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SANDRA THOMASStaff writer

When the Seattle Seahawks beat the San Fran-cisco 49ers two weeks ago to clinch a spot inSuper Bowl 48, bars and restaurants acrossB.C. saw an increase in business to the tuneof $1 million.Andmost of that was in Vancouver, said Ian Tostenson,

president of the B.C. Food andRestaurant Association. Itsthe Seattle factor.

Tostenson expects to see an even greater gain this Sun-day, Feb. 2, when the Hawks meet the Denver Broncos ina battle for the Vince Lombardi trophy at MetLife Stadiumin East Rutherford, N.J.Tostenson said while Super Bowl Sunday is typically

a slow day for some restaurants, bars and pubs sell-ing food and liquor with a big-screen TV, or 10, canexpect to cash in this weekend so long as they havethe game on.

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CHOCOLATE LOVE: Zoe Olver-Pawliw of East Van Roasters prepares a drinking chocolate called The Hive lastSaturday morning. The Downtown Eastside coffee shop, which employs women from independent socialhousing upstairs at the Rainier Hotel, is not only part of the fourth annual Hot Chocolate Festival in Vancouverbut has been chosen to be the recipient of partial funds raised from the festival.See related story on page 12. To view photo gallery, scan page using the Layar app.

MIKEHOWELLStaff writer

A company whichtransformed arooftop parkadeinto a mass-pro-ducing vegetable green-house and touted byMayor Gregor Robertson asan example of Vancouversbooming clean tech sector has led for bankruptcyand owes its creditors morethan $4 million.Bankruptcy records show

Alterrus Systems Inc. andits subsidiary Local GardenVancouver Inc. declaredbankruptcy Jan. 21 afterless than two years of opera-tion at 535 Richards St.Alterrus listed its liabilities

as $3.8 million and LocalGarden at $1.4 million, witha total of $1.25million owedto Vancity Credit Union.Alterrus, whose head of-

cewas at 120Columbia St.,listed no assets while LocalGarden totalled $45,000,

according to bankruptcy re-cords led with the Ofce ofthe Superintendent of Bank-ruptcy Canada.Alterrus posted a state-

ment on its website, ac-knowledging its nancialtrouble, problems with cropproductionandamechanicalfailure in December 2013.As in many bankruptcy

proceedings, it is regretfulthat many stakeholders willnot be able to recover theirlosses, particularly sincethey have supported thecause with real value, thestatement said. It is neveran easy decision for a man-agement team to make asthe impact is often suddenand possibly unexpected.When the business

launched inNovember 2012,Alterrus promised to pro-duce about 150,000 poundsa year of pesticide-free leafygreen vegetables and herbsto be distributed to local res-taurants and grocers.

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T iny Grade 1 student Harry Zhengcrouched over his Sonic Sega Seriesbook and commented on the imageswith Grade 6 student Andy Frroku.The pair was just one car in the reading

train Britannia elementary organized to hon-our Family Literacy DayMondaymorning.Britannias nearly 200 students sat in two

rows cross-legged on the hallway oor, fac-ing a reading buddy. The Grade 7 studentssatwith the kindergarten studentswhile theGrade 6 students paired up with the Grade1 kids. Each read a book of their choice tothe other for ve minutes before switch-ing partners. The kindergarten studentsbrought picture books.Frroku said it was fun to readwith Zheng,

who arrived at Britannia last year with vir-tually no English speaking skills.I get to meet him, Frroku said. I get to

knowwhat he likes.Youth and family worker Louise Mein-

ardus organized the event that also calledfor students to wear Canucks colours. JeanRasmussen, founder and executive director

of the Canuck Family Education Centre foradults thats based out of Britannia second-ary, has beenworkingwith the school and isgoing to help Britannia elementarys Grade4 to 7 leadership students attend a Canucksgame. Two Canucks jerseys were to be raf-ed off at the end of the day.So we wanted to do something really

connected up with literacy because weare, in terms of our neighbourhood, just alittle bit lower on the old proverbial totempole than maybe some of the other schoolsin terms of literacy, said Meinardus, whoMonday sported a Canucks toque, scarf,poncho, jersey and button. We just wantedto really do something that just says look,were not all bad here. Were not all aboutdrugs, were not all about the things thathappen locally in our neighbourhood.The Canucks-avoured reading day follows

otherthemedaysMeinardusandher leadershipstudentshaveorganized toboost school spirit.Were a pretty stressful school sometimes

and its just really nice to be able to poke funat each other, Meinardus said. [Stressful]in terms of some of the kids have behavioursthat are quite strong and we just need to beable to have some fun release.On Crazy Hair Day a staffer woremultiple

pencils poking out of her head, while on Pa-jama Day staff and students shufed downthe hallway in PJs, housecoats and slippers.The school hoped the Family Literacy Day

event would persuade students that reading

is pleasurable and build positive relationshipsbetween staff, students and familymembers.Naran Jasam, who turned 12 Monday,

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The same week a study was releasedsaying Vancouver has the secondleast affordable housing market inthe world, Mayor Gregor Robertson wasboasting that downtown is experiencing abuilding boom in ofce space.Which begs the question: If developers build

theofces and towers,will people searching fora jobwant tomove tosuchanexpensivecity?It remains a challenge for companies

when workers on average wages have adifcult time affording to live in the city,acknowledged Robertson at a press confer-ence last Thursday to announce the con-struction of The Exchange tower on HoweStreet. Thats why councils focus has beenon creating more rental housing, ensuringwere dealing with low to middle incomepeople and that were creating space along-side the market that is booming, as well.Home ownership, however, is a different

matter. Vancouver ranks second to HongKong for having the least affordable hous-ing, according to the study released by De-mographia, which examined 360 housingmarkets in nine countries, including Cana-da, the United States and New Zealand.The study said homes in Vancouver cost

