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The wooden boardwalk traversedby thousands of tourists andcommuters on the east side ofLonsdale Quay is set to be torn upand replaced as the existing one isrotting and chipping away.

“Facilities has had it on theiragenda for a while and so has theQuay,” said Barbara Pierce, thecity’s manager of special projects.“There are a few spots that are reallydeteriorating and the Quay wasdoing some short-term measures toaddress those.”

The boardwalk is owned bythe Lonsdale Quay but the city

has had a right-of-way on theproperty since the Quay was builtfor Expo 86. Under a cost-sharingagreement between the two, theQuay is responsible for day-to-day maintenance and replacementcosts are split. It is expected to cost$30,000 to bring in and install newpressure-treated fir.The work isscheduled to start in late August orearly September, after the rush oftourists has abated, and last for fivedays.

But the east deck should havebeen replaced a decade ago if youask local safety advocate RichardKinar.

Kinar has been lobbying the cityto do something about the decksince the spring.

“It’s very difficult for people tonavigate that walkway right now inhigh-heeled shoes. It’s very difficultfor people that are physicallyimpaired either visually or in awheelchair . . . . There are signs upall over the place that say it’s slippery

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A North Vancouver woman couldbe facing 10 years in prisonstemming from an alleged hit andrun in 2013 that put a 21-year-old woman in hospital for ninemonths.

Madeleine Beckett is accused offailing to remain at the scene aftercolliding with a pedestrian on a GrandBoulevard crosswalk on the evening ofDec. 4, 2013.

Beckett was spotted a few blocksaway by a retired Edmonton policeofficer who was walking his dog whenhe noted the car’s smashed windshieldand called 9-1-1, according to police.

Beckett was arrested at her homelater that evening.

Police conducted a forensicexamination of the vehicle andcompiled witness statements.

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Shannon Studer stoodin the living room of hermobile home, carried aloftby a rising tide of things.

There were piles ofCDs and books, paintings,old Life magazines fromthe 1960s, Christmasdecorations.There werehats, a vinyl record player,old telephones.There werethings in tubs, things in piles,things on top of counters.

Studer grasped the papermache angel that countlesspeople have tried to tossin the garbage. “So manypeople have tried to huckhim on me,” she said. “Ihave to retrieve him everysingle time.”

There were rippedcanvases salvaged from thedumpster behind the craftstore.There were pieces ofscrap metal.

There were plastic bagsof jewelry, stored in rubbercontainers. “It could covermy living room floor,” saidStuder.

Studer, 52, doesn’t lookoutwardly like a hoarder.She modelled when she wasyounger. She’s neatly dressedand put together.Whenpeople first come to her

home, “They’re kind of shellshocked,” she said.

She both hates andloves the piles of thingsthat threaten to completelyoverwhelm her. “It’s likehaving a meal when youhave nothing,” she said.

Studer doesn’t sleep inher bed — she can’t becauseit’s covered with possessions.Instead she sleeps on thecouch. She had to pick herway carefully to navigatea path through the livingroom.

Everything here is a“fresh horde,” she said. Shecleared most of it out lastyear then fought with hermother and started filling itagain.

Even so, “I’m so muchbetter than I was,” she said.“I can’t cook in my kitchensometimes because I’vecovered the stove and I’veblocked the fridge.”

Studer said recently thefire chief who visited told heron a scale of one to 10 forhoarding, she’s a 10. “It’s theworst you can get,” she said.

Studer came from aterrible background. Shewas in and out of foster careas a child and was abusedphysically and sexually.Violence was part of her lifefrom a young age, as was the

drug addiction and mentalillness of people aroundher. She remembers beinggiven money by her mother’sboyfriends sometimes to goto the store. “I had to keepmy brother safe,” she said.“I would take him up anddown every floor (in theirapartment building) andlook in the garbage for popbottles.We realized therewere some really lovelythings that you could find.”

Dumpster diving wasa way Studer learned tosurvive.

Today she still feelscompelled to go intodumpsters — to save thingsthat she feels shouldn’tbe thrown out or that shecould give to someone.She whispered the namesof the dumpsters at the bigbox stores where she findseverything from furniture tocraft supplies thrown away inspotless condition. “I couldcry about it,” she said.

Sometimes she savesthings she thinks she couldsell, to supplement themeager disability pensionshe survives on.

Most things don’t getsold though. She gives manythings away. But othersremain stuck in her home.Depression and a constant

state of financial crisis sendher easily into a tailspin ofpanic and anxiety.

When that happens, “I’mout there (in the dumpster)big time,” she said. “I have tocheer myself up.”

After surviving so much,there are times “I felt theonly thing left for me wasout of the garbage,” she said.“It was a blessed place forme.”

• • •The first time a man told

NorthVancouver therapistDon Collett that he was ahoarder, Collett wasn’t surewhat he meant.

But in the past five years,the formerWestVancouverUnited Church ministerand clinical counsellorhas become the LowerMainland’s go-to specialistin hoarding disorder. Collettconsults on between 30 and50 cases a year.

Hoarding is a “best keptsecret,” he said. “It’s farmore prevalent than peoplethink.”

Recognition of hoardingdisorder as a specific mentalillness is very recent.There’snot much research on itand it was only added to thediagnostic manual used bypsychiatrists a year ago.

Many people who have

problems with hoardingdon’t even recognize theyhave a problem, said SheilaWoody, a professor ofpsychology at the Universityof British Columbia, who isstudying the issue.

The difference betweenaverage clutter and ahoarding diagnosis includesboth whether rooms in thehome can still be used fortheir original purpose andhow distressed a person isat the thought of gettingrid of their accumulatedpossessions.

For hoarders, “the verythought of actually movingthe object from one pileto a dispose pile is verydistressing,” said Collett.

One theory is thatpart of the brain, whichgoverns decision-making,isn’t working properly inhoarders. Or they mayassign value to an object— like an old receipt — thatseems irrational. “A lot ofpeople have trouble havingcompassion for somebodywho would save these kindsof things,” said Collett. “Itdoesn’t make sense.”

But heavy-handed actionsto clear a space rarely work.“People think (by clearingthings out) the problem’sgoing away,” said Collett. “It

doesn’t go away. It comesback twice as fast.”

Hoarders tend to bein their 50s, or older.Theproblem is often more acutefor people who are poor.“There’s this whole idea ofscarcity. If I don’t hold it, I’lllose it,” he said.

