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Spirit Trail Open House: Lonsdale Quay AreaWednesday, November 7 from 5pm-7pm, John Braithwaite Community Centre Join City staff for an Open House on the preliminary design of the City's Lonsdale Quay waterfront section of the Spirit Trail. This section includes Forbes Avenue to Lonsdale Quay, and continues to the Foot of Lonsdale along Carrie Cates. The Spirit Trail is a waterfront oriented, multi-use greenway that will provide access across the North Shore. The Spirit Trail through this area will enhance local connections between Lonsdale Quay and existing cycling routes and parks. More information at www.cnv.org/SpiritTrail.

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Helicopter rescues restored in B.C.

The equipment certification problem that grounded all long-line helicopter res-cue operations province-wide this week

has been resolved, according to Emergency Management B.C. and the federal govern-ment.

The provincial emergency management office, as of Oct. 26, had grounded all long-line helicopter rescues in B.C. after a North Shore Rescue volunteer reported that Emergco, the North Vancouver-based manu-facturer of the long-line kits, had its safety certification pulled by Transport Canada in 2007.

The problem concerned HETS, the helicop-ter external transportation system, a rope-rescue tool pioneered by Emergco and North Shore Rescue, and used by approximately 10 search-and-rescue teams across the province.

The system allows a helicopter pilot to lower rescue personnel onto otherwise hard-to-reach or unstable sites, such as atop cliff faces or in avalanche terrain, and to extract victims from danger far more quickly than a ground-based search and extraction.

The HETS cancellation affected not only SAR teams, but ski patrols, the RCMP and commercial resource industries.

“We’re just waiting for some documentation from all the HETS groups in the province and the supplier saying that their equip-ment is Transport Canada certified and then we’re back in business,” said Emergency Management B.C.’s SAR specialist Ian Cunnings in an interview with The Outlook Tuesday. “I’m hoping we’re going to have it before the weekend but we’ll see how long the process is.”

The remedy apparently devised by Emergco and Transport Canada is that

B.C.’s HETS teams will be able to bring their rope systems to any of a number of autho-rized maintenance organizations locally for Transport Canada certification. Once approved, the long-line systems will be air-worthy once more.

“In the meantime,” Cunnings said, “B.C.’s search and rescue teams still have other res-cue tools in the event they need them. They also have the ability to enlist the military or Parks Canada to help carry out these kinds of rescues.”

North Shore Rescue has already used the life-saving long-line extraction kits approxi-mately a dozen times in 2012 and trains extensively on the $35,0000 systems.

“The equipment is first rate,” said North Shore Rescue leader Tim Jones as the mat-ter was being resolved in Ottawa on Tuesday. “Did the manufacturer make some mistakes? Yes, he did. But the bottom line is this is such an important rescue tool in the province that people would have died.”

From Jones’s initial warning about the certification issue last weekend, it was Conservative MP for North Vancouver, Andrew Saxton, who took the issue up the ladder.

“I immediately contacted the Prime Minister’s Office,” Saxton told The Outlook Tuesday from Ottawa, “and the Minister [of Transport Canada, Denis Lebel] was subse-quently contacted. And we were able to work very fast to get a solution in place thanks to the work of a lot of people.”

North Shore Rescue has invested more than $300,000 to buy and train its volunteer personnel on three HETS kits.

Without them, Jones said, it would be hard to get rescuers to respond to even routine calls. “What would typically be a quick long-line rescue now turns into a Tuesday night operation.”

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The District is interested in ensuring that secondary suites are safe, well maintained and that the secondary suite utility fee is fairly and equitably applied. The District asks all homeowners with secondary suites to register their suites and will be conducting a mail-out shortly asking owners to do so. The secondary suite utility fee applies to all single family residential buildings that contain a secondary suite. Currently this fee applies to all suites, whether authorized by building permit or not, and whether currently occupied or not. Registering a suite will not trigger an inspection. Homeowners are, however, responsible to ensure their suites are safe. For more information please visit www.dnv.org/secondarysuite, or call 604-990-2311.