10.3 times the median income comparedwith 14.9 times in Hong Kong. Three timesthe median income or lower is consideredaffordable. Canadas most affordable mar-ket was Moncton, N.B. at a median of 2.3.Robertson said the market is driving the

cost of home ownership but that council willcontinue to look at ways to temper that.He pointed to Hong Kong governments de-cision to slap a 15 per cent tax on propertypurchases made by foreigners in an effort toslow down the pace of rising housing prices.But, the mayor cautioned, council doesnt

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Alterrus negotiated a deal with the Cityof Vancouver, which owns the building onRichards, and EasyPark, which managesthe parkade. The company paid a total of$26,200 in rent to EasyPark from Novem-ber 2012 to August 2013, according to DrewSnider, spokesperson for EasyPark.Snider described EasyPark as a non-prot

company of which the City of Vancouverand the Downtown Vancouver Associationare sole shareholders.So the way it works is, any surplus gen-

erated at the end of the year goes to thecity, said Snider, although he didnt knowwhether all of the $26,200 went to the cityonce the number crunching was done.Martin Hyatt, bankruptcy trustee at The

Bowra Group Inc., which has taken over thecompanies affairs, said Alterrus still owesEasyPark $13,000 for rent.The mayor said at the time of the compa-

nys launch in November 2012 the parkadewas underused and Alterrus operationwould providemuch-needed jobs and fresh,local food.This project demonstrates the innova-

tive spirit in our citys booming clean techsector, Robertson said at the launch.Upon hearing of Alterrus demise, the

mayor issued a statement saying hewas dis-appointed but noted there are more stronglocal food companies seeing success inVancouver.Having Alterrus lease the space gener-

ated more revenue for the city than when it

was a parking lot, the mayor said.NPA Coun. George Afeck had concerns

with Alterrus and its deal with the citywhenthe company launched in November 2012.He issued a press release at that time callingfor the city to invite the auditor general forlocal government to examine the contractbetween Alterrus and the city.At the time, Afeck said Alterrus had an

accumulated decit of $52.8 million andthe companys nancial position was in-credibly insecure.Looking back on his concerns, Afeck

said Monday he was sorry to hear the newsof the companys bankruptcy. But, he said,the city should have done a request for pro-posals call and invited more companies tobid on the parkade space.I dont feelwedid our duediligencenot

only on the company but on the process onhow that space is rented out, Afeck said.The mayor got more bad news last week

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sioner Aaron Jasper says the board approved$1million for this rst phase of the project inthe 2011 capital plan, but only after Friendsof Bloedel and the VanDusen Botanical Gar-denAssociation joined forces to take over op-erations of the popular attraction. In 2010,the Vision Vancouver-dominated park boardapproved a budget that included a recom-mendation to tear down the dome due to thefact it was losingmoney annually.Jasper says the park board is so condent

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Experienced my rst big scrumof the year with Mayor GregorRobertson last Thursday.It was in a downtown alley off Howe

Street, there were lots of guys in darksuits and I recognized two VPD guys also in suits in the crowd.Sinister stuff, eh?Not really.The mayor was in the alley as part

of a groundbreaking ceremony to an-nounce the construction of a $200mil-lion, 31-storey ofce tower called TheExchange.After he participated in the obligato-

ry photo-op of him and business typesturning sod, Robertson stepped intothe scrum to answer what was on theminds of us journos.So heres a summary of his answers

for your reading pleasureOn the dangers of terrorism and

the Vancouver delegations trip to theWinter Olympics in Sochi: The Rus-sian Federation has assured everyonewho is coming to the Games that itwill be safe. But I think our group is

aware that there are risks. Certainly,they were aware going in that thereare going to be risks for them advocat-ing for gay rights, which in Russia isa big challenge. But theyre a coura-geous bunch.On the provincial governments plan

to hold a transit referendum and tie itto the municipal election in Novem-ber: Its been really disappointingand frustrating for us to see the B.C.government kind of attacking mayorswhen weve been very clear on ourpriorities, on our support for transit inthe region asking for funding tools,asking for a change in governance andwere not getting any response.On whether Vancouver will get the

much-talked about public bike shareprogram with Alta Bicycle Share andBixi, which is in nancial trouble: Wedont have any nancial commitmentto date. Wewere, I think, very prudentensuring we didnt get too far into ituntil we had all the right guarantees inplace. So, well see.On redesign and closure of Point

Grey Road to through trafc: Soundslike trafc is owing well on PointGrey Road. And as with previous bikelane changes, there was a lot of hand-wringing but everything is going ne so far, Im not hearing any real con-cerns. The trafc is moving, people areadjusting as needed.

Then I asked the mayor anotherquestion about the transit referendumthat leftme awee bit embarrassed. Ap-parently, I misread a colleagues storyon the latest news on the referendumhub-bub and thought Coquitlam may-or Richard Stewart was recently elect-ed chairperson of the mayors councilon regional transportation.Going with that, I went on to ask

Robertson if he was condent thatStewart, a former Liberal MLA and bigsupporter of Premier Christy Clark,would continue to be on side withthe mayors and not pressure them tochange their mind.Richard Stewart or Richard Wal-

ton? the mayor replied.At that point, I knew I was in

trouble.Walton, mayor of North Vancouver

district, is still the chairperson of themayors council.Ugh.Man, I felt like a goof.I could blame the guy on the bus

coughing intomy neck when I readmycolleagues story about the referen-dum not to mention the other guysitting next to me who overdosed ongarlic and was engaged in some con-versation about counter-insurgency.Kind of distracting.


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