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White didn’t question him. She’d been given a year to live and living with the debilitating effects of chemotherapy was not an option.

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Over the past few months, arts groups and city coun-cillors, both past and present, have weighed in on what they feel should be built on Lot 5 — the cur-

rently vacant, former Shipyards site on the waterfront. A newly designed public process, however, aims to put that dialogue in the hands of residents.

Created by Tyler Russell, owner of the Café for Contemporary Art, and Ben Woodyatt, an employee of North Shore Credit Union, the yet untitled five-month series will offer a host of events ranging from exhibitions at the café to speaking engagements and design workshops aimed at spurring interest in how to develop the oft-dis-cussed parcel of land. The series is scheduled to run from January-May.

Throughout the process, Russell and Woodyatt plan to partner with other groups interested in the site to bolster the discussions. For the design sessions, Russell said he plans to paint the walls of the café’s gallery black and allow all those interested to draw what they feel belongs on Lot 5.

Russell and Woodyatt are scheduled to take the idea to council on Oct. 24.

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We need that input.”While Lot 5 has been the focus of recent waterfront arts

discussions, staff at the Presentation House Gallery are embarking on a “feasibility study” meant to test the gal-lery’s capacity to fundraise enough money to move into the Cates Tugs building, its desired location. Reid Shier, direc-tor of the Presentation House Gallery, said it will cost $9.5 million to renovate the property.

“We are very interested in the Cates building and it is our priority should it come available,” said Shier.

“A standalone facility is our priority, but we would con-sider maybe one other partner.”

Beginning this month, Shier said his staff will be conduct-ing upwards of 40 interviews with gallery supporters. The $9.5 million price tag, he added, includes “all the bells and whistles” involved in the move, such as new lighting, paint and any requisite equipment.

Fundraising capabilities notwithstanding, separate arts facilities in the area may not be an effective use of land, said Coun. Rod Clark.

“I absolutely welcome a discussion of the arts on the waterfront. I asked our staff to investigate the use of the machine shop as part of an integrated arts facility on Lot 5,” said Clark.

“But a facility of all three [gallery, museum and theatre]. I’m not interested in a carbon copy of Presentation House but it is efficient to have all three in the same building.”

Clark said he applauds the ambition of arts groups, including the museum, even though hopes of a new facil-ity in the Onni development proposed for the Safeway site at 13th Street and Lonsdale Avenue have been abandoned. But he questioned whether taxpayers would be interested in shouldering the burden that comes with standalone facili-ties. The gallery, theatre and museum are all subsidized, in part, by the city.

Clark, who spearheaded the development of the com-munity amenity fund after Wesgroup Proprieties pledged to give $1 million to the gallery in exchange for the density required for its development in Central Lonsdale, also ques-tioned the renovation of the landmark Cates building if the gallery were to take over the space.

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“I think a decision in that area is overdue. One thing I’m hearing from the community is they don’t like that piece of ground [Lot 5]. They want to see something. With respect to the gallery, theatre and museum we have to get on with it and put a shovel in the ground.”

ARTIST’S RENDERING - Café for Contemporary Art owner Tyler Russell stands in front of Lot 5, the currently vacant former Shipyards site at the foot of Lonsdale. Sean Kolenko photo


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At a fresh-faced 47 years, Victor Penman has spent half of his life on the district’s fire service and is the youngest North Shore fire chief in recent memory; an honour he credits to his North Van upbringing, his early aspirations and simple good timing.

But he’s already finding the new nine-to-five he took over from retired chief Doug Trussler on Oct. 1 to be “much more politicized” than the operations-oriented deputy chief job he left behind. He’s just come from a morning of meet-ings with district officials and seems slightly out of breath.

A district boy from birth, Penman went to high school at Carson Graham secondary before taking classes in financial management at what was then Capilano College, now a university.

But it was Victor’s brother, Barrie Penman, then seven years into his own firefighting career, who put the fire bug in his little brother’s ear.

“My whole family was really involved in the public service and I knew that that would be something I’d eventually want to do too,” Penman says, seated in his office at Lynn Valley’s Fire Hall No. 1, the room sparsely decorated with Bruce Springsteen posters and a black and white photo of the World Trade Center.

Penman’s mother, Dorothy, was one of the first female judges in the province. His sister is a teach-er and her husband an officer with the RCMP. Add to that brother Barrie’s own promotion to fire chief

in the City of North Vancouver and what emerges is the makings of a Penman public service dynasty in North Vancouver.

In fact, Penman’s wife, Carla, is a district fire lieutenant on the department’s ladder trucks, “doing the dangerous stuff while I’m in the comfort of my office,” he says. The two met at the station and today have four children.

“But we have a conflict-of-interest policy that doesn’t allow direct reporting to family members,” Penman laughs, “so that’s been another motivator for me to keep getting promoted so I can stay at least a couple ranks ahead of her.”

Joking aside, Penman admits there have been days during his nearly 24-year career that he’d rather have been on any fire brigade but his home-town’s.

“That’s definitely the downside to doing emer-gency [services] where you grow up. Over the years, several of the people I’ve responded to have been

someone I know or the family of someone I know.”Looking ahead, Penman anticipates his legacy as

chief will be as the overseer of an increasingly tech-savvy fire service, expanding on recent additions like an upgraded communications relay system in the district’s fire trucks that allows real-time situ-ation updates between regional dispatchers and attending fire vehicles.

Recent municipal budgets being what they are, however, Penman may have to brush up on his politicking — something he clearly dreads — to push through any technological or personnel expansion of his 120-firefighter force in the current economy.

“It’s true that it’s the toughest time to be chief is in a recession,” he says. “But we’ll just have to get creative with funding and with delivering the best services possible.”

