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JONNYWAKEFIELDContributing writer

Sheila Werner has the details of her life, big andsmall, written in a neat hand on a sheet of paper.Seated in the library of a supportive housing facil-ity at 16th Avenue and Dunbar Street, she glancesdown at the page every now and then while telling herstory.She was born in Chilliwack, and grew up working at her

parents toy and athletic goods store. She graduated highschool with As and Bs in 1969, met her former husbandwhen shewas 23 andwent on to have three daughters. Nineyears later, she and her husband separated, leaving herwitha house she couldnt afford in Maple Ridge. She lost her joband was unemployed while raising her kids. In 2003, shewas diagnosedwith severe depression and committed to St.Pauls hospital for 14 months.I was just immobilized, she said of her illness. Werner

has been on social assistance and in and out of supportivehousing. In December 2011, she became one of 51 tenantsat the Dunbar complex. Its the only housing of its kind inthe neighbourhood, known for its tree-lined streets andcostly single-family homes.Theyre all still new to Dunbar. The complex, which came

into the neighbourhood over howls of protest from someresidents, will celebrate its second birthday in December.Managed by Coast Mental Health, it was developed as partof an agreement between the city and B.C. Housing to cre-ate eight new social housing complexes. The idea for sucha complex was rst oated in 2006. Over the course of sev-eral years, many residents attacked the plan, worried thata facility in the neighborhood would lower property valuesand lead to criminality.

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STAYING STONG: As part of our ongoing Vancouver Special neighbourhood series, the Courier visits Dunbar-Southlands and the people and places that inhabit it, including Cori Bonina, president of Stongs. Boninasgrandfather, Ralph Stong, founded the original location of the venerable grocery store in 1955.For added web content on Dunbar-Southlands, including a video, scan this page using the Layar app.

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Dunbarmerchants comearound toBIACHERYL ROSSIStaff writer

When merchants votedin 2008 on whether toestablish the DunbarVillage Business Asso-ciation, the count was close. But dur-ing the business improvement asso-

ciations review ve years later, onlyone respondent ofcially opposed itsrenewal, says the BIAs executive di-rector, Janet Morris-Reade.Out of the 125 property owners

and almost 300 businesses, there wasone, she said.Residents, business owners and

community leaders say the BIA has

improved connections betweenbusinesses, community groups andneighbours.It has had a huge impact on the

sense of community in the neighbour-hood, said John Stephens, the rectorof St. Philips Church on West 27thAvenue at Dunbar Street.

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N E W SBLACKMARK BYJENNIFERTHUNCHERFifty years after Martin Luther Kings iconic civil rights speech,black activists in Vancouver say they still encounter racism.

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The local Dunbar people said we dontwant that in Dunbar. All that happenedtwo or three years before any planning hap-pened for the Dunbar site, said Coast exec-utive director Darrell Burnham. That wasprobably the worst of it.Nearly two years since the ground-

breaking, residents like Werner are stillexplaining what her home is, and whatits not.Its not a hospital, she said. Its not a

mental health facility. Residents receivea daily meal and are looked after by a 24-

hour staff, but beyond that are expectedto be reasonably self-sufcient. Thirtyresidents receive treatment from Van-couver Coastal Health for mental illness.Four are wheelchair bound with spinalinjuries. Five are hard to house membersof the Jewish community. Another 12 areone-time homeless people from the WestSide, tracked down with the help of localAnglican ministries. Some residents deal-ing with severe forms of mental illness oraddictions have been transferred to moresupportive housing.One of the aims of putting the facility

in the city-owned building was to provide

mental health resources around the city.Theywanted to spread [supportive hous-

ing] out, and they also thought there was aneed for these resources on the West Side,said Burnham. People are responding wellin the facility, and its showing that these fa-cilities can be and should be in every neigh-bourhood in the city.For Werner, its a place where she knows

everyones name, in a community that haslargely come around on the idea of them asneighbours. Its the warmest communityIve lived in, she said.

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The BIA has added benches, bike racks,street banners and plantings. It has improvedcommunication among business owners, withcommunity organizations and residents andshared information with the citys 21 otherBIAs. The association publishes a magazinecalledDunbar Life tomarket area businesses toneighbours, brings thepublicout toevents andhas attracted many volunteers and volunteerhours, according toMorris-Reade.Nobodywants to pay extra taxes and thats

essentially what forming a BIA means, shesaid. So in the rst ve years we had to provewhyaBIA is a good idea.The association has approved a budget of

$155,000 for 2013-14 with the largest expen-ditureonmarketing followedbybeautication,administration and member communication.Morris-Readesaid themoney is raised througha tax levy collected by the city and paid in twoinstallments to theBIA.Property owners in an area covered by aBIA

pay a special property tax thats based on thevalue of the property they occupy. Most prop-erty owners pass this cost on to the businesstenants. Brent Hawkins, who runs DunbarVacuums Ltd., opposed the formation of a BIAand stillwishes it didnt exist.He said seasonal events that include the up-

comingHarvestFestival,Halloweenandwinterfestivities,havebroughtpeople together,buthestill believes theBIA is awaste ofmoney.Theyre drawing people from every other

area including Dunbar [close to Halloween],Hawkins said. Theres somany kids that dontlive around here but theyre coming in for thefree candy.He believes businesses should concentrate

on caring for their storefronts.The Dunbar Village Improvement Associa-

tion covers three distinct sections of Dunbar:from 16th to 19th, King Edward to 30th, andbetween 38th and 41st and east along 41st toCollingwood Street. Hawkins believes the as-sociation should only cover the central sectionand not the more service-oriented northernend,wherehe is.The middle gets it all, he said.Hawkins said he didnt participate in the

recent vote on renewing the BIA and no lon-ger gets involved in its affairs.Jessica Hotz, owner of Kokopelli Cafe,

championed a Dunbar BIA and says the as-sociation has achieved what she hoped bringing residents and businesses togetherand beautifying the area.

