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MIKEHOWELLStaff writer

Two community activists withdeep political roots are amongfour nominees expected to getthe nod from the Green Party to

run for city council in this November’s civicelection.

Pete Fry, whose mother is Vancouver-

Centre Liberal MP Hedy Fry, and CletaBrown, the daughter of the late RosemaryBrown — the first black woman in Canadato be elected to a provincial legislature —announced their intentions Monday on theback steps of city hall.

“We try not to talk about the specifics ofpartisan politics too much because it makesfor a much happier family time,” said Fry,chairperson of the Strathcona Residents

Association, when asked about his moth-er’s reaction to his decision to seek politi-cal office. “But she is rather pleased to seethat the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.I wouldn’t say that I’m a card-carrying fed-eral Liberal but I am proud of the work thatmy mom has done.”

Fry and Brown joined Tracey Moir,founder and chairperson of the Oakridge-Langara Area Residents Association, and

current Green Party Coun. Adriane Carrto round out the four nominees chosen bytheir party’s screening committee.

The Green Party will hold its nominationmeeting May 4, where the four candidatesare expected to go uncontested in theirbids. Nominees for school board and parkboard will be announced at a later date.

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What I could do with $23.5 mil-lion… That’s the amount of taxmoney the city chose to exempt

from 18 Vancouver heritage properties be-tween 2003 and 2013.

Why? In 2003, council established what itcalled the Heritage Building RehabilitationProgram to encourage the full upgrading ofheritage buildings and stimulate economicrevitalization within the Downtown East-side historic areas.

That includes Chinatown, Gastown, Victo-ry Square and the Hastings Street corridor.

The program was initially set up to runfive years but council extended it twice. Todate, council approved 21 properties underthe program and only three failed to pro-ceed with the upgrades.

Properties under the program included theBurns Block at 18 West Hastings St. (now so-called micro-lofts), the Wing Sang buildingat 51 East Pender St. (now offices to condoking Bob Rennie and his private art gallery)and the Pennsylvania Hotel at 412 Carrall St.(a renovated single-room occupancy).

The Burns Block exemption was worth$144,492, Rennie’s was $500,395 and the

Pennsylvania almost topped $1 million at$947,502. The biggest exemption — at $8.1million — went to the Woodward’s Buildingat 101 West Hastings St.

But it’s not only heritage buildings thatare eligible for tax exemptions.

According to the Vancouver Charter, oth-er properties include:

• Crown lands, or property owned and oc-cupied by the federal, provincial or regionalgovernments, or a Crown corporation.

• City of Vancouver property.

• Charities.• Education facilities.• Hospitals.• Churches.• Simon Fraser University at the Sears

Harbour Centre.• Emergency shelters for people and do-

mestic animals.• Property for pollution control.• Former Vancouver courthouse occupied

by the Vancouver Art Gallery.• B.C. Cancer Agency branch in the 600-

block of West 10th Avenue.Yep, that’s a lot of properties.In fact, in 2013, $30.3 billion of proper-

ties (12.7 per cent of the assessment roll)were exempt. City properties generated thebulk of the exemptions at $15.8 million.

While the tax exemptions save propertyowners money, a report that went beforecity council Tuesday spelled out the good/bad news for tenants: The city does not havejurisdiction over how property owners sharethese costs with their tenants.

•••Attended the Green Party’s press confer-

ence Monday on the back steps of city hall.As I wrote in a story for this print edition, the

party has chosen Pete Fry, Tracey Moir, CletaBrown and Coun. Adriane Carr as their coun-cil nominees to run in this fall’s civic election.

One nugget I didn’t have room to mention inthe print story was that Carr has a history withFry — not Pete, the chairperson of the Strathco-na Residents Association, but his mother HedyFry, the Liberal MP for Vancouver-Centre.

Carr lost to Fry in the May 2011 federalelection.

“It’s ironic,” she said, laughing as she wenton to praise Pete for his activism in Strathco-na. “We don’t talk about his mom much.”

Another irony: Much of what Carr andher pro-environment team had to say wasdifficult to hear over the snarling of chain-saws coming from a nearby work crew.

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Mayor Gregor Robertson and hisseven Vision Vancouver city coun-cil-mates call a B.C. Supreme

Court petition aimed at disqualifying themfrom office before November’s election “rep-rehensible and deserving of rebuke.”

They responded March 28 to the peti-tion by Cedar Party leader Glen Chernenand nine others who allege Vision membersfailed to declare a conflict of interest overthe Oakridge Centre redevelopment.

The reply, filed by lawyer Joseph Arvay,said Cedar’s March 7 petition asserts Visionmembers could not vote impartially becauseOakridge consultant Gary Pooni happensto be a minority owner of the Vancouver IsAwesome (VIA) website “which has pub-lished a few blogs complimentary of thepetition respondents and promoted a cou-ple of Vision Vancouver networking events— despite the fact he actually exercises noeditorial control.”

The Mayor and Vision councillors denyhaving a direct or indirect interest inOakridge owner Ivanhoe Cambridge, whichthey claim has not donated to the party.

Arvay is also defending Robertson againstChernen’s Feb. 14 petition that alleges Visiongave HootSuite a non-tendered civic buildinglease in 2012 because the social media com-

pany helped it win re-election in 2011.The March 28 reply called Cedar a party

with “an anti-development and anti-densi-fication agenda.” It said Pooni owns 25 percent of VIA, with the rest held by editor BobKronbauer. Pooni’s affidavit said he becamethe website’s business development execu-tive and Kronbauer got a year’s free rent inPooni’s office after they incorporated Awe-some Media Network in November 2012.

Pooni’s consultancy donated $6,425 to Vi-sion in 2011, but the reply denies he has everoffered or been promised a favour in exchangefor donating to any party, including the NPA.

The response claims VIA has no particu-lar party allegiance, despite promoting twoVision events. In an affidavit, the party’sexecutive director said it paid $2,352 for ahalf-page ad in VIA’s annual print magazineand that he modeled sportswear in the sameissue as a personal favour.

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Continued from page 1The party hasn’t ruled out running a

mayoral candidate but doesn’t appear in-terested in seeking a coalition with VisionVancouver, the NPA or COPE. Vision hasdominated city hall since voters gave thema majority in 2008. The NPA holds twospots on council, Carr is the lone GreenParty member and COPE got shut out ofcouncil in the 2011 election.