Halloween has come and gone, and many of us are left wondering what to do with our pumpkins. Here are some helpful suggestions courtesy of the North Shore Recycling Program. Consider eating your pumpkin: they’re edible, tasty and good for you (they’re both high in fibre and antioxidants). Add to it your compost: they make a great addition to your compost bin. Just remember to cut them into palm-sized chunks and cover them with a thick layer of leaves or other brown material for successful compost. Haven’t got a compost bin? You can still add your pumpkin to your soil. Just chop it up and bury it in your garden under at least 12” of soil. Pumpkins are also acceptable in your green can. Please remove any candles and ensure they don’t make your can weigh more than 20kg or 45 lbs.

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Mt. Seymour Parkway Bridge ProjectPhase One Construction of the Mt. Seymour Parkway Seismic Upgrade and Bike Lanes Project continues. This project involves a seismic upgrade and the widening of the existing bridge over Seymour River to accommodate wider sidewalks and bike lanes in both directions. Lane closures are in effect, so please expect delays. Drivers are advised to consider alternate routes. With winter weather conditions here it’s important to watch your speed while travelling through this construction zone. The speed limit is 30km/hour, 24 hours/day for the duration of the project. Please help keep workers and drivers safe by respecting the construction speed limit. For more information on this project and for weekly updates please visit www.dnv.org/mspbridge.

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Council Meetings: Monday, November 5, 7:00p.m. Monday, November 19, 7:00p.m.

Council Workshops: Tuesday, November 13, 6:30p.m. • Lions Gate Treatment Plan

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Check those storm drains!The rainy winter weather is here! The District reminds residents and business owners to please check the storm drains in front of their properties and to clear away any leaves and other debris from the openings in order to ensure adequate drainage is maintained. Residents are also reminded to clear their roof gutters and ensure their perimeter drainage systems are functioning properly.

You may have noticed our snowplows out for seemingly no reason, lately. Our crews are training for a future snow event. For information on how we at the District prepare, and for tips on how to prepare yourself and your family, visit www.dnv.org/snow. For up-to-date information on snow conditions follow our Snow Command Twitter feed @dnv_snow or visit the District’s snow page www.dnv.org/snow.

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B.C. denies drug funding for brain-damaging disease

When last month the B.C. government declined medical-plan coverage for a new drug treating a rare, brain-damaging disorder, families like the Forstroms of North Vancouver

were devastated.Their 18-year-old son Svenga is one of only 150 British

Columbians who suffers from phenylketonuria, a genetic metabolic disorder commonly referred to as PKU. The disorder occurs when the body is unable to process phenylalanine, or “Phe,” an essential amino acid found in the protein of most foods.

Without a special protein-restricted diet, that excess “Phe” can build up in the brain over time, causing mild impairment to severe retardation and brain damage.

But in 2010, Health Canada approved a brand new drug called Kuvan (sapropterin) which helps roughly one-fifth to one-half of PKU patients loosen those protein restrictions without suffer-ing the amino-acid build-up. For a growing teenager on protein-restricted diet, it was a breakthrough.

“I started the trial for Kuvan last September,” Svenga told The Outlook from the living room of his family home. “It’s doubled my tolerance for protein now.”

Where he used to be allowed only one bowl of Raisin Bran before maxing out his daily protein limit, now that same bowl only puts him at 50 per cent. Likewise, two cubes of cheese or one cup of rice used to push his protein levels right up into the danger zone, but

Svenga Forstrom, an 18-year-old PKU sufferer from North Vancouver, with foods from his strict low-protein diet. Todd Coyne photo

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Schools can also be affected by heavy snowfall:In the event of a major snowfall, local area schools may be closed. Please check the following websites during a snow event for more information.

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Snow season is upon us. Your municipality monitors road and weather conditions throughout the winter months. When snow and icy conditions are forecast, crews and equipment are dispatched to clear roads on a priority basis.

The first priority for municipal crews, during and after a snowfall, is to attempt to clear the major arterial streets, as well as bus routes, bus stops, and access to emergency services (e.g. fire halls, ambulance stations and hospital). The second priority is to attempt to clear collector streets and routes leading to schools.