Theres now a central place where peoplecangoandndoutwhats goingon, she said.Sometimes how can they get involved.Irene Regan, a longtime resident of Dun-

barwho volunteers at TheHOB secondhandclothing store, which as a non-prot isnt amember of the BIA, believes the Dunbar Vil-

lage Business Association has helped bringpeople together in a community where resi-dents are working to establish a strongeridentity now that rezoning and redevelop-ment in the area are imminent.

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Dunbar Village BIA director, Jessica Hotz leans against one of the benches and in front of a garden plot that were both initiatives of theorganization.

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Opposition to a supportive housing facility at3595 West 17th has died down since 2011.


newsEducationminister talks shop

Education minister Peter Fassbend-er dodged questions Wednesdayabout whether the ministry wouldprohibit teachers from respectingpicket lines if support workers strike.Bargaining between the province and

CUPE 15, which represents education work-ers, including educational assistants, clericalstaff, trades and custodians, resume Sept. 4.Im very optimistic as the negotiators get

back at the table on the fourth, fth and sixthof September that theyre going todo their job I believe we can nd a solution, that is myhope, and they are going to work together toget there, Fassbender said during a back-to-school media teleconference Wednesday af-ternoon. Im not going to presume anythingat this stage. I want to see a school year with-out any disruption, thats our goal, and Iveheard CUPE say thats their goal aswell.Fassbender also said he believes pieces

are in place to achieve a 10-year contractwith teachers.The Vancouver School Board submitted

a restoration budget to the province earlierthis year that contends the district would

need more than $40 million to restore thesame level of service that it offered studentsa decade ago.Fassbender said the province is investing

more money in education while operatingin scally challenging times.The reason that weve worked so hard on a

strong economic plan for the future is that wecan ensure our economy stays strong, that wecontinue to promote industrial development,things like LNG [liqueed natural gas], so thatwecanstart toseebalancedbudgetsandfuturerevenue pay off our debt, Fassbender said.And then we can start to invest more dollarsin some of the key areas, of which healthcare,education, social services are a key.The school board has had to cover salary

increases negotiated in collective bargain-ing. Fassbender said the government con-tinues to operate with its Cooperative Gainsmandate for public sector employees,mean-ing the province wont provide additionalmoney for such increases.Fassbender said school boardswill develop

savings plans to provide for pay increases.Patti Bacchus, chair of theVancouverSchool

Board, told theCourier in anemail that thedis-trict doesnot have sucha savings plan.This will be extremely difcult, especial-

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newsActivist laments citys racial inequalityJENNIFER THUNCHERContributing writer

This week marks the 50th an-niversary of American civilrights leader Martin LutherKing Jr.s iconic I have adream speech from the steps of theLincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.RetiredVancouversocialworkerGeorge

Jollywasayoungcivil rights activist livinginDetroit in1963and freshoutof theU.S.Navy when he was moved by the call forhopeandnon-violence inKings speech.It is still a very forceful and strong

speech for all people today, said Jolly,who imagines if King were alive hewould be very disappointed by thecontinuing nightmare of racial in-equality even in Vancouver.Jolly moved here in the late 1960s be-

cause he was disheartened by racial at-tacks in theU.S., including theSeptember1963killingof fourAfrican-Americangirlsin the bombing of a church in Alabama.Hisoneconcession:OnethingI likeabouttheStates is youknowhowyoustand.Today, in Vancouver, Jolly said,

racism remains but it is subtler.It is like the wind, you can see it rus-tling the leaves and you can feel it, but

when you reach out and try to grab ittheres nothing to grab on to.When he goes to a restaurant or shop-

pinghesaidhe is sometimes treateddisre-spectfully compared to other customers.Hesaidhealsohasbeenstoppedandques-tionedbypolice fornoapparent reason.(Const. Brian Montague, spokes-

person for the Vancouver Police De-partment, emailed the Courier saying:If an individual is getting stopped bypolice in their car, it would be becausethey have violated a trafc law.)According to Jolly, part of the prob-

lem is this city has lost its blackness.Hesites changes to localplacenames suchasthe George Massey Tunnel originallynamed the Deas Island Tunnel after asuccessful black business owner. In the1970s the near complete destruction ofthe black community of Hogans Alleyto make way for the Georgia Viaduct,deprived the city of its African-Canadianhistory and culture. Vancouverites, saidJolly, dont know the history of the blackcommunity and sodont value its people.Roger B. Jones who is president and

CEO of World Accessibility and one ofthe founders of the Afro News, agreesracism is alive in Vancouver.People prefer to condemn the racism

in the United States and other places,while pretending that everything hereis rosy, said Jones, who added he hasexperienced racism in a profoundway.My family have been in this country

since the 1700s, and yet not a day goesbywhen someonedoesnt askme whereare you from? It is incomprehensibletomany thatwehave a rich, longhistoryof African people in this country, Jonestold theCourierby email.As evidence of racist attitudes, Jones

points to the Dutch Sinterklaas BlackPete celebration, which traditionallyincludes white actors in black makeupacting as happy slaves to Santa, thatcontinues to rear its ugly head everywinter. Jones was part of a group thathad the event shut down in NewWest-minster a few years ago, but the orga-nizers continued it at other venues.