“Any such coalition would need to beapproved by our members,” said JacquieMiller, chairperson of the Green Party’sVancouver chapter. “Our members’ cur-rent feeling is not to seek a coalition andthis is largely because we get our supportfrom across the spectrum. Greens are col-laborative at every level — internationally,nationally, provincially and locally — andit’s best for us to be able to keep those openworking relationships with whoever getselected.”

Though the Green Party brand is famil-iar to most Vancouverites, the party’s dis-advantage going into this year’s vote will

be its inability to compete financially withthe million-dollar-plus campaigns of VisionVancouver and the NPA.

Carr, however, pointed out her budgetwas under $10,000 in the 2011 campaignand she managed to squeak out the 10thand final spot on council. Unlike Visionand the NPA, the Green Party has a policynot to accept donations from developers,which are big backers of the two main-stream parties.

“You don’t need a lot of money if yourprofile is good and you’ve got a lot of footsoldiers out there,” Carr said. “What wehope to do is make up for the money withlots of volunteers.”

The Green Party didn’t outline itsplatform Monday but the common con-cerns expressed among the nomineeswere to better address affordability andhomelessness in Vancouver and improvetransit.

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In a 2011 speech at the Q Hall ofFame ball in Toronto, Vancou-ver resident ted northe told thecrowd, “I watch with awe and

pride as I see young men and womenexpressing themselves with little or nofear. Having space where we as a com-munity can marry and even the simpleact of holding hands or kissing in pub-lic. We have gained so much in what istruly such a short amount of time.”

Close friend Paul Therien said theworld is a better place for northe’s de-cades-long fight for equality for LGBTcommunities, not only in Canada, butacross the globe. The 76-year-old ac-tivist, who preferred his name spelledwith lower case letters, died Sundaymorning due to complications fromlung cancer that returned in 2011.

“It’s staggering to think about whatthis man achieved in his lifetime,” saidTherien. “I might suggest one of thereasons is the support he had from hisfamily as a young man.”

His passing also marks the end ofan era. Northe founded the ImperialCourt System of Canada in 1964 andbecame the titular head of the charita-ble organization in 1967. He remainedEmpress of Canada until his passing.The organization eventually allowed

for provincial chapters and in 1976 theDogwood Monarchy Society formedin Vancouver. Northe also initiatedthe first Community Christmas Dinnerand first gay community disaster relieffund in Vancouver. He helped developthe first Gay Businessmen’s Guild andworked with the lesbian communityto host the first openly gay breast can-cer fundraiser. Northe sponsored and

helped create countless events andgroups in the city, including the firstgay bowling and softball leagues,first Vancouver Pride Parade and theGreater Vancouver Native Culture So-ciety for two-spirited men and women.It’s estimated northe raised more than$10 million for Canadian charitiesthrough his work.

For his efforts northe received nu-merous commendations, including theCanadian Red Cross Humanitarian andDistinguished Citizen Award, B.C. Can-cer Society Citizen’s Award for Fundrais-ing, the Governor General’s Special Ser-vice Medal for Distinguished Citizen andHumanitarian and Certificate of SpecialUSA Congressional Recognition.

As a self-described “activist in adress,” he also fought tirelessly for gayrights in Vancouver and in the early1970s was dubbed “ted northe and hislavender mob” by local media.

Therien said besides northe’s biolog-ical family, he will be deeply mournedby his “chosen family” across Canada.

“He touched so many lives,” saidTherien. “Ted had an uncanny abilityto touch people really deeply.”

A public celebration of life is beingorganized for June, the time whennorthe had planned to officially retireas Empress of Canada.

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The revised Marpole CommunityPlan finally goes before councilApril 2 — two years after city staffbegan working on it. Once adopt-

ed, the plan will guide growth and develop-ment over the next 30 years.

Residents protested the draft plan, largelyover concerns about proposed rezoning ofsingle-family areas, but the latest documentappears to satisfy many critics, includingMike Burdick, spokesman for the MarpoleResidents’ Coalition, who said the majorityof the group’s members support the plan.

“The reason we’re in favour of it is be-cause it basically fulfills our mandate whenwe started the coalition, which was to re-move the single-family homes from therezoning effort,” he said. “Almost 100 percent of the single-family homes were goingto be rezoned and now it’s only about 15per cent.

Burdick acknowledged not everyonebacks the document, “but they have a rightto speak to that at the council meeting. Asfar as the organizing group goes, the peoplewho have been to meetings for the last 10months, we’re happy with it.”

While he added it’s not a perfect plan, heapplauded the planning department’s effortto consult with the coalition over the pastnine months.

He cited some remaining areas of concernsuch as traffic and transportation and thelocation of the community centre, which isdue to be upgraded.

The current location of the centre is OakPark, but Burdick said there appears to be amovement afoot to relocate it to the southpart of Granville Street. He favours the ex-isting location.

Coalition members are also worriedabout the impact on Marpole of develop-ment at Oakridge Centre, Langara Gardens,

the Pearson-Dogwoods lands and the MC2project at Cambie and Marine Drive. “Thereis no provision to handle these people,” hemaintains.

As of Monday afternoon, 18 people hadsigned up to speak about the revised planat the council meeting, according to MattShillito, the city’s assistant director of com-munity planning.

“I think it represents a really good bal-ance between what the existing communityhas told us, and what their desires are, andour need to plan for the future of the com-munity and for the future of the city as awhole,” he said.

“It strikes a good balance between thosetwo things and there are often tensions be-tween what residents might want and whatwe might need to do in terms of planningresponsibly for the future and for new resi-dents and for growth and change in a city.”

Regarding concerns about traffic andtransportation, Shillito said the revisedplan provides a comprehensive look at dif-ferent modes of transportation and howto deal with existing traffic issues. He saidmany concerns focus on drivers divertingoff of major arterials to shortcut throughresidential neighbourhoods, and the bar-riers major arterials present to pedestriansand cyclists.

Shillito also said the plan includes a strat-egy for upgrading the community centre, aswell as the library and the neighbourhoodhouse.

“What the plan hasn’t done is conclude onthe right combination or location of thosefacilities,” he said.

If council approves the plan, Shillito saidstaff would work with the community onthe best combination of the facilities andwhere they would be located.

“Right now all of the options are open onthat. We have heard from the community.I’d say the majority of the people, at leastthat we’ve heard from, have been keen tosee the community centre stay at Oak Park,but we want to look at it more thoroughly.”

