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Thought I’d give you alittle more insight into theillegal marijuana dispensaryrevolution/battle/gong showplaying out in this town.I’ll focus on one block of

Commercial Drive, fromEast 13th to East 14th.Along that stretch is theB.C. Pain Society (at East13th and Commercial),the B.C. Compassion Club(southwest corner of East14th and Commercial) andStratford Hall private school(southeast corner of East14th and Commercial).They are so close to each

other that if staff from eachplace stood out on their side-walks, they could wave to eachother. But this trio of neigh-bours is not exactly chummy.They all have their reasons.I’ll begin with the B.C.

Pain Society, which at thetime of writing this sentence,had already received two$250 tickets for operating abusiness without a licence.As regular readers will

know, the city set April 29 asthe deadline for all pot shops

that hadn’t met certain zon-ing requirements or distanc-ing regulations— or weren’talready in the process ofseeking a business licence— to close their doors. Lasttime I checked, 44 tickets(including 21 to three shops)were handed out and 22dispensaries closed.The Pain Society, which

made headlines for beingthe first pot shop in Canadato sell marijuana in a vend-ing machine, was supposedto shut down because itfell within 300 metres of aschool. Stratford Hall wasone of those schools. Thedispensary is also within300 metres of St. Joseph’sSchool, which is much fur-ther south on the other sideof Clark Park.The Pain Society, which

opened more than two yearsago, argued its case at aBoard of Variance hearingand lost. The shop’s owner,Chuck Varabioff, told mehe felt the decision waspre-determined and that hewasn’t given enough time torespond to complaints fromStratford Hall.Staff and parents from

Stratford Hall showed upand told the board theydidn’t want the pot shop inthe neighbourhood. Afterall, they said, the schoolopened before the PainSociety did.Which is an interesting

point because the Compas-sion Club was on the blocklong before StratfordHall.Evenmore interesting isthe school didn’t attend theCompassion Club’s Boardof Variance hearing. I heardlater from a staff memberthat its position on the Com-passion Club was “neutral.”St. Joseph’s School,

which didn’t show up toeither hearing, told me theydidn’t have an issue with theCompassion Club stayingin its present location. St.Joseph’s said nothing aboutthe Pain Society.I should point out the

Pain Society is a retailoperation, whereas theCompassion Club is whatits name suggests. It offershealth services, includingtraditional Chinese medi-cine, craniosacral therapy,counselling, reiki and yoga.The board heard the clubhad 3,300 health care ap-pointments last year.

Also, the CompassionClub is the oldest dispen-sary in Vancouver andhas operated with “tacitapproval” from the city andthe police since the late1990s, according to founderHilary Black.But none of this washes

with Varabioff. He makesthe point that whether adispensary is set up as aretail operation or a com-passion club, the fact is this:marijuana is being sold onthe premises.“They’re selling the same

product,” said Varabioff,noting StratfordHall stu-dents regularly walk by theCompassion Club and itscustomers on their way toClark Park. “If [the Compas-sion Club] were any closerto the school, they would bepart of the school.”Added Varabioff: “I’m

more compassionate thananyone. I get cancer patientscoming in here and I givethem free product. So howmuchmore compassionatedo you want than that?”Further complicating this

mess on the block is all theSupreme Court of Canada

decisions that favour the useof weed (and edibles) andthe feds’ recent announce-ment that it will introducelegislation next spring tolegalize marijuana.For now, Varabioff plans

to dispute his tickets. Youshould also know he is oneof seven operators in thiscity who have a develop-ment permit to openanother shop (at 2849 EastBroadway) — this time, sofar, with the approval of thecity; his next step is applyingfor a business licence.The Compassion Club is

currently puttingmore paper-work together to seek a devel-opment permit to remain inits current location. If that isgranted, then it, too, can ap-ply for a business licence.The schools, meanwhile,

continue to operate and thecity continues to hand outtickets. Which brings meto this thought: I wonderwhat would have happenedhad the city and cops gottogether in October 2013 totake action against the potshops when there were only29 in this town?

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Getting schooled on marijuana, one block at a time12TH&CAMBIE

Students fromStratford Hall private school cross a section ofCommercial Drive, where two illegalmarijuana dispensaries oper-ate on the same block. PHOTODANTOULGOET


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The Vancouver schooldistrict is moving forwardwith next year’s controversialbudget despite the boardrejecting it last month.OnMonday, district su-

perintendent Scott Robinsonand staff began implementingthe proposed 2016/17 oper-ating budget, including the$24million in cuts needed tobalance the district’s books.Unless the board approvesanother budget before theJune 30 deadline, the super-intendent has to implementthe one rejected by the board.A new budget is unlikely tomaterialize unless the districtreceives additional fundingfrom the province.Vancouver School Board

chairMike Lombardi saidthe superintendent had tostart the process now in orderto ensure the district meetsall of its financial obligationsand is ready to go for the startof school in September.“The superintendent has

an obligation and the author-ity in the School Act to dothat because it’s his responsi-bility to make sure we don’tincur any financial liabilitiesas a result of what the districtis doing,” Lombardi said.“We have to have our schoolsopen with classes organized,teachers assigned [and] time-tables completed, and it’s gotto all be done by June 30.”It will take about two

months to work through the“considerable transfers andsome layoffs” affecting thedistrict’s 6,000-odd employ-ees as it needs to be done ina systematic and fair way thatis consistent with current col-lective agreements, he added.Lombardi and VSB vice-

chair Janet Fraser met withMinister of EducationMikeBernier in Victoria last weekto discuss the board’s decisionand options moving forward.Following that meeting, theminister directed his senior

staff to work with their coun-terparts at the VSB in orderto find ways tomitigate thebudget’s impact on students.Although staff haven’t

completed their work yet,Lombardi said he spoke toBernier on Friday and wastold that theminister’s hope-ful they will have some op-tions for the board to look at.Theminister did not

return requests for commentbefore theCourier’s printdeadline.Trustees voted to reject a

motion to adopt the pro-posed budget at Gladstonesecondary school April 28.The vote was split along par-ty lines, with Non-PartisanAssociation trustees support-ing themotion and VisionVancouver andGreen Partytrustees voting against it. Themotion was defeated 5-4.The proposed budget gen-

erated substantial controversydue to the deep cuts it con-tained in order to address anestimated $24million shortfallfor the coming school year, in-cluding removing the 30-stu-dent limit on class sizes inVancouver secondary schoolsand reducing the number ofteachers by the equivalent of33 full-time positions.Critics argued the

proposed budget woulddisproportionately affect thedistrict’s most vulnerable stu-

dents, as it would eliminatethe district’s anti-racism andanti-homophobia teachermentors, literacy/earlyintervention teacher consul-tant, and support workersfor gifted students and thosewith special needs.Before rejecting the

budget on April 28, theboard unanimously passedtrustee Fraser’s amendmentthat the anti-homophobiamentor be reinstated for oneyear. Lombardi said thatamendment is now officiallypart of the budget and theanti-homophobia mentorposition will be retained forthe 2016/17 school year.The proposed budget also

included eliminating theteaching positions associatedwith the optional elementaryband and strings program.Lombardi said the board isconducting a study of theprogram to see if there’s sup-port for a “user-pay” systemto fund it, but that it’s a sepa-rate process as it doesn’t haveany budget implications.The board was to be pre-

sented with a report on thefeasibility of a user-pay bandand strings program by asso-ciate superintendent NancyBrennan at the educationand student services commit-tee (committee III) meetingonMay 11 after theCourier’sprint deadline.