Once conditions have stabilized on first and second priority routes, crews will begin to clear local streets. Local streets are not ploughed immediately during a snow event. In the event of continual snowfall, it may take longer than normal for ploughs to reach local streets as first and second priority streets will require additional attention. Thank you for your cooperation and patience during a snow event as municipal crews work to keep your streets clear and safe. For more information on your municipality’s snow and ice removal policy and how you can prepare for winter storms, please contact your local municipality.

City of North VancouverCity Hall: 604-985-7761Engineering: 604-983-7333To report a public works problem: Operations: 604-987-7155, [email protected]:00 am – 4:30 pm (Monday to Friday)After hours public works emergency line: 604-988-2212For more information visit: www.cnv.org/snowready

District of North VancouverMain Reception: 604-990-2311 8:00 am – 4:30 pm (Monday to Friday) Email: [email protected] For more information visit: www.dnv.org/snow, or www.twitter.com/DNV_snow, or call 604-990-2255 (for a recorded message)After-hours public works emergency calls: 604-990-3666

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Before a snowfall: • Prepare for an emergency. Keep an emergency kit and supplies in your home, office

and car. During an emergency, such as a large-scale power outage, residents may be without services or assistance for up to 72 hours. Visit the North Shore Emergency Management Office website at www.nsemo.org, or call 604-969-7000 to find out more about personal emergency preparedness and for information on free emergency preparedness workshops.

•Stock up on food supplies and ensure that your prescriptions are filled.

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•Purchase and install quality snow tires. Tune up your vehicle for winter driving.

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today he can double those portions.Svenga’s free trial of the drug, how-

ever, ended in March. And at a cost of $18,000-per-month for a 16-pills-per-day regimen, the Forstroms, like many others in B.C., couldn’t afford the drug if the family didn’t have private insurance to pick up 80 per cent of the tab.

When Svenga turns 25, however, health coverage under his parents’ plan stops. Without private insurance of his own, he could be out of pocket $216k a year for his prescription. That’s in addition to his already expensive diet of synthetic-protein foods which are on average priced at a ten-fold mark-up over their non-synthetic coun-terparts.

“When that runs out, I really don’t know how I’m going to pay for it,” Svenga said.

Over the summer, B.C.’s Ministry of Health was in talks with the California-based drug manufacturer, BioMarin, try-ing to hash out a deal by which B.C.’s PharmaCare program would pay for Kuvan treatment for those estimated 20 to 50 per cent of PKU sufferers the drug can help.

But in a statement to The Outlook Thursday, the health ministry said it declined to cover the drug “because of unclear benefits and high drug costs.”

While the statement claimed that no other Canadian province’s drug plan covers Kuvan, Quebec’s drug plan does reimburse the cost of Kuvan treatment for women who are pregnant or may become pregnant. Eugenia Shen, spokeswoman for BioMarin said the California drug-maker is cur-rently in talks with more than one other Canadian province to discuss providing the drug through their respective taxpayer pro-grams.

So far, B.C. is the only province to out-right reject it.

“The price we offered [B.C.] is pretty much consistent with that of the US,” Shen said in a phone interview with The Outlook

Friday. “It’s weight-based therapy, so the average cost would be $80,000 per patient per year.”

B.C. and the rest of Canada have been carrying out mandatory screening for PKU on all newborn babies since the 1960s. Like other PKU parents, Svenga’s mother, Sally Broadbent, hadn’t heard of those initials until her son was diagnosed with them at birth. At the time, there was no known treatment for the disease aside from the restricted-protein diet. But today, Broadbent says she’s “shocked” the province can on the one hand require all newborns get screened for PKU, and yet throw its hands up when asked for help because the disease was found.

John Adams is the president of Ontario-based PKU patient-support group, Canadian PKU and Associated Disorders, and the father of a 21-year-old PKU suf-ferer.

“This is about the B.C. Minister of Health being unreasonable in the extreme,” Adams told The Outlook in a phone interview last week. “In Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the low-protein [food] is paid for by the public health pro-gram. But B.C. is really the only province that doesn’t do anything for PKU sufferers in terms of providing the low-protein medi-cal food.”

While the B.C. health ministry declined The Outlook’s request for an interview with Minister Margaret MacDiarmid, the minis-try said in a statement that it does provide, free of charge, a metabolic formula that helps PKU patients develop properly.

