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Mayor Gregor Robertson will not vote this month onwhether the city should proceed with cycling andpedestrian upgrades along the Cornwall-Point Greycorridor. That’s because Robertson recently pur-

chased a home in Kitsilano within a block of York Street and wantsto erase any doubt that he could be in a conflict over the upgrades.

“Inrecentweeks, themayorapprisedseniorstaff, includingthecity solicitor, of this property transaction and they were requestedto provide advice and a legal opinion on any possible conflict thatthe mayor might be in with regard to future decisions of councilrelated to the Point Grey-Cornwall bike corridor,” said a state-ment issued by the mayor’s office Wednesday. “The city solicitorhas informed the mayor that there is no legal conflict with votingon matters related to the Point Grey-Cornwall bike and pedestri-an safety upgrades at this time. However, out of an abundance ofcaution, the mayor informed the city solicitor he will be recusinghimself from voting on the upcoming ... project. The city solicitorwill review the final staff report on the project and provide anyfurther advice to the mayor on this matter as required.”

The mayor’s office issued the statement after a blogger postedinformation and a link to a realty company’s site that revealedRobertson’s house, near 25th and Oak, was for sale. The state-ment said the mayor is selling his house, which is listed for $1.9million, because his family is downsizing now that his childrenhave graduated from high school.

Council is expected to vote later this month on cycling and pe-destrian upgrades for the Point Grey-Cornwall corridor. Docu-ments on the city’s website show potential upgrades runningfrom the Burrard Bridge to Jericho Beach and include a combina-tion of separated bike lanes, wider sidewalks, street closures andremoval of on-street parking spots. The city hasn’t set a date forthe vote, although it is anticipated for the week of July 22. Theplan has been divisive and included heated public meetings andstreet protests.

One group, which includes former city councillor Peter Ladner,favours a city-designed option that would mean significant up-grades for cyclists and pedestrians along Point Grey Road.

Other residents have called for the vote to be [email protected]

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Vancouver’s first standalone patio opened in front ofRainier Provisions liquor-licensed coffee shop anddelionCarrallStreetatWestCordovatwoweeksago.With its lime green, squash yellow, plum, peach

and tomato-hued wooden pickets, the 30-seat patio is afresh sight on a sometimes-gritty street.

Sean Heather of the Heather Hospitality Group says thecity and the provincial liquor board wouldn’t previously

license patios that weren’t set apart from a restaurant,but the presence of a fire hydrant or manhole cover couldthwart plans for an immediately adjacent patio.

“It’s a pilot project and if it works, then it will open up op-portunities for other people around the city to put patios,”Heather said. “In this weather, if you don’t have a patio, you’renot getting a lot of people sitting inside.”

The city will assess how well the standalone patio hasworked at the end of the summer and when its licencecomes up for renewal in a year.

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STANDALONEPATIO FIRSTOF ITS KIND IN VANCOUVER

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An NPA city councillor has accusedlocal mayors of “inaction” on de-veloping funding mechanisms fortransit upgrades and suggested

that is the reason the provincial governmentwants a referendum to gauge support fortransit projects.

George Affleck made the accusation Tues-day at a council meeting during a debateabout the referendum that is expected to beheld when Metro Vancouver residents vote intheir respective 2014 civic elections.

His comments were directed at the mayors’council on regional transportation that has at-tempted for several years to work out a defini-tive and sustainable way with the provincialgovernment to fund transit improvements.

“The inaction by the mayors’ council andthe inaction by TransLink over the last sever-al years on how to fund the priorities in thisregion has frustrated not only the citizens

of this region but obviously the province,as well,” said Affleck, adding the mayors’council’s rejection of the referendum createsanother political battle with the provincialgovernment. “The reason the referendumwas created was because of inaction in thisregion.”

Affleck’s comments were quickly refutedby Vision Coun. Geoff Meggs, who said themayors would “go absolutely bonkers” if theyheard somebody say they had been inactiveon the transit file.

Meggs pointed out the mayors’ councilpreviously reached consensus with formertransportation minister Blair Lekstrom onimposing a vehicle registration fee to gener-ate money for transit, only to be rejected byPremier Christy Clark.

“Months of hard work and negotiationand mediation went down the drain,” Meggssaid. “So, I don’t want to be political but I dowant to be factual. This has been an extreme-ly difficult process by a mayors’ group whichhas no legislative or financial support or ad-

ministrative ability to do much.”Mayor Gregor Robertson, who belongs to

the mayors’ council, said he and his fellowmayors also requested the provincial govern-ment use a portion of carbon tax revenue tofund transit.

Robertson acknowledged the increasein gas tax to trigger the construction of theEvergreen SkyTrain line from Coquitlam toVancouver.

But, he said, a referendum is the wrongway to go to adopt sustainable funding mech-anisms for transit. He believes municipalitieswould likely be pitted against each other overwho should get transit improvements.

“This referendum means an 18-monthdelay to any action on transit investment inMetro Vancouver,” said Robertson, notingthe mayors signed an agreement three yearsago with the provincial government to findfunding sources to fund transit. “We haveseen almost no action in those three years.”

The debate over the referendum arose af-ter Affleck introduced a motion to have the

Vision Vancouver politicians who also serveas Metro Vancouver directors urge the MetroVancouver board to report back on variousissues, including the potential economic, so-cial and environmental ramifications of ref-erendum results in Metro Vancouver.

The ruling Vision Vancouver party, alongwith Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr, in-stead supported Meggs’ motion to endorsethe mayors’ council’s rejection of the refer-endum.

Meggs’s motion also asks Metro Vancou-ver’s transportation committee to clarify op-tions available to municipalities “to ensurevoters have a true opportunity to make theirwishes known in the event no agreement ispossible with the province on the wording,administration or funding of a referendum.”

“It doesn’t change the fact,” Affleck said,“that the premier continues to state thatshe’s absolutely committed to pushing for-ward with this referendum.”

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NPA blames MetroVan mayors for transit inactionVISION’SMEGGSSAYSPREMIER SCUTTLEDHARD-WONAGREEMENT

Scott Edwards, managerof street activities for thecity, noted the city chose anestablishment with a restau-rant primary licence for thetrial. He says the provinceis agreeable to four of fivesuch patios proceeding thisyear and he has told busi-ness improvement associa-tions about the opportunity.

But what makes a sepa-rate patio work at RainierProvisions’ site isn’t neces-sarily common across thecity. Carrall Street was pre-viously reconstructed withwider sidewalk bulges. Abike lane flanks the side-walk so that motor vehicletraffic isn’t within arm’sreach. Rainier Provisionshas no history of liquor-related infractions andHeather has agreed to havean employee on the patioat all times.

“We’re fortunate that wehave a hand-held orderingsystem on iPod minis andwe also have a hand-heldcredit card processing sys-tem,” Heather said. “It’sa little onerous in that if Ihad the patio beside the

building, which would beeight feet from where it is,I wouldn’t have to do that.And the truth of the matter

is in the afternoons whenyou have five people on thepatio you still have a staffmember standing on it.”

The veteran restaura-teur hopes his trial willhelp others. “We’re not afledgling startup business

so you have some dispos-able revenue, if you like,so if we can do somethingthat’ll help our brothers

and sisters and maybe beacknowledged that some-body did that, then that’sworth it to us.”

According to Heather, ar-chitects and designers in thearea have praised the patiobut those who participate inthe weekly Binners Marketon Carrall resent that it en-croaches on their space.

Michael Green Architec-ture, an award-winningVancouver-based firm thatchampions the use of tim-ber, even advocating forwooden skyscrapers, de-signed the patio so that itcan be quickly uprooted.

“Any patio in Vancouverhas to be able to be dis-mantled within 24 hours,”Heather said. “For exam-ple if [the city rents] outa street to a movie and themovie doesn’t want a patioon it, the city’s not going tolose the revenue becauseyou won’t move the patio.”

The patio at Rainier Pro-visions is open from 11:30a.m. to 8 p.m. on week-days, later on weekends.

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Restaurateur Sean Heather enjoys a pint on the patio of Rainier Provisions new street patio at Carrall and Cordova.

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Alan Lee was kicked out of school for smok-ing marijuana and drinking on school grounds.He was also charged with robbery.

Now as a graduate of Pinnacle, an alternativeprogramoftheVancouverSchoolBoardandtheMinistry of Children and Family Development,Lee has received a grant of $2,200 from theSTAND Foundation to complete an automotiveservice technician course.