For the most part, Canadians aremore apathetic when it involves put-ting a public face on the realities ofracism, said Jones, who added thatwhile local media honoured the Kingspeech this week, there isnt a similarCanadian call to action to celebrate.For Jolly, now in his 70s, all is not

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Since 1949, St. Philips AnglicanChurch in Dunbar has kept a de-cades-old secret in its basement:two ve-pin bowling lanes.Its a wonderful symbol of that connec-

tion between the church or faith commu-nity and the neighbourhood, said JohnStephens, the rector of St. Philips and arch-deacon of Vancouvers Anglican churches.The lanes at West 27th Avenue and Dun-

bar Street opened in 1949 after extensiverenovations to the property purchased bythe church in 1927.Two glowing round red and white signs

identify lane one and lane two. A sign sus-pended from the ceiling reads Please KeepBack of the Foul Line and the list of rulesnotes: Remember these alleys cost a lotof money, and we want them to last a longtime, so that you and I, and the people whofollow after us can continue to enjoy thehealthy exercise associated with bowling.The pins need to be reset by hand and can

only be reached by walking down the gut-

ters. The only place to rest is on a platformabove the pins.William Shand, whos been involved with

the church since 1943, says his father wasone of the threemenwho built the lanes. Hismost vividmemory is getting hit by a pin.Iwas quite big around, Shand said. So it

took a lot of energy to get my ass up there.Betty Done, who was baptized at the

church in the early 1940s, also bowled inthe church basement.Neither she nor Shand bowled anywhere

else.This church was like a community cen-

tre, Shand said. Because Dunbar Commu-nity Centre wasnt really established, not tothe way it is today.St. Philips also includes a gym, as do oth-

er area churches.Stephens says church leagues kept the

lanes rolling every day except Sundays untilthemid 1970s. According to Shand, leaguesplayed at 7 p.m. and 9 and the churchmademoney from lane rentals. He earned 50cents a night setting up pins.Caitlin Reilley Beck, the churchs youth

and family worker, said St. Philips host-ed a bowling tournament last year withyouth groups from its parish and four otherchurches to raise money for KidSafe, whichprovides spring, summer and winter breakprograms for 400 children from six innercity elementary schools.But Stephens said the lanes are used only

twice a month.Raising theirprolewasdiscussedwhenres-

idents protested the loss of Varsity Ridge bowl-ing alley, but the conversationdidnt go far.Stephens isnt sure how keen bowlers

would be to use the two lanes where bowl-ers have to continuously reset pins.But Reilley Beck noted kids love the lanes

for that reason.They dont clean their rooms but setting

pins here is, like, the coolest thing. she said.Id love tohear if therearesomepeoplewho

would like to see them brought back to life en-tirely andmaybe thats something that we canpartnerwith in someway, Stephens said.


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L-R: Matthew Stephens, Caitlin Reilley Beck and John Stephens have a ball at thebowling lanes in the basement of St. Philips Anglican church.

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Salmonspotting inDunbarSANDRA THOMASStaff writer

Dunbarhistorianandconservation-ist Terry Slack says there are twogreat viewing areas from whichto catch glimpses of the ongoingpink salmon run in the Fraser River.Deering Island Park and the south foot

of Balaclava Street Riverfront Trail aregreat places this weekend and the nexttwo weeks to watch the jumping pinksalmon action that usually happens closeto sundown on a incoming tide, said Slack.Bring your binoculars and a chair, alongwith the kids, and watch all the splashingand jumping salmon on the river.In an email to the Courier, Slack noted ob-

servers must bring their own chairs becausethe benches that line the river are full mostnights with pink salmon watchers. Healso advised to keep an eye out for a large,black-headed harbour seal nicknamed Ogo,as it puts on a show for everyone watch-ing in its attempts to catch salmon in mid-channel. Slack noted the Celtic Sloughbeavers can also be seen occasionally inthe area just at sundown if youre lucky.According to Slack, the 2012 odd-year pink salmon run is made up of two-year-old adults returning from the PacicOcean via the Northern Johnstone Strait orthe southern Juan de Fuca Strait. They areon their way to spawn in the lower and up-per Fraser River in September and October.Eagles and white sturgeon are also his-

toric harvesters and dependent on FraserRiver pink salmon as an every odd-year foodsource, said Slack.While pink salmon have long been on the

menu for other members of the animal foodchain, Vancouver chef Robert Clark is con-tinuing his quest to ensure the sh becomesjust as popular with humans.A year ago Clark left his position as ex-

ecutive chef of C Restaurant, Raincity Grilland Nu Souvlaki to open a seafood store,the Fish Counter, onMain Street where hellsell pink salmon when the shop opens inOctober. Clark is famous in Canada for hisdecade-long efforts to promote the use ofsustainable sh such as pink salmon. Clarkhas also been involved with the VancouverAquariums Ocean Wise program since itlaunched in 2005, to encourage restaurantsand chefs to include more sustainable sea-food on their menus while eliminating lessenvironmentally friendly offerings.I spentmy rst 10 years at C [restaurant]

working and pushing for sustainability, butnow there are so many great chefs in Van-couver who have their own ideas on how tomove it forward, said Clark. I didnt thinkI could do anymore in the hospitality indus-try so decided Id have more impact on theretail side.With a historically low sockeye salmon

run this year, Clark said its more importantthan ever to turn to pink salmon.Four years ago everyone knew it was go-

ing to be a disaster so thats no surprise, saidClark. So this is the year people should starteating pink. Its a high-quality product.Clark said the Pink Salmon Festival held

every two years by the non-prot PacicSalmon Foundation is helping promote theunderdog of a sh. Clark added pink salm-on have a mild avour, the same amount ofomega-3 fatty acids as sockeye and are lessexpensive to buy.Some people say its too mild, said