“The ministry does not fund food purchas-es as this is considered a personal respon-sibility,” the statement said, adding, “PKU patients who are on income assistance may also be eligible for a $40 monthly diet supplement from the Ministry of Social Development.”

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Waiting for the puck to dropProlonged NHL strike could deliver a bodycheck to the bottom line of sports-friendly pubs and restaurants

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Tonight the Vancouver Canucks should be playing the Dallas Stars.

Normally, that would mean some extra jersey-clad patrons at North Vancouver’s Hurricane Grill, a restau-rant known for good food, friendly service and its puck-friendly atmosphere — hockey memorabilia decorating the walls and 13 large flat screens to watch games on.

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Ash Ranjbar, owner of Hurricane Grill.Justin Beddall photo

“It’s not as gamey as people think,” says chef Andrew George as he prepares elk medallions in the Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s bustling community kitchen.

He briskly mixes yellow, orange and red squash together for his Three Sisters Salsa and carefully places the tender elk meat around it.

Elk isn’t difficult to cook, he says, so his culinary students catch on quickly. He adds a few more medallions to the plate then hops over to the stove, where one of his stu-dents is intensely cooking.

“That we’re able to cook elk brings more meaning to the course,” he says, flipping a pan of salsa as it grills over the stove’s flame.

“It’s done medium-rare,” he adds, cutting a thin slice to sample.

For the first time in a cen-tury, the Tsleil-Waututh

Nation is able to hunt Roosevelt elk in the Indian River Watershed, part of the Nation’s traditional territory at the end of Indian Arm.

Elk had nearly disappeared from B.C. by the 1880s due to overhunting, but 20 were reintroduced by the nation and the provin-cial government to the watershed in 2006. Since then, the population has grown to 50, allowing a few to be hunted sustainably in mid-October.

Chef George uses the harvested meat to teach his students traditional cooking com-bined with added influences, like French and African cuisine.

He’s leading the first class of the Tsleil-Waututh culinary arts program, a 28-week program that emphasizes aboriginal cook-ing and gives students their Professional Cook Level 1 certificate.

Today, along with two of his students, he’s preparing lunch to present to the com-munity to celebrate the inaugural class’s graduation.

George, who has been a chef for 25 years, has worked at the Chateau Whistler and

Vancouver’s Four Seasons hotel, as well as running a restaurant and catering in the 1990s.


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UP and atom, joey! - The North Shore Winter Club’s 1978-79 Atom rep team included Joey Sakic, soon to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Back row (l-r): Brad Minions, Ross MacMillan, Pat Bugos, Warren Holonko, Ritchie Sanford. Middle: Polly Kahn (coach), Chris Minions (coach), Darren Lee, Gary Knight, Marc Rousseau, Dave Tomlinson, John Bartok (coach). Front: Dean Engemoen, Pat Schmidt, Ross Knight, Shawn Kahn, Joey Sakic, Wade Bartok, Chris Robertson. Wade Bartok collection

At left: Joey Sakic, age 10, with the trophy marking his 100th NSWC goal in 1980. Hal Kinsey photo / Hockey Hall of Fame photo

“Burnaby Joe” was once “North Shore Joey” Sakic

The early days of a hockey legend

Long before Joe Sakic was “Burnaby Joe,” the blue-collar NHL hall-of-famer; he was “North Shore Joey”

Sakic of the North Shore Winter Club.Oh sure, little Joey did live in Burnaby.

Yet – despite residing right beside the arena where the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association was located – the reputation of the North Shore Winter Club was all the incentive the Sakic family needed in order to take the seemingly almost-daily trek across the Second Narrows Bridge so that Joey and younger brother Brian could play for NSWC teams and so younger sister Rosemarie could figure skate on the ice where Karen Magnussen learned to create her magic.

While it was Joey – it was never Joe back then – who became the no-question-about-it Hockey Hall of Fame selection in his first year of eligibility, all the Sakic kids were gifted athletes.

In fact Brian played seven years of pro hockey and Rosie became an accom-plished skater under coach Linda Brauckmann and eventually became a figure skating coach herself.

Beginning at age seven, Joey played for the Barons in the NSWC’s Peanut (now Novice) house league and the following year with the White Lightning. There were no rep teams at that level.