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T he two Stanley Park lions smashed by vandals on theweekend will soon be repaired says Vision Vancou-ver park board commissioner Constance Barnes.

This is the second time the lions, located onStanley Park Drive by Prospect Point, not the Lions GateBridge, have been vandalized since 2010.

This time one of the statues had its face almost complete-ly smashed off and the second suffered damage to its pawsand nose. The two large lions that mark the north-boundentrance to the Lions Gate Bridge, created by sculptorCharles Marega, were left intact.

Barnes says a mold is being made by an artist to repair thedamage at a cost of between $700 and $800. As for what itwill cost to repair the damaged karma of the vandals them-selves, it has yet to be determined.

BEELIEVE ITVision Vancouver park board chair Niki Sharma suc-

cessfully passed a motion of order Monday night that willencourage the city’s bee and butterfly populations.

Sharma asked staff to develop strategies for supportingpollinators in some parks and streets as part of the board’sBiodiversity and Urban Forest strategies.

Staff will now be directed to work with stewardshipgroups, community gardeners and others to raise aware-ness about the value of pollinators, facilitate habitat en-hancement projects and assess and monitor pollinatorpopulations.

Staff will work with the VanDusen Botanical GardenAssociation, Environmental Youth Alliance and Hives forHumanity, among others, to develop a plan for promotingpollinators across the city this spring. Staff will also be di-rected to test methods for enhancing pollinators in parks,such as creating un-mowed meadows, planting flowering

trees and shrubs, using more native plants and restoringwinter habitats.

I might point out the “meadow” look is already a trendin some park-board managed green spaces due to cuts tomaintenance so that should help speed things up. Never-theless, with bumble bee, honey bee and butterfly popula-tions declining across the globe due to pesticide use, habitatloss and industrial agriculture, it’s important municipalitiestake responsibility in supporting these pollinators.

GOING POSTALBarnes also brought a notice of motion forward at Mon-

day night’s meeting, but this time it was about mail deliv-ery, not a typical park board issue.

But Barnes is concerned Canada Post’s shift from home

delivery to the use of community mailboxes will negativelyimpact the city’s seniors and persons with disabilities andthat, she says, does in fact fall under the board’s mandate.

Barnes is also concerned with the location of these com-munity mailboxes and the litter, land-use, parking prob-lems, theft and vandalism that often accompany them.

Barnes is worried Canada Post may consider some parkand green spaces in the city as ideal locations for these su-per boxes and she wants it on the record that choice will notbe an option. Barnes wants Vision park board chair NikiSharma to write a letter to Mayor Gregor Robertson out-lining the board’s concerns and making it clear there willbe no mailboxes on parkland.

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It was clearly a moment of triumph forPremier Christy Clark and her govern-ment. The six-week strike at Port Met-ro Vancouver that only showed signs

of getting worse instead came to a peacefulend last Wednesday. Not only is the strikeover, but her government got a full share ofcredit from the parties involved for bring-ing it to a halt.

After hours of closed-door talks, Clark ar-rived at the meeting room at 5:40 p.m. Me-dia were allowed in moments later and sheand the truckers’ representatives signed apact, with everyone talking about the valueof face-to-face meetings. Moments laterthey appeared together at a news conference to say the strike is over.

The deal was reached based on a refined 14-point plan that was devisedby mediator Vince Ready earlier.

The back-to-work legislation that the government was poised to passwill not proceed, Clark said. Among the points of the deal:

• The port will rescind suspensions handed out to some drivers whowere protesting during the work stoppage.

• The federal government will increase trip payments for truckers, anda fuel surcharge change will further benefit drivers.

• A number of operational adjustments will be made to lessen the lengthy,non-productive waiting times truckers now encounter at the port.

The deal averted what could have turned into full-scale confrontationinvolving the truckers, the port and the government. Unifor president Jer-ry Dias, who represents some of the truckers, said he came from Ottawa toVictoria with the intention of holding a news conference to announce theywould be defying the back-to-work legislation when it passed.

After the deal was reached, Dias joked with Attorney General SuzanneAnton that he’d been originally hoping she’d be “putting handcuffs onme.” His defiant announcement was originally scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Itwas postponed several times, the first clue that progress was being made.

Another sign of progress came in the afternoon, when the governmentasked the Speaker to hold off on deciding about its earlier request to fast-track back-to-work legislation that was introduced on Monday. Governmenthouse leader Mike de Jong asked that the ruling, which could have allowedcontinuous debate on the law, be delayed until 4 p.m. There had been a pa-rade of officials shuttling in and out of the meeting room prior to that.

The bill would have imposed a 90-day cooling off period on all the par-ties involved and required them to continue their services or face heavyfines. It also required resumption of good-faith bargaining.

Both the government and Opposition were bracing for hours of debatethrough the night, common on back-to-work legislation, before the break-through was announced. Clark said everyone involved had one goal: gettogether and resolve the issues, before the economic impacts got moresevere. She said the truckers had legitimate concerns that had to be ad-dressed. There’s a ‘‘lot of sympathy for truckers who are struggling wait-ing in line and not getting paid for it.”

Laying the back-to-work law to rest, she said: “You shouldn’t have a fightif you can get a deal. We got a deal instead. We’re delighted about it.”

Dias jokingly thanked the NDP “for the filibuster in the house that gaveChristy time to come to her senses.” He also rapped federal TransportMinister Lisa Raitt for not playing a role, saying she declined to take hisphone calls and the federal government was looking for a fight during thedispute. With dozens of companies involved, two governments and sometruckers unionized and others not, he said it was the most complicatednegotiations he’s been involved in.

Clark’s government was initially reluctant to get involved, but cabinetministers Shirley Bond and Todd Stone were working behind the sceneson the problem.

It goes down as a big win for everyone involved, particularly consid-ering the alternatives. A continued stand-off would have dramaticallyupped the economic disruption in B.C. and across Canada. Defiance ofthe back-to-work law would have opened a troublesome sidebar issue forB.C. Liberals. Best of all, with limited play in the port’s affairs, the B.C.government had to give up next to nothing to reach the deal.

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The urban world ismoving to the‘burbs

Go to a council meeting anywherein the outer ring of Metro Van-couver these days, and you’llhear some of the same words

over and over again. Density. On-streetparking. Multi-family housing. Transit.Bike lanes.

You’re hearing these words spoken inanger and in admiration.