Clark. But thats not its weakness, thatsits strength. Its not as rich as sockeye, butit tastes good.Besides helping the environment,

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When then-premier Mike Har-courts government was en-gulfed in scandal and con-troversy in the mid-1990s,speculation began to build on whether hecould hang on as leader.There was mounting tension within the

NDP caucus over his leadership, but noone was speaking out publicly about thatelephant in the room. At the time, an NDPcabinet minister told me: Theres bloodin the water, but so far no sharks.Well, there is blood in the water once

again when it comes to an NDP leadershold on the job and there are indeed sharks in the party who smell thatblood. Ironically, Harcourt is now one of those sharks.Harcourt has become the latest in a growing crowd of NDP notables

calling on embattled NDP leader Adrian Dix to step down.He told the Globe and Mails Gary Mason it was time for him to go, and

his public criticism puts even more pressure on Dix to throw in the towel.Former NDP cabinet ministers Ian Waddell and Bob Williams (both

once close to Dix), ex-party president Sav Dhaliwal and former MLAs Da-vid Schreck and Guy Gentner preceded Harcourt in calling on Dix to quit.Interestingly and perhaps more telling is that no NDP notable, past or

present, has publicly called onDix to stay on as leader. His own caucus hasoffered only tepid support for him, with members saying they are con-dent Dix will reect on his situation and come to a decision.Even one of his closest associates, MLA John Horgan, would not say

out loud that Dix should stay as leader in a lengthy scrum with reportersat the end of the recent legislature session. While Horgan didnt exactlythrow Dix under the bus, he parked it close by.And now Harcourt has moved that bus even nearer.Unless key people in the party start issuing public calls for Dix to con-

tinue, it wont be long before he pulls the plug himself.Dixs leadership is bleeding, and sharks like Harcourt and others are

starting to ll up the NDP pool.

A POLITICALLY TONE-DEAF BOARDThe board of directors at B.C. Ferries has once again displayed a key awin the model the B.C. Liberals came up with to govern the company soonafter the 2001 election.The board has approved large salary hikes and bonuses for senior exec-

utives, even though the provincial government is about to reduce servicelevels onmany of its routes while at the same time increasing the taxpayersubsidy to the company. The strange private/public hybrid that is B.C.Ferries is trying to have it both ways: insisting on operating as a privateentity, yet sticking its hand into the public trough, looking for more cash.The board has long argued it models the company on private sector

companies, and not Crown corporations. Yet no other private companygets a subsidy of close to $200 million a year from the provincial govern-ment. Without that subsidy, the company would have to make massiveservice cuts or it would, on paper, suffer a huge monetary loss.So the boards directors (who also created controversy a few years ago

for paying themselves much higher fees than any other Crown board)have made a politically tone-deaf decision, which many frustrated ferryusers will undoubtedly unfavourably contrast with constantly rising faresand looming service cuts.The companys private/public model hasmade TransportationMinister

Todd Stone look weak, as hes expressed dissatisfaction with the bonuses,yet appears powerless to do anything about it (which is a bizarre situationfor a cabinet minister to be in when you consider how much money hisgovernment gives to that company each year).If the B.C. Ferries board keeps making decisions that blowback politi-

cally on the provincial government, dont be surprised if that governmentchanges the model for the company yet again.The current model was created on Gordon Campbells watch. Premier

Christy Clark has shown a willingness to revisit other Campbell legacies(raising both the minimum wage and corporate taxes, for example) andshe may take another look at this one as well.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC

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MORECOHOUSINGCOMPLEXCONCERNTo the editor:Re: Cohousing coming toKens-

ington-CedarCottage, Aug. 16.Rod Raglin is right about the

cohousing development plannedfor 33rd and Commercial beinga concern for the neighbour-hood. I was at the second nightof council when they approvedthe developers application torezone three single-family lotsto allow a 31-unit strata build-ing. It was clear that the City ofVancouver staff present werekeen to get the project rammedthrough despite the fact thatits design was terrible forneighbours, especially those inadjacent lots.An 11-year old boy begged

council not to destroy his yard,which would be overshadowedby the newmonolith with the190-foot long wall.Why is it 31 units? It seemed

from the Courier article that itwasnt sold out, so they clearlydidnt need to build it so large.Whats wrong with 20 units anda smaller building?The answer is money, of

course. I get why developers(cohousers, in this case) buythese single-family lots theyre cheaper than lots zonedappropriately for their multi-unitplans.What I dont get is why the city

rezones on request, despite se-rious opposition from the peoplewho make this neighbourhoodtheir homeCohousing, whatever. In this

neighbourhood we alreadyshare food, child care, socialevents, school activities, movies,music we dont need to live ina specially-designed building tosupport each other.