John Bartok, who coached Joey for the next four years (two NSWC Atom-division rep teams and two in Peewee), recalled

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the evening’s keynote speech from Real Estate Foundation of BC’s board chair Kelly Lerigny. 5 West Vancouver dentist Geoff Gillespire is the envy of all with the stunning Ashley Morris, the new 2013 face of Guess, on his arm at the Gift of Time gala. 6 West Van’s John and Karen MacPhail are long-time generous supporters of many Vancouver charities. 7 Gift of Time committee member and West Van girl, Mirjana Popescu looks beautiful in an electric blue, off-the-

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History is being made in a secret warehouse on North Vancouver’s industrial waterfront.

The site has for decades been a storehouse of priceless cultural artifacts — war memorabilia, artworks, inventions and pioneer-era tools — all 20,000 of them milestones in the North Shore creation story.

Or so we thought.Some of these dust-covered items — hoarded away by long-ago

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“How many wood planes do you really need?” asks museum director Nancy Kirkpatrick, referring to the boxes of antiquated hand tools the museum has collected and stored over the years. Likewise, one could ask how many 11-tonne tugboat engines from Powell River does a North Vancouver museum need? The machine is apparently still in peak running order. Yet, the answer is still none.

The relics were all collected, it seems, with the vague idea that one day museum staff would sift through and appraise it all, decid-ing then what to catalogue and keep for a grand heritage village, complete with a schoolhouse and a general store.

Well, that day has come. But plans for the heritage village have gone the way of history. Instead, a more focused, themed museum near the Lonsdale Quay and former Shipyards is likely to be built. With that new mandate in mind, the NVMA is now culling their more-than-20,000-piece collection down to just 12,000 items in preparation for the big move by May 2015. So it seems, this day has just begun.

On a recent tour of the hush-hush location, museum collec-tions manager Magdalena Moore and NVMA commission chair Bob Heywood navigate through row-upon-row of col-

lected curiosa, pointing out where a small expeditionary army of museum staff and volunteers have made inroads into the stacks.

“The museum’s changed its philosophy and now we’re looking at major themes that properly illustrate the North Shore,” Heywood says, pointing to some old wooden ski poles, leather skates and a piece of Mount Seymour’s old Mystery Peak chairlift.

Sports and recreation is just one of seven major new themes, evocative of the North Shore’s natural history and geography. The other six include First Nations history, industry and economic activity, transportation and infrastructure, notable achievers, immigration and settlement, and community development.

“In the future the museum will be much more interactive and program-oriented around these themes and in bringing in speak-ers, guests and exhibits for them,” Heywood adds. “The new muse-um is going to be a lot different from the old one.”

And while the waterfront siting of the new museum is still little more than a promise on paper from city politicians so far, the clo-sure of the “old” museum at Presentation House is already set for the end of the year. At least, that’s when the Chesterfield Avenue museum will be appointment-only viewing, no longer open to the public for rainy day walk-ins starting in January.

The reason for the closure is to focus the museum’s staff and resources on the task of paring down of the museum’s

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“Downsizing is not as simple as one might think,” Heywood says. “You can’t just have a garage sale and get rid of it, because it was given to you in trust that you ensure you deal with it in an appro-priate way.”

And it’s not cheap either. Begun in June, the whole downsiz-

ing process, known as “deaccessioning,” comes at a cost of about $350,000, shared between the two North Vancouver munici-palities.

That covers not only the few museum staff currently dedicated to identifying, cleaning and cataloguing what’s found in the warehouse, but also any efforts to try to return any unnecessary items to their rightful owners or to perhaps place them at more appropriate museums.

“To some extent, you’ve got to look at the value of the item,” Heywood says, “because a lot of stuff isn’t worth much and you’re going to spend a lot of time trying to track down the owner of a tobac-co can.”

And, Moore adds, “there’s a lot of legal complications in giving it to somebody who wasn’t the original owner, like a descendent — how do you figure out which of the siblings to give it to? And since people gave it to keep it in the pub-lic realm, we’re trying to keep things in the public realm by offering them to another museum.”

Any final decision on the fate of those thousands of misfit artifacts, she adds, will fall on the councils of the city and district.