But hoarding can alsocut across wide swaths ofdemographics.

“There are people whohave hoarding disorderwho live in mansions,” saidCollett. “I have clients whofilled up a cottage.Who filledup a townhouse and movedon to another place.”

One time, Collett got acall from a fire departmentin Port Coquitlam about amiddle-aged woman whohad filled her townhousewith clothes from the Gap.Most of the clothing hadn’teven been taken out of theshopping bags.

Classic items peoplehoard include newspapers,magazines and pieces ofpaper. People hoard objectsthat belonged to familymembers who have died.Men hoard tools or woodthat might be used for aproject, while women hangon to craft supplies. Spare

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computer parts, cables andold electronics are common,“So if something breaksdown they could repair it… it never happens,” saidCollett.

For people with hoardingdisorder, it matters where anitem goes when it’s disposedof.The garbage is the worst.

“I don’t use that phrase,‘Let’s get rid of’,” said LynneDavidson, a professionalorganizer who works withhoarders about 30 per centof her time. “I say ‘Let’s seeif someone else can use it.Let’s give it a new home.’”

Getting rid of things isdifficult for hoarders. But sois not getting rid of them.

“When you wake up toa mess like that on a dailybasis it’s very difficult on thebrain,” said Collett. “Thebrain wants order. Oftenpeople in my groups will say‘My fantasy is to live in ahotel room.’”

About 70 per centof people with hoardingdisorder are also depressed,he said.

“They’re trapped in thispurgatory of not being ableto stand it, but not beingable to do anything aboutit.They want to be releasedfrom it, but they don’t.”

• • •

Ellen, a pseudonym fora 57-year-old professionalwoman who has workedwith Collett on her ownhoarding disorder, knowsthat all too well.

Today, Ellen lives in aneat walk-up apartment thatfeels comfortable and cheery.But getting there has been along journey.

“It’s so shameful to havethe problem,” she said.

When Ellen was growingup, “My mother threweverything away, includingmy stuff,” she said. “Shewouldn’t understand whyyou would keep a book.”

Her neighbour, on theother hand, had a collectionof postcards and fabric

scraps. “I could just look atthose objects for hours andhours,” she said. “I wantedthings like that for myself.”

Ellen’s family movedwhen she was in highschool, leaving her behind tograduate with financial helpbut little emotional support.

She married young,split up, then later met her

second husband, who wasconsiderably older than shewas. Although neither ofthem knew it, he was also inthe early stages of dementia.And he was a pack rat.

“He didn’t like to shopfor clothes but if he foundpants that fit he would buy adozen pairs all at once,” shesaid.

As her husband’s illnessprogressed, the mess in theirhouse grew. Eventually shejust gave up trying to cleanup. “I left all the disheson the counter. I left thelaundry where he dropped iton the floor.

“Then I started going outcollecting objects becausemy home environment wasso ugly.”

Ellen found “treasures”in yard sales and thrift shops.As she gathered things, sheput them in boxes, intendingto deal with them one day.Her husband moved to acare home, and eventuallydied, but Ellen’s problemwith things continued.

“I knew I had a problemwith stuff,” she said.

At its worst, her livingroom was covered withboxes. “It would look likesomeone was moving outor moving in rather thanactually living there,” shesaid.

“There’s just a certainamount of accumulation thatit snowballs, that you justcan’t get past it,” said Ellen.“The shame was huge.”

She kept the yard as tidyas she could, so she wouldn’tattract attention.

Then one day, she heardCollett on the radio and

Compulsive hoarding amental health issue

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when wet. It’s Vancouver.It’s almost always slippery,”he said, noting it is themain pedestrian route tothe SeaBus. “There shouldnever be a walkway surfacethat’s slippery when wet.”

The city did takeKinar’s concerns to heartand sent an engineer downto the boardwalk to have acloser look but that wasn’tthe impetus to get theproject started, Pierce said.

“(We) determined itwasn’t an immediate safetyhazard. It needed to bereplaced but it was notsomething that requiredthe closure of the decking,”Pierce said.

The city set asidemoney for its share of thereplacement during the2013 budget process.

Kinar is also calling forthe Quay to redo the brickwalkway immediately northof the boardwalk — a pieceof land where the city hasno right-of-way. “It’s inreally bad repair.That oneis particularly troublesomebecause it is so uneven andsagging,” he said.

But the deck andthe brick area’s safetyare judged by the samestandards and the brickwalkway is safe accordingto the Quay’s management.

“All areas of themarket are kept safe byour procedures and wehave ongoing repair of anyaspect of the property that

is deemed unsafe, whetherit’s walls, roof, flooring,seating — anything ofthat matter,” said TaylorMathiesen, the Quay’sdirector of operations. “Wedon’t have any imminentplans for completereplacement of that brickarea at this time.”

The city and itsresidents should also beon guard for safety andliability issues while thecity is looking to negotiatemore public-privatepartnerships as part of

the central waterfront,Spirit Trail and Shipyardsredesign projects, Kinarsaid.

“When it comes to thesehigh-profile public areas,there should be a thirdparty that’s doing an auditon them. I think the cityhas let down the residentsof North Vancouver bynot keeping up with thatdecking. It’s dangerous,”he said. “If we don’t get thelanguage right, then we astaxpayers are going to beliable as we are right now

for a very, very expensiveresurfacing of the LonsdaleQuay.”

Mathiesen said heexpects the Quay and thecity will continue to worktogether.

“We will be involvedin making any changesnecessary as we continue topartner for the bettermentof the Lower Lonsdalearea,” he said. “I’ll assumewe’ll continue to work onthe same model where wemaintain anything on ourproperty.”

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Kayaks, log skidders don’t mix“Instead of being catpeople, we had bikes.”NorthVan cyclist AndrewPrenty plans to spend 10 yearsbicycling around the world(from an Aug.3 news story).

“My legendaryimpatience sometimesgets the better of me afterover an hour of goingaround in circles on adebate.You get desperateto call a question, anyquestion.”WestVan Mayor MichaelSmith admits council washasty in calling for a ban onLNG tankers in Howe Sound(from an Aug.8 news story).

“We’re turning youthaway.”Hollyburn Family Servicesexecutive director NanetteTaylor discusses the increas-ingly overwhelmed NorthShore youth safe house (froman Aug.8 news story).