I hope the new behemothprovides everything the cohous-ers dream of in their social lives,because they sure upset enoughpeople to get it.Pat Dobie,Vancouver

RELIGIOUSSERVICEWONTBEONMENUTo the editor:Re: Church taking over Rhi-

zome Caf, Aug. 16.We appreciate the time you

took to share the story of TrinityUnited continuing to hold thespace at the 317 East BroadwayCafe for the neighbourhood andits community of users. We aregrateful for the news getting outto the community.May wemake one correc-

tion, though. The article saysthat Trinity United is assuringRhizomes clientele it has nointention of turning the spaceinto a church, but the cafe willhost a 30-minute evening servicein its front room Tuesday throughFriday.This caused some alarm in

the cafe community, becausethe second part of the sentenceseemed to contradict the rstpart.The word service in that

sentencemakes it sound verymuch like the cafe will becomereligious in its orientation, whichis really not the case.Our intention is to offer a

half-hour eveningmeditationsession for commuters and otherinterested people, led by differ-ent spiritual leaders in the frontroom. But the fact is that theTrinity United congregation willnot meet in the cafe while it isopen for business.Thismay seem like splitting

hairs, but many in our com-

munity have been harmed andoffended by religious people andreligious services.We want to assure everyone

that we really are not going toChristianize or churchify thespace and will never impose anyspiritual expectation on anyonewho comes. We will be thrilledto welcome people who areatheists, agnostics, spiritual butnot religious, or from any of avariety of other faiths or spiritualexpressions.Many thanks again for your

interest in what is happening at317 East Broadway.Bethan Theunissen, Minister,Vancouver

MLADISAPPOINTEDBYSPENDINGDECISIONTo the editor:Re: Elections Reform wont

tackle spending limits for 2014campaign, Aug. 27.Its not surprising, but all the

same its very disappointing thatthe B.C. Liberal governmenthas rejected Vancouver councilsunanimous call for electioncampaign spending limits, anda ban on corporate and uniondonations.I say not surprising, as the

B.C. Liberals have also refuseda provincial ban on big corporateand union donations as well.Election campaigns should be

paid for by citizens, not specialinterests. Its about fairness,and making sure that all deci-sions made by government arenot only free of conicts of inter-est, but are also seen to be.The public interest deserves

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Mutualdistrust isthenewnormalWe should seriously consider lin-ing our wallets with tinfoil, I saidto my partner the other day, whilediscussing how the growing use ofRFID cards is making it easier for crooksand corporations to remotely hack per-sonal information from wallets. I im-mediately burst out laughing at my owncomment. Here I was proposing that weshield our personal information with thesubstance most often linked in popularculture to paranoid fears (A Google searchof tinfoil and conspiracy theories nets201,000 hits).Forget tinfoil hats; you may need tinfoil pants soon. A company called Re-

new is under re for hacking data from over four million accounts of pedes-trians in the streets of London via smart bins that look like a cross betweenrecycling receptacles and the Daleks from Dr.Who. These devices have beensecretly harvesting personal data and are now under investigation, in pos-sible violation of EuropeanUnion law, according to a recent story inMetro.The smart bins suck unique electronic signatures from passing smart-

phones, tracking the location, time and even the direction the owner isheading. At least the City of London had the good sense to order the com-pany to stop the snooping although Britain is just a dry run. The Renewbins are set for further trials in North America and Asia. The news itemdidnt identify Renews clients as public or private. In any case, informa-tion siphoning/stiing trends in England and the U.S. are truly living upto that dog-eared adjective Orwellian. Last week, two security expertsfrom Government Communication Headquarters oversaw the destruc-tion of hard drives in the Guardians basement, in an effort to quash thepapers newsgathering on the Snowden leaks case. Guardian editor AlanRusbridger wrote a scathing piece online in response, insisting the paperwill continue to report on the story outside of London.If the people do not trust the government, it does not trust them. If the

government does not trust the people, they do not trust it. This merry-go-round is almost a perpetual motion machine, wrote American philoso-pher Robert Anton Wilson in his 1996 book, Everything is Under Control:Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups.Hence, the people grow more hostile and paranoid about the govern-

ment, and the government, noting this, growsmore nervous about militiasor cults or hippies or extremists or some other anti-governmental minor-ity that might live anywhere and might secretly plot anything. It thereforehires more eavesdroppers, installs more wiretaps, and spies on the peoplewith greater vigor. This Strange Loop quickly becomes a Vicious Circle,since governmental paranoia about people and peoples paranoia aboutgovernment each reinforce the other, wroteWilson. He lived long enoughto see the post-9/11 bonanza for the private sector, with the outsourcingof classied intel work to hundreds of security/surveillance rms in theU.S. alone. Across the Anglo-Americanworld, the line betweenmarketing,data-mining, and intelligence gathering has blurred like a watercolourpainting left in the rain. There is transparency, but only in one direction from the business/government elite down to irradiated citizen/con-sumers, tracked like taggedwildlife to protect their freedomswhile theirparticulars are sold to the highest bidder.The ultimate irony is that one of the signature fears among paranoid

schizophrenics is that they are being monitored or controlled by invisiblewaves of electromagnetic radiation. Its not like the clinically insane had thejump on the rest of us in anticipating postmillennial surveillance trends. Itsmore like our technocrats havemademadness the new normal.So how will this mutual paranoia between the governors and the gov-

erned play out? Wilson insisted it would continue until the system col-lapses, until the funding runs out, or until, due to Divine Intervention,sanity reappears. In the interlude both the government and the gov-erned.becomes more frightened of the other.Recipe for a culture of institutionalized suspicion: take a heap of shad-

owy, globe-girdling corporations and throw alphabet agencies like theNSA and GCHQ into the mix. My partner didnt laugh at my tinfoil com-ment as I did. Instead, she calmly responded that a local drugstore sellsmetallic holders for passports. Theres already a big market out there forRFID-blocking wallets, she added.