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historical hardware - Clockwise from top, North Vancouver Museum and Archives’ collections manager Magdalena Moore shows off some beekeeping equipment, stored in the NVMA warehouse, which she estimates is likely from the 1930s. Forged wrenches, crude hammers and mallets are inspected on a warehouse table in an effort to determine their place and time of origin.The original seal of the Corporation of the City of North Vancouver sports an anchor, wheel and beehive to symbolize maritime industriousness. The crest formerly hung in front of North Vancouver city hall. Rob Newell photos


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Given the seven new museum themes and the 7,000 square feet of new exhibit space planned for the waterfront, the new NVMA loca-tion is all but guaranteed to feature prominently artifacts of the

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dedicated to maritime manufacturing, which include not only relics of Burrard Dry Dock’s wartime output, but also an early submersible proto-type from North Vancouver deep-sea explorer and inventor, Phil Nuytten.

And with the recent return of shipbuilding to the North Shore with Seaspan Marine’s successful bid for the federal naval and coast guard contracts, there may be no better theme to tie together so many different aspects of the North Shore’s past, present and future — economically, geo-graphically, personally and politically.

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uncovering the past - Some kitchen appliance artifacts hidden away in the NVMA’s waterfront warehouse. Rob Newell photo


While Hurricane Grill isn’t a sports bar, owner Ash Ranjbar explains “we’ve made a name for our-selves as a place to come and watch hockey.”

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While he doesn’t attribute that dip solely to the lockout — there are other possible contributing factors: weather or the economy, for instance, he explains — Ranjbar concludes “hockey is definitely part of that percentage.”

The numbers are likely worse at his second Hurricane Grill location opened four years ago in Yaletown, just blocks from Rogers Arena, where 42 regular season home games bring in fans for pre- and post-game meals and drinks.

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No stranger to international accolades, North Shore nov-elist, artist and chronicler of

Canadiana, Douglas Coupland is in a reflective mood when feted here at home.

“I grew up in a place that wasn’t a place and then suddenly, boom, it’s the 21st century and we’re actu-ally something that people can locate on the map,” the 50-year-old native of West Vancouver’s Glenmore neighbourhood and author of Generation X: Tales of an Accelerated Culture told a roomful of supporters at North Vancouver’s Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.

The Oct. 25 celebration saw Coupland handed the 2012 Distinguished Artist Award from the Fund for the Arts on the North Shore Society (FANS), join-ing past luminaries

like actors Jay Brazeau and Nicola Cavendish, and musi-cian Bryan Adams.

“This is right in my back-yard, so it’s different than doing it in New York or Europe,” Coupland, dressed in white jeans and a navy blazer, told The Outlook. “The modern history of North Van… it’s only been here basically a hundred years. I grew up in a house that was built on what used to be a logging road. So given how young we are, how small we are, we actually have a very disproportionate creative output and that’s not an accident.”

Gordon Smith Gallery director Bill MacDonald credited that local creative tendency to “something in the water behind Cleveland Dam” in his introduction of Coupland, but privately, the artist-author put the onus on organizations like FANS, Artists For Kids and the Gordon Smith Gallery.

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the cultural landscape left wanting as a result.

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“It’s kind of weird that there’s actually a really, really good muse-um on Lonsdale [Avenue].”


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those years the other day as the Hockey Hall of Fame prepares for the induction ceremony of Sakic, Pavel Bure, Adam Oates and Mats Sundin coming up Nov. 12.

“Joey was just a wonderful young guy,” he remembers, “He was just a tremendous skater. Hugely gifted. Yep. Just like Dave Tomlinson [who went on to play 15 years of pro hockey in the NHL and Europe and is now the colour commentator on Canuck broadcasts]. They had it right from day one. You couldn’t teach that stuff. It was just there. There were a lot of outstanding players on that team. So I was really lucky to be associated with all those kids.

“Because he [Joey] was such a great skater, I got him to shoot from either foot. Joey could let that thing go from either side. He didn’t have to plant his foot or anything. That was the greatest thing he could do in my opinion.”