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Dear Editor:The recent “gift” of $40 to parents with young

children is almost the exact amount of the per pupilfunding each child is given in the budget for a day.

This $40 gift will cover the costs of one day’s daycareor one hour of tutoring or some private music, danceand drama lessons.

Children are in school for six hours.What a bargainfor the taxpayers when we multiply six times $40 perhour and we get $240 in instruction and childcare costs

per pupil per day.This same $40 per pupil also has to cover school and

district daily operating costs.The government costs of the ongoing dispute and

the upcoming court case could be going directly to theschools to pay for the specialist teachers who providesupport for children who need more individual help.

There needs to be a settlement.Pat KotushNorth Vancouver

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Dear Editor:At the information meeting on the new woodlots on

Gambier Island, the forestry reps did not mention theexisting woodlot at all.They referred us to woodlots atPort Alberni and Sumas Mountain, which I felt were notcomparable to a woodlot on Gambier. Gambier has veryhigh recreational value, is extremely scenic and on thedoorstep of Metro Vancouver. As a kayaker and hiker, Ihave visited it many times.

There are not many beaches on the northeast side ofGambier for kayaks and other boats to land. Personally,I would prefer not to share what small beaches are there

with a skidder or a booming ground. Hikers generallyavoid logging roads.

But that’s missing the point. Gambier’s value liesin its environmental benefits — fish-bearing streams,herring spawning areas and old growth trees. And in itsrecreational benefits.The area of the proposed woodlotsis very beautiful and should not be marred by new roadsand logging. And it is a healthy, educational playgroundfor the kids who attend the camps on Gambier.

These new woodlots are totally inappropriate andshould be cancelled.Janice Wilson, North Vancouver

Ahouse dividedAn RBC study released this week

concludes people aged 35 to 45are, thanks to their mortgages,

carrying dangerously large debt levelsthat could put them in deep troubleif interest rates go up or the housingmarket comes down.

These grown-up Generation Xerslargely bought their homes from 1999onward. After two decades of an averagehome appreciation of 0.3 per cent peryear, appreciation jumped to 4.6 percent per year since that time, the studynoted.

This news will come as cold comfortto GenerationY, which now finds itselfpriced out of home ownership entirely.

Whether you assign blame to foreignmillionaires or local ones, the effectis the same. People making middle-class wages are either overextending

themselves or becoming resigned to thefact they will rent forever.

The problem is, Generation X is in sodeep now, they’ll fight ferociously anyeffort to bring housing values back intothe realm of sanity. And anything thatbrings the housing market back downin a hurry is likely going to crush morethan a few sectors of the economy withit.

There’s no one person or policy toblame for this conundrum.

It’s simply the free market playing out.The cost of housing is ever present

either in the foreground or thebackground of most any debate we havenow, whether it’s at the council table orthe dinner table.

It’s just sad that there’s no way tohave the debate without pitting onegeneration against another.

Dear Editor:I totally agree with Bill

Errico’s letter regardingwoodlots on Gambier Island(GambierWoodlot Program‘Makes Sense,’ July 24).If these logging permitswere awarded to a majortimber harvester such asWeyerhauser, I would sharethe concerns of the opposingvocal group on the island.But small woodlots aredifferent.This group of one-dimensional conservationistsare exaggerating worst-casescenarios, and a lot of theirstrident scare languageis being economical withthe truth.This issuedeserves clear, pragmaticconsideration.There is noplace for activist rhetoric.Earl MathesonGambier Island

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So Denmark, ourCanadian cities aren’tgood enough for you, eh?

What’s the matter?Unimpressed by ourchildren’s use of Lego? Notenough food trucks sellingpickled herring?Wish therewere more paths for yourprecious little Euro bicycleswith your sensibly paddedseats and festive paniers?

What say you, GreatDanes?

Oh, just the bicycle thing.OK.

Well, let me tell yousomething, you happiestpeople on earth; you liver-paste-on-rye-bread-scarfingVikings; you well-employed,socially mobile, fairy-taletelling weirdos: I kind ofagree with you.

I know that it’s not allDanes who are complaining.In fact it’s just two. Andthey didn’t say a thingabout herring or Lego orThumbelina. But they didcall us fat. And they have apoint.

Danish tourist HollyChabowski wrote an openletter to the Ottawa Citizenand several Canadianpoliticians following a

five-week trip that she andher girlfriend took throughEastern Canada.Theircomplaint was that theCanadian cities they visitedweren’t livable places, theywere parking lots.

“As humans trying toenjoy Canada’s major cities(Toronto, Montreal, QuebecCity, Ottawa and Halifax)we were treated like second-class citizens compared tocars . . . .We heard that themayor ofToronto, Rob Ford,is actually tearing up bicyclelanes to make way for morecars!”

First of all, Danishhumans: let’s not go judgingthe entire country based on

the actions of Rob Ford.That’s like judging theLouvre based on a huge turdsomeone left in the gift shopwashroom.You do know thathe really loves crack, don’tyou?

Anyway, you’ve got agood point about the rest ofit.We should be doing moreto reduce the number of carsin use and get more peoplewalking, cycling and takingpublic transit, clearing upour shared spaces for funEuropean-style things likepicnics or raves or soccerriots or whatever.

We here inVancouverclaim to have the wholehealthy lifestyle thing figuredout but there are many ofus too who spend two hoursa day in our cars, furious athow long it is taking to driveup the mountains so that wecan go mountain biking.

We have decent bicycleinfrastructure and publictransit here in the LowerMainland but the wholesystem is having a shockingtime of it lately.Therewas that thing where thewhole SkyTrain systemjust stopped working dueto a computer glitch. And

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Then there was that thing

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ComplainingDanemay just have a point

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Today, “I’m still workingon it,” she says. Althoughshe moved from her formerhome to an apartment, shestill pays for five storagelockers containing things shehasn’t been able to part with.

“The problem is the stuffthat nobody else values,”she said, like canned foodpast its expiry date. “Youcan’t even give it to the foodbank.”

There are the objects withheavy emotional ties.

The hardest thing sheever got rid of was “all theclothes that I knitted andcrocheted for the baby Inever had,” she said. “I had ahope chest full of things . . .those things were made withlove.”

She eventually gavethem to a hospital auxiliarythat sells baby clothes in ahospital gift shop.