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DUNBAR-SOUTHLANDSBefore Texas-transplant Robin Reichmanjoined the cast of the Real Housewives ofVancouver last year, her life was a lot moreabout horses than catghts and cocktails.So its tting that Reichmans love of ev-

erything equine has never faltered and shecontinues to ride not just for pleasure butalso in support of local causes.Reichman will be on hand during the

Southlands Riding Clubs 12th AnnualCountry Fair, Sept. 15 at 7025 MacdonaldSt. in Dunbar-Southlands.This years fair also features the Lollipop

Girls band, a giant inatable slide, pony andhay rides and a horse-jumping competition.No true country fair would be completewithout duck herding, which I hear is justslightly easier than cat herding. A used-toysale, market, kids games and a scavengerhunt round out the day, which runs from10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Parking is free and entryis by donation. For more information, visitSouthlandsRidingClub.com.

MOUNT PLEASANTTheSmokingSausageBBQcook-off isoneofthehighlights of the Fourth Annual Shift Festival,hosted by theMount Pleasant BIA, which takesplace Sept. 15 from noon to 6 p.m. on MainStreet fromBroadway toSeventhAvenue.The free, family-friendly event celebrates

the shift in seasons, as well as attitudestowards sustainability, urban gardening,healthy living and community in Vancouver.The festival features three stages with live

music and entertainment, including Beau-mont Studios and the BLIM Fashion Show.The Livable Laneways Society is taking overthe alley west of Main Street at Broadwaywith the BLIM market. For more informa-tion, visit mainstreetbia.com.

DOWNTOWN EASTSIDEAn aboriginal showcase featuring the KwhliiGibaykw Dance Group Nisgaa takes placeSept. 14 in the atrium at the Woodwardsbuilding from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.The English translation of Kwhlii Gibaykw is

ying around,whichttingly describes theseperformances because every Nisgaa dancer isin constant motion. Kwhlii Gibaygum Nisgaause that high energy while incorporating thestories, songsanddancesof theirancestors intocontemporary performances. The majority ofthe dance members can trace their ancestryto the Nisgaa, from Ksi-Lisims, the Nass River.Dance groups representing other First NationsfromacrossB.C. arealsoperformingandanartmarket will have offer drums, carvings, cedarbark weavings, paintings and jewelry for sale.DowntownEastsideIn the House Productions is presenting the

Lookout Societys fth annual gala fundrais-er, HArts for theHomeless, an event inspiredby those helped and supported by the organi-zation. The event will use circus acts, music,stories, dance and art to highlight the deepsense of relief and hope that a stable, safehome provides. HArts celebrates the joys,successes, untold strengths and stories of theresidents, as well as the front-line workerswho live andwork at Lookout shelter.Proceeds from the event will help pay for

the essential services and support necessaryto combat homelessness in Greater Vancou-ver. Tickets are on sale now for the gala,which takes place Oct. 3 from 6 to 9:30 p.m.at the Imperial, 319Main St. For more infor-mation visit inthehousefestival.com.

STANLEY PARKRegistration is ongoing for SuperWalk, thenational annual fundraiser for Parkinsonsresearch and support services provided bythe Parkinson Society British Columbia.In Vancouver the walk takes place in

Stanley Park Sept. 8 at 10 a.m. at CeperleyMeadow. In B.C., the goal is to beat 2012sfundraising record of $595,000 and na-tionwide, the aim is to raise $3.3 million.Visit parkinson.bc.ca for more information.

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It kind of tastes likechicken, was onecomment overheardabout the crocodilesliders served up during amedia tasting tour Wednes-day morning.It was some of the more

unusual food items sold atthe Pacic National Exhibi-tion this year but it was notthe only exotic offering atthe Gourmet Burgers stand,new to the PNE.Langley-based Brian Jones

and his family are serving upburgers offering unusual top-pings suchas caramelizedap-ples and maple syrup bacon.A big hit during the tastingwas the Crazy Monkey burg-er, topped with banana andpeanut butter. The verdictwas still out on the kangaroo,wild boar and camel sliders.We didnt put any sauces

on them so you could re-ally taste the meat, Jonestold the group of print andbroadcast reporters, blog-gers and camera operatorsgathered for the event.As media ate at Gourmet

Burgers,WilliamHunkyBillKonyk strolled by on the wayto his adjacent perogie stand.Some of the younger jour-nalists members had no ideawho this elderly man wasbut the Perogie King, as hesknown, was given rock startreatment from others oldenough to know they were inthe presence of midway andinfomercial greatness.The tour started out with

what sounded like simplefare grilled cheese sand-wiches at the CheesePlease stand located conve-niently near the Kids Playcearea. But the offerings at thisnew standwere anything butsimple with a grilled cheesesandwich stuffed withcrunchy, deep-fried jalapenopeppers and a second lledwith pulled beef and onion.The Think Sweet Deep

Fried Pies stand for offered,youguessed it,deepfriedpies,including apple and caramel,peach, lemon, blueberry andraspberry, many topped withsoft-serve ice cream. For theless faint of heart, deep friedbutterwas also on themenu.It was all-deep-fried-all-

the-time at Pickle Petes,where Joe and Brenda Pre-mont serve up a new fairfavourite, deep-fried pick-

les. The pickles were namedbest new product at thissummersCalgaryStampedeand are proving to be a hitin B.C. Also new for PicklePetes this year is the deep-fried Philly cheesesteak,as well as bacon threadedon skewers before beingpopped into the deep fryerand served with chocolatedipping sauce. Classics stillon the menu include deep-fried cheesecake, Oreos,