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District superintendent Scott Robinson and staff began imple-menting the proposed 2016/17 operating budget onMonday,including the $24million in cuts needed to balance the district’sbooks. PHOTODANTOULGOET


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and to look at the future ofGranville Island for the next25 years,” said Dr. Hedy Fry,LiberalMP for Vancouver-Centre, whomade the an-nouncementMay 6 on behalfof Jean-Yves Duclos, thefederal minister responsible forCanadaMortgage andHous-ing Corporation (CMHC),whichmanages the island.In her opening remarks

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gritty abandoned industrialarea into a vibrant, accessiblemulti-use public space.When asked by theCou-

rierwhy the island needs totransform again, Fry said:“Everything has to change.I’ve talkedmany times to thestakeholders who live here,who work here and they havehuge dreams for this place.”Overseeing those dreams

will be Dr.Michael Steven-son, president emeritus andvice-chancellor of SimonFraser University, who willlead the project on behalf ofthe CMHC.An advisory board and the

Granville Island Trust will helpguide the process and decisionsof the plan, which will alsodetermine the best governancestructure for the island.Themove to develop a

2040 plan comesmore thana decade after the CMHCbegan to create a similar planfor the island. But, Steven-son said by telephone, it wasnever completed.“Some planning was done

between 2005 and 2008, andI think it was the intentionoriginally that a formal planwould be produced andmade public by CMHC,”he said. “For reasons that

are obscure tome, that nevercame to be.”Stevenson said he agreed

with Fry’s description of theisland as a jewel. He said itwas a success story in Cana-dian urban planning and theproperty is much loved byVancouverites and tourists.But, he added, inevitablyafter 40 years they are “agingissues that need attention.”“There are a number of

infrastructure maintenance is-sues, there are trafficmanage-ment issues, there is transitconnectivity as a continuingproblem and there have been

changes in the 40 years thathavemeant the competitivelandscape for commercialenterprises, especially the foodmarket, has changedmark-edly,” he said. “But nobodywants to re-invent the wheelor fix something that isn’tbroken. That’s for sure.”He also noted there’s been

amigration of arts and cul-tural activity from the island,including the pendingmoveof Emily Carr Universityof Art andDesign to a newcampus onGreat NorthernWay in 2017.A key to finalizing the

plan, which is expected to becompleted by the end of theyear, will be to create a visionfor land use and arts and cul-ture on the island. A requestfor proposals to hire consul-tants was issuedMay 9.Asked about whether he

believed affordable housingwould be a component of theplan, Stevenson pointed outthe original reference docu-ment to transform the islandincluding some housing.None was ever built.“It remains an open ques-

tion,” he said.But, he added, given the

concerns of many residentsabout themassive growth ofVancouver in recent years,particularly with highrisesdowntown, he doubted thattype of development wouldbe included in the plan.“I’m certain, that given

the commitment to respectthe history and character ofthe island, that would not becontemplated by anybodyseriously looking at the plan-ning of Granville Island,”Stevenson said of highrises.“On the other hand, theremight well be an opportu-nity for forms of work-studyhousing that speak to theneeds of artists and artisans

working on the island. So,on the small scale, theremight be a way of integratingsome forms of housing undermodels yet to be devised.”Mayor Gregor Robertson,

who did not attend the newsconference and was unavail-able to speak to theCourier,said in a news release that hesupported the government’smove to develop a 2040 planfor the island.In April 2014, Robertson

announced that he wantedthe city to take control ofGranville Island from the fed-eral government. At the time,the government indicatedit was to give control of theisland to PortMetro Vancou-ver. That never happened.Robertson successfully

moved amotion at city coun-cil to have city staff provide acost-benefit analysis of whatit would cost for the city tobuy or lease the property andgain control of the island.That report has yet to go

before city council and it’sunclear whether the city isstill interested in the island,since the Trudeau govern-ment is now in power andhas left management of theisland to CMHC.

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The City of Vancouverwill have paid out $1.2 mil-lion in severance money to11 employees by the end ofthis year, with almost halfof it going to former citymanager Penny Ballem.The city paid out $680,296

of the $1.2million last year,when all 11 employees eitherresigned, didn’t have theircontracts renewed or left forreasons the city would notspecifically disclose.Another $615,671 will

be paid out this year tofour of the 11 employees,including Ballem whoreceived $222,638 last yearand will collect $333,957this year for a total of$556,595 in severance.“There are a number of

reasons for terminating anemployment relationship,which can include: restruc-turing, fit with team, per-formance issues etc.,” saidTobin Postma, a city com-munications manager, in anemail to the Courier. “Underthe Freedom of Information

and Protection of PrivacyAct, we are prohibited fromproviding further personalinformation regarding eachindividual.”Brenda Prosken, who was

the city’s general manager ofcommunity services, received$69,800 last year and will getanother $168,441 this yearfor a total of $238,241.The names of the 11

employees and the totalof their severance pack-ages were supplied to theCourier from the city. Thecity’s statement of financialinformation for 2015, whichwent before city council lastweek, indicated 11 employ-ees were given a severancebut no further details wereprovided in the document.Third behind Ballem and

Prosken in total dollars col-lected — once the year ends— will be Gary Wilson,the city’s former corporatesecurity manager, whoseseverance totals $115,962.Another employee on the

list is Carli Edwards, whowas the city’s assistant direc-tor of inspection services un-til she resigned inDecember

2014 after she was caughtrenovating her house withouta permit. Edwards collected$65,000 in 2015.Here’s the full list of for-

mer employees, their titlesand how much money theyreceived in severance afterleaving the city in 2015:• Carli Edwards, deputy

chief building official,$65,000.• Todd Ayotte, acting-

director of civic theatres,$74,553.• Wendy Stewart, man-

ager of council operations,$84,772.• Tejinder Sanghera, oc-

cupational health and safety

superintendent, $7,509.• GaryWilson, manager of

security services, $115,962.• Brenda Prosken, general

manager of communityservices, $238,241.• Brent Dozzi, civil engi-

neer, $66,685.• Paul Boutin, project

manager, $3,897.