Like Studer, Ellen hastrouble with the throwawaysociety we live in. “If weweren’t that kind of society,I don’t think I’d be in thisplace at all,” she said. “It’sthe ease of stuff and theconstant push of stuff.”

Ellen said she finds itweird that people considerhoarders — “people who

keep old and broken things”— disgusting, but those whoare driving the consumersociety aren’t regarded asobscene.

“What we find disgustingis completely inappropriate,”she said.

Collett also sees arelationship betweenhoarding and a societalobsession with consumption.Houses are bigger than theyever were and the garagesattached to them aren’t usedto park cars. “All of them arefilled with things,” he said.

“When I came to theNorth Shore in 1998 therewere no storage places. Nowthey’re everywhere.”

• • •Firefighters are often the

first contact hoarders havewith authorities.

In his 28 years as afirefighter,WestVancouver’sAssistant Fire Chief MartinErnst said he’s seen a lot ofhoarding.

When he firstencountered it, prior torealityTV shows, “we justcalled it ‘overstored’,” hesaid. “We didn’t even have aname for it.”

Today, about a quarter ofErnst’s time is spent dealingwith hoarding.There are 15addresses inWestVancouveralone where hoarding hasbeen noted and six active

files on his desk.“I hate calling them

hoarders. It’s such a nastyterm,” he said. “I like callingthem owners.They own theproperty and they own theirlives.”

Fire codes set out regula-tions for most businessesand public spaces. Buthow someone lives withina single-family home is stilllargely a matter of choice.

In the past, authoritieswere more heavy-handedabout hoarding. Peoplewould be told, “’You mustchange it.You have to dothis.You have to do that,’” hesaid. “It didn’t work.”

Now, firefighters realize

hoarding is a disorder,said Ernst, and they workin a gentle way to get toreasonable safety standards.

They try to ensure noelectrical cords are beingsquished, that there arepassable hallways, workingsmoke alarms and fireextinguishers.

Hoarded spaces are bothmore likely to catch fire— through a compromisedelectrical cord for instance— and more deadly when itbreaks out. If a fire starts in aregular home, “you have oneto three minutes to escape,”said Ernst. In a hoardedhome, “you might not evenhave 30 seconds.”

One of the first thingsErnst does is talk to people.“We say, ‘What’s going on inyour life?’” he said.

Many hoarders havesuffered emotional traumathat hasn’t been dealt with,he said. “People build thingsup around them to protectthemselves.”

Ernst sees a wide crosssection of people who hoard.Years ago, he was calledby an apartment managerto a unit occupied by apsychologist and a nurse,and the couple’s youngdaughter. “You’d think theyhad their lives in order,”he said. “But the suite wascompletely hoarded.”Thedaughter’s room was so fullof things, she had to sleepon a mat at the foot of herparents’ bed.

Ernst said he doesn’t aimfor perfection. “On a scaleof zero to 10, zero is a hotelroom,” he says. “We walkinto fives all the time. I’mnot worried about a five.”

Often he’ll make peopledo the helicopter test. “If Ican spin around with myarms out and have my armsnot touch anything, theypass the test,” he said.

As a firefighter, Ernst hasobserved the relationshipbetween people and theirpossessions intimately. “Yourealize when you’re sifting

through the debris (after afire), how much stuff theyhave,” he said. “When it’sash, there’s no turning back.It’s gone.

“Most humans have thecapacity to move on.”

Studer says she’sdetermined to get there too,little by little.

Time has passed since thefirst visit to her home.Thistime her kitchen countersare clear.There’s nothingpiled on her sofa. It’s lighterin her home as well — shespent a day scraping off afrosted coating she’d paintedon the windows. Now shecan see out and a warmbreeze blows through theopen window, tickling thefringe of a lampshade.

She got rid of so much,she says. But it’s hard.

Her bedroom is stillcrammed and there’severything from an oldvacuum on the porch to aplastic horse in the bathtub.

She still has her papermache angel. He hangsabove the porch, a shysmile on his face, withoutstretched arms.

Working with hoarding,Ernst said one of his tasksis to help people realize thatthere is a better life thanliving under mountains ofthings. “It just needs to beuncovered.”

Firefighters regularly visit hoardedhomes

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trailers hitched to the backof their bikes. At least wenow have those expensive-looking gates that neverclose guarding the SeaBusstation. Good to know thatfree-loading hippopotamuses(hippopotamusi?) won’t beable to sneak onto the boatanymore.

There is actually sometransit available on theNorth Shore.That thingthat goes through yourneighbourhood seeminglyonce every three days iscalled a bus. But really,neighbours, who wants towalk five blocks, wait threedays and then pay $2.75to sit beside other humanson a bus when we all haveperfectly good Ferraris forquick trips to the coffeeshop, and if we need to getacross town we can get thechauffer to bring the Rollsaround. Or hell, if traffic intoVancouver is a little sticky,Jeeves can just fire up thehelicopter. Am I right?

Seriously though, transitoptions here should bebetter, and they should befree. Or really cheap at least.And it should be so acrossthe country.The publicapparently agrees. As a signof good faith after causingcommuter chaos with

the SkyTrain shutdowns,TransLink caused holidaychaos by making all transitfree on Monday’s B.C. Dayholiday. Lines were onceagain huge as cheapskatestook advantage of the offer.

It proved, though, thatwe aren’t above takingtransit, we are all just, infact, cheapskates.That’salso why drivers grumbleabout the thought of havingto subsidize transit with gasand vehicle taxes and thelike.

We’re always asking whatit would take to get driversout of their cars. How muchwould gas have to cost tomake you think about takingthe bus or riding a bike?

But for people set ondriving — due to necessityor principle — the questionjust needs to be presented adifferent way.We need to askdrivers sitting onTaylorWayin minute 45 of a two-hourtraffic jam how much theywould pay right now to takehalf those cars off the road.Would they pay $5? $80?$4,000? Maybe.

Making transportationwork is a — wait for it— two-way street. It’s timeto clear the potholes.

And as for you, Denmark:your input is welcome.Thanks for getting theconversation started. And

don’t forget to visit otherparts of Canada — like ourbeautiful North, the RockyMountains or the majesticPrairies — where traffic jamsare more likely to be causedby moose than motors. Justremember to pick up yourdamn Lego.

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Berry pickers bemoansummer pesticide [email protected]

Lynnmour residents saythey were caught fromthe blind side this weekwhen MetroVancouvercrews used a herbicide tocommit invasive specieshomicide.