Metro Vancouver is currently undergo-ing one of the biggest transformationssince its post-war suburban sprawl. Thesuburban is becoming urban.

Dig through your history books and youcan find plenty of examples of this happen-ing, from London to Paris to Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro.

The form we’re most familiar with is that of the middle and uppermiddle class fleeing busy, noisy, crowded cities and getting a bit of greenspace around them.

This shift comes a generation after the one in which peasants rushedinto cities, desperate to get away from boring rural poverty, escaping allthat green space.

The thing about all those migrations is that they were (for the most part)chosen. People moved en masse to cities between 1800 and the 1940s be-cause that’s where the jobs were. Then they got richer and bought carsand moved out again.

Now we’re getting a new kind of migration. The urban world is migrat-ing to the suburbs.

Not the people — it’s the urban environment itself that’s on the move.From Richmond to Abbotsford, the Tri-Cities to Vancouver itself, every

community is grappling with increasing density. We’re simply runningshort of land, so everybody’s having to squeeze in a little closer.

It isn’t always going over well.When people choose urban over suburban or vice versa, they know

they’re making trade-offs: long commute versus traffic noise; green spaceversus night life; sitting next to the smelly guy on the bus versus payingthousands for gas every year.

Increasingly, you don’t get to choose. You want to live in the suburbs?That doesn’t mean a half-acre lot anymore, it means a townhouse or a con-do, or a mini-mansion on a lot the size of a postage stamp. You’ll still havecongestion on the roads, lots of construction noise, and skyscrapers on thehorizon, figuratively if not yet literally.

But do you get the transit, the major league sports franchises on yourdoorstep, the rich variety of street life?

Nope.Urbanism requires mental shiftThe suburbs are becoming cities. And people aren’t ready for that. They

checked one box, and they got, at best, a mixed bag of both lifestylesmushed together.

Just look at Metro Vancouver’s population projections. By 2040, thepopulation of Surrey is expected to be just 3,000 people fewer than thatof Vancouver, an increase of 336,000 people. The Langleys will double inpopulation to 249,000, putting them just under the current size of Burna-by and New West — and with those people living in a smaller urban area.Burnaby will have also almost doubled in size, and Coquitlam is in thesame boat.

We’re doing this without a plan for transit. At all. We have no fundedproposals for more SkyTrain lines or light rail.

The province is still only approving new schools when old ones arebursting at the seams. Our civic politicians are on a learning curve as steepas the Matterhorn.

Most people in the Lower Mainland do not have a clear mental pictureof the changes that are going to hit us all like a freight train, and a lot ofthem don’t like what they see coming.

Many people aren’t going to change their minds about what they like,but our politicians and planners need to reach out more to explain whathappens next.

We need honest guidebooks to the future of our cities – and they will becities. The suburbs are a dying breed.

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photos Rebecca Blissett.1. The Grandview neighbourhood tour, hosted by the Vancouver Heritage Foundation,started at Mosaic Creek Park, which features a mosaic path made in 1996 as anhomage to the dozens of streams that once existed in the city.

2. The Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Grandview walking tour was led by anenthusiastic and knowledgeable Maurice Guibord.

3. The Grandview neighbourhood west of Commercial Drive is a mix of old andnew residential as well as commercial properties.

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REBECCABLISSETTContributing writer

The park on the corner of McLeanDrive and Charles Street has a longmosaic path in a flowing shape likea stream. The aptly named Mosaic

Creek Park slopes down to nothing particu-larly exciting, evidenced by the din of trailertruck traffic a block away on Clark Drive,which 100 years ago used to be the banks ofa waterway at high tide until it was filled in.

While waiting for stragglers to show upfor Saturday’s Vancouver Heritage Founda-tion’s 10 a.m. tour of the Grandview neigh-bourhood, guide Maurice Guibord showedhe has a knack for making anything seeminteresting as most of the group were en-grossed in a mission— to count how many

cats and skeletons they could find in thepatterns of broken tile.

“This is a typical example of what thisneighbourhood is all about, and that is com-munity projects,” said Guibord of the 18-year-old mosaic, adding that the Grandview neigh-bourhood, which runs as wide as BurrardInlet to Trout Lake and as tall as Clark Driveto Nanaimo Street, had the least amount ofparks per capita up until the 1990s.

Next stop on the walk was in front of ahouse near the oldest remaining high schoolin the city, Britannia secondary. The house,a rather plain character home with grey sid-ing, was where boxer Jimmy McLarnin livedduring the 1920s. “Anybody know him?” theguide asked of his tour of 10 who in returnlooked at him blankly. “That’s so Canadianof us, we don’t know our own heroes!” ex-claimed Guibord in mock exasperation.

McLarnin, also known as Baby Face and,as a nod to his Irish roots, the Belfast Spider,was paid a dollar for his first fight and made$60,000 per fight by the end of his career. Inbetween, he was a two-time welterweightworld champion who spent some of his timeon the golf course with his buddies FredAstaire, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

“He was the Rocky of the neighbour-hood,” Guibord added. “He used to runaround in this neighbourhood and all thekids would run after him. He was a legend— he truly was at that time.”

The two-hour-long walking tour mean-dered through a few blocks of Grandview.Not a great distance was covered but agreat deal of history was. Housing stylesand modern-day development challengeswere topics with fascinating bits of historythrown in. (Did you know the interurban,which used to run up Commercial Drive in1891, was the first intercity electric railwayin North America?)

The tour was not without its neighbour-hood mysteries. Guibord told the story ofthe Christopher Columbus statue that wentmissing in 2000 from the Piazza Italia Parkat Clark and East Fifth Avenue only to turnup months later in Hastings Park when un-identified masked men reportedly stormedout of a van and quickly bolted Columbusto the base of another monument in front ofstunned Vancouver park board staff.

At 1050 Odlum Dr. stands a gold Edward-ian heritage home built by John L. McKenziein 1910, and Guibord was so taken with the

place he sprang up the steps to knock on thedoor to see if anybody was home. The groupon the sidewalk shifted nervously in theirshoes, but it turned out it was a planned visitand homeowner Rob Mitchell welcomed thegroup inside his lovely restored home. (Gui-bord pulled the same trick on a previous tourand one fellow, refusing to partake in suchrudeness, stalked down the road only real-izing he had his leg pulled when he turnedaround and saw an empty sidewalk.)