• Murray Steer, man-ager of equipment services,$51,902.• Penny Ballem, city man-

ager, $556,595.• Timothy Sansom, direc-

tor of financial planning atpark board, $30,849.The city paid out sever-

ances to 13 employees in2014, six in 2013 and 15 in2012. The payouts are notlisted in the city’s state-ments of financial informa-tion for those years.The statements provide

details on the city’s revenuesand spending and list thesalaries of all city employ-ees, except police officers,who earned more than$75,000 per year.Prior to her contract

not being renewed inSeptember 2015, Ballemwas the city’s top earnerat $343,767. Her replace-ment, Sadhu Johnston,earned $285,232 last yearand will earn $316,000 thisyear. Mayor Gregor Rob-ertson earned $160,950 in2015 and this year’s salaryis pegged at $161,308.

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An umbrella or anembrace, love is shelter.Especially in the temper-ate rain forest, love can betwo people getting closeto stay out of the storm.The image of an

entwined couple, walk-ing side by side under anumbrella in the Vancou-ver rain was one sourceof inspiration for BruceVoyce, the Strathconaartist whose stainless steelsculpture will be the latestinstallation put in a publicpark.Four 12- to 14-foot-

tall statues of entwinedfigures, each holding anumbrella, will be installedat Queen Elizabeth Parkas the designated place forcouples to lock up theirlove. Selected as the parkboard’s love lock instal-lation after an extensivereview that considered 13locations, Voyce’s Lovein the Rain will becomea destination for loverswho seek to secure theirromantic intentions witha modern symbol of com-mitment: a padlock thathas no key.“I’m just delighted

to make artwork aboutlove,” said Voyce. “Theart itself forms a kind ofsacred place for love, andbeing a project completedby people with their love.A big part of this artworkis getting together andhaving people expresstheir love — it’s morethan just a sculpture. Itwill be interesting to see itcome to life.”Love lock installations

started spontaneously in

various European cities,including Paris, wherelovers and spouses shutpadlocks on the Pont desArts and other bridgesbefore tossing the key intothe Seine River. Manylocks are engraved withmarriage dates and namesof the besotted.In response to what

some cities, includingVancouver, consideredvandalism to public prop-erty, municipalities fromMoscow to Toronto haveintroduced public instal-lations — as opposed toinfrastructure such asfences — specifically forlovers and their locks.The park board is spend-ing $50,000 on one forVancouver.But unlike a generic

circular shape or lettersthat spell a word like“love,” Voyce said he wasdetermined to create artthat drew on the environ-ment and added meaningto this city and its rainfor-est.He did this with an

umbrella, a metaphor thatcan be taken further sincepeople also use one whenthe sun is out.“Rain or shine, love

has its moments of bothjoy and struggle. What-ever the weather, lovewill hold you together,”said Voyce. “That iswhere I was going withthe artwork, to createsomething that gives anintimate space. Queen EPark is a nice, romanticplace where people willbe seen holding handsand you can hear thebirds.”Love in the Rain will

feature four tall, sepa-

rate, three-dimensionalfigures of embracingcouples of indistinctgender, race and culture.The lower-half garmentson the figures will becrafted as open, decora-tive filigree and madefrom stainless steel solocks made of various al-loy metals will not react,rot or rust.The skirts of the four

figures will supportseveral thousand locks,according to informa-tion from the park board.Keys can be depositedin a box on site with theintent they will be melteddown for use in a futuresculpture.“There will be a lot of

surface area for peopleto attach locks to, lots ofpossibilities,” said Voyce,whose extensive, large-scale public installationsexplore the intersectionof humanity, technologyand the inevitable returnto nature.Voyce said he is proud

to offer couples a newritual they can add totheir shared experienceand memory, a publicexpression of privatesentiment that willtransform the more it’sused.“Each person has their

own story they will beadding to the artwork,”he said. “Interactiveartwork can transforma group of people intopeople who are communi-cating and interacting ona different level. It’s justwonderful.”Love in the Rain will be

installed at Queen Eliza-beth Park in August.

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Artist Bruce Voyce peers through a stainless steel heart that will form part of his work, Love inthe Rain, the designated “love lock” installation chosen by the Vancouver Park Board for QueenElizabeth Park. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET


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A heritage school is onceagain in the top spot onHeritage Vancouver’s an-nual Top 10 endangeredsites list. Bayview elemen-tary at 2261 CollingwoodSt. earned the dubioushonour for 2016. It repre-sents conservationists’ on-going concern about thecity’s historic schools. Lastyear, Point Grey secondarygrabbed the top spot.Bayview was built in 1913-

1914 in the Classical Revivalstyle. It’s on the VSB’s prior-ity list for a seismic upgrade— hence the concern.Patrick Gunn, who sits on

Heritage Vancouver’s boardof directors, said schools area major issue in Vancouver.“They have been for the

past 10 to 12 years since theseismic mitigation processhas been going on,” he said.“They are such a strongcommunity landmark andthat’s generally why we’veput schools at number onebecause the issue is ongo-ing and there doesn’t seemto be any resolution in thenear future.”Two of Vancouver’s heri-

tage schools were knockeddown this year — J.W.Sexsmith and Sir JamesDouglas. Gunn said schoolbuildings serve as the centreof communities, so there’sa lot of passion for historicones. The seismicmitigationprocess, in which the schoolboard determines whethera school is preserved orreplaced, is the crux of theproblem, according toGunn.“Everyone agrees the schoolsneed to be seismicallyupgraded. The issue is howthat process goes about andthe funding that the VSBreceives from the provincialgovernment,” he said.But Gunn maintains

highlighting schools onHeritage Vancouver’s watchlist has made a difference.“When we first started,

there was no real focus evenon heritage with the VSBand we’ve actually been hav-ing quite a few encouragingdialogues with the VSB inthe last few years becauseof this,” he said. “And youcan see, even in the lastyear, there’s now a processof looking at the heritageresources where there hasn’tbeen in the past. So, it isimproving and that’s one ofthe reasons the Top 10 listis pushed out there — tocreate this continued aware-ness. We’re encouraged bywhat has happened, butwe’re still losing schools ata rapid rate and there arestill quite a few more on thechopping block.”A new addition to the en-

dangered sites list is CrownLife Plaza at 1500WestGeorgia. Built in 1978, it’sin the number two position.The tower, pool and

waterfall serve as a gate-way to the central businessdistrict and “are highlyvisible on the walking routefrom Stanley Park via theCauseway,” a writeup aboutthe list points out. PeterCardew was the projectarchitect for the building.The Vancouver Heritage