Wagon Wheels, Twinkies,jalapeno poppers and greenbeans, which apparentlyhave been a hit with Van-couverites this year.Speaking of bacon, the

next stop on the tour wasat the Elephant Ear standwhere the classic sugar andcinnamon version has beentaken up a notch. New itemsthis year include the baconand banana Elephant Ear,deep-fried before being

drizzled with chocolate.The offerings at Wings,

a Lower Mainland chain ofrestaurants and pubs, helpedthe tour members regroup.But that was probably due totheB.C.-raised chickenwingscovered in a maple, bacondry rub, among others.The nal stop on the tour

was to Ernies Ice Creamtrailer, founded by retiredhockey player Ernie Dough-erty in 1948.Dougherty recently sold

the stand to a neighbouringvendor, but at almost 90-years-old, he drops by thestand to say hello, which isonly natural considering heworked the fair almost everysummerofhis life.Doughertygot his rst job at the PNE asa child peeling wieners atthe Coral Caf, once locatedin front of Hastings RaceCourse. In 1948 Doughertyopened his iconic red andwhite ice cream trailer at thePNE,which remains today.The Fair at the PNE con-

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For most Vancouverites, Labour Dayis simply another statutory holiday.Its the last gasp of summer beforethe kids return to school. Its a chance fora family barbecue or one more trip to thePacific National Exhibition.

Yet in the not-so-distant past, our annualcelebration of the labour movement was farmore colourful and extensive.

Labour Day festivities in Vancouver dateback at least to the 1890s, and 100 yearsago, there would have been a LabourDay parade, said Simon Fraser Universitylabour historian Mark Leier. The head ofthe Vancouver Labour Council was on aprancing stallion. The parade demonstratedall these different crafts. The bakers bakeda 12-foot loaf of bread, and the carpentersbuilt a little house on a parade float.

To relive that pageantry visually, searchfor Labour Day on pasttensevancouver.tumblr.com. Archived images include awagon parade along Alexander Street fromHastings Mill in 1898, the grand openingof the second incarnation of the GranvilleStreet Bridge in 1909, and a boxing matchfeaturing former heavyweight championJack Johnson in 1931.

Today, when the local media typicallyspotlights high-priced condos, celebritychefs, and designer lingerie, its worthremembering that many of us, like Leier,have more humble roots.

I come from a working family, said Leier,

whos launching a revised edition of RebelLife, his book about early 20th-centurylabour activist Robert Gosden, on LabourDay. My father drove heavy equipment andmymother was a secretary. Labour issuesresonate with me at a personal level. Labourhistory is about the lives of people in Canada.

In this country, Labour Days genesis can betraced back to the Toronto TypographicalUnions 1872 lobbying for a 58-hour workweek. Over the next two decades, unionactivism increased and became moreaccepted in Canada. Labour-themedparades and picnics proliferated.

Under John Thompson, Canadas fourthPrime Minister, Labour Day became anofficial holiday in 1894. Making it the firstMonday in September would distinguish itin North America from International WorkersDay (May 1), connected to the morecombative European socialist movement.

Although unions have come under fire,particularly in the last 30 years, their historiccontributions to public welfare cant beoverlooked. From maternity leave and sick

leave to pensions and prohibitions on childlabour, the average employee would have amuch more perilous working environmentwithout the unions efforts. Labour Day canstill remind us of that.

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This Labour Day, between attending thePNE, shopping for back to school, andsimply chilling out, why not throw onelast summertime bash? Here is a reminderchecklist from barbecue king RezaMofakham, manager of Kerrisdale Lumber:

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The Industry Training Authority of B.C.sWomen in Trades Training (WITT) initiativecurrently involves eight projects operatedby partner organizations, and is part of along-term strategy to match womens skillsto the needs of B.C.s workplace.

A womans place is in the kitchen? Yes, ifshes a top chef at a restaurant! Today, thedoor is open to women in every B.C. tradescareer. And there are great trade careerchoices from carpentry and plumbing toaerospace and horticulture.

Women are finding challenges, jobsatisfaction and good pay in the skilledtrades. But why choose the trades? Here aresome fail-safe reasons:

Money. The average wage of a trades-person is double that of a retail job, as anexample. Step into the trades, and up to agood paycheque.

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Satisfaction. Tradeswomen report highlevels of job satisfaction and increasedconfidence. A video reel of trades-employedBC women is available on the website.

The ITAWomen in Trades Training initiativeis part of a long-term strategy to matchwomens skills to the needs of B.C.sworkplace. ITAs Women in Trades Trainingis funded through the Canada-BritishColumbia Labour Market Agreement (LMA).

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The underlying principle for all these tools isthat they must be easy to use and work acrossasmanyplatformsanddevicesaspossible.Andthey must meet two needs: help rememberwhere and when I need to be during my day,andgivemequick access tomaterial andallowme to easily record ideas and take notes whenI get there. Thatmeans forme an online calen-dar and a note taking and collecting applica-tion. It also means getting away from email asameans to store notes,memos and reminders.Inaworldof crowded inboxesandspam,emaildoesnt cut it anymore for organizing your life.I use Google calendar to help organize my

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projects like feature stories. Events on the cal-endar trigger reminders, set via email to eachstaff members mail, at set intervals (in ourcase, 24 hours for a rst reminder, and then10 minutes right before the event). The cal-endar works with our iPhones and allows usto stay on top of our schedules while on thego, although conguring the sharing abilityon iOSwith Google calendar turned out to besurprisingly arcane (it justworks?Ha.)I use Microsofts OneNote at home for my

personal lists. It works on just about any de-vice going, including all my Android andWindows devices. Its the ultimate list maker,organizing itself into digital notebooks whichin turn are organized into sections and pageswhich can hold notes, lists, pictures, audio re-cordings and website addresses. I have note-books for renovations, shopping, personalgoals, travel and future topics and researchfor this column. Updating those lists on onedevice syncs to the cloud and automaticallyupdatesOneNote on allmy other devices.OneNote shines for travel. For a trip to San

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During September, theres joy andhope to be found among thestacks of spring bulbs, all withgorgeous pictures of their beautyduring that rst year of bloom. They almostalways full those pictures in their rst year.But whether those hopeful bulbs give you

blooms in subsequent years depends on wheretheywere planted, how they are treatedandwhether the localwildlife fancy themfor lunch.Most at risk for unking out on second-year

blooms are tulips thats why many garden-ers treat themas annuals. Its easy to forget thatwell-drained soil and sun is essential for tulips.Also theyneed tobeverydry throughsummer.