“I’m a public historian,” said Guibord,who is involved in several historical groupsincluding La Société historique francophonede la Colombie-Britannique. “And a publichistorian’s mandate is to make history in-teresting, to tell you the cool stories everyneighbourhood has and then trick you intolearning the hard stuff!”

Even if it starts with finding approximatelysix cats and one skeleton in a mosaic path.

The Vancouver Heritage Foundation hostsseveral tours of Vancouver neighbourhoods.Guide John Atkin leads a Strathcona tour thisSaturday while Guibord takes his group to Ja-pantown. For more information, or to regis-ter, go to vancouverheritagefoundation.org.

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KRISTENMORANContributing writer

Thanks to a new bike courierservice, East Vancouver resi-dents can now get anythingfrom cheeseburgers to con-

doms delivered to their doorstep.Godzilla Courier caters to people liv-

ing between Nanaimo and Main Streets,King Edward to the waterfront, andcompany owner Philippe Lambrettesays the pedal-powered delivery servicehas been steadily gaining momentumsince launching in February.

Lambrette, who works for anotherbike courier company during the day,says he modelled his business after asuccessful food delivery service in SanFrancisco. Gorilla Courier currently op-erates Sunday to Thursday from 6 p.m.to 11 p.m. and Fridays and Saturdaysfrom 6 p.m. to midnight. Lambrettesaid the first establishment that was in-terested in working with him was Mexi-can restaurant Bandidas, so he decidedto build his delivery zone around it andfocus on the Drive. “There are a lot ofrestaurants on Commercial Drive and

it’s also really residential, so it madesense,” Lambrette said.

While he has agreements with a fewrestaurants, customers can order foodfrom anywhere within the zone andhave it picked up for a $5 flat rate. Ifadditional stops are needed, an extra$2 is added for each stop.

Lambrette, who’s originally fromBelgium, got the idea for his businessafter chatting with Jamie Hooper, theowner of Super Champion SpecialtyCycle Shop, where he gets his bikeserviced. Hooper, who previously ranhis own courier company deliveringoffice supplies to businesses down-town, said Lambrette’s evening deliv-ery service is well-suited to Vancou-ver. So much so, Hooper’s become aregular customer.

“Phil’s great, I order stuff from himall the time,” Hooper said. “I have aone-year-old at home. So if you’re athome and your kid is sleeping and it’sraining, you aren’t going to be able toquickly pop out to pick up something.”

Currently, Lambrette said he gets anaverage of four to five calls per night,with numbers increasing weekly. “Wewere asked if we would be willing to gofurther than Main Street and so I decid-ed to add the second zone, which cov-ers Main to Cambie,” he explained.

Besides food, they’ve delivered icecream, macaroons and flowers, butLambrette said they can deliver any-

thing that can be transported in a 50-litre backpack such as beer, cigarettes,condoms or medication. “We have largeinsulated bags, so it keeps food warmand drinks cold,” Lambrette explained.

For alcohol and cigarette deliveries,customers must be at least 19 years ofage and provide two pieces of ID.

“We are going to start something withR&B Brewery on April 4,” Lambretteadded. “They want to work with us, sowe are going to do some delivery forthem and refueling people’s growlers.”

With the technology of Square, aportable swiping device, Lambrette isable to take credit card payments andhave a receipt sent to customers viaemail or text message.

Working another bike courier jobduring the day, it’s hard to believeLambrette has the energy to run a de-livery service in the evening. Quite theopposite he says, claiming that run-ning his own business makes him feelenergized.

“It’s my company, it’s like my baby.People with children wouldn’t wakeup in the middle of the night for theirjob, but they would do it for their baby.That’s how I feel.”

Lambrette is also starting up GodzillaRecycling, a weekly recycling pick-upservice for small businesses. For moreinformation, go to godzillacourier.com.

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One in six Vancouverresidents doesn’t havea family doctor, 24,000Vancouverites are activelysearching for one and AGP for Me hopes to rem-edy that.

A GP for MeVancouver,part of the A GP For Meinitiative of the provincialgovernment and Doc-tors of B.C. (formerly theBCMA), is gathering ideasfor solutions from physi-cians and patients.

Nearly 400 of the 800 to900 doctors inVancouverhave prescribed improvinggeneral practitioners’ ac-cess to specialists, boostingfamily doctors’ abilities to

take on more clients andbetter integrating electron-ic medical records.

Securing appointmentswith orthopedic andneurology specialists canbe particularly tricky innon-emergency cases, saidDr. Daniel Ngui, familyphysician, clinical associateprofessor and board andworking group member ofthe Vancouver Division ofFamily Practice, the not-for-profit society is leadingA GP For MeVancouverso a central place for refer-rals could be established.

“We can look at it froma central database that’sonline that we can access,for example, if there’s asub-specialist who onlydeals with thyroid prob-lems of an autoimmunenature we could find thatparticular person,” he said.

To improve family phy-sicians’ abilities to acceptmore patients, doctorshave suggested patientscould see another health-care provider on theirdoctor’s team for routineservices such as immuni-zations.

Ngui says not all doc-tors maintain electronicrecords and not all doc-tors’ electronic records“speak” to specialists, sophysicians want betterintegration of electronicmedical records to im-prove efficiency, effective-ness and communication.

Doctors hope for atime when patients couldaccess a portion of theirelectronic records “so they

can do a better job of be-ing engaged in their care,”Ngui said.

Ngui, a doctor since2000, took over a spotfrom a retiring doctor atthe oversubscribed FraserStreet Medical clinic tohelp prevent “orphanpatients” and doctorburnout three years ago.He’s worked to improvepatients’ access to a familyphysician ever since.

Doctors in his clinic useelectronic medical recordsto provide better care.

“So, for example, I canask my electronic recordssystem which of my dia-betic patients are need-ing extra visits or extrahelp because they’re notreaching their goals whichhave been shown to reducedeath,” he said.

About 40 per cent ofVancouverites with a fam-ily doctor also use walk-inclinics for convenience.

“This is the best walk-infor you because we knowyou,” Ngui says he and hiscolleagues at the FraserStreet Medical clinic telltheir patients.

So they provide a same-day fit-in service.

Patients have appreciatedthis option even though itcan mean longer waits occa-sionally, according to Ngui.

“They know it’s goingto be their turn one dayto have a same-day fit-in,”he said.

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Imagine running into anold friend whom you hadnot seen since childhood.What story would you tell?Where are you now andwhat has brought you tothis point in your life?