Lee says if it weren’t for the financial assis-tance, he couldn’t afford school in September.“I’m from a single-parent family,” he said.

The grant money will cover an Ace It automo-tive course at Britannia secondary and pay fortools, boots and textbooks. He will receive cred-its from Vancouver Community College for thefirst level of trade training.

“I think the first time you do it it’s free but Igot kicked out,” he said. Lee’s ultimate goal isto complete B.C. Institute of Technology’s aero-space program and become a commercial pi-lot. “I used to be in air cadets,” the 17-year-oldsaid. “One time I got to co-pilot this glider and I

thought it was pretty cool.”Lee lived and studied in Delta before he at-

tended Pinnacle. “Pinnacle is right above myprobation office,” he said. “And my probationofficer said I should go there.”

Lee felt cared for by Pinnacle’s teacherand youth and family worker who helpedhim find a job and a volunteer positioncoaching basketball.

Grant applicants to STAND, short for StepsTowards a New Direction, don’t need topgrades. They need to be referred by a teacheror counsellor, outline the challenges they’vefaced, their educational and career goalsand the money they will need to completetheir first year of post-secondary training.Rachel Steel, a recent graduate of the Spectrumalternative program, had planned to take a yearoff school to work and save money for collegeuntil she learned she will receive a $2,900 grantfrom STAND. With two older siblings in college,Steel said her single mother would have a diffi-cult time helping her.

The grant will cover her first year tuition andfeesatLangaraCollegewhereshewantstostudypsychologyandsociology. “Iknow,actually, twoof the other recipients… and I know that it’s justchanged their lives completely,” Steel said. “Thetwo girls I know who got it before would haveprobably never gone back to school.”

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As regular readerswill know, I’ve writ-ten more than afew inches of copy

over the years about former Vi-sion Vancouver city councillorGeorge Chow.

And, as I’ve stated previ-ously, it wasn’t done out of anyallegiance to him or his party.

But how can a civic affairsscribe like me, who knows anenigmatic character when hesees one, avoid not letting youin on Chow’s world of wonder.

Once again, some back-ground: The guy is a K-car lov-er who enjoys showing report-ers photographs of him doingroof repairs, knows an inter-esting urinal when he sees one(and supplied this scribe witha photograph), uses his excesswater from his bath to flush histoilet, revealed he would walkon hot coals in Chinatown for afundraiser (not sure if he did),is able to recite poetry from hischildhood (“A pen and a man.A man and a pen. This is a pen.This is a man”), has a life-sizedphotograph of himself andclaims he was named afterKing George.

See what I mean.Journalism gold … well,

maybe not journalism andmaybe not gold … but cityhall can’t all be about rezon-ings, bike lanes and commu-nity plans. Last time I spoketo Chow he was running for aprovincial seat with the NDP

in Vancouver-Langara. “Chowfor change” was his slogan. Itdidn’t work. He lost.

So what’s he up to now?Well, if my eyes don’t de-

ceive me, a photograph I re-cently obtained shows Chowarmed with a sledgehammer.Maybeanewworkoutregime?Not sure, but he’s swinging thehammer at what looks like aconcrete wall.

Wait a sec…that wall looksfamiliar. Actually, it’s not awall, at all. It’s the side of oneof the…viaducts?

What the…GEORGE CHOW IS TAK-

ING DOWN THE VIADUCTS!GEORGE CHOW IS TAKINGDOWN THE VIADUCTS!

Yes, you read it here first,Chowhasalreadysingle-hand-edly started to demolish thehulking structures — eventhough city council has yetto give the green light to takedown the freeway leftoversfrom the 1970s.

This deserved an explana-tion from the man himself.

“It was just to show my opin-ion on what should happento [the viaducts],” said Chow,

noting the photograph endedup in the Sing Tao newspaper.

So you’re not demolishingthe viaducts?

“No, no,” he said, chucklingthrough the phone line, “butI would say the viaducts haveoutlived their usefulness.”

Chow might have good rea-son to take the suckers down.

Turns out, when Chow ar-rived in Vancouver in 1965, hestayed at a single-room-occu-pancy hotel at Union and Mainstreets. That hotel, which wasabove a London Drugs, hadto be knocked down to makeway for the viaducts. “We livedthere for a number of yearsuntil the building was expro-priated to make way for the so-called freeway,” he recalled.

Interesting, George, andthanks for the explanation.

Note: I was about to hang upwhen the topic went from via-ducts to urinals. Chow said herecently took a photograph ofa urinal that he described as an“engineering marvel.”

I’m expecting it in my in-box any day now. Oh boy, ohGeorge.

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Mr.Mayor — teardown those viaducts!

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Former city councillor George Chow says the viaductshave outlived their usefulness. He’s seen here pretendingto take a sledgehammer to the structures. Or is he?

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The City of Vancouver will seek a court injunctionagainst the owners of a Granville Street single-room-occupancy hotel to have them comply with105 violations related to safety and maintenance.

City council gave city staff the green light Wednesdayto seek the injunction in B.C. Supreme Court because theowners don’t have a plan to clean up the Clifton Hotel at1125 Granville St.

The hotel, which has 73 rooms, is listed as the second-worst building on the city’s rental property database. Viola-tions included melted electrical devices, no running waterfor six days, the lack of fire walls between floors and walls,inoperable washrooms, cracked and bulging walls and afaulty structural beam.

Zohreh Fazi-Mashhadi, Abolghasem Abdollahi and YahyaNickpour are the principal directors of the company thatowns the hotel. Recent efforts by staff to work with Abdol-lahi and Nickpour to bring the hotel into compliance havebeen unsuccessful, said the report, adding that the businessrelationship between the two men fizzled.

“Although these violations are serious, staff feel thebuilding should not be evacuated at this time,” the reportsaid. “In the event the owners choose to vacate the buildinginstead of performing the repairs, staff will be available toassist tenants for relocation.”

Before council voted to proceed with the injunction, Ab-dollahi told council he was “doing my best” to address theviolations and wanted two months reprieve.

In addressing council, resident Shawn Thorpe describedthe hotel as “a shithole” crawling with bedbugs, mice andcockroaches. He invited council to visit the hotel.

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AWest End readerwants to see Al-exandra Park, lo-cated across the

street from English Bay, re-named Joe Fortes Park.

Lyn Guy emailed to sayshe’s been watching with in-terest as nearby Morton Parkundergoes extensive renova-tions to better accommodatethe sculpture installation A-maze-ing Laughter.

And while Guy is pleasedabout that work, she says italso highlights the neglect Al-exandra Park is suffering. In1911, the park was named af-

ter the long-deceased QueenAlexandra, the consort ofBritain’s King Edward VII.

“…I am pleased as punchthat an almost invisible patchof land has made it this far asa visible icon for Vancouver,”Guy wrote in part. “Now, if wecould just push to change theunder-used Alexandra Park(named for a lesser queen?)with the bandshell in its drab,old-man-in-a-brown-raincoatlook…”

Guy says the park and itsaging bandstand, built in1914, are used largely by thehomeless and she believesthat with creative landscap-ing, the tiny green spacecould once again become apopular family destination.

Fortes, who died in 1922,moved to Vancouver in the1890s and eventually movedto a cottage on English Bay,where he’s credited withteaching thousands of chil-dren to swim and savingdozens of swimmers fromdrowning.

“I’ve been choked ever

since the city allowed Fortes’cottage to be demolishedwhen it could have beenrolled across and onto thepark and made into a mu-seum or information centre,”wrote Guy of the beach-frontcabin where the lifeguardlived out his days. “[Renam-ing the park] would make upfor such a lost chance.”

COMMUNICATIONBREAKDOWNIn Wednesday’s Courier Iwrote that the park boardended the contract of themediator who was helpingmost of the city’s commu-nity centre associations ne-gotiate a contract with thepark board.

Apparently that was newsto NPA park board commis-sioners John Coupar andMelissa De Genova. Coupartold me he had no idea Ter-ry Harris had been removedas mediator until he read itin the Courier.

Kate Perkins, who’s beenacting as lead on the nego-tiations on behalf of the as-

sociations, told me she wasalso surprised by the move.Perkins says the associationshad no problems with theway Harris was handlingthe mediation. Perkins add-ed the associations will nowwork with the park board tofind a new facilitator.