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but deal with problems differently: in semishade, crocuses slowly stop owering but theircorms keep right on producing leaves and of-ten increase. Crocus corms are also favouritesquirrel/volemunchies. Flat pieces ofwire laidabove bulb plantings stops squirrels diggingbut voles sometimes runalongmole tunnels.But youre home free from both if you plant

thetiny,veryearlyCrocustomasinianus. Flowercolour ranges from deep purple, to mid-purpleto lavender. Squirrels hate it. It increases fast.This is often the crocus that canbe seen turninga lawn(andprobably the restof thegarden too)intoapalemauve topurple tapestry.Varieties include Barrs Purple, Ruby Gi-

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Dunbar-Southlands seems like a Vancouverneighbourhood that time forgot. With its tree-lined streets and single family homes, Dunbar hasa trapped-in-amber quality. No neighbourhood inany city is immune to change and thats especial-ly true in Vancouver, but change doesnt tend tohappen quickly in Dunbar.There are still many holdovers from another

era, like the horse stables in Southlands, adjacentto the sprawling mansions that overlook the Fra-ser River. To the north, along the edge of PacificSpirit park, lies Camosun bog a millennia-oldwetland preserved by a few committed natural-ists. Todays transit routes more or less follow thetrolley lines of nearly half a century ago.Then there are the businesses: the single screen

movie theatre, the pair of independent bookshops,the iconic neighbourhood grocer with its largely-unionized staff.When Dunbar does change, its through evolu-

tion and not revolution. The single family homesthat make up the majority of housing in the areaarent going away but knockdowns are increas-ingly common as residents sell older propertiesto downsize.The fact many Dunbar residents actually have

backyards probably adds to the neighborhoodsreputation as a NIMBY stronghold.A city-backed plan to introduce the first sup-

portive housing units to the area in 2006 wasmet with stiff opposition from some communitygroups.And while a public hearing isnt even on the cal-

endar yet, many residents are gearing up to fighta proposal that would see Stongs market rede-veloped as a six-storey mixed-use building.

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Cori Bonina was by hergrandfathers side when hecut the ribbon and openedthe new Stongs Market onDunbar Street in 1980.I was in Grade 12, and I got to be

out of school for the opening, saidBonina. It was very exciting. [Myfamily] all worked in the store get-ting it ready, since there was a lot ofclean up. The press was there and mywhole family was there on the frontlines.Even in those days, Stongs was a

xture of the neighbourhood. RalphStong opened his rst grocery in Dun-

bar in 1955. Over the years, StongsMarket would move twice before set-tling in its current location at 4560Dunbar St.The family expanded the busi-

ness in the 1960s into a chain of fivestores around the Lower Mainland,but Dunbar was always their homebase.Today, Stongs is an outlier in the

retail world. Its a standalone opera-tion, still owned and operated by afamily that has been in the grocerybusiness since the 1890s, and morethan 100 of its roughly 130 employ-ees are members of a union.A grocery store is often the corner-

stone of a neighbourhood. But peo-ple dont always talk about a Safewayor a Save-On-Foods the way Dunbar

residents talk about Stongs.Its amazing to find that variety

and that quality of goods at a localstore with just one outpost, saidDunbar Residents Association Presi-dent Jonathan Weisman, a longtimeStongs shopper. They do a fantasticjob supplying the community.So its not particularly surprising

that some residents are concernedmajor changes may be coming toStongs. The building predates thegrocerys 1980 arrival, and is cur-rently winding its way through theredevelopment process.Earlier this summer, the bright yel-

low rezoning boards went up outsidethe market, though a redevelopmenthad been rumoured since last year.

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Stongs has provided service for generationsContinued from previous pagesThe current proposal from Henriquez

Partners would see the site redeveloped asa six-storey building, with a new Stongslocation beneath five levels of residen-tial units. Eleven three-story townhouseswould be built on the adjacent lot to theeast.The stores lease ends in 2015, said Boni-

na, which is part of the reason the landlordis pursuing the changes.The city has yet to approve the redevel-

opment, and a public hearing hasnt beenscheduled. But already the Dunbar Res-idents Association has come out againstthe proposal, saying the six-storeys goesagainst height limits set in the neighbour-hood plan. But of equal concern is thepotential, though temporary, loss of theneighbourhood grocer.Its a fear that Bonina has already heard

at open houses on the issue. Theres somehesitancy for change. That exists in allcommunities, she said. What we got fromeveryone is that they want Stongs to be inthe area.While Stongs has signed a lease that

guarantees the store a space in a redevel-oped building, the next few years are un-

certain. The hope is to find a temporarylocation for Stongs in the neighbourhood,though its still too early to say where thatmight be.We feel its important to maintain a pres-

ence in Dunbar. Itll be a smaller location,which comes with a whole lot of challeng-es, said Bonina, adding a smaller buildingwill likely mean a reduction in staff.The community understands that when a

store needs to be renovated, there are goingto be temporary changes, said Weisman.As to whether people will flock back toStongs afterwards, I cant really speculate.It wouldnt be the first time

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