Metro crews targetedswaths of Japanese knotweedin Inter River Park, leavingsome outdoor enthusiastswondering about the toxicityof newly ripe blackberriesand the long-term health ef-fects of glyphosate exposure.

Eager to try a new black-berry cordial recipe, EliseRoberts ventured into thewoods when she saw a signwarning of herbicide applica-tion.The sign is small, fadedand vague, she said. “Theydo not say (glyphosate) isbeing sprayed, they say it’sbeing applied,” she said.

Lynnmour resident andblackberry picker BrendaBarrick also overlooked thesigns. “If they sprayed, I hadno idea,” she said. Barrickdeclined to pick this year’sInter River blackberriesbecause of the spray.

Aghast at seeing childrenpicking berries, Roberts reg-istered her complaints only

to be told the blackberrieswere safe. However, at leastone sign on the site states:Do Not Eat Berries FoundNearTreatment Site.

Eliminating knotweed ina safe way allows nature to“reboot itself,” accordingto Invasive Species Councilof MetroVancouver projectmanager Jennifer Grenz.“Blackberries in the area arefine.We’re not spraying theblackberries,” she said.

Some municipalitiesincludingWestVancou-ver have banned sprayingglyphosate, opting for steminjection. Stem injection uses500 times more herbicidethan spraying and is far lesseffective, according to Grenz,who says one of the flaws ofstem injection is its near-instant effect. “You actuallywant a slow death,” Grenzexplained. “If it kills too fastthe product doesn’t actuallytranslocate right down to theend of the root, so you endup with live root fragmentsleft in the soil that will giverise to more plants.”

Spraying is only permit-ted when wind is calm andglyphosate can be controlled,according to Grenz. “Youcan see great exampleswhere we spray one plant

and the tree and plant besideit are alive and thriving,” shesaid.

That’s not the case atInter River, according toRoberts. “There’s a wholeswath of blackberries rightnext to the knotweed that’sall brown and dying.”

Inter River Park is safe,according to Grenz. “You’dbe more exposed to pesti-cides walking in a grocerystore,” she said, discussingglyphosate’s prevalence inagriculture.

Failure to control amonoculture like Japaneseknotweed can mean loss ofwildlife habitat and disrup-tion of spawning channels,according to Grenz. Sprayingglyphosate helped rejuvenateformerly infested sites inCates Park and MosquitoCreek, she said.

The knotweed problemis particularly acute in InterRiver, which is used as apark storage area. If Japaneseknotweed intermingles withgravel or sand, the speciescould be trucked to otherdistrict parks.

Roberts plans to advo-cate mayor and council fora moratorium on the use ofpesticides and herbicides inLynnmour.

RCMP Cpl. Richard DeJong.

Following the collisionthe victim was rushed to anintensive care unit for headtrauma and internal injuries.The NorthVancouverwoman remains in arehabilitation facility.

“She has a long roadahead,” De Jong said.

Failing to remain atthe scene carries severepunishment — in partbecause drivers can providevaluable assistance, whetherit’s giving first-aid orproviding information forpolice, according to De Jong.

“It is looked on quitestrongly by the courts as aserious offence,” he said.

Beckett’s arraignment isscheduled for Aug. 27.

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Lunch at Silver HarbourSeniors’ Activity Centremay be one of the NorthShore’s best kept secrets.

People come in twos orgroups of three or four ormore, perhaps before orafter a class. Others comebecause the centre is a greatplace to meet for a meal.Thefull course menu, differentevery day, is always delicious,nutritious and gentle on thebudget.

During this overheatedsummer, salads are popularat Silver Harbour. B.C.salmon and prawns mightappear on the menu one day.On the next, an Indonesiandish with spices dialed downand flavours enhanced.Apply a little imaginationand picture tucking intoduck with wine sauceor roast beef with all thetrimmings on a dark andrainy winter day.

Producing a tasty, healthy,affordable meal is easilydone. Doing so consistentlyand with variety five days aweek, year in and year out, isa challenge. Ask anyone whohas had the task of preparingthree meals a day, everyday for a year or even for amonth.

The challenge of cookingin quantity for a specificgroup is also a factor.Whileeveryone of every age iswelcome to enjoy lunch atSilver Harbour, diners areprimarily seniors, some withdietary restrictions, otherswith cultural preferences,and still others with eatinghabits developed over alifetime.

For head cook ZoltanCsapkay, who has beenrunning the kitchen anddesigning the menu fivedays a week for 11 years,it’s like cooking for a largefamily, a very large family.Last year the centre servedapproximately 70 people per

See Chef page 16

Here’s your chanceto start with dessert.Join us for our Seniors’ Ice CreamSocial at Revera – Hollyburn House.Wednesday, August 20th, 3:00pm – 4:30pmEveryone loves a sinful treat now and then, soour culinary experts have created an assortmentof tasty icy treats including ice cream sundaes,cones and more to enjoy at our Senior’s IceCream Social. Don’t even try to resist!

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INTERMEDIATESPANISH FORTRAVELLERS Emphasison expanding vocabularyand conversationThursdaysfrom 10 a.m. to noon atSilver Harbour Centre,144 East 22nd St., NorthVancouver. $18 plusworkbook. 604-980-2474silverharbourcentre.com

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day and 17,000 meals overthe year, reports executivedirector Annwen Loverin.

Csapkay was born inHungary in 1946, just afterGerman occupation and justin time to grow up under thecommunist regime.

Ten years old before hetasted butter for the firsttime, the future chef alreadyknew that the heavy labourof soviet farm and factorylife was not for him. “Onlythe kitchen attracted me,”Csapkay recalls. “I don’teven have any tools in myhome today.”

He entered the worldof cooking and kitchens inBudapest at a four-star hotelwhere each type of foodservice required its ownmenu and style of cookery.

Training completed,Csapkay cooked his wayaround the world.

“I travelled with twosuitcases,” he explains. “Onewas for my clothes.Theother was for work.”

That suitcase heldCsapkay’s knives and tools,including a spaetzle maker, aspare uniform and his copyof Larousse Gastronomique.Armed with these tools of histrade, he worked in all formsof cuisine and cookery,from high-end and bistrofare to hotel banquets andinstitutional food service.

In his off hours, he isinvolved with family andwith fitness, playing chess

to exercise the brain andswimming to keep in shape.Running a large, productivekitchen requires mentaland physical energy as wellas skill with pots and pans— and people.