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On Tuesday morning, VancouverMayor Gregor Robertson told CBCRadio that the whole uproar overthe Grandview-Woodland com-

munity plan was simply a matter of a “misun-derstanding.”

There is still plenty of time for citizen input,said our bicycling mayor, clearly backpedal-ling given that the official email from the citydated July 5 declared the “deadline for inputis August 2.”

But overlook that point for the moment.That “misunderstanding” explanation

doesn’t nearly come close to the truth of whatactually happened to cause the incredible lackof trust and sense of betrayal harboured by the local residents who have beenamong the staunchest of Robertson’s supporters. Nor does it begin to touch onthe potential for disaster Robertson and his Vision majority face regarding thisand three other community plans now in the works.

Some of that became apparent on Monday night. It began with this: in all ofthe months and through the many meetings by city staff with Grandview-arearesidents there was discussion and even agreement about the need for increaseddensity, but there was never any discussion let alone any mention of towers par-ticularly at Commercial and Broadway and along Hastings.

Yet, sure enough when the “emerging directions” plan was released by the city,there they were — much to the shock and horror of the residents.

ButbacktoMonday:WhileVisionCoun.GeoffMeggsmoppedhisbrowowingtothewarmthofthenight,some200peoplestreamedintopackthesecondfloormeeting room, perch on window sills, squat down on the floor or spill out ontothebalconyoftheEastsideFamilyPlaceatNapierandCommercial. Itwasameet-ing of the Grandview-Woodland Community Council. There was only one itemon the agenda: the community plan. There to answer questions was area plannerAndrew Pask along with two other city staffers.

Noticeably missing was Brian Jackson, the city’s general manager of planningand development. I mention this because, given past practices of the planningdepartmentgoingbacktoRaySpaxmanthenLarryBeasleyandevenBrentTode-rian,whenevertherewasacontentiousissuearoundplanninganddevelopment,the head of planning stepped in to take the heat. That was particularly the casewhen the head of planning was responsible for that issue as was the case with the11th hour addition of towers to the Grandview-Woodland community plan.

Themayorwasalsoabsent.Butthenheprefersmoremellowsettingswherehecan kiss babies, kick soccer balls or cut ribbons to open urban orchards. Not thatthe mayor’s office (i.e. his chief of staff Mike Magee) was without eyes and earsin the room.

Attending with Meggs was Vision Coun. Andrea Reimer, who is the liaison forthe neighbourhood, champion of the community engagement committee and aformer Grandview Woodland resident. As well — notably — another resident,Vision co-chair and frequent party spokesperson who regularly appears on CBCRadio, Maria Dobrinskaya, was there.

What they saw and heard was remarkably eloquent, informed, passionateand intimate. It demonstrated unanimity of opposition that ranged from activistGarth Mullins to the executive director of the Hastings North Business Improve-ment Association, Patricia Barnes.

But nothing rocked the house nor exposed the political fragility of what Visionhad at stake here more than the withering comments of local NDP MLA ShaneSimpson. While he doesn’t usually poke his nose into local politics or impute anymalicious intent on the part of his brothers and sisters in Vision, he was clearlyannoyed.

“Sometimes,” he began, “the planning process goes sideways.” And then wenton to say: “Across the community nobody is telling me this plan meets theirneeds.”Andfinally:“Thisplanisfundamentallyflawedandmaybefatallyflawed.Gobacktothedrawingboardandengagethepeople.”Allofwhichbroughtmanyin the crowd to their feet with applause.

For his part, planner Pask, left to defend a decision he most likely didn’t make,said the most controversial part of the plan, the towers at Broadway and Com-mercial, “is off the table.” Then he added: “We got part right and part wrong – abig part wrong.”

And about that there is no [email protected].

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GODZILLA FILMINGCAUSES GIANTINCONVENIENCESTo the editor:Re: “Godzilla invades EastFraserlands,” July 3.The filming of the Godzillamovie created another problembesides nightime helicopterbuzzing of residential commu-nities. For weeks this spring,this production was filming atthe Highview Lookout on theCypress Bowl Road. They had apermit allowing three-minuteroad closures alternating withopenings. Personal experienceand reports from others indicatethey were commonly exceedingthe permitted limits.Remarkably, riding bicyclesup the Cypress Bowl Road hasbecomemore popular thanhiking in the park. Weekendsare seeing hundreds of peopleride up daily. These closurescaused many cyclists, andpeople driving up to go hiking, toturn around and go back downrather than wait. Most cyclistsdoing this demanding climb areon timed runs approaching theirphysical limits. A random stopsuch as this is very disruptive.Now, many justify this on thebasis of the economic benefit ofthe movie industry. This enthu-siasm overlooks a few seri-ous questions. One is whethersubsidizing entertainment thatmany would view as trash isa sensible use of our taxes.Similarly, the money patronsspend to see such movies couldbe considered waste rather thaneconomic gain. Certainly wakingfamilies in the middle of thenight and obstructing low-im-pact recreationists on the singleroad to a provincial park cannotnot be justified by the question-able benefits of Godzilla movies.Steve Grant,Vancouver

CYCLISTSUNSAFEONARTERIALROADS;USESWELLBIKELANESINSTEADTo the editor:Re: “Bike lanes remain divisive,according to recent poll,” July 5.Is the City of Vancouver reallyserious about ensuring the safetyof people riding bikes? For ex-ample, the city’s web page aboutcycling safety tips and regulationssays “Check out Bike Sense, acomprehensive BC guide to op-erating a bike in traffic,” withouteven providing a clickable link.Despite the fact there are bikelanes and routes criss-crossingthe city,many riders persist in us-ing very busy streets like Knight,Main, Granville, and so forth,where there are vehicles like hugecontainer trucks driving day andnight. But usually only within afew blocks of these streets areothers designated as bike-only,which have swell user-activatedsignals where they cross everymajor road!Maybe it’s time for the city to la-bel large roads as “no bikes,” justlike there are “no trucks” allowedon smaller residential streets.Mike Quigley,Vancouver

PARKBOARDNEEDSTOCONSULTMOREONONECARDROLLOUTTo the editor:Re: “Roll-out of VancouverPark Board ‘s OneCard ‘ill-thought out,’” June 14.My understanding of the June10 park board press releaseis that the rollout in July is forrinks, pools, and fitness centresonly. The remaining com-munity centre programs willcome under the One Card inSeptember, provided the com-

munity association boards votein favour. However, since CoreServices are yet to be defined, Iam not sure how they will decidewhich programs will comeunder the OneCard in less thanthree months’ time, nor am Iconvinced this is adequate timefor public consultation. In thisregard, Dave Pasin’s concernsabout vagueness and deadlinesare certainly justified.Dropping the membershiprequirement to access programsand facilities at community cen-tres won’t result in a completeloss of association membershipbecause some people will wantto influence the programmingand facilities available to them.This will undoubtedly cause thepractice of stacking boards byinterest groups with an agendato become even more prevalent.Anita Romaniuk,Former COPE park commis-sioner

PT.GREYROADUPGRADESWILLBENEFITEVERYONETo the editor:Re: “Bike lanes remain divisive,according to recent poll,” July 5Approving upgrades to PointGrey Road benefits kids, seniors,pedestrians, cyclists and theentire community. This road is aresidential street with a speedlimit of 30-kilometres per hour,which is exclusively ignored bythe 13,000 daily drivers usingthe street as a thoroughfare.Calming traffic along thisstreet will minimally affectdrivers who can take the routeof Macdonald then Fourth orBroadway, both of which areunder capacity. Most importantly,the health and safety of our citi-zens is at stake in this project.Kyle Zheng,Vancouver

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Pop culture illluminates,infuriates lunch mates

Forget religion or politics. If you’reinterested in a knock-down, drag-out argument, try pop culture in-stead. Express your affection for

some boundary-breaking filmmaker orlip-synching wunderkind, and someone isbound to energetically express their disbe-lief. We love to build up our idols almost asmuch as we like to smash them down.

Some years back, I wrote an article for thispaper about Rolling Stone guitarist KeithRichards, speculating that the survival skillsof the “Rock n’ Roll Cockroach” might ex-tend to thermonuclear war. This resulted ina lecture at a party from an inebriated readerabout my “uneducated” satire. I just nodded and shrugged, and minutes laterthe soused Stones fan fell to the floor and wiped out a potted plant. As punc-tuation to an argument, Keef couldn’t have played it better himself.