Whether we recognize itor not, we make sense ofour lives through our per-sonal stories. Our storieshelp us make sense of ourworld and provide mean-ing and continuity.

Stories may also limithow we see our lives, oth-ers and our selves.To beconscious of the unwrittenstories of our lives is toopen up our potential formore positive experiencesand growth in every areaof our lives.

We inherit the storiestold by our families.Theymay be of struggle againstadversity, reactions tonegative experiences,mistreatment by othersand often a simplified ap-proach to history, politicsand people who are differ-ent from them.

The stories of ourparents can form the

foundation of our per-sonal stories that are alsoinfluenced by personalexperiences, how we reactto them and — mostimportantly — how weconceptualize them.

Our stories may empow-er us, enhance our rela-tionships, promote healthyliving and foster happi-ness. Our stories may limitour experiences, get usstuck and be the ultimatesource of our unhappiness.

Although we do notcontrol every aspect ofour lives, we are at leastcoauthors of our own lifestories.We are not respon-sible for every event andcircumstance, but we areresponsible for how wemeet them and how we act.

Herein lies the differ-ence between stories thatempower and stories thatlimit.

In medicine, I have theprivilege of hearing manypersonal stories. My wis-est and happiest patientshave shared those that areinfused with three key fea-tures: appreciation, em-powerment and purpose.

The happiest people ac-cept the good and bad as-

pects of their lives but re-flect back with appreciationfor what has been right intheir lives. Engaging eachday with an attitude of pos-itivity and gratitude, theygive forward.

They are able to let goof self-limiting feelings ofresentment and embracetheir personal responsi-bility to choose their ownthoughts and actions.They

recognize the aspects oftheir lives that they cancontrol in a positive way.

The wisest storytellersare able to reflect back ontheir lives, learn and lookforward beyond their ownself-interests. They findmeaning in the past andpresent — and purpose fora positive future.

In the story of your life,where have you found

meaning? What has beenyour calling at each stageof your life? Your story isnever finished, and you re-main its author today.

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Do adrenaline levels inyour household peak as thedaily family wrestling matchunfolds? Does the idea ofyour four-year-old pinnedin a half-nelson ignite feel-ings of fear and panic?

Although freestylewrestling became anOlympic sport in 1904,it’s up against numerouschallenges today. Lack

of parental support andfunding, limited practicespace and competingresources are just a fewof the present-day issues.The popularity of wres-tling varies dependingon the region. Currentlyprevalent in Surrey, NorthVancouver and Abbots-ford, wrestling is thrivingat the elementary schoollevel because it is stronglysupported.This is not the

case inVancouver.Dick Woldring is ex-

ecutive director of B.C.Wrestling and coordinatorof More Sports, a col-laborative initiative thatprovides sustainable sportand physical activity op-portunities for childrenand families living inVancouver. He explainshow sports program-ming is governed by eachschool district: “School

sports and the club sys-tem require keen peopleand community involve-ment in order for a sportto be successful.” In otherwords, parents and facultyneed to personally investin the sport at a grassrootslevel in order to leveragechange.

According to JohnOliver secondary wrestlingcoach Chris Fuoco, wres-tling is suited to childrenof all abilities. “Anyonecan wrestle,” Fuoco said.“It’s natural. Just watchyoung children at play,wrestling is a natural activ-ity.”

Although he gets theoccasional request for awrestling program fromschools like Trudeauelementary, Fuoco saysschools generally are not

prepared to offer wrestling.In addition to a shortageof coaches, referee costshave climbed.

Travel costs for champi-onships have skyrocketedand schools are not pre-pared to fund new equip-ment. In the old days,every school had wrestlingmats — that’s not the caseanymore.

However, parents mightwant to consider howmethodical wrestling iscompared to hardcorecontact sports like hockeyand football, where in-juries are prevalent andoften longterm.

Wrestling day campsfrequently operate at JohnOliver secondary in thesummer for Grade 6 and 7students, but the retentionrate into secondary schools

is only about 50 per cent.Fuoco says wrestling is of-ten offered in PE programsin conjunction with similaractivities.

“It’s a brilliant sport togets kids involved withand there is a variety ofactivities that play wellwith wrestling like BritishBulldog on your knees, ballgames and gymnastics.”

Wrestling is easily acces-sible, especially for kids whohave never done a sport ofany kind. Fuoco believesthat a recreational club forkids in Grade 6 or 7, oreven a hybrid sport that in-corporates similar activitiesmight give wrestling morestaying power.

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1 Things get weird at the Cinematheque when it presents FROMWITHIN: THE FILMS OF DAVIDCRONENBERG April 3 to 13, 17 to 30 and May 2. The complete retrospective of film works bythe celebrated Canadian director includes the newly restored director’s cut of VIDEODROMEstarring James Woods and Deborah Harry (!), Scanners, The Fly, Dead Ringers, A History of Violence

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2 Quebec City music-theatre collective L’ORCHESTRE D’HOMMES-ORCHESTRES wowed localaudiences in 2012 with their ramshackle take on the music of Tom Waits. Now they’re dipping intothe repertoire of German composer KURT WEILL with their latest show CABARET BRISE-JOUR. “From Berlin cabaret and Parisian nostalgia to New York’s Broadway, the eight-piece

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It’s been five years since the last timebald blue men with amazing abilitieswere seen in Vancouver.

However, unlike Doctor Manhattanin the locally filmed Watchmen movie, themembers of the Blue Man Group were simplyhere to entertain rather than save the world.

Blue Man Group is an international cult fa-vourite originally from New York, where it hasbeen running for more than two decades, andhas spawned spin-offs in several North Ameri-can cities with a small army of clowns who en-joy wearing elaborate makeup and bangingon PVC tubes with mallets.

While this was their first time in B.C., manyin the packed Queen E. Theatre last Wednes-day night were clearly familiar with theirshtick and there was a whiff of a Rocky Hor-ror vibe from the get-go, with audience mem-bers knowing to read aloud the words from apre-show message prompter without needingto be told.

The boys in blue are, as described in theirPR bumf, “three enigmatic characters thatlead the audience in a multi-sensory experi-ence that combines theater, percussive mu-sic, art, science and vaudeville into a formof entertainment that is like nothing else.”