Sakic – in case you’ve been asleep for 25 years or don’t have a clue about hockey – has done everything possible in the game: 20 NHL seasons, cap-tain of the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche for 17 years, two Stanley Cups, three Olympics including MVP in 2002 in Salt Lake, 625 goals, 1641 points (9th most all-time), jersey number retired…

Pat Schmidt, who played on those house and Atom rep teams with Sakic more than 30 years ago now, recalls, “He had a ton of natural skills and was able to maneuver with the puck very fluently. He was very agile with the puck. When you’re that age, you’re often chasing the puck. He wasn’t. The puck was with him and he was moving with it.

“When he first started playing in the NHL, he was Joe Sakic,” says Pat. “No,” he laughs at the rec-ollection, “he was Joey.”

Wade Bartok – like many of those who played at the NSWC back then – still plays the game on a regular basis and his hockey connections are end-less. While we chat in the office at his Elite Xpress auto body shop, he clicks on his computer and presto, up come the statistics (games, goals, assists, penalties, right down to plus/minus stats) as of Jan. 9, 1979, for the 1978-79 Atom rep team pic-tured on Page 8.

Joey, one of two “underage” players on the team is listed with 33 goals and 53 points, both ranked third behind Gary Knight (40 goals, 66 points) and Pat Bugos (36 and 60). Tomlinson – in 36 games, six fewer than the others – had 30 goals and 49 points.

“Joey was pretty quick,” Wade acknowledges when asked what he remembers about Sakic. “But it has always been his shot, his quick release. I spoke to Dave Tomlinson about Joe; he says he

remembers he was small, didn’t like to pass too much but had a great shot. Pretty much what I remember.”

Then Wade points to a thin white line on the front of his chin. You see, Wade just has to look in the mirror to remember Sakic.

It was in a Bantam rep game, Wade explains, after Sakic left the NSWC to play with the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association. “Joey was my check. He cross checked me and I got cut right here. He got a five-minute penalty. Today he would have been out of the game. Then he scored the game-

winning goal in overtime.”

Wow. Some people have Sakic’s auto-graph on a stick. Wade has a chin autographed by Sakic’s stick.

After six-plus seasons of hockey and figure skating at the NSWC, the Sakic kids had left the club in 1982. It seems their dad was unhappy that Joey was put on the Bantam rep “B” team, rather than the “A” team, after pre-season tryouts.

Mark Humphrey, then just 21, who was brought onto

the coaching staff as a defensive specialist and was involved in the decision as to which team Joey would start the season with, has endured plenty of good-natured ribbing over the years about that decision.

“It was a long time ago,” he offers, “but if I vaguely recall cor-rectly, it wasn’t really for a lack of talent, it was more for lack of effort. I hate to say that because that’s not going to put him in all that great a light.”

Of course, one of Sakic’s fortes while playing in the NHL was his work ethic. Sakic himself was once quoted as saying, “We never had it easy growing up. Dad worked for everything we had. He never let me off the hook. In hockey it was the same thing: ‘Get out there and work.’”

So Mark and the rest of the coaching staff were just trying to reinforce that.

“That,” agrees Mark, “would be my side of the story because you can only imagine the ribbing I’ve taken over the years. Friends and

family have been giving me the gears for years about that.

As the hall-of-fame ceremony draws closer, someone in the media is sure to refer to Sakic as Burnaby Joe.

Burnaby Joe? Nah, around the NSWC he was Joey. So let’s call him North Shore Joey.

This is episode 469 from Len Corben’s treasure chest of stories – the great events and the quirky – that bring to life the North Shore’s rich sports his-tory.




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GREY CUP HISTORY Len Corben tracks down the first two N. Shore players to suit up in the Canadian football final

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Before Italian photographer Frank Horvat came to the scene in the 1950s, models were posed inside brightly lit rooms, their clothing care-

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els to act more natural; sitting on cement steps, standing at the back of a trolley, walking kids to school.

He was also the first fashion photographer to use a 35mm camera to create his unique style by meshing spontaneous photojournalism with staged photogra-phy.

Now North Shore residents have the chance to examine Horvat’s work up close. His mostly black-and-white photos are on display at Presentation

House Gallery in North Vancouver until Dec. 23. “Frank is a photographer that hasn’t necessarily

had the exposure here the way he has in Europe,” says Jonah Gray from the gallery.