Pop culture can infuriate as much as illuminate. During lunch hour gath-erings with friends, sometimes the discussion veers into film. One lunchcompanion, a retired Jungian therapist, can take apart any given movieand explain its working parts with the expertise of a Swiss watchmaker. Ihave learned a few things from him about blockbuster and B-movies, butoccasionally our opinions diverge. The table recently got into a dynamicdisagreement about Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning film Django Un-chained. The Jung-at-heart guy and another friend thought it a rollickingfarce. I thought it was a hollow effort in hipster cool: a ’60s spaghetti west-ern crossed with ’70s blaxploitation. Another friend agreed with me. Theargument didn’t quite descend into a food fight, but I was struck that it’snot politics or religion so much as pop culture that amplifies our ego-fu-eled opinions. “Eye of the beholder” becomes “I of the beholder.”

Luckily we were all sitting around eating. There’s a theory that eatingin close quarters encouraged civil behaviour in human evolution. The se-rotonin uptick tended to work against fight or flight reactions, and ourancestors began to dine in groups partly as a bonding mechanism that in-hibited aggressive behaviour. (Besides, if you went ape on a fellow homi-nid with your piehole full of mastodon, there’d be no one around with thewits to perform the Heimlich maneuver.)

But I’m wandering away from my main point, as I sometimes do whenI’ve got little to say and a lot of space to say it. So here it is: argumentsover the merits of film, music, and the arts are subjective differences thatcan’t be settled through a Wikipedia search — though I know a few peoplewith the habit of pulling out their smartphones like geek gunslingers atthe slightest whiff of factual disagreement.

Needless to say — but I’ll say it anyway — the Internet has become ourall-purpose, portable brain for both fact-checking and flaming. All bets areoff in the online world when it comes to polite discourse. The subverbal,face-to-face social cues that humans have evolved over thousands of mil-lennia have shrunk to the bandwidth of misspelled text messages, makingit more likely that disagreements go nuclear quickly. A B-list actress dissesa megastar singer and it’s all over the Twitterverse in minutes, with thearthritic print media playing catch-up to inflate the most inane exchangesinto tabloid headlines.

In fact, old-fashioned, face-to face interaction seems to be going the wayof cursive script and quilting bees. Great numbers of us lurch around withour noses in our smartphones, tweeting, texting and Instagramming withthe twitchy compulsiveness of the Walking Dead. (Did opposable thumbsevolve for this?) Actual phone calls now place a distant third to social net-working and instant messaging.

Several years ago, I witnessed a woman on Venables go ballistic on acellphone with her partner or boyfriend. She stopped and began scream-ing a volley of expletives, with her phone held at arm’s length — presum-ably so she’d be heard clearly at the other end. You just don’t come acrossthat kind of considerate behaviour anymore.

All I say is thank God (or the Indefinable Whatever) that most of ourdigital devices are small and have rounded corners. For some folks, they’drepresent lethal force if they ever met up in the real world. And for thosewho still do, there’s always breakfast, lunch or dinner — the hairless mon-key’s trick for negotiating conversational minefields with good grub.

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KITSILANOAccording to food writer Cassandra An-derton, creator of the Good Life Vancouverblog, the Khatsahlano! festival taking placethis Saturday, July 13, is not only a celebra-tion of music and art but also one of culi-nary delights.

Anderton proved her point this past Tues-day afternoon during a media preview ofwhat festival-goers can expect from thisyear’s food offerings. In support of the festi-val the city is allowing restaurants along 10blocks of West Fourth Avenue to expand toinclude outdoor spaces such as sidewalks.The street cuisine will be so extensive andvaried one section has been dubbed theFood Truck Circus. My advice is to arriveearly and with an empty stomach.

Most restaurants are offering specials andsome have created dishes for the festival dayonly. The new kid on the block, August Jack,scheduled to open today (July 12), has creat-ed a special tasting plate of eight tapas, whileanother recent addition to the ‘hood, TractorFoods, will introduce the public to its make-your-own salads, soups and stews concept.

Top Chef alumnus Trevor Bird of FableKitchen has reintroduced his popular chick-pea fritters and added a home-made gaz-pacho soup topped with crumbled bacon.Among other restaurants offering food anddrink specials this Saturday are Bimini Pub,Bibo Pizza, Romers Burger Bar, Las Margar-itas, Terra Breads and Trattoria, where thefirst heat of a meatball eating competitionstarts at 1 p.m. For more information, visitgoodlifevancouver.com where Andertonhas been writing daily updates on the Khat-sahlano! festival food scene.

CHAMPLAIN HEIGHTSThe Champlain Heights community is rally-ing around neighbours who lost their homesand possessions in a terrible fire last Sunday.The fundraiser takes place at the Village Pub,

7725 Champlain Crescent., from 11 a.m. to11 p.m. with a 50/50 draw and the weeklyLions Club meat draw from 5 to 7 p.m. Enjoylive music from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Ticketsare $20 (cash) at the door and include a beerand burger. Proceeds will help neighbourswhen they need it the most.

JERICHOTickets are still available for the “After-Par-ty” barbecue taking place at the Royal Van-couver Yacht Club following the Easter SealsCharity Regatta taking place this Saturday,July 13. Following the regatta, the publicis invited to drop by the adjacent HastingsMiller Park at 3 p.m. for a waterfront bar-becue, beer garden, silent auction and thesummer sounds of Tropical Heat. There willalso be lots for the kids to do. After Partytickets are $15 and available by calling 604-873-1865 or at eastersealsregatta.ca. Scan page with Layar for websiteinformation.

OLYMPIC VILLAGECreekside Community Centre and the Bone& Bowl pet supply store are hosting a freecommunity event this Saturday, July 13,from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Village Plazain the Olympic Village. Pet-a-Palooza willoffer numerous information kiosks and op-portunities to learn pet first aid and holisticcare. Pets will also have the chance to takepart in a talent show. An SPCA adoptioncentre will also be on site.

WEST POINT GREYThe Brock House Society is hosting its an-nual Summer Fair this Saturday, July 13,from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Look for handcrafteditems, original oil paintings, home baking,gifts, games, a silent auction and White El-ephant sale among others.

Also for sale will be signed copies of therecently published book Thorley Park toBrock House, which chronicles the first hun-dred years of Brock House — from familyhome to heritage landmark. Shoppers canenjoy a cold beverage in the garden pub andenjoy entertainment by the Brock House BigBand and the Vancouver Morris Men Danc-ers, so seriously what’s not to love.

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Atwo and a half-page report titled“Country Lanes DemonstrationProject” from Engineering Servicesto city council, dated July 9, 2002,

is buried on the website archive known as for-mer.vancouver.ca. It is a “former” public policyconceived by a group of enthusiastic city stafferswho saw the potential in Vancouver’s otherwiseoverlooked back alleys.

But with so many laneway homes being builttoday, will the Country Lane program that haslately languished win new fans at city hall?

Most of us know what typical back lanes looklike — that is where we park our cars, store ourgarbage receptacles or stumble upon old TV setsand soiled mattresses. In contrast, the CountryLane is an inviting public space that combinestough plastic grids and “structural” permeablesoil that allows grass to grow. Two concretestrips running down the lane bear the weight ofvehicles, while the remaining space is both du-rable and green.

Despite receiving international recognition,the Country Lanes never caught on as a city-making initiative. Their detractors within cityhall were quick to point out the expense of thedemonstration project — $225,000 for threelanes — ignoring in that new initiatives oftencost more at the outset.

It is rumoured that engineering departmentsenior management of the day vehemently re-jected the new lane surfacing concept in favourof tried and true asphalt paving. When a citygarbage hauler used his truck tires to rut thenewly planted grass during the Country Lane’searly days, it all but confirmed that rumour.

Approved during the final months of the NPApolitical dynasty, Country Lanes never again

found a political champion in the administra-tions that followed. Over time they fell off theradar of city planners.

A decade later, fans are as passionate as everabout Country Lanes. Over the noon hour onJuly 14, folks who were instrumental in thecreation of the first Country Lane behind 700-block East 27th Avenue will gather to celebratethe 10th anniversary of a unique public space.A community block party — the latest of sev-eral that have been held there over the decade— will be a chance to demonstrate the successof the demonstration project.