Commission wants theentire immediate block,including the plaza, addedto the Vancouver Heritageregister. It’s currently on thecity’s informal list of recentlandmarks. Gunn saidconcern about the site wassparked by a developmentpermit. There’s a proposalto develop the east side ofGeorgia Street, which wouldrequire the pool and water-fall to be altered or removedto make way for a tower.“The issue we have isn’t

with the design of the tower,but it’s the infill and howit should be subordinate tothe primary tower. [In] theoriginal proposal, the infilltower was becoming primaryand taking out one of themain significant componentsof 1500West Georgia, which

is that large pool and plazaarea,” Gunn said. “Sincethen, it’s been amendedsomewhat, but it’s still goingto take out that whole plazaand waterworks area.”Chinatown, meanwhile,

captured third place on thewatch list. Preservationistsfear for its future with ongo-ing development.While new buildings

are required to retain a“Chinatown look,” cityguidelines don’t addressall the characteristics thatthe community considers

important, according toHeritage Vancouver.“These characteristics in-

clude tangible and intangi-ble aspects of Chinatown’sunique and authenticcharacter, such as commu-nity and cultural activities,a diverse housing mix foraffordability and an agingpopulation, and experiencesof Chinatown’s culture andheritage in urban life,” Heri-tage Vancouver explains.Society manager Bill Yuen

said lately Chinatown hasearnedmedia attention over

such concerns and activ-ists have called for a morato-rium on development.“I think a lot of people are

feeling that the character ischanging quite a bit with thenew residents coming in, thenew developments comingin,” he said. “It’s not reallytying in with the characterin Chinatown. And there’sthis feeling that if nothingmore is going to be doneabout the neighbourhoodcharacter, there’s going tobe a loss of Chinatown—that’s one of the reasonswhy it’s on the list and whyit’s so high up. If you talk tomy parents’ generation, theyfeel like Chinatown is notChinatown anymore.”Yuen hopes the city can

introduce new tools, outsideof zoning, to protect China-town’s intangible character-istics. He cites such placesas the neighbourhood’sbarbecue shops. Yuen saidperhaps they could get taxincentives because they rep-resent an intangible value.“If you look at the plan-

ning documents for Chi-natown— the ChinatownNeighbourhood Plan, the

Economic RevitalizationPlan and also the Down-town Eastside Plan, thereare a lot of aspirations forwhat Chinatown should be.And I don’t think there’sany confusion by anybody, ifthey read those documents,what the intent [is about]how Chinatown should be.There’s a vision there, butthere’s a gap between howto get there. Zoning anddesign guidelines by them-selves aren’t going to helpthe vision materialize. So Ithink there’s a gap in tools. Ithink we should move [awayfrom] tying heritage solely tobuildings.”The final seven entries

on the watch list are:• Salvation Army Tem-

ple (1950), 301 East Hast-ings St.• St. Stephen’s United

Church (1964), 7025 Gran-ville St.• Red Light District of

Alexander Street, 500-600blocks of Alexander St.• Commercial Drive• Townley &Matheson

homes• Vancouver College• False Creek South.

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est city in the world,” they would bedoing something about the growing prac-tice of spraying insecticides containingneonicotinoids to preserve private lawnsfrom the impact of chafer beetles.But you would be wrong.

And you would think that when asked,the city’s corporate communications folksto whom you are directed when inquiringabout this poisonous practice would domore than email you a copy of the city’shealth bylaw (no 9535) and direct you tothe section (210) then shrug. Wrong again.Except they did say that someone at

city hall, couldn’t say who, is lookingat the bylaw, but don’t know why or towhat end. Now that’s comforting.(By the way, when CBC addressed

this issue last week, Vancouver failed toprovide anyone to speak to it.)Section 210 of bylaw 9535 provides a

loophole that is big enough to float an oiltanker through; it says all pesticides thatmay not otherwise be used can be used ifthere is a pest infestation “which involvesan immediate or potential risk of substan-tial loss or damage.” I’ll get to that “lossor damage” in a moment.Now I should tell those of you who

don’t know, just to be transparent, thatwhen I am not writing this column forthe Courier, I spend much of my time as abeekeeper.I should also tell you that among the

many things afflicting the lives of honeybees as well as native bees globally is thevery same insecticide that is used to killthe larvae of chafer beetles; those grubshave been passing through their larvalstage munching on grass roots through-out the Lower Mainland for the past 15years. (Lawns are actually ripped up bycrows and raccoons feeding on these ap-parently tasty critters.)Honey bees are affected by taking pol-

len and nectar from any plants growingon or near treated lawns. (The chemicalis watered to soak into the ground. Thewater is picked up by the roots of anynumber of flowering plants or weeds andgets into the plants’ nectar or pollen.)But even if there are no flowers affected,

Mark Winston, one of North America’sleading bee scientists, points out the impacton native bees is even more lethal. He callsit a “considerable menace.” Consider thatabout 70 per cent of native bees, includingsolitary bees and bumble bees, are exposedbecause they live in the ground.To its credit, the Vancouver park

board does not use any insecticides on itsproperty. If chafer larvae are present, ituses nematodes, a tiny insect introduced

to the ground which feeds on the chaferbeetle larvae.The trade name for the most com-

mon insecticide is Merit. It is producedby Bayer. Bayer, with very little researchaccording to Winston, claims the prod-uct “minimizes risk for use on turf.” Butneonicotinoids in Merit disrupt the nerveimpulses of the insects ultimately killingthem. They have the same effect on beesand other pollinators.Actually neonicotinoids kill a wide

variety of insects and have been used tocoat seeds planted by farmers. They area systemic, which means, once coatingthe seed they permeate the whole plantas it grows.So what is this “immediate or potential

risk of substantial loss or damage” thatallows this practice?In Vancouver that usually means mess-

ing up a lawn.

But among other things, lawns havebecome more of an environmentalhazard than a benefit. What began asan affectation of European aristocratscenturies ago was imported to NorthAmerica to offer the illusion of a bit ofEden to suburbanites.According to the latest statistics from

south of the border, lawns consumemore than 30 per cent of the potablewater in that country — more than theamount water required to grow all thewheat and corn in the U.S.Of course there are alternatives to that

strip of grass, and at least one environ-mentally sound solution if you chooseto keep mowing. And then there are thebees.These are all good reasons for “the

greenest city” to do more than shrug andallow this menace to continue.

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Neonicotinoids kill awide variety of insectsand have been used tocoat seeds planted byfarmers… Sowhat is this‘immediate or potentialrisk of substantial loss ordamage’ that allows thispractice? In Vancouverthat usuallymeansmessing up a lawn.