As Csapkay says,“nothing at Silver Harbour isa singular effort.” He worksalongside assistant cook,Don Do and the volunteercrew that prepares andserves food, makes changeand ensures the coffee isalways fresh. Holly Gagnierin the front office notesthose annual holidays andevents that can be celebratedby sharing a meal.With hisconsiderable experience incooking and knowledge ofthe cuisines of the world,Csapkay is the right man torun Silver Harbour’s kitchen.When he signed on 11 yearsago, “I remembered all the

places I worked in my lifethat enabled me to meetevery condition for the job.”

One condition is perhapsthe most important.Thoughit cannot be taught, a love offood and its preparation isthe essential ingredient fora true cook. For Csapkay,“Everything to do withcooking, and making foodtasty and nutritious, alwaysmeant fun to me. If I seepeople are enjoying my food,then that is my reward.”

Lunch is served at SilverHarbour Seniors’ ActivityCentre, 144 East 22 St.,NorthVancouver, Mondaythrough Friday from 11:45a.m. to 1 p.m. For moreinformation, call 604-980-2474.Laura Anderson workswith and for seniors on theNorth [email protected]

Chef compares job tocooking for big familyFrom page 14

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Knowyour investment timehorizonInvestment successgenerally depends moreon time than timing.

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The low interest rate ofperhaps one to two per cent(and an after-tax returnwhich won’t even keep upwith inflation) is the priceyou pay for safety andknowing you can accessall that money when youneed it.

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If you are a conservativeinvestor, the minimum timehorizon would generally befive to 10 years.While thereare never any guarantees,this should allow time forthe investment(s) to recoverin case the market drops,and also cover the costs ofselling.

A study byYale professorJeremy Siegel showed that

between 1802 and 2012,the worst inflation-adjustedone-year loss in the U.S.stock market for stocks was38.6 per cent (the best gainwas 66.6 per cent), bonds’worst was 21.9 per cent(best, 35.2 per cent) andtreasury bills’ worst was15.6 per cent (best, 23.7per cent).

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“Stocks, in contrast tobonds or bills, have neverdelivered a negative real(after-inflation) return overperiods lasting 17 years ormore,” said Siegel.

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The following is a selectionof volunteer opportunitiesfrom various communityorganizations, madeavailable throughVolunteer North Shore,a service of North ShoreCommunity ResourcesSociety.

VOLUNTEER NorthShore Salvation Army seeks

volunteer dishwasher to helpsupport food services.

FOOD BANKVOLUNTEER Foodbank runs onWednesdaymornings at North ShoreNeighbourhood House. Avolunteer is needed for roomset up, lifting and movingboxes from the truck to thegym and organizing them.

FESTIVAL ASSISTANTDeep Cove Daze is a one-day summer festival thattakes place Sunday Aug. 24

at Panorama Park in DeepCove.This is a communityevent dedicated to breathinglife into the community andgetting everybody out andsupporting the bands andartists in the area. MusartCultural Society is lookingfor volunteers for set up andtake down; handling musicaland technical equipment;collecting donations; sellingraffle tickets,T-shirts andmore.

L.I.N.K.S.VOLUNTEERS Volunteers

assist and encourage seniorswith participation in socialand recreational activitiesby supporting them withprogram registration,organizing transportationand initial participation inthe new activities.

SECRETARY If youlove books and enjoywriting, the Friends ofthe NorthVancouver CityLibrary would love tohave you join their board.A volunteer secretarywho has basic computer

skills and knowledge ofsecretarial duties is needed.The volunteer needs tobe available to attend theFriends’ regularly scheduledboard meetings on thesecondTuesday of everyother month at the NorthVancouver City Library.

LITERACYVOLUNTEER TheNorth Shore ConneXionsLiteracy committee islooking for communityvolunteers to join thecommittee. Responsibilities

would include attendingcommittee meetings;providing guidance andsuggestions on how tocontinue to promoteliteracy initiativesthroughout the society; andassisting the literacy co-ordinator with participantassessments in Septemberand June.

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It’s been a few years since Iwas in South Africa.

But I vividly recall avisit to KWV’s hallowedCathedral Cellar, for somany years the heart ofthe “old” South Africanwine industry. At the time,the post-apartheid era waschanging at a startling pacein any number of ways.

One was the increase infemale winemakers who hadbeen almost unheard of inthat very male-dominatedworld, especially at KWV.

Those thoughts crossedmy mind this week when Imet dynamic, young KWVwinemaker IzeleVan Blerk,who very much epitomizes

the new face of SouthAfrican wine.

Van Blerk, who grew upsurrounded by viticulture,says her team of six at KWV(all under 32 years old) isevenly balanced between thesexes. She thinks that’s prettyhealthy, especially, as sheputs it, “The guys appreciate(the) women’s attention todetail, and their focus onquality and that we knowwhat we want.

“As a group, we’re verypassionate. And we want toconquer the world,” she sayswith a laugh.

Signs are they’re on theirway, as KWV (which startedout almost a century ago asa co-operative) has startedto garner more medalsin important home andinternational competitions.

Here’s a few to check out:Cathedral CellarSauvignon Blanc 2012

“One of (my) favouritevarietals,” saysVan Blerk.“Although it’s very hardwork. For me, it’s the mostundiscovered varietal in theworld, and I think SouthAfrica can compete with thebest . . .We get those coolerand warmer climate styles, as

well as many others.”This wine sports tropical

and citrus notes on topfollowed by a bright andjuicy palate, with hints oflime and mineral and aclean, zesty close (BCLS$16.99, 90 points).Cathedral CellarCabernet Sauvignon 2012

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This wine shows howSouth Africa often fallsneatly somewhere rightin between new and oldworld styles. Good varietalcharacter, with some herbalnotes, good fruit acidbalance and some decentgrip beneath the plushness.A perfect barbecuecompanion ($16.99, 89points).Café Culture 2013

“Pinotage is the trueSouth African varietal andI like its versatilty,” saysVanBlerk. Fun, distinctive andyouthful packaging.Thiswine actually smells morelike Pinotage than it presentson the quite fruity, light-to-medium-bodied palate,

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“I always say it’s a lot likea woman,” she adds. “It hasfeminine flavours, but it’salso got determination.”

South Africa is in thespotlight at BC LiquorStores through Aug. 23.