The lane was originally pitched as a way toreduce the burden on storm sewer systems byproviding natural filtration for rain water. In ad-dition, the summertime heat caused by the off-gassing of asphalt is replaced instead by cooler,landscaped surroundings. It has also lived up toexpectations as a community space, where driv-ersusuallyslowdowntonavigatethetiretracks.To the delight of organizers, former mayor Phil-ip Owen — whose council approved the lane— has promised to stop by. Attendees will in-clude Sharole Tylor and Jeannie Kamins, whoseneighbourhood activism garnered the attentionofSandyJames,theretiredcitygreenwaysplan-ner who spearheaded the lanes project. Tylorand James are quick to credit the creativity andleadership of city staffers Dave Desrochers, Wal-ly Konowalchuk and David Yurkovich for thesuccess of the project.

Invitations are out to others at the city includ-ingthecurrentcouncilandstaff toseetheCoun-try Lane how it was meant to be — as a greatgatheringplaceforpeople.Organizershopethatan old idea will one day become new again.

Mike Klassen (@MikeKlassen) is B.C. directorfor the Canadian Federation of Independent Busi-ness, and a proud member of Vancouver’s Moun-tain View neighbourhood.

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Heather Kennedy,director of marketingfor Bard on theBeach ShakespeareFestival says, “Wecombine a sit-down dinner served in agorgeous park setting with a popularShakespearean play, and top it off withan exclusive view of the Celebration ofLights Fireworks.”

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MAYOR GOESWITH THE BRO FLOWThere’s been a lot of fuss made about MayorGregor Robertson selling his Douglas Parkdigs for a cool $1.95 million and movingwest to Kitsilano. Some have pointed out thestaggering price tag further illustrates howVancouver’s real estate market is way out ofwhack. Others are trying to make a meal outof the fact that Robertson is moving into sup-posedly hostile territory due to the currentdust up over proposed bike lanes, while theCourier’s Mike Howell astutely points out thatthe more pertinent story is that Robertson, toavoid any conflict of interest, has recused him-self from voting on whether the city shouldproceed with cycling and pedestrian upgradesalong the Cornwall-Point Grey corridor.

For the ruggedly handsome and unconven-tionally attractive city hall watchers at K&K, thereal story is not house prices or bike lanes buthow this change in neighbourhoods will trans-form our earthy, green-minded, chia-eatingmayor into a Kitsilano “dude” — if not a full-fledged “bro.” We’ve lost track of the numberof friends, loved ones and co-workers who’vebeen struck down in the prime of their some-what cool lives by the urge to chillax and kick itKits style. Here’s what we can expect when themayor moves. Warning, it’s not pretty.

• Stage 1: Robertson will quietly replace hisbike helmet with an array of distressed baseballcaps. At first, it’ll go unnoticed. A green FidelCastro-style army cap is only fitting for a left-of-centre politician, right? But then it’ll be a fakegas station attendant hat with old school logofrom Pennzoil Motor Oil or Quaker State. Thenit’ll be a denim cap inexplicably adorned witha faded and tattered number 7. And before youknow it, Robertson’s gone full-on Kits, wearinga replica vintage Canucks baseball hat. Andyou know what that leads to — wraparoundsunglasses perched atop the brim of said hat,which he’ll never take off, not even in councilchambers. Not cool, bro. Not cool.

• Stage 2: Biking less and less because hedoesn’t want to take off his distressed Canuckslid, Robertson will seek other forms of fitness.Namely beach volleyball. His shirtless torsoarching mid-spike, silhouetted by the sinkingsun on Kits Beach. The dusting of beach sandcoating his ripped abs like the salted rim of amargarita glass. The smell of Hawaiian Trop-ics and Mike’s Hard Lemonade. The constanthigh-fiving. He’ll be so far gone the only bikehe’ll ride again will be a stationary one at RonZalko or the tricked-out downhill mountainbike he takes to Whistler on weekends.

• Stage 3: After tweaking his treasure trailmuscle in a particularly wicked beach vol-leyball game with members of the soul-funkband It’s All Good, Robertson will change uphis exercise routine and discover the cult-likeregimen known as Crossfit. In a few shortmonths, Robertson will get beefy. His pukashell necklace will barely fit around his bulg-ing neck. He’ll start wearing tank tops andother sleeveless shirts, if he even wears shirtsat all. At council meetings he’ll show off hisnewfound strength by bench-pressing Heath-er Deal and Raymond Louie before challeng-ing Penny Ballem to an arm wrestle. Whichhe’ll lose. But that will only inspire him totrain harder and get even more ripped.

• Stage 4: Tired from too many workouts,his head throbbing from the tightness of hisever-present distressed baseball cap andthe sound of the ocean lapping against theshore, Robertson will seek solace in music.Having pawned his tuba to pay for his down-hill mountain bike and a down payment on asweet Jeep YJ, the mayor will finally hit rockbottom and purchase a beat-up acoustic gui-tar in a sketchy back alley deal behind Fabu-tan. After a first few strums, he’ll be hooked.First it’ll be some laid-back Jack Johnsontunes, then Bob Marley, and finally he’llcheck into “Hotel California,” the cool windin his hair, the warm smell of colitas risingup through the air. “It’s such a lovely place,”Gregor will croon between sips of Corona,not realizing that, as the song says, he cancheck out any time, but he can never leave.

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Part of the lure is the nov-elty of Peruvian cuisine, for themostpartnewtoVancouver—though not to Chicha co-own-er Shelome Bouvette (Lolita’sSouth of the Border Cantina),who swears it’s much morethan just the “Next Big Thing.”

When we asked about howher passion for all things Pe-ruviancameabout,Bouvette’sface breaks into a broad grinas she recalled her voyage ofdiscovery to Mistura. Lima’sannual festival attracts notonly culinary luminati fromaround the world (such asFerran Adrià and Hester Blu-menthal) but an audience ofclose to half a million peopleover its 10 days.

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Our well-travelled groupwas awestruck as we ex-plored causa: brightly co-loured combinations thattransported the humble po-tato (and us) to new heights.

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It’s that artful point of dif-ference and the little ambush-es that set these plates apart,such as butternut squashstew with tacu tacu de locro(cripsy lima beans and ricecakes, topped with a friedquail’s egg, $12), or classic“cebiche” of chilled cod with

corn on the cob, cilantro andsweet potato. ($12).

An artfully piled quinoasalad with red onion, man-go and avocado arrives witha zesty cilantro jalapeñoand haucatay dressing, $10.(The haucatay herb, some-times compared to a crossbetween mint and corian-der, is indigenous to Peru.)Again, it’s the combinationsand contrasts that make thisdish one of the best vegetar-ian plates of the year.

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arts&entertainmentPhotographer focuses on plastic in Entanglement

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Michael J.P. Hall photographedso much grimy plastic over thelast five years that his film col-leagues could predict the sub-

ject of his next shot.“It was just a love/hate relationship with

plastic,” the commercial photographer andset decorator said.

Hall likes the way plastic sheeting catchesthe light. But he is disgusted at the amountof related waste the can be found on thestreets, in landfills, on film sets and con-struction sites.

Now Hall has fashioned fantastical pho-tographs for a series called Entanglement,which will be displayed at Telus World ofScience from July 16 to Sept. 2, and whichhe hopes will get viewers questioning theirrelationship with plastic trash.

“I feel like art that is harsh and combativedoesn’t penetrate people,” Hall said. “Youlook at Edward Burtynsky’s work, whichis images of disasters and terrible environ-ments, basically, but they’re so beautiful andso you want to look at them. You’re invitedin and you’re softened by the experience ofseeing them and that, to me, was importantwith this.”

But he also hopes viewers will feel anemotional response to Entanglement’s im-ages, which include a couple and a babysnuggled in a nest of plastic trash.

Hall conceived an ethnographic-style pho-to series that would appear to document aculture of proud people, say a hundred yearsfrom now, who have never seen new plastic,stumble upon its remnants and begin to cov-et it as something special in their lives.

He says when he described his conceit toothers in a hyperbolic manner, some point-ed out that future is not far removed fromwhere we are now.

“And then it made sense to me that it’s acomment on where we’re at now, not a com-ment necessarily on where we’re going,”Hall said. “You look at the way people treattheir iPhones, or their new water bottles andtheir new yoga mats, we covet this stuff.”