The high-tech show is also literally a mess,although not necessarily in a bad way. Themute men (Mike Brown, Benjamin Forster andRussell Rinker) drum in pools of paint, shootmysterious substances from various orificesand stuff their faces with breakfast cereal be-fore chewing their way through in a massivelyamped sonata backed by a crack band of glow-in-the-dark musicians. (I’d love to know if theband’s lightning-fast response to a request for“Freebird” was part of the act because it was al-most too awesome to be spontaneous.)

Audience participation is also a big part ofthe show, with the performers crawling overseats and plucking random victims to comeup on stage or have cameras shoved in theirfaces. (Arriving late is ill advised if you hopeto slip unnoticed into your seat.) One poor guywas placed in a jumpsuit, splashed with paint(including his shoes), suspended upside downand then swung into a large canvas to createa painting. Some might consider this torture;here it’s all part of the family-friendly fun,which culminates in a communal finale withmandatory dancing, giant bouncing balls andthe blue men shooting more toilet paper intothe crowd than you could go through in a year.

Blue Man Group is the basically the gleefulantithesis of what to expect from a posh eve-ning at the theatre, even if tickets aren’t ex-actly cheap. It may not be art but it’s a sure-fire quick fix cure for a case of the blues.

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Celebrated storyteller Ivan Coy-ote performed at a “lovely”festival in small town Ontarioa few years ago where all the

venues were churches and most of theaudience members were in their 60s.

“The producer picked me up and waslike, ‘Oh so we’re having a pork choplunch at the Presbyterian Church andthey’re all nice people, don’t worry aboutit, it’ll be fine. And we’re really glad you’rehere. We’re really hoping that you’re go-ing to bring more diversity to the audi-ence and to the stage, so just be yourself.Just don’t be too much of yourself, if youknow what I mean,’” Coyote said.

It’s the kind of comment Coyote and in-die musician Rae Spoon are all too famil-iar with so the two transgender artists fol-lowed up an earlier collaboration, You AreHere, about Coyote’s family history in theYukon with an even more personal multi-media show that explores their journeysin gender to self acceptance.

That show, Gender Failure, returns toVancouver April 9 to launch the duo’sbook of the same name, which is beingpublished by Arsenal Pulp Press. It’sone of 33 events over eight days, April5 to 12, happening around Commer-cial Drive as part of the annual VersesFestival of Words.

Coyote and Spoon, who prefer thegender-neutral, singular pronoun “they,”created a show by them, for them.

Coyote has long gotten personalwith tales of friends, family, lovers,intimate conversations with strangersand home. But Coyote’s stories in Gen-

der Failure are so intensely personalthey’d typically be shared with few.

“I’m talking about stuff about myphysical body that I wouldn’t chooseto do outside of an art realm, especial-ly with strangers,” Coyote said.

Spoon highlights their family historyand shares tales from touring in GenderFailure. “My experience of the gender bi-nary, feeling like I couldn’t really be verygood at being a girl when I was youngerand then eventually kind of retiring andgiving up because I thought it was all justkind of weird and funny and it stoppedbeing valid to me,” Spoon said.

Coyote and Spoon tell stories and per-form songs the ethereal-voiced Spoonwrotewithabackdropofvideoanimationsprovided by Seattle artist Clyde Petersen.

Gender Failure’s two sold-out nightsat the PuSh festival in January prompt-ed pangs, laughter and misty eyes, andsoon audiences can experience Coyoteand Spoon’s intimate journey in an-other format.

Gender Failure, the book, includesstories, stills, animations and lyricsfrom songs in the show alongside poi-gnant autobiographical essays.

“Even after we wrote [the show]

Gender Failure, in two 45 minutes[sets], I felt like I had more to say aboutgender in general,” Spoon said.

Coyote, who performed with singer-songwriter Veda Hille at Verses lastyear, is excited to return to the festi-val that celebrates the transformativepower of words, whether they’re writ-ten, spoken or sung.

“They’ve got a huge, great lineupthis year,” Coyote said of the fourth an-nual festival that was previously calledthe Vancouver International PoetryFestival and is hosting the CanadianIndividual Poetry Slam championship.

Gender Failure is Spoon’s secondbook and Coyote’s 10th, but becausethe stories are so “close and personal,”it feels more significant.

Coyote says one young audiencemember has seen the show up to fivetimes. The fervent response from queerand trans youth has convinced Coyotethe absolute candour has been worth it.

“When I was 20, I had no one andnothing that I could directly look toas any kind of a reflection of myself,”Coyote said. “I did not see my personalstruggles reflected, except in the novelStone Butch Blues [by transgender ac-tivist Leslie Feinberg], a little bit.”

Coyote has learned another lesson fromrisking vulnerability and seeing personalstruggles resonate with a broad audience.

“You don’t know what people’sstruggles are by looking at them. Youcan’t look at an audience full of nice la-dies at a literary gathering and assumethat you know what their struggleshave been in their life,” Coyote said.“All of us are fighting a hard battle…They just relate to it in whatever theirexperience of being ‘othered’ is.”

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It’s been 45 years since the Mountiesplayed baseball in Vancouver, but the redinsignia will return to Nat Bailey Stadiumthis summer in the shape of a cleft-jawed

Mountie wearing jodhpurs and a grin.The Vancouver Canadians revealed new

branding in January and honoured thecity’s past by introducing the playfully man-ly character, which will appear on four newteam jerseys and additional merchandise.

“Baseball goes back more than a centuryhere in Vancouver and we understand ourresponsibility to preserve the integrity ofthe game,” Canadians owner Jake Kerr saidat the time.

The Vancouver Mounties competed in theClass AAA Pacific Coast League and, start-ing in 1956, played 12 seasons at CapilanoStadium until 1969, which was renamed

Nat Bailey Stadium in 1978 when the Cana-dians were moved to town.

The C’s also unveiled a dedicated “noon-er” jersey for daytime games and changedthe apostrophe on their trademark letterinto a small maple leaf, which hints at theiraffiliation with “Canada’s team,” the Toron-to Blue Jays.

Bob Brown Bear, the club’s cherishedmascot, is not going anywhere, said Van-couver’s general manager J.C. Fraser, add-ing that the club had been considering ahistorical tribute for several years.

“We wanted to make sure that the tim-ing was right when we finally did it,” hetold the Courier on Monday. “After threestraight championships, we couldn’t pos-sibly find a better time to come out withsomething like this.”