Also worth trackingdown:Glen Carlou GrandClassique 2010 (Paarl)

This perennially popularBordeaux-styled blend isalways a beacon of Capevalue.

Well-matched mix ofCab Sauv (43 per cent),PetitVerdot (20 per cent),Malbec and Merlot (16 percent) and Cab Franc (fiveper cent) delivers red anddark fruits with plum, cassisand mocha notes wrapped ineasy tannins (BCLS $20.99,90 points).

Moreson Miss Molly HoityToity (Chenin Blanc-Viognier) 2012

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Whenyoubelieve it, youwill see itI think we all tendto take our caninecompanions for grantedfrom time to time.

Sometimes it is onlywhen they are sick orinjured that we fullyrecognize or rememberjust how much they meanto us.

It’s hard to watch themlimp and yelp in painwith an injury or to seethem listless due to anillness. And it is especiallyhard when we are feelinga sense of helplessnessbecause although we canask them where it hurts orwhat we can do to make itfeel better, they can’t tellus.

Or can they?The idea of animal

communication is a bit ofa contentious issue.Youeither believe in it or youdon’t, there is no greyarea. Often those whobelieve are labelled as abit cuckoo and “way-out-there” — a “one can shortof a six-pack” kind ofperson.

Truth be told, I was oneof those who labelled thebelievers and their ideasas “a bunch of hooey-doey” until the passing ofmy dogs Harley and Alexmany years ago.

Unexplainablecoincidences revolvingaround their deaths leadme to question manythings in life, one ofthem being the esotericconnection betweenanimals and humans.

What I have learned

in my years of experienceas an analytical traineris that our dogs areconstantly communicatingwith us.They oftenstart off with the samebehaviours and signalsthat they use with otherdogs, communicatingthrough body languageand perfectly timedgrowls and tail wags. Overtime, as they develop astronger bond with theirhumans, they can beginto mimic our forms ofcommunication.They willbark to get our attention,sit in front of the fridgeor pantry door to indicatethey are hungry and pickup a leash when they wantto go for a walk.

What I have learnedin my limited yet growingexperience of esotericanimal communicationis that, without soundingcrazy, we are able to speakto them in our languageand get answers back intheir language — yet theunderstanding is universal.

I’m not even going tobegin to try to explain

how this happens, as thisfalls within the realm ofquantum physics, which initself is unexplainable.

What I can do is use myown personal experiencesto show how this ispossible.

Now, I’m not talkingDr. Doolittle stuff here.The communication I amreferring to is far moresubtle than that.

So open your mind andstay with me here . . .

As my readers know,I have three dogs: Zumi,Piper and Raider. Overthe last 10 days, each ofthem has injured themself.Each of them presentedtheir injuries to me asmost dogs do, by limpingand showing signs ofdistress such as panting,restlessness, yelping uponmovement and clinginess.As I worked with eachdog to diagnose the injurythey each displayed uniquebehaviours to indicatea “yes” or “no” to myquestion, “Is this where ithurts?”

When I ran my handsacross Zumi’s shoulder,she turned her head andlooked at me intenselythen gently licked my handwhen I stopped at hershoulder.When I ran myhand along Piper’s legs,he didn’t move. But whenI touched his thoracicspine he squinted his eyesand licked his lips.WithRaider, I palpated his paw,his forearm and then theback of his elbow.WhenI reached his tricep he

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My experience withmy horse is even moreuncanny.While brushinghim one day, I noticed hekept touching his lowerribs with his nose. I thenbrushed an area associatedwith an acupressure pointto indicate a stomach ulcerand he swished his tail

feverishly. I then asked himif he had an ulcer whiletouching his stomach andhe lowered his head andlicked his lips, which inhorse language is a sign ofacknowledgement.

It is true one couldargue many reasons for thisbehaviour and dismiss it allas coincidence, but that’sthe whole thing about

animal communication— when you believe it, youwill see it. Until then, youwill be someone who willonly believe it when yousee it.

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If Marcos Baghdatis keeps up hiscurrent pace, we can pencil himin as the 2019 champion of theOdlum BrownVanOpen tennistournament.

The tournament has had bignames before — Maria Sharapovaand Andy Murray both playedhere — but almost always thoseappearances came before the playershit the big time. Baghdatis, however,had already made a name forhimself before ever setting foot ontothe grounds ofWestVancouver’sHollyburn Country Club. Now 29,the Cypriot’s biggest breakthroughscame in 2006 when he made thefinal at the Australian Open and thesemifinals atWimbledon. In 2009he was coming back from injury andneeded to pick up ranking points sohe stopped by theVanOpen, broughta bunch of buzz to the tournamentand then lived up to his billing andwon the whole darn thing.

In 2014, coming back frominjury and looking for wins andconfidence, Baghdatis again decidedto swing by theVanOpen and,once again, thrilled the fans witha championship performance. OnSunday Baghdatis made use of hissneaky-good serve, strong defensivegame and sumptuous drop shots tobeat Farrukh Dustov of Uzbekistan7-6 (6), 6-3 in the final.

One telling tidbit of informationillustrates how Baghdatis is on adifferent level than the rest of theplayers who he took on in this year’sVanOpen: despite his long tennisresume, Baghdatis said he had neverbefore faced any of the five playershe played at theVanOpen.They wereall gunning for him, and he gunnedright back.

“It was kind of weird becausethey have nothing to lose and theyjust go for shots,” he said of facingone new challenger after another.“They’re more relaxed, and you feelit.They’re pumped up to be there. . ..They were very aggressive and I waskind of defensive the whole week andkept fighting. I’m very, very happy Iwent through. It means a lot.”

Dustov, ranked No. 127 in theworld and seeded fourth in thetournament, used his power game— at six-four he was a good sixinches taller than Baghdatis — to hisadvantage in the first set as he heldthe lead throughout, but Baghdatisbattled back and forced a tiebreaker.

“The first set was very crucial forme because I played a long matchyesterday and didn’t want to gothrough another fight of comingback,” said Baghdatis. “Mentally it

was going to be hard. But I’m veryhappy I found a way to win thefirst set, it made things easier in thesecond. He got a bit tired.”

Dustov jumped out to a 2-0 leadin the second set but Baghdatis tookcontrol from there, winning six ofthe next seven games to run awaywith the match. All eyes were on theCypriot throughout the tournamentbut being the fan favourite and topseed didn’t faze the veteran.