He and multidisciplinary performer anddesigner Nita Bowerman picked up plasticrubbish from the Vancouver Transfer Sta-tion and the sides of highways and Bower-man fashioned the refuse into elaboratecostumes for Hall’s shoots.

“She was experimenting and finding whatworked and eventually we found the esthet-ic,” he said. “It kind of had that feather-likequality.”

Hall secured the interest of Science Worldand then raised the bulk of the money forthe project through an Indiegogo.com cam-paign that was sponsored and executedwithin 21 days. He donated 10 per cent ofwhat he’d raised to Surfrider FoundationVancouver and the Great Canadian Shore-line Cleanup.

“So it’s not just some guy making someproject in his garage,” Hall said. “All of asudden it’s a community of people workingtogether. It’s a lot of people’s project now.”

An environmental art auction raised ad-ditional funds and a dance party spreadawareness about Hall’s focus and demon-strated that a little pre-planning can preventthe creation of unnecessary waste.

“It was a bring your own cup thing,” Hallsaid. “We had compostable cups that youcould buy and reuse… We did a waste auditon that whole fundraiser and produced, ac-tually, just one plastic bottle.”

At least two of Bowerman’s costumes willalso be displayed in the airy atrium near theentrance to Science World. “I’m hoping alot of kids will see it and ideas will pop intotheir brains,” the 34-year-old Hall said.

Entanglement opens July 16 at 6:30 p.m.with a free showing. Spots can be reservedon Eventbrite.com.

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Inhouse sake specialist Miki Ellis served up sake spritzersat the newly reopened and relocated Miku Restaurant inthe former Aqua Riva Granville Street space.

Lawn Summer Nights co-founder Duncan Gillespie hasseen his CF fundraiser expand to four other cities acrossCanada (Toronto, Victoria, Ottawa and London).

Sirish Rao and his wife, Laura Byspalko, created thecross-cultural Indian Summer Festival, a 10-daycelebration of food, music and ideas.

West restaurant wine director Owen Knowlton releasedOwen, BC VQA Cabernet Franc, produced by B.C.’sOkanagan Crush Pad.

Entrepreneur Francisco Javier Barajas and Latincouverexecutive director Paola Murillo hosted the Latin community’sbest and brightest at the Inspirational Latin Awards.

All You Need is Lawn members Evan Allegretto, Dini Lusneyand Evan Hall were among the stylish teams that came outin support of Lawn Summer Nights Cystic Fibrosis benefit.

U.S. Consul General Anne Callaghan welcomed guests,including her visiting mom, Jo Kervick, to celebrate her87th birthday, at a Fourth of July party.

Portland’s Erick Lichte, Chor Leone’s incoming choir director,sang both anthems at the U.S. Consul General’s July Fourthparty. Lichte and his wife, Ashley, move to the city this fall.

JACKED UP: Eva Markvoort spent her life with CysticFibrosis (CF), a genetic disease currently without acure. Her friends Duncan Gillespie, Andrew Dalik andGraham Dalik organized Lawn Summer Nights event—which Markvoort was able to take part in the inauguralyear — as a tribute to the 25-year-old’s vibrant energyand determination to raise awareness of CF. Markvoortpassed away in 2010, but her legacy lives on with theannual Lawn Bowling benefit, which has spanned toToronto, Victoria, Ottawa and London, ON. Forty stylishteams gathered at Granville Park Lawn Bowling Clubfor the fifth running. Since its inception, Lawn SummerNights, sponsored by KPMG, has raised over $250,000.

LATINFIESTA:Members of Vancouver’s Latin Americancommunity gathered at theRoundhouse for the InspirationalLatin Awards, part of Latin AmericaWeek andCarnaval delSol activities. LauraCuñer (business);Mario Pochat (arts),JulienPhipps, EvelynCervera andSilvia Ortega (sport) andTrevorHirsche (altruist, non-LatinoRoots)were feted fortheir outstanding achievements and contributions in shapingB.C.’s economy and cultural development.

HEAT IS ON: Vikram Vij fronted a culinary tour of SouthAsian Cuisine to kick off the third annual Indian SummerFestival. Festival founders Sirish Rao and Laura Byspalkogreeted partygoers to Dr. Sun-Yat Sen Classical ChineseGarden to kick off the Indian cross-cultural celebrationthat combines food, music and thought leaders.

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HOCKEY STARTOSPEAKATUBCRUNFORWOMENEVENTMEGANSTEWARTStaff writer

After the close of the 1998Olympics, Canada’s nationalhockey team captain HayleyWickenheiser suffered an

emotional low.The runner-up letdown of a silver

medal at the Nagano Games will neverleave her. “To the day I die, I will neverforget standing at the blue line duringthe medal ceremony,” she wrote in her2010 memoir, Gold Medal Diary. “Iwas completely crushed.”

One in four women will experiencedepression in her lifetime. Five per centwill live with depression for more thana year while less than two per cent willbe depressed for a month or more at atime. Women are three times more like-ly than men to suffer from depression.

Wickenheiser was never diagnosedwith clinical depression, but her mood fellto new depths. She had a way of coping.

“No matter how bad things are, I alwaysfeel better after a workout,” said Wicken-heiser, who won gold at three consecutiveWinter Olympics following Nagano.

Exercise that raises your heart ratefor at least 25 minutes is proven to ef-fect brain chemistry as well as antide-pressants and talk therapy. Researchalso shows running increases levels ofserotonin, a mood-elevating hormone.

On July 13, Wickenheiser will be inVancouver for the second annual Runfor Women, a Canadian race series forgirls and women that benefits women’smental health programs through theB.C. Women’s Hospital Foundation. Thefive- and 10-kilometre courses begin af-ter Wickenheiser speaks to the crowd at8 a.m. at UBC’s Thunderbird Stadium.There is also a one-km course for girls.Visit runforwomen.ca for more info.

Wickenheiser, 34, who has beencleaning up her hometown of Calgary

following the floods, spoke to the Cou-rier last week from the Okanagan af-ter finishing a national team trainingcamp in Penticton.

For the complete interview, visitvancourier.com/sportsQuestion: Do you include running inyour own exercise regime?Answer: I do running, biking, all sorts ofstuff — usually track work, mostly inter-val work. We don’t do a lot of long dis-tances with hockey. It’s mostly sprints.Q: How have you been helping clean upafter the flood in Calgary?A: A big group of friends helped orga-nize a clean-up crew and we have goneto seven or eight homes and completelygutted them and helped people get rid ofthe debris. The magnitude, it was indis-criminatory. Rich, poor... It didn’t mater.The amount of water in some homes issix feet up the wall. The stories the localswould tell was of a tsunami-like wavecoming through the neighbourhood.Q: Have you personally dealt with depres-sion or been close to teammates who have?A: For sure. I don’t know if I’d say clini-cal depression, but I can tell you, af-ter losing the Olympics in ‘98, I wentthrough a bit of an Olympic depressionfor about a year. It’s a huge letdownwhen you want something so bad andit doesn’t happen. We need to findways to cope. For me, I always feel bet-

ter after a workout.Q: How do you feel after you work out?A: Clarity, more energized. Better aboutmyself that I’ve been productive and donesomething that’s good for my own health.Q: How do you motivate yourself whenyou don’t feel like exercising?A: I always think about everybody elsethat’s working out when I’m not! The daythat I am not doing something or skip aworkout, someone else is doing it. I al-ways want to think about it like that andalso I have a desire to be the best athleteI can be. If you’re dedicating yourself ev-eryday to try to get a little bit better orto work on your fitness or different partsof your athleticism or career to improveover time, it really adds up. It doesn’t allhave to be done in one day.Q: You’re an Olympian — what aboutthe rest of us? What would you tell us tostay motivated when we don’t feel likelacing up the sneakers?A: I think it’s exactly the same philoso-phy. Sometimes it really is about gettingup, putting your shoes on and gettingout the door. Even if you start and say,“I’m going to walk 10 minutes aroundthe block,” it might turn into 20 or 30and you might surprise yourself. I thinkthat’s really a key factor: sometimes thehardest thing is just to get started.

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Hayley Wickenheiser, Canada’s national women’s hockey team captain, willspeak at the Run for Women, July 13 at UBC. Scan this page with the Layarapp for a link to the event website.