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Last week, a group ofyoung people sang songs inYiddish at Vancouver’s an-nual commemoration of YomHaShoah, Holocaust Re-membranceDay. For someof the elders in the audience,including the grandparentsof some of the singers, thesewere the lullabies of theirchildhood, in a languagealmost unheard in Vancouveror anywhere these days.Six million Jewish people

were murdered in the Holo-caust, including most of theworld’s Yiddish speakers.After the war, Judaism andthe Yiddish language wererepressed in Soviet-domi-nated Eastern Europe.In Israel, where a large

proportion of survivorsmigrated, Yiddish bore theheavy history of the Jew-ish experience in Europe.Hebrew, which just half acentury earlier had beenrelegated almost exclusivelyto religious purposes, wasrevived into a working lan-guage of everyday life in thenew Jewish state, a symbol ofrenewal and determination.Faith Jones, a local

scholar who will deliver aseries of lectures on Yiddishculture at the Jewish Com-munity Centre beginningnext week, sees the languageas suited to a very particulartime and place.“I think what’s interest-

ing about Yiddish cultureis it really thrived at timeswhen the Jews were veryinfluenced by the Westernworld and modernity, butwere not actually integratedinto the Western world andmodernity,” she says. “Aslong as Jews were separate,there was reason for Jewsto have a separate languageand separate culture.”

Yiddish emerged andthrived at a time when Jewsin Europe were forciblysegregated into geographicareas, prohibited frommany professions and eventold what to wear. Thissegregation meant Jewswere mostly speaking toother Jews and so Yiddishdeveloped as an insularlanguage. However, manyJews, particularly men, weremultilingual so they couldcommunicate and interactwith their Polish or Ukraini-an or German neighbours.For this reason, and the factthat male scholars also knewHebrew, says Jones, Yiddishwas sometimes called a

“woman’s language.”While there were various

factors, including cata-strophic history, that dealtYiddish a blow, Jones saysequality and integration arealso part of the equation —and that’s a good thing.“We want to be of this

world and that means thatwe take what goes alongwith that and that meansthat our culture changesand meshes with the rest ofthe world,” she says. “Tome, the thing about Yiddishthat makes it so interestingis that it can only exist inthis moment when Jews arein between being separateand being merged.”

While Yiddish thrivedas a spoken language forcenturies, I was surprised tolearn that Yiddish literaturehad a very brief heyday.“The Enlightenment came

very late to the Jews,” saysJones. “So the idea of novelsand the idea of reading thingsfor pleasure was sort of a laterdevelopment.” The JewishEnlightenment took placemostly in the 19th century,and while there was somewriting in Yiddish before that,it didn’t constitute much of aliterary movement.The 1850s saw the

beginning of a Yiddishliterary renaissance, but acentury later, the language

was nearly dead.But it is not entirely

dead, Jones hastens toadd, and it may have aninteresting future.There are Chasidic groups

— Jewish religious commu-nities originating from East-ern Europe but nowmostlyin Israel and New York—that maintain Yiddish as alingua franca. These groupshave an extraordinarilyhigh birth rate and remainrelatively insular, meaningthat, like the earlier Yiddishspeakers, they talk mostly toone another. There is also,on the other end of the spec-trum, a movement of notparticularly religious Jews

keeping Yiddish languageand culture alive, includinghere in Vancouver at thePeretz Centre for SecularJewish Culture.Jones thinks that the next

generations of Yiddish speak-ing Chassidic Jewsmay her-ald the emergence of a newform of Yiddish, maybe evena new language if it strays farenough from its roots.“I think whatever hap-

pens next, they will prob-ably be developing eithersome new variety of Yid-dish, some kind of mix be-tween English and Yiddishhere and between Hebrewand Yiddish in Israel.”Traditionally, Yiddish

was the language of theweek, Jones says, whileHebrew was the languageof the Sabbath. Even so,she adds, the first recordof written Yiddish is a signinside a German synagoguetelling congregants 800 ormore years ago that if theywanted to fight they shouldtake it outside.“There you have it,” she

says. “The first known Yid-dish text comes from a syna-gogue, although it’s definitelya secular message.”Michael Wex, a Canadian

academic and author ofBorn to Kvetch, has arguedthat Yiddish was a languagethat had a unique capacityto express the Jewish experi-ence in Europe over thepast millennium.Given that history,

despite her devotion tothe language and culture,Jones is not heartbrokenthat it is in decline.“I’m not one of these

people who thinks that thedecline of Yiddish is theworst thing that ever hap-pened to the Jews,” she says.“There are a lot worse thingsthat happen to the Jews.”

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Praised for its bold, atten-tion-grabbing photography,easy-to-follow layout, strongeditorials and great features,theVancouver Courier tookfirst place in the NewspaperExcellence category at theB.C. YukonCommunityNewspaper Awards this pastweekend.Photographer DanToul-

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Olson received second placehonours in the Cartoonistcategory. Columnist JessicaBarrett took third place in the

columnist category. Formereditor Barry Link receivedbronze for Online Innovationfor his holiday podcast “AChristmas Story.”And photographer

Rebecca Blissett took homesilver in the Portrait/Person-ality Photo category for her“tender” shot of a tattooedman and his pet bird, whichwas part of reporter SandraThomas’s feature series onresidents of the DowntownEastside and their pets. Last

month, Thomas won bronzeat the Canadian Commu-nity Newspaper Awards forthe series. At the nationalawards, theCourier alsoearned second place for BestWebsite and BestMulti-media Feature for CouriereditorMichael Kissinger’sstory and video “Humour asa weapon against the Holo-caust.” Lisa Smedman’s fea-ture onHungarian refugees“In from the cold,” won goldfor Best History Story.

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Dan Toulgoet earned gold in the Colour Feature Photo categoryfor this photo of children jumping over open flames during PersianNew Year celebrations.


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DevelopmentPermit BoardMeeting: May 16The Development Permit Boardand AdvisoryPanel will meet:

Monday, May 16, 2016 at 3 pmVancouver City Hall,453 West 12th AvenueGround FloorTown Hall Meeting Room

to consider the followingdevelopment permit application:

1661 Davie StreetTo develop this site with a mixed-use building consisting of threelevels of commercial use, whichinclude: a grocery store, liquorstore, and retail; two residentialtowers containing a total of 319dwelling units (market rental)with a common amenity on thethird level, all over three levels ofcommon underground parking,accessed off of Davie Street andthe lane.

TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM:604-873-7770 [email protected]

Public Hearing: May 24Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 6 pmCity Hall, 453 West 12th AvenueThird Floor, Council Chamber

Vancouver City Council will hold a Public Hearing toconsider zoning and heritage amendments for theselocations:

1. Sign By-law Amendment – Floating SignsTo amend the Sign By-law to broaden the scope of theby-law and alter the definition of a sign to include signs onwater, and regulate floating signs.

2. 101 East 2nd AvenueTo rezone 101 East 2nd Avenue from M-2 (Industrial)District to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) District topermit the development of a three-storey retail and officebuilding for Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), includinga green roof and three levels of underground parking. Aheight of 24 metres (79 feet) and a floor space ratio (FSR)of 2.04 are proposed.