The unnamed character was almost en-dowed with a handlebar mustache, but thelook was deemed too aggressive. While hedoes have three baseball bats and a pair ofspurs, he doesn’t have a name — yet. TheCanadians will turn to their fans for sugges-tions in May and pick a winning name be-fore the season begins June 13 on the roadagainst Salem-Kaiser.

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Canadians general manager J.C. Fraser shows off the club’s new jerseys outside NatBailey Stadium.

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The ruggers from Lord Byng areback and deservedly unpackingbragging rights from their mid-season rugby tour in Australia.

The Grey Ghosts went undefeated in six tourmatches, winning by a combined 165 – 52.

The closest contest came on their last daywhen Byng’s top-tier 15 (the school sentenough players for two tiers) beat MatthewFlinders Anglican College 19-17 in Buder-im, Queensland on March 21. But coach IanMacPhee said the toughest challenge camefrom St. Theresa Catholic College in Noosa,New South Wales on March 18.

The hosts scored first and then again tostart the second half before Byng put uppoints twice in the final 15 minutes to win

17-10 and stay undefeated at 4-0.“We were really happy with how focused

our boys were and we’re hoping that this fo-cus continues into our regular season backat home,” said MacPhee.

He and coach Michael Mallette travelledwith 30 Grade 11 and 12 student-athletesto New South Wales and Queensland fromMarch 8 to 23.

Kitsilano (2-0), Prince of Wales (2-0) andLord Byng (1-0) remain undefeated in se-nior boys high school rugby.

The next games are 3:45 p.m. Thursday.Windemere plays Point Grey at BalaclavaPark, Magee meets Byng at Jericho Park,and Prince of Wales hosts Kitsilano.

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Byng goes big Down Under

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FULLSPEEDAHEAD: Conor Trainor powered through a tackle in a 35-7 win over Portugalin the seventh stage of the rugby sevens series in Hong Kong onMarch 28. Trainor, a 24-year-old Vancouverite and St. George’s alum, competes on the high-powered international sidewith Sean Duke, 25, a graduate of Prince of Wales.Canada dropped back-to-back defeats to Australia and thenWales to bow out at thequarterfinal stage andmove to seventh on the world series standings. Rugby sevens, playedwith seven a side instead of 15, will debut as an Olympic sport at Rio 2016.

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Lord Byng Grey Ghosts in Sydney, Australia.


Three-time Grey CupchampionquarterbackAnthony Calvillo will

talk about the coaches whoinfluenced his developmentthis weekend when FootballBC hosts the Orange HelmetAwards in conjunction withits annual conference.

Calvillo, 41, announcedhis retirement in Januaryafter a celebrated career inthe CFL. He was named theleague’s most outstandingplayer three times and leadsall quarterbacks in overallpassing yards, completionsand touchdown throws.

He will tell amateur foot-ball coaches at B.C. highschools and clubs what thegame looks like from thepivot position.

“Anthony will give coach-es a very real perspective ofthe quarterback position,which is so intricate at ev-ery level,” said Football BCtechnical director Dino Ge-remia.

“Anthony will provide our

coaches with a true player’sview while identifying allthe expectations that coach-es put on quarterbacks, ei-ther purposefully or manytimes by the assumptionof the quarterback role onthe offense and team. Ourcoaches will learn some ofthe fundamentals and tech-niques, but the most valu-able will be Anthony’s abil-ity to get inside the head ofa quarterback.”

In recent years, FootballBC has put a strong empha-sis on coach certificationand training in an effort toensure skill developmentand player safety.

The Orange HelmetAwards are supported bythe B.C. Lions and begin5:30 p.m. April 4 at theWestin Bayshore. Ticketsare $200. Calvillo will de-liver the keynote addressand proceeds support ama-teur football.

The Football B.C. con-ference runs April 5 and

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Juvenile sprinter AlfredDela Cruz ran his wayinto the record books

at the fourth annual GranForza V, the first major trackmeet of the spring season,held at the Richmond Ovalon March 29.

Dela Cruz, who competesfor Vancouver College, set arecord in the juvenile 50 me-tre sprint when he stoppedthe clock at 6.46 seconds.

“I feel proud that I got it,”said Dela Cruz on Monday.“I worked pretty hard overspring break to get that.”

The 15-year-old said hetook away an important les-son from the event.

“I could have had a betterrace. I had a bad start. In-stead of starting downwardand let myself accelerate,I stood up right away,” hesaid.

Led by Dela Cruz, Vancou-ver College also set a recordin the juvenile boys 4x200mrelay and won the sameoverall category with 2,854points, two points ahead of

the team from Point Grey.The Gran Forza V, which

is sponsored by Telus andthe Province newspaper,hosted the top five athletesfrom 59 regional schools.

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Alfred Dela Cruz

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photoRogerio Barbosa / Montreal Alouettes

Anthony Calvillo in the pocket for the Montreal Alouettes.



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Non- Medicated

SplitChicken Wings

$399/lb$8.80/kg

GreenAsparagus

$198

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Non - MedicatedT-BoneSteaks

$1042/lb$22.99/kg

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Omega ProSimply Organic

Organic Frozen OrganicGrass Fed Boneless

Certified Organic Omega Nutrition

BonelessBlade Steaks

$599

LeeksWashington Grown

$299Hemp ProteinConcentrate

ONLY Dark Chocolate Fudge

$1599Apple Cider Vinegar

Organic

$569Taco & Fajita

Seasoning Mixes

$149

Sockeye SalmonFillets

$906Bone-In

Rib Steaks

$1042Lean Ground

Beef

$499Pork LoinChops

$449

/lb$6.59/kg

/ea28 - 32 g

GarofoloWhole Wheat Pasta

Assorted Cuts

$229

OrganicGreen & Yellow

Split PeasBarleyFlakes

Organic

454 g 500 g 946 ml

/lb$19.99/kg

/lb$9.90/kg

SmokedPastrami

$109XL Hothouse

Beefsteak Tomatoes

$148New Crop

Bartlet Pears

$148/100g

From The Deli Product of Mexico Product of AustraliaFairtrade MiniWatermelon

Product of Mexico

$499/Each

/lb$3.51/kg

Certified Organic

CeleryProduct of Mexico

$159

Certified Organic

/lb$4.37/kg

/lb$13.21/kg

/lb$22.99/kg

/lb$10.98/kg

/lb$3.26/kg

/lb$3.26/kg

$449 $149455 g1 kg

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