting $360 Gold Weekend passesaround their necks, put their money where theirphasers are. We arrived in time for a banner ofMr. Spock to go on the auction block. The pur-chase of the banner also guaranteed front-of-the-line privileges for an autograph session with ac-tor Leonard Nimoy, for which fans paid an extra$80. The bidding for that banner started at $50and quickly escalated to $400 from a fan who ap-parently wasn’t going to take no for an answer.Another auction item of interest was a set of au-tographed photos from some of the key charac-ters from the TV series Star Trek Voyager. Whenit was mentioned the set included a signed pho-tograph of human/Borg character Seven of Nine,portrayed by actor Jeri Ryan, I could have swornmy partner started to raise his hand. But he musthave seen the “you’ve got to be kidding” look inmy eyes because he quickly settled back into hisseat. That set of photographs sold for $350, but itwasn’t the holy grail of the auction that broughtin the big bucks.

A large Capt. Kirk banner, including a montageof images of actor William Shatner from famousStar Trek scenes, which also came with frontof the line signing privileges, had the crowd onits feet. Bidding went from $50 to $500 in warpspeed. And it was, in the words of Capt. Kirk onlife from Star Trek: Generations, “fun.”

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Spy agency’s allegations ‘cast aspersions,’says Coun. Jang

CSIS claims of China’s influence over politicians puzzles councillorsMike HowellStaff writer

City councillors are shocked byallegations made by the head ofCanada’s spy agency that severalunnamed municipal politicians inB.C. are under the influence of oneor more foreign governments.

Councillors described the allega-tions made last week by CanadianSecurity Intelligence Service directorRichard Fadden as bizarre.

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relationship with Guangzhou. “Ithink everybody recognizes that Mr.Fadden’s comments were bizarreand showed an incredible lack ofjudgment,” he said.

But, Jangsaid,hewasworriedhowhis Chinese ancestry coupled withhis role as a city councillor wouldnow be perceived by the public. Hepointed out there are very few coun-cillors in B.C. of Chinese heritage. “Ifyou’re going to come out and castsuspicion or aspersions—whateverword you want to use—then man upand name some names and show usthe evidence,” he said. “I personallyfeel I need an explanation from thisguy because I was quite offended, Iwas quite upset. I was guilty by asso-ciation and I think that’s absolutelywrong.”

Chow noted Fadden has sincedownplayed his comments, sayingCSIS has investigated and reportedon such threats for many years. But,Chow said, the allegations are seri-ous and Fadden should provide moredetail. “It’s puzzling,” he said. “Ifhe has nothing to back it up, whywould he say something like that?It’s almost like catching spies by pub-lic innuendo.”

What’s more, councillors don’thave the power to make policy chang-es in Vancouver that would, say, ben-efit a foreign government or organiza-tion, he added. “We take care of landuse, we take out the garbage, we fixthe potholes, we give you clean waterand we look after community centres,parks and we help the police—that’sit,” Chow said.

NPA Coun. Suzanne Anton hada different take on Fadden’s com-ments, saying she’s not going “to gooverboard fretting about it.” Faddenwas simply stating a political reality,Anton said.

“People have been jockeying forposition ever since human historybegan,” she said. “If you really thinkabout it, he’s just stating the obviousthat local organizations and foreignorganizations all try to get their footin the door—developers try and gettheir foot in the door.”

Robertson issued a statement lastweek regarding Fadden’s comments,saying “it’s frustrating and unfortu-nate that local elected officials in B.C.had aspersions cast upon them with-out any justification.”

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