“He photographed high-fashion, not necessarily the clothes you’d see every day.”

Contracted by major magazines including ELLE, Glamour, VOGUE and Harper’s Bazaar, Horvat influenced a generation of fashion photographers by letting French streets play a part in showcasing cut-ting edge design.

Many of his photos spanning the last half of the 20th century are hung at Presentation House Gallery. In total, North Van is temporarily home to nine vintage prints, 57 reportage and fashion photo-graphs and 16 magazine spreads done by Horvat.

Street Style - Frank Horvat’s first fashion photo, 1951, Florence.

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In other words, it’s an exciting and innovative place to work.

The company employs around 16 people. Among them are some graduates of British Columbia Institute of Technology’s engineering tech-nology diploma programs.

“We are certainly growing,” says Jeff Heaton, operations supervisor at Nuytco Research.

“We haven’t started a big hir-ing program at the moment although with our current workload we’re heading down that road.”

And, as Heaton explains, a vast majority of the people who come through their doors are BCIT or trade school grads because the training and back-ground they’ve received is very

work-oriented. “British Columbia has a ready

source of great jobs and careers in technology,” says John Leech, executive director of the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of BC. “Our educa-

tion programs need to keep up with that demand.”

Adds Leech, “Every system we rely on – water, roads and transportation, tele-communications and Internet, hydro and natural gas, environ-ment, health, for-estry, and many more – utilizes engineering and applied science

technology professionals work-ing in the background. B.C.’s telecom and IT, animation and many other sectors produce new careers every month.”

ASTTBC has more than 10,000 members currently working in thousands of careers available to graduates of two-year diploma programs available at BCIT and other B.C. colleges and institutes.

“Our members enjoy reward-ing, well-paid and often reces-sion-proof careers in public service and the private sector alike,” Leech states.

“For huge numbers of young

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men and women, technology is the answer. In B.C. and across Canada, technology perme-ates every workplace and job. We need to get capable stu-dents involved and engaged in applied sciences and head off workforce shortages by building a B.C. ‘Science and Technology Culture’.”

Leech calls on government for renewed efforts to build student skills and confidence in math and science programming.

“We especially need to inter-est young students in science and how things work,” Leech says. “Young students use technology every day – smart phones, iPads and computers. They play video games, even build robots.”

Leech lauds the recent “Year of Science” program that encouraged students toward so-called “STEM” subjects – sci-ence, technology, engineering and math. Citing the recent $6-million B.C. campaign to encourage careers in trades, Leech urges a similar effort to build awareness of engineer-ing technology education and careers.

BC Technology Industries Association employers like Telus and BC Hydro and many smaller technology-rich com-panies say the single most important position they now

struggle to fill is specialty technician/technologist. Even the Canadian Council of Chief Executives expressed concern that only 37 per cent of 16- to 18-year-olds were interested in taking even one post-secondary course in sciences, according to a recent Angus Reid survey.

Leech says the opportunities for those seeking work in the technology field are consider-able given a wave of retire-ments of present-generation B.C. technology professionals that is already underway.

“Half of our membership is now middle-aged at 45-plus, and 22 per cent are over age 55,” he says.

“Every region of B.C. shows growing demand,” Leech con-cludes. “New two-year technol-ogy diploma programs are still needed in the north and central B.C. However, young people are investing to travel so they can earn the necessary tech qualifi-cations.”

It would appear their investment is a smart move, as it will result in a broad range of career opportuni-ties. Industries in all regions of B.C. support programs for local trainees to fill engineer-ing and applied science tech-nologist, technician and tech-nical specialist positions.


“He was a pioneer, taking photos in the street,” says Gray, who had the chance to meet Horvat when he came to see the exhibit.

Now in his 80s, he is still taking photos and was on an airplane back to France as Gray spoke with The Outlook. He now does personal projects, documenting his country retreat and working on “Trip to Carrara,” a series of col-lages taken in Italian marble quarries.

He was one of the first of his generation to

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Before leading the way for today’s fash-ion photographers, Horvat freelanced from Pakistan and India and had gigs at Life maga-zine and Picture Post in London. After moving to Paris, he worked with top designers includ-ing Coco Chanel and Givenchy.

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