CANADIANS OPEN DOOR TO KIDSNat Bailey Stadium, home of the Vancouver Canadians,is opening its doors to 300 boys and girls this summer.Playing under the banner of the Vancouver CanadiansBaseball Foundation League (VCBFL) players aged sixto 10 will receive free equipment, meals and transporta-tion in order to learn a sport they might otherwise notbe able to connect with.

The VCBFL was founded last summer by the Van-couver Canadians Baseball Foundation and the Boys &Girls Club of South Coast B.C. The league is designedfor families who cannot afford to put their childrenthrough organized sports. Each of the 300 players aregiven a glove, batting helmet and ball bag, hot dogs atthe stadium after the game, and transportation to andfrom Nat Bailey if necessary.

The program lasts for seven weeks, from July 9 toLabour Day, and includes six games for each of the 13teams. The schedule was selected because it coincideswith both summer vacation and a rash of away games forthe Vancouver Canadians, which leaves Nat Bailey Sta-dium empty for more than half of the seven weeks.

“These are kids who wouldn’t otherwise get a chanceto play organized baseball,” VCBF chairman Jake Kerrsaid. “A lot of them don’t even understand that thereare three bases when they first show up. We want themto learn how to play baseball and team sports and buildconfidence. It’s something nice for them to do in thesummer and an opportunity to do something they nor-mally wouldn’t get a chance to do.”

Coaching roles are filled completely by volunteers,who include people connected to the Vancouver Cana-dians, employees of equipment suppliers and fans. Kerralso referred to the volunteers as mentors, and said thatthe league aims to teach players sportsmanship and“the kind of life values you hope kids would pick up.”

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It’s summer, and that means all kindsof fun for Vancouver cyclists. Dailycommutes under sunny skies, perfectweather for long weekend road rides,

the refreshing cool of the forest trails inStanley Park and Pacific Spirit Park in theheat of the day. It also means that the sum-mer’s festival of bike fun is almost upon us:Velopalooza!

So what is Velopalooza? It’s a community-driven celebration of biking that was origi-nally inspired by Portland’s Pedalpalooza.The goal is simple: promote fun bike rides

and events in Vancouver and its surrounds.A quick look back at past Velopaloozas isample demonstration of how the cyclingcommunity has taken this concept to heart.The first two years of the festival offeredevents that included food-themed rides,costume rides, kid-friendly rides, historictours, and even a chicken coop route. Thisyear’s festival runs from July 27th to Au-gust 11th.

So what’s on the calendar for 2013? Well,it’s looking pretty rocking at this point eventhough not all events are listed yet. On the27th and the 28th, there’s the opportu-nity to join the wonderful Slow Food CycleTours in the Fraser Valley. On Aug. 1, youcan sign up for a City Lights at Night Ride.If you have sufficient energy, the next daythere’s a Bike Art Crafternoon (the SpaceBabe edition, no less) and a Bike Art Nightride in the evening.

On Aug. 3, there’s my personal favourite:a 19 and over brewery tour (just be carefulhow much you imbibe before getting back onthe bike). For those looking for a little moreof a leg stretch the Vancouver Bicycle Club(whom I highly recommend as a friendly andwelcoming cycling group), invites newcom-ers on their Sunday Leisure Ride the follow-ing day. Through the following week there’sa gelato-tasting ride, a ride that celebratesmoving stuff (and kids) on cargo bikes, trikesand trailers, and a variety of local rides.

Not tempted by any of the above events?You’re also invited to submit your ownrides at velopalooza.ca. Your ride can fea-ture anything you’re passionate about:food, green spaces, local history, costumesor even raising awareness for a particularcause. All you need to do is come up with anidea, figure out where you’re starting, whatroute you’re going to take and how long it

will take to ride, and then post to the Velo-palooza calendar.

If you’ve never led a ride before, it’s actu-ally easier than you might think. The mostimportant things are to be welcoming, asflexible as you need to be, and willing tokeep an eye on your group to ensure that noone gets left behind.

I’ve been kicking around some ideas forrides that might be fun to add to the calendar.At the moment I’m leaning toward combiningmy love of bikes and libraries, and planning atour of Vancouver Public Library branches bybike. What do you think? What themes wouldyou like to see that aren’t already on the calen-dar? Send suggestions my way, or better yet,plan your own ride to celebrate cycling withfellow bikers this summer.

Kay Cahill is a cyclist and librarian whobelieves bikes are for life, not just for commut-ing. Contact her at [email protected].

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CORNER GASTOWN: The Gastown Grand Prix turned 40 this year and shows no sign of slowing down. The July 10 bike race, hosted for the second time by local tech companyGlobal Relay, lived up to its name this year by offering the largest purse of any North American criterium with $45,000 in prize money. Last year’s champion, San Diego-based riderKen Hanson (above, right), won the men’s division after a tight sprint to the finish line with a time of 1:17:47.60 over 50 laps of the 1.2-kilometre circuit course. Leah Kirchmann ofWinnipeg won the women’s title with a time of 0:52:40.40 over 30 laps of the same circuit, which loops west on Water Street, back down the hairpin turn onto Cordova and aroundpast the Gassy Jack statue on Carrall. Scan this page with the Layar app or visit vancourier.com to see more photos and video from the race.


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Grant + Sinclair was founded over 30years ago by Paul Grant and Douglas Sin-clair. The architecture firm has worked ona number of projects with an emphasis onsustainable designs incorporating naturalventilation and day lighting.

“This is extremely exciting for all ofus at Omicron as we continue to en-hance our profile as an architecturalleader in Western Canada, and we lookforward to offering our growing capa-bilities to our clients throughout B.C.and Alberta,” said Omicron CEO BillTucker. “Paul [Grant] and Doug [Sin-clair] bring with them an impressive bodyof work and a wealth of architectural ex-

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An application has been received by the Liquor Control and LicensingBranch, from Pink Pearl Restaurant (Vancouver) Ltd., operating the PinkPearl Chinese Seafood Restaurant, located at 1132 Hastings St. E, toallow for patron participating entertainment ending at 12:00 midnight daily.

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THORBURN, DeceasedNOTICE is hereby giventhat Creditors and othershaving claims against theEstate of William CharlesThorburn, late of 5926Earles Street, Vancouver,BC, who died on October26, 2012 are herebyrequired to send them tothe undersigned Executorc/o 700 - 401 West GeorgiaStreet, Vancouver, BritishColumbia, V6B 5A1, on orbefore August 24, 2013after which date theExecutor will distribute thesaid Estate among theparties entitled thereto,having regard to the claimsof which he has notice.David William ThorburnExecutorBy:Richards Buell Sutton LLPAttention: Patrick (Rick)Montens

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WHITE ELECTRIC Stove, selfclean, very good cond almostnew $300. 604-322-1377

Cementry Plot in OceanView, can take 1 coffin or 2urns, $9K obo,604-465-9572

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Old Books Wanted also:Photos Postcards, Letters,Paintings.no text books, en-cyclopedia. I pay cash. 604-737-0530

CATS & KITTENSFOR ADOPTION !604-724-7652

GERMAN SHEPHERD X Labpups, 8wks old, 1st shots,$300 each, 604-657-2072

GOLDEN RETRIEVER pupsCKC reg, vet a, ch parents,health tested. (604)794-3786

DUPLEXESFOR SALE

PLEASE HELP! Foster & Adop-tive homes urgently need forhomeless dogs. 604-535-2188

HOUSESFOR SALE

FOOD SERVICE CONTRACT

Native Education College

requires catering company

to run a quality concession

in a K3 kitchen. Retain all

food sales. We provide

facility, maintenance and

event catering opportunity.

Ask for details. Proposals

due July 20.

[email protected]

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APARTMENTS / CONDOS-FOR SALE

HOUSESFOR SALE

PROPERTYFOR SALE

RECREATIONALPROPERTY

PHOENIX MASSAGE CTR.Now Open - New High QltyInternational Girls AlwaysFresh!Chinese, Japanese,Korean, Punjabi,Thai,CaucasianGreat Massage Now Hiring.10am-Midnight every day.2263 Kingsway at NanaimoSt.Van 604.294.8038 .