A career politician Penman is not. Though the public service may well be bred in his bones.

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Creating a more vibrant Lonsdale corridor

Editor,Recent letters have expressed concern

over development along the Lonsdale Avenue corridor resulting in increased den-sity and traffic.

As Lonsdale Avenue is well serviced by TransLink, I consider this corridor to be an ideal area to encourage increased density. All of the current and proposed develop-ments are pretty close to transit routes.

In addition, replacing archaic stores

such as Extra Foods at 17th Street and the Safeway at 13th and Lonsdale will greatly enhance the area. The current stores are hardly architectural masterpieces, having been built well over 40 years ago. In order for the developments to be economically viable for the builder additional density needs to be included in the projects, and, as previously mentioned, the Lonsdale corri-dor is an ideal place to facilitate this.

Plans to modernize the Lonsdale area are to be commended and will make it a more vibrant place to live.

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Insomnia, anxiety, allergic reactions, palpitations and withdrawal. Is this a list of symptoms from an illegal drug?

No, it’s what adults have known for years are the down-sides of drinking too much coffee and tea.

Unfortunately, now the kids are emulating their parents by drinking energy drinks that typically have twice the caffeine of regular pop and just about as much as a cup of drip cof-fee.

The kids think these drinks are cool, their logos are eye-catching and they are easy to get at corner stores and gro-cery outlets.

A single can of Red Bull or even Monster falls within Health Canada guidelines for caffeine consumption for older teens but what happens if two or more are drunk in a day?

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Of course, energy drinks are not as bad as cigarettes and legions of adults are drinking caffeinated beverages without too many side effects.

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"From then on, I was in the unemployment line," Andrew shrugs. The former roof builder was now without a roof himself.

***Around that time, Teresa was also finding her way to the North Shore Shelter from a "home"

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last time. And while in early adulthood, poverty and poor mental health conspired to keep the wolf hungry at her door, it took years before Teresa realized she'd long since invited the real ani-mal of her undoing into her home.

She says women often stay in relationships because they have no place else to go. She added that once her family found out she had been intermittently homeless, they avoided her as if she were "contagious."

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Andrew (at left) and Teresa (left inset) are both residents at the Lookout Shelter (below).

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“The way my seedy mind works, I find that stuff more interest-ing,” says Singer, poring over a mural of photographs laid out in his living room.

There is no stopping along the way to take photos, this is “drive-by shooting,” he says.

A camera rig fashioned from a piece of metal meteorological equipment that once recorded humidity, which Singer salvaged from a junk yard, hangs from the inside frame of the passenger window of his Volkswagen Eurovan. A remote control for the camera sits on the steering wheel.

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Singer’s intention behind melding distorted scenes of the past 10 years overtop of one another is to show fragmentary images can trigger memories and emotion that blur and fade as time passes.

“Life is not a straight line or a series of perfect photographs through the years, there are constantly curves being thrown at you; illness, unemployment,” figures Singer.

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how does Singer maintain control of his van while snapping away? “That’s a very good question,” he laughs. “We shouldn’t talk about that. And my car is not an automatic. I would shift gears, look and photograph.”

At one point he took a safer approach to his art, allowing his brother to drive him around. That experiment did not yield an artist’s innovation.

“It’s a totally different outcome,” says Singer. “When you have that kind of control the image become studied.”

The mural he created for this exhibit, which stretches 70 feet long and three feet high and wraps around the inside of the Seymour Art Galley, appropriately ends with a snapshot of Deep Cove. It was originally to be called Drive-By Shooting, but Singer was told that might scare away people from the exhibition, so he dropped the word “shooting”. He says visi-tors to the gallery will experience exactly what he did in the car and decide what to focus on.

“I’m not sure if you will remember it at the end, but if you do it will just be a snapshot,” says Singer.

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“The plan is to climb back to the top. I’m working with a physiotherapist and a trainer now and hoping to get back to racing.”

As a teenager, Reimer started off street skat-ing, his board more a means of exploration and transportation than a vehicle to make a living. He quickly, however, realized you could ride down hills. And he liked it.

Fast forward a few years and his work on the hills has taken Reimer to Europe, South America, Australia and across the United States where he’s competed against the world’s top longboarders.

He’s set to return to the international scene later this month, with plans to do a few runs in a tournament in Brazil on Oct. 26. Afterwards, he’ll head to South Africa and Puerto Rico.

Growing up on the west side of Vancouver, Reimer said he dreamed of moving to the North Shore as a teenager to conquer the hilly terrain that defines the area.

But that ideal landscape hasn’t come without difficulties for residents and the longboarding community alike.

Last summer, Glenna Evans was killed after colliding with a van in the Mount Seymour area days before her 28th birthday. Since the accident, municipalities have mulled how to handle long-boarding on local streets. Currently, longboard-ing is permitted on North Van streets, with the exception of those with speed limits exceeding

50 kilometres per hour.In July, the District of North Vancouver hosted

a well-attended public meeting to explore ways municipal governments can regulate the growing sport.

Reimer applauded the “forward thinking” dis-trict for holding the meeting and acknowledged the challenge faced by governments in attemptingto strike a balance between various groups using the roads, for pleasure or otherwise.

He says his sport is here to stay and those involved take their place on the hills and roads seriously, forging connections with the land in ways motorists, cyclists or pedestrians don’t understand.

“It’s a relationship to a lot of people, commu-nities and the urban landscape that we’re a part of everyday,” he said.

“You can enjoy the city in a way that it’s not made for, but it works really well for.”

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BACK ON BOARD - North Van’s Kevin Reimer is still recovering from breaking both his tibia and fibula during a practice run crash. Sean Kolenko photo

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