3. 3365 Commercial Drive and1695-1775 East 18th AvenueTo rezone 3365 Commercial Drive and 1695-1775 East18th Avenue from RS-2 (One-Family Dwelling) to CD-1(Comprehensive Development) District. The rezoningproposal is to create two sub-areas with a combined floorspace ratio (FSR) of 2.40 FSR. Sub-Area 1 proposes 110secured market rental units, with a maximum buildingheight of 18.3 metres (60 feet) and an FSR of 2.70. Sub-Area 2 will contain the heritage house currently located at3365 Commercial Drive, restored and converted into twounits, and a two-unit infill building. The heritage house willbe relocated to face East 18th Avenue and be added tothe Vancouver Heritage Register. A maximum height of9.4 metres (30 feet) and an FSR of 0.96 are proposed inSub-Area 2.

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Anyone who considers themselves affected by the proposed by-lawamendments may speak at the Public Hearing. Please registerindividually until 5 pm on the day of the Public Hearing by [email protected] or by phoning 604-829-4238. You mayalso register in person at the door between 5:30 and 6 pm on the dayof the Public Hearing. You may submit your comments by email [email protected], or by mail to: City of Vancouver, CityClerk’s Office, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1V4.All submitted comments will be distributed to Council and posted on theCity's website. Please visit vancouver.ca/publichearings for importantdetails.

Copies of the draft by-laws are available for viewing starting May 13 at theCity Clerk’s Office in City Hall, 453 West 12th Avenue, Third Floor, Mondayto Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. All meetings of Council are webcastlive at vancouver.ca/councilvideo, and minutes of Public Hearings areavailable at vancouver.ca/councilmeetings (posted approximately twobusiness days after a meeting). For real time information on the progressof City Council meetings, visit vancouver.ca/speaker-wait-times or@VanCityClerk on Twitter.

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summerChef Victor Bongoteaches kids tocook throughthe SuperChefsCookery forKids program.

The program runs in schools,community centres, resorts,summer camps and atculinary events across NorthAmerica. SuperChefs haspartnered with several

provincial, national andinternational organizations,including the Surrey SchoolDistrict, University of B.C.,International Association forCulinary Professionals and

Westin Hotels and Resorts,where he works with the KidsEat Well Program, organizedto make an impact on kids’health all over the world.

Bongo has also openedan orphanage in his Africanhomeland.

“I have big passion for kidsand working with kids,”says Bongo. “From my kidsorphanage I opened in myhomeland the Congo tohelping kids around the worldand my own community hereteaching them the one thingI know best — cooking. Itook my love of cooking andincorporated it with singingand dancing and made it fun.”

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Meanwhile at homein Vancouver, Bongosays when it comesto cooking in thegreat outdoors, tinfoil is king and itallows campers tomake a deliciousdish without abig mess to cleanafter. One of hisfavourite campingmeals is madeup of fish, herbsand maple syrupwrapped in foiland tossed onto thecoals of the campfireto infuse the fish with“smoky deliciousness.”The following is Bongo’srecipe for a quick andeasy gourmet dinner at thecampsite.

Maple and herb glazed salmonINGREDIENTS

4 5-oz salmon filets8 slices of lemon¼ cup maple syrup2 garlic gloves, minced2 tbsp. fresh chopped dill2 tbsp. fresh choppedtarragon4 tbsp. butter1 shallot chopped2tbsp. olive oilSea saltFresh crackedblack pepperTin foil

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Season salmon filets withsea salt and fresh crackedblack pepper.

In a small bowl, whisktogether, maple syrup,minced garlic, choppedherbs, chopped shallotsand olive oil. Season withsalt and pepper to taste

Place salmon filetsindividually in tin foil.Spoon the maple syrupmixture over the salmonsand layer two lemon slices,and one tbsp. of butter, oneach salmon filet.

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The list of plants availableat the annual UBC sale wasendless; the perennials alonetook up 12 pages of theinventory list, but it was thecollective knowledge of thegardeners that set this plant

sale apart from others.Saturday’s sale at the

UBC Botanical Garden,called “A Growing Affair,”started more than two de-cades ago as the “PerennialPlant Sale.” It’s hosted by agroup of gardening enthu-siasts, many of whom arecertified master gardeners

called Friends of the UBCBotanical Garden, or FOGas they call one another.“People want information

and they want to learn,” saidRonda Tuyp, a FOGmastergardener and sale’s chairper-son. “That’s what makes thisplant sale different from a lotof them out there because a

lot of us are experts on plants.We propagate them here, weraise them, we grow them,we label them— everything’sdone by the FOGs.”The gardeners have also

tracked gardening trendsthroughout the years,especially in relation to theshift in Vancouver’s housing

market, added Tuyp whohas been involved with thesale since its start.“We find the focus is

much more geared towardssmaller gardens as opposedto when we first started outin 1991. Then, there werehuge estate gardens wherepeople were looking for veryrare and unusual plants,”said Tuyp. “People noware looking for vegetables,fruits that they can grow intheir own home and patiocontainers for plants andsmaller gardens. We’venoticed the trend in thelast five years and, so we’readjusting to that trend.”Other challenges the UBC

Botanical gardeners faceinclude dealing with inva-sive plant species and pests.Amongst the tables set upin the garden where expertsfielded questions about birds,rare plants and pruning,botanical garden “Hortline”staff along withmaster gar-deners had their own station.There, staff focused on intro-ducing the public to topicssuch as fire ant preventionand benefits of micro clover.On the latter subject,

Tuyp said the clover isa good replacement forgrasses, especially on localboulevards and mediansthat have been destroyed bythe European chafer beetle.“You’ll notice all the

boulevards are amess,” saidTuyp. “It’s the chafer larvaeunder the turf and the crowsand raccoons dig down toeat them because they’reluscious, fat, and chewy...People want to learnmore,too, about how tomanagegardens. They don’t havegardeners doing it for them,they’re doing it themselves.”New gardeners are also

interested in plants andflowers that help the bee,

bird, and butterfly popula-tions due to all the dire me-dia stories about the species’plights of late, added Tuypwho added plants in the salewere all suited to Vancou-ver’s coastal climate.In addition to having an-

swers to any dirt and plantquestion (the most popular:shade vs. sun plants), thegardeners also provided thesort of customer service thatmost retail businesses couldlearn a thing or two from.For instance, if you hadgiven up on finding a sweetpea flower, one of the gar-deners would have trackedyou down 10 minutes afterenquiring with said plantin hand. Thirsty? A highschool volunteer would pouryou a glass of iced lemonwater from a jug they carriedaround the grounds.It’s a passion for plants

and natural landscapes theFOGs share, a tradition thatbegan in 1975 whenDr. RoyL. Taylor, then director ofthe UBC garden, placed anotice in the school alumnipaper, asking for volunteers.That initial group of sevengrew into today’s activemembership of 160, severalof whom volunteered for thepopular annual sale.Kelly Cannell and her

brother Thommake a pointof visiting the sale every yearbecause it’s a well-pricedexperience.“Look at all that,” Kelly

said, pointing to a smallforest of trees, shrubs andplants she, Thom andThom’s kids, Summer andCalder, had hauled from thecashier table to the park-ing lot. “All that for $70.It’s less than half price thanwhat we would’ve paid any-where else. This is the bestsale — it’s our favourite.”