ABBY 2BR 963sf condo. topfl, in-suite laundry. +55 build-ing $121,500 604-309-3947uSELLaHOME.com id4513

ABBY TOP flr 762sf 1 br condo,in-ste, laundry, 45+, Mt. Bakerview. $85,000 778-822-7387uSELLaHOME.com id5553

Amber LodgeOak & West 14th

1 BR’s ( Now & Aug 1)2BR’s (Aug 1)

Well maintained buildingclose to all amenities and

VGH. Some pets ok.604-731-2714

SRY/WHITE ROCK partialocean view, 920sf. 2b, den,2ba quiet condo, kids, petsok. $309,000 778-294-2275uSELLaHOME.com id5575

STEVESTON VERY lg 1284 sf2br 2ba top floor condo, mtnviews $455k 604-275-7986uSELLaHOME.com id5376

LANGLEY reno’d sxs duplex+1/2 ac. lot, rental inc. $2,300$489,900 604-807-6565uSELLaHOME.com id4513

CULTUS LK gardener’s dream1160sf 2br 1.5ba rancher, a/c55+ $63K. 604-858-9301.uSELLaHOME.com id5400

GUILDFORD 199SF 3br, 2baw/bment suite on huge 8640sf lot, $489,000 604-613-1553uSellaHome.com id5608

SMALLPEACEFULFARMset up for horses right besideSouth Langley riding trail.Bright & comfortable older 2bd home, f/p, barn, ridingrings, pastures. $849,900.604-323-4788.PropertyGuys.com id 76788

WATER VIEW LOT - PRICED

BELOW ASSESSED VALUE!

Walk to all lower Gibsons

has to offer! Call Shauna or

visit www.shaunagold.com

for details. (604) 218−2077.

$180,000

GALIANO EXECUTIVE Home& Cabin on priv beach,completely furn’d, manyextras, ready to move in.Reduced to $849,000! GlobalForce Realty. 604-802-8711www.yourlinktorealestate.ca

HATZIC LAKE 1hr drive fromVanc. 2 vacant lots, 1 lakefront$65K/both 604-240-5400uSELLaHOME.com id5588

HAZTIC LAKE Swans Point.1hr/Vanc. incl. lot & 5th wheel,ski/fish $134,500 604-209-8650uSELLaHOME.com id5491

KERRISDALE, 1 BR $1000,Now/Aug 1, h/w flrs, updated,incl heat & h/w, 1 yr lease,ref’s, np/ns, 778-772-7011

RENTALS

APARTMENTS/CONDOS FOR RENT

HOUSESFOR RENT

FARMS/ACREAGES

HOMESTAY

1 BR’s - Kerrisdale, great lo-cation! Close to shops, transit& schools. $1010-$1165Available Now. 604-677-3205www.lougheedproperties.com

1 BR well kept quiet bldg, clsto downtown Kerrisdale,$1000 incls hw/heat, ns, np,ref’s req’d, min 1 yr lease,avail Now,604-218-8208

2 BR large, new home,Victoria / 62nd, no pets, n/s,$1200. Avail now, Call Sam778-551-2487

3BR/1.5BA $1,550 Upstrs;nr

Fraser & 49;Immed NS/

NP;50%util 604−322−6356

LANGLEY BUILD your viewhome, secluded 5 acre ppty.$630,000 604-825-3966uSELLaHOME.com id4513

HOST FAMILY wanted. Pleasecontact us at 604-688-1811 or e-mail: [email protected]


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I still remember drivingone of the first Lexus LS to hit the market. I was shocked athow well the car performed against some of the establishedmodels in the market place. The car was so quiet and re-fined that it felt like it was riding on air.

Lexus has always been respected for building luxurious,safe and reliable cars. However, they were sometimes criti-cized for being too conservative. Recently, their new mod-els such as the blazing LFA supercar and sharp-looking GSand IS models have changed peoples’ opinion somewhat.

Lexus never forgot about the car that started its brand,though. All along the way, the LS maintained its technolog-ical innovation and unsurpassed luxury.

However, when held up against the established marketleaders from Europe, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and Jaguar,the Lexus flagship lacked a performance element. Well, for2013, that will end with the introduction of the new F Sportmodel.

DESIGN2013 marks possibly the biggest refresh this model line hasever seen. Half of the car’s six thousand parts have been re-engineered. The basic size and weight remain the same asthe outgoing model.

The most obvious change is the front fascia. Lexus’ newspindle-shaped grill gives the LS a bold new look. Otherrefinements include chrome accents, a lower front bumperand a bulge running up the centre of the hood. The chromeaccents along the side lead to a sculpted rear-end whichcontinues Lexus’ dramatic new image.

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, the LS’s new

headlamps project the sophistication at its heart. High-in-tensity discharge lights are standard but those seeking forsomething special can opt for an all-LED setup. The Lexus-logo taillamps are especially eye catching and definitely re-inforce the confidentance-inspired appearance.

The visual changes are nice, but the most exciting newsis the introduction of a performance edition. Available inrear-wheel and all-wheel drive, the F Sport does not re-ceive any more horsepower upgrades but it does get moreaggressive styling and unique suspension setup options.The results are startling as the F Sport can appear down-right sinister.

PERFORMANCEThe area that sees the least significant changes in the re-fresh is the engine compartment. Lexus’ naturally aspirateddirect-injected 4.6-litre eight-cylinder engine powers themajority of the line, except for the hybrid.

The rear-wheel-drive models receive six more horse-power, up to 386-hp and 367 ft-lbs of torque and the all-wheel-drive gets 359-hp with 367 ft-lbs of torque. The onlyalternative is a hybrid powertrain which mates a 5.0-litreV8 to two electric motors using a CVT transmission. Thesecombine to create 438-hp and 385 ft-lbs of torque.

Driving the new LS is also not a major departurefrom years past. Engine and road noise continue to bealmost imperceptible. However, the revised air suspen-sion system is a noticeable improvement as it deliv-ers a class leading smooth ride while remaining easilymanoeuvrable.

The Drive Mode Select feature allows the driver to fur-ther tailor the feel of their ride with Eco, Normal, Comfort,Sport and Sport S+ driving modes. Each selection alters thecharacteristics of the powertrain, suspension and steering.

The new F Sport option is the version enthusiasts aremost interested in. It boasts a lower, sport tuned air suspen-sion, larger Brembo brakes and 19-inch forged alloy wheels.These additions are impressive upgrades.

Under hard driving, body roll is nearly eliminated but thedampers are still smooth over most road imperfections. Thesteering is the sharper, though feedback is still not as re-sponsive as some of its rivals. The LS refuses to lose any ofits composure under any circumstance, reminding you it’sable to balance the performance with luxury. Generallyspeaking, even the F Sport is still very much tuned for re-finement and comfort vs performance but the overall feel isgreatly improved over the regular model.

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Customers have theirchoice of premium leatherupholsteries and five woodtreatments. This creates anenvironment that is out-standing in the luxury se-dan market.

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The large Optitronanalog tachometer andspeedometer are clear andeasy-to-read, but that’s notthe most noticeable im-provement. The previousmodel’s touch screen navi-gation has been replacedwith a 12.3-inch multi-media display unit. It’s sethigher and deeper in thedash making it easier toread and is controlled withthe Lexus Remote Touchhaptic joystick.

Also, Lexus’ signature an-alog clock is now equippedwith a GPS-based time cor-rection. This is a pretty neatfeature, even though it’slikely one that won’t be usedall that often.

Lexus didn’t ignore thosewho spend time in the backseat. They will be comfortedby the Ottoman SeatingPackage with Shiatsu mas-sage and a ceiling-mounted,nine-inch screen with Blu-ray DVD player.

With the redesigned LS,Lexus continues to offer un-surpassed occupant comfortin this price range.

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Standard equipment in-cludes a 16-way power ad-justable driver seat with autoslide-away and 12-way pow-er adjustable front passengerseat, dual-zone automaticclimate control, NavTraffic,NavWeather, fuel prices,sports and stocks from Siri-usXM Radio, enhanced

Bluetooth technology, 12.3-inch split-screen multimediacenter-console display, USBiPod connectivity, backupcamera, brake assist, elec-tronic brakeforce distribu-tion, smart stop technology,and park assist.

Additional features, avail-able as options or on highertrims include right-rearpower recliner with otto-man and multifunctionShiatsu massage, four-zoneclimate concierge, pre-col-lision warning system withall-speed dynamic radarcruise control, blind spotmonitor with rear cross-

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Lexus LS basic starting price is nearly $83,000Continued from page 37

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