“I think the pressure is whereyou expect to win,” he said. “That’swhere the pressure comes. It’s not

mostly what people say, it’s whatyou expect from yourself. Andsometimes you expect to play betterand you get frustrated that you don’tmatch your expectations. I’ve beenvery, very happy with the way I’vehandled things this week. I’m notsaying I played my best tennis but Iknow where I am at at the moment. .. . I’m not at my 100 per cent best sowe’re trying to get through it.”

Baghdatis, now ranked 106 in theworld, had fond memories of 2009in mind when he decided to comeback to theVanOpen to go for title

No. 2.“The vibe,” he said, when asked

what he liked about the event.“The vibe of the people and theatmosphere here. It’s honestly oneof the best events, there’s so muchenergy going on throughout theweek here.”

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from now for a shot at atriple crown?

“Listen, we will see,” hesaid with a laugh. “I hopeI won’t be back just for thegood reasons, not anythingelse. Maybe if I am in thetop-whatever, maybe Ican come back for otherreasons.We’ll see. It’s a greattournament, it’s a great city.”

• • •In the women’s

final Australian JarmilaGajdosova topped Ukraine’sLesiaTsurenko 3-6, 6-2,7-6 (3) in a match thatstarted quietly — fanscouldn’t muster much morethan a polite clap even onimportant points early on— but built to a dynamitefinish capped off by a thirdset tie-breaker.

After losing the first set,Gajdosova took over in thesecond and looked to be incontrol in the third with anearly 2-0 lead. A medicaltimeout to treat aTsurenkoblister turned the tide,however, as the Ukranian

player followed up her toetape job by winning fourstraight games to earn a 5-3lead and a chance to servefor the match. Gajdosovabattled back again, however,with two breaks of her ownto take a 6-5 lead. Onemore break fromTsurenkoforced the tie-breaker whereGajdosova, ranked No. 103in the world, finally finishedthe job.

“I just kept fighting andin the end I came back,”she said after accepting herchampionship trophy. “Iknew she was going to be atough match.”

Gajdosova is on the wayback up the rankings after afew calamities knocked heroff the radar.The native ofSlovakia moved to Australiaat the age of 13 and reacheda high ranking of No. 25in the world in 2011. Butthen her marriage to anAustralian tennis playerended, her mother passedaway and she missed ayear of playing with a caseof mono. She now lives inDallas and is hoping this winwill keep her heading in theright direction.

“My last year and ahalf wasn’t very peachy,”she said, adding that shewas happy with the mentaltoughness she showed inwinning theVanOpen. “I didall I could, I ran all I could.I think my coach would beproud of me that I can stillrun after all this time, thatI’m not too old. I kept tryingand trying and somehow itpaid off in the end.”

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The tournament alsomarked the end of the roadfor longtime fan favouriteRik DeVoest, a SouthAfrican native who won theVanOpen in 2006 and nowlives in NorthVancouver.He met his wife Carolyn atthe tournament — she wasHollyburn’s athletic directorat the time — and the twonow have a Canadian-bornbaby son named Morgan.

DeVoest announced that

he would retire followingthis year’s tournament andwas greeted by his familyand a bottle of champagnefrom tournament organizersafter losing to AustralianyoungsterThanasiKokkinakis in the secondround.

“This is obviously avery special tournamentfor me,” DeVoest said afterthe match. “I really havefond memories here of notjust the tournament buteverybody I’ve got to knowat the club. . . . I’d like tothank my wife who stuck byme the whole way and ourlittle guy Morgan. Hopefullyone day, if the tournamentis still here in 18 years, we’llhave you serving some balls.”

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Offer(s) available on select new 2014/2015 models through participating dealers to qualified retail customers who take delivery by August 17, 2014. Dealers may sell or lease for less. Some conditions apply. See dealer for complete details. Vehicles shown may include optional accessories and upgrades available at extra cost. All offers are subject to change withoutnotice. All pricing includes delivery and destination fees up to $1,665, other fees and certain levies (including tire levies) and $100 A/C charge (where applicable) and excludes licensing, registration, insurance, other taxes and variable dealer administration fees (up to $699). Other dealer charges may be required at the time of purchase. Other lease and financingoptions also available. ≠Representative finance example: 0% financing offer for up to 84 months available O.A.C. to qualified retail customers, on approved credit for the new 2015 Forte LX MT (FO541F)/2015 Rio LX MT (RO541F) with a selling price of $16,252/$14,352 and includes delivery and destination fees of $1,485, tire tax and AMVIC fee of $22 and a $1,250 loanrebate. 364 weekly payments of $45/$39 for 84 months with $0 down payment. Credit fees of $0. Total obligation is $16,252/$14,352. See retailer for complete details. *Cash bonus amounts are offered on select 2014 and 2015 models and are deducted from the negotiated purchase price before taxes. Available on finance, lease or cash purchase offers. Offer variesby trim. Certain conditions apply. $7,000/$5,000/$5,500/$4,000 maximum cash bonus amounts only available on the 2014 Sedona EX Luxury (SD75CE)/2014 Sportage SX AT (SP758E)/2014 Rondo EX Luxury 7-seat (RN757E)/2014 Forte SX AT (FO748E). †Loan rebate amounts are offered on select 2014 and 2015 models and are deducted from the negotiated purchaseprice before taxes. Available on financing offer only. Offer varies by trim. Certain conditions apply. Offer ends August 17, 2014. See your dealer for complete details. ΔModel shown Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price for 2015 Forte SX (FO748F)/2014 Forte SX (FO748E)/2015 Rio4 SX with Navigation (RO749F)/U.S. Sedona shown, equivalent to a 2014 Sedona EX-LBA (SD75CE)/2014 Sportage SX AT Luxury AWD (SP759E)/2014 Rondo EX Luxury 7-seat (RN757E) is $26,695/$26,395/$22,395/$40,095/$38,295/$30,795. Highway/city fuel consumption is based on the 2015 Rio LX+ ECO (A/T)/2015 Forte 1.8L MPI 4-cyl (M/T). These updated estimates are based on the Government of Canada’s approved criteria and testing methods.Refer to the EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on driving habits and other factors. Information in this advertisement is believed to be accurate at the time of printing. For more information on our 5-year warranty coverage, visit kia.ca or call us at 1-877-542-2886. Kia is a trademark of Kia Motors Corporation.

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