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Annual event hosted by Friends of the UBC Botanical Garden

Community

1. Kelly Cannell and herbrother Thom Cannell withhis children Summer, 9, andCalder, 6, show off theirhaul from Saturday’s UBCBotanical Garden’s annualplant sale. 2. Friends of theUBC Botanical Garden’s plantsale featured knowledgeablegardeners Katherine Levy(left), Ronda Tuyp and JanetBoeur. See photo gallery atvancourier.com.PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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2016 SUMMER PROJECTS &NORTH RUNWAY OPERATIONSSUMMER PROJECTSStarting May 8th the Runway End Safety Area (RESA) construction on the southrunway will commence six nights a week. This work is scheduled to be completed onSeptember 2, 2016. During this time the north runway will be used to accommodateany take offs or landings seven days a week between the hours of 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.Up-to-date information about the closures will be available at www.yvr.ca/updates.

NORTH RUNWAY DEPARTURESAs our air travel continues to grow, the north runway may be used for departuresduring the day to help reduce delays during peak periods starting May 8th.Based on the forecasted demand, use of the north runway for departures may occurbetween the following hours:7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday to Friday; and7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

We appreciate your support and thank you for your ongoing patience as we continueto maintain the highest safety standards at Vancouver International Airport (YVR),and serve our passengers and community at large.

Arts & Entertainment

1. Ballet BC closes its 30th anniversary sea-son May 12 to 14 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre.PROGRAM 3 features the remount of artisticdirector Emily Molnar’s 16+ a room, the Cana-dian premiere of Bill by Israeli sensation SharonEyal and the remount of I and I am You byFinnish-born choreographer Jorma Elo. Detailsat balletbc.com.

2.We haven’t heard from the Pack A.D. fora while, but Vancouver’s stompy, riffy, bluesy,garage rock duo is back for two noisy nights at theCobalt, May 12 and 13. They also have a newalbum called Positive Thinking coming out thissummer, so expect to hear plenty from it. Tick-ets, if there are any left, at Red Cat, Neptoon,Highlife Records and ticketweb.ca.

3.TheDOXADocumentary Film Festivalcontinues until May 15. We’re particularly stokedabout the Vancouver-produced filmWizardMode aboutRobert Gagno, a champion pinballplayer with Autism. It screensMay 12 at VancityTheatre. Details at doxafestival.ca.

4. Ruby Slippers Theatre and Zee Zee Theatrejoin forces for the premiere of Brad Fraser’s5@50. Billed as “an ensemble tour-de-forceabout friendship, addiction and co-dependence,”it runs May 12 to 28 at PAL Studio Theatre.Tickets at tickets.theatrewire.com.

5. Ederlezi 2016, the seventh annualBalkan-Ro-ma spring festival takes over the Grandview Le-gionMay 13 and 14 for two days of music, dancingand workshops, includingFanfare Zambaleta(San Francisco),M9 Balkan-Turkish Ensemble(Seattle) and Vancouver’s Orkestar SlivovicaBrass Band with Serbian trumpet master DemiranCerimovi, among others. Tickets at Highlife Re-cords, BoemmaDeli and caravanbc.com.

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Artist Andy Dixon revealed his latest brightlycoloured works at the Winsor Gallery. Hisexhibition Expensive Things brilliantlyreimagines familiar subjects.

John and Lotte Davis staged #IWANT2BEbenefit for One Girl Can. More than $180,000was netted to provide education opportunitiesfor African women.

Cause We Care founder Andrea Hill, director Suzie Wall and Tiffany& Co’s vice presidentWendy Eagan fronted the sophomore Cause WeCare charity luncheon in support of single moms in need.

SUPERMOMS: Vancouver-basedcharity Cause We Care Foundation andits supporters recently came together fora fundraiser at Boulevard Kitchen andOyster Bar. Founder Andrea ThomasHill and event chair Vandana Varshney-Lecky welcomed guests to the sophomorerunning of the power lunch in supportof single moms and children in need.Presented by luxury jeweler Tiffany &Co., the afternoon luau raised more than$65,000. The money will go towardsfunding welcome kits and amenities forthe YWCA’s Cause We Care House,a 21-unit subsidized housing facilityscheduled to open this fall for women andchildren who need a safe, affordable placeto call home.

BIGCOURAGE:The 18th Courageto Come Back Awards was one for theages. A record crowd of 1,600 guestspiled in to the Convention Centre forthe province-wide annual campaign thatpays tribute to B.C. residents who havedemonstrated extraordinary courage intheir recovery from illness or adversity.Business leader and philanthropist LorneSegal once again chaired the awards din-ner, which saluted six individuals. Awardswere bestowed in the categories of Ad-diction (Jemal Damtawe), Medical (TomTeranishi), Mental Health (BarbaraHarris), Physical Rehabilitation (ChristyCampbell), Social Adversity (MeredithGraham) and Youth (Coltyn Liu). Therecipients’ stories prompted the well-heeled crowd to whip up a whopping$1.44 million for Coast Mental Health.

GIRL POWER:One Girl Can is aVancouver-based charity that empow-ers young women in Africa, founded byLotte Davis, CEO of AGHair and origi-nally a native of Africa herself. More than300 dynamic influencers and businessleaders attended the firm’s second annual#IWANT2BE fundraiser at the ImperialLounge. Emceed by Shaw TV’s FionaForbes and presented by TD Bank, theevent featured a variety of fundraisingopportunities to raise cash and makea difference in the lives of young girls.Almost doubling last year’s initial haul,more than $180,000 was netted from thesocial mixer earmarked to build residenc-es for students at Ganze Girls SecondarySchool in Kenya.

Brain injury survivor Coltyn Liu received theCourage to Come Back Youth Award fromScotiabank’sWinnie Leong. The yearly dinnerraised $1.44 million for Coast Mental Health.

Artists David Robinson and Darcy Greiner’snew show of porcelain works was on display atthe Gallery of B.C. Ceramics. Eversion explores“tensions that exist between what is interiorand what is exterior.”

Courage to Come Back recipient JemalDamtawe survived the violence of Ethiopia’scivil war and the harsh streets of Vancouver’sDowntown Eastside. He and his wife Vinciawere feted at the awards ceremony.

Jens Marquardt, Ada Chan and SiavashChamanara officially opened Veuve Clicquot’sGranville Street pop-up Roof Garten patio forthe summer.

YWCA’s Jenn Bateman and Kathy Lilyholm and single mom NicolinaBellwere on hand for the Cause We Care power lunch. Event proceedswill go towards providing essentials for tenants of the soon-to-openCause We Care House.

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So believable is Lanie,an ex-marine and Ithaka’smain character, it’s hardto believe Portland play-wright Andrea Stolowitzdidn’t serve in the armedservices in Afghanistan.This is a result of the taut,crisp writing, thorough re-search and actor StefaniaIndelicato’s fully commit-ted performance. Handsclenching, eyes wild,Indelicato doesn’t simplywalk the stage, she shredsit in her work boots. She’snot only emotionally intoit but she’s physicallyperfect: tall, strong, andrangy with dark, curly hairyanked back into a pony-tail. Like a festering sliver,Indelicato gets so deepunder Lanie’s skin it willbe a wonder if she doesn’tsuffer post-traumaticstress disorder when theshow closes.We all know about

PTSD or we think we do.And while we might thinkit’s a relatively new dis-

order, just ask Odysseuswhose return to Ithakawas fraught with obstacles.And if we think we’veheard it all before, Odys-seus (Brent Hirose) setsus straight: we don’t knowwhat war is like unless wewere there.Lanie has returned from

combat and “passed” thede-briefing examination.She’s told she’s good togo. But she’s not, she’sbroken. Fights erupt withher husband Bill (AdamLolacher) who loves herbut doesn’t want to hearabout “people’s legs beingblown off.” She doesn’twant to see friends. Every-thing is “bulls***.” And,having let her cat Pixie outthe door, the cat is lost.This seems inconsequen-tial until Stolowitz con-nects it to the very heart ofIthaka: how do you forgiveyourself for a decisionyou made that had a fataloutcome?As the doctor, trying

unsuccessfully to injectLanie with a calming seda-tive tells her, everyone has

to find his/her own way toforgiveness.Appropriate to the dis-

order order itself, the playgoes in and out of realitywith nightmares, fantasiesand dream sequences.Evie (Yoshié Bancroft), afellow marine, materializes

to give Lanie comfort andadvice. Lifting the play outof unrelenting heaviness(although, unbelievably,the opening night audi-ence laughed at much thatwas not funny), Bancroftdoubles as Lanie’s catPixie. It’s a stretch that

doesn’t completely work:Pixie, in choosing to runaway, embraces the risksof living dangerously,which includes coyotes.Similarly, Evie and Laniechose the marines andmust accept the risks. It’sa stretch but it allows forsome cat jokes that doglovers will love. While ap-preciating the enliveningeffect of all the cat mate-rial, Ithaka could havedone with less of it.A brief stand-up comedy

act that, we assume, Lanieimagines also lifts the play.A serious line that standsout from the comedyroutine, “You are whatyou think about death,” isworth pondering.Completing the cast and

providing what, hopefully,will bring peace to Lanie,is Desiree Zurowski asEvie’s mother EM.Many theatre companies

could take a hint from setdesigner Rafaella Rabinov-ich. Staged alley-style withseats on both long sides ofthe performance area, thereis one major set piece: a set

of tracks — like a four-meterrailway— on which restsa wheeled, wooden plat-form. Performers move thisplatform back and forth andit becomes a car, a hospitalbed, a roller coaster or what-ever is required. Simple,spare, wonderfully effective.Stolowitz interviewed

many ex-marines and theirfamilies while research-ing Ithaka and it paid off.Directed by Jessica AnneNelson (artistic director ofExcavation Theatre) andco-produced by dreamof passion productions,Ithaka has the ring oftruth. That core ques-tion is still rattling aroundin my head: how do youreconcile a decision youmade that had a fataloutcome? Most of us praywe’re never put in thatposition.For more reviews, go to

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Ithaka explores PTSD with truth... and catsTHEATREREVIEW

Ithaka is at HavanaTheatre until May 14.For tickets, go toithaka2016.bpt.me.

Stefania IndelicatoandAdamLolacher star inPortlandplaywrightAndreaStolowitz’s Ithaka.


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The fire rushes throughCalifornia’s forest, leapingup redwoods and growingwith every gust of wind.One of Marin County’sfirefighters will battle theblaze, saving lives andhomes. When she’s done,she’ll go back to her cell.The firefighter/convict is

one of the subjects of BrettStory’s disturbing documen-taryThe Prison in TwelveLandscapes,which screensMay 14 at Vancity Theatre,as part of the DOXADocu-mentary Film Festival.The film never shows us

the firefighter’s face, nordoes it take us inside a pris-on. Themovie is less aboutthe physical structure of aprison andmore about a sys-temwhose tentacles stretchacross the country like anH.P. Lovecraft monster.Rather than a traditional

jailhousemovie about guiltredeemed or innocencerecognized, Story focuses herdocumentary on the peopleoutside the walls, and on theprison-industrial complex.WhenU.S. President

Dwight D. Eisenhower wasreadying to leave theWhiteHouse in 1961, he punctu-ated his parting speech witha dire warning.“The total influence:

economic, political, evenspiritual, is felt in every city,

every state house, everyoffice of the federal gov-ernment,” he said. “Thepotential for the disastrousrise of misplaced power ex-ists, and will persist.”He was talking about the

military-industrial complex,but this movie shows hecould have just as easilybeen discussing the coun-try’s multi-billion dollarprison system.Story introduces us to

one St. Louis ex-con whosecrime was improperly secur-ing the lid of a garbage can.Unwilling to pay the steepfine, she goes to prison.“Thesemunicipalities are

funding their garbage collec-tors through over-fining poorblack residents,” Story says.Approximately a quarter

of the world’s prisoners, 2.2million criminals, are doingtime inU.S. jails and prisons.The incarcerated popula-tion has grown 4.5 timessince 1980, primarily due todrug arrests, according to anarticle fromU.S. News andWorld Report.Prisons are also expanding

in Canada, with plans fornearly 500 new bunks for of-fenders inminimum-securityprisons around B.C.“I was really interested

in how prisons themselvesare farther away and harderto access than ever before,”she says. “They’re actuallyexpanding and yet we don’tsee them and therefore don’tthink about them.”Utilizing wide shots

of bleak landscapes andintimate portraits of her sub-jects, Story takes the viewerfrom eastern Kentucky toDetroit to Ferguson,Mis-souri to the chess tables ofWashington Square Park inManhattan.In Kentucky, a long-time

resident walks across a val-ley that was amountaintopuntil a coal-mining com-pany levelled it and strippedthe ground. Unburdenedof mining jobs, the com-munity’s biggest employerbecomes its prison.“It’s recession proof,” a

Kentuckyman explains toStory. “You close a factoryand you ship the jobs over-seas. You can’t do that witha federal prison.”President Barack Obama

made headlines last yearwhen he tweeted: “We couldeliminate tuition at everypublic college and universityin America with the $80 bil-lion we spend each year onincarcerations.”The president’s notion of

squandered talent comes tolife when wemeet NahshonThomas as he appraises hischess opponent over the tur-ret of a castle.He strategizes but never

seems to strain as he passeshis days winning $5 chessgames inWashington SquarePark. As an audience,we wonder if his intellectcouldn’t be put to someother use.“It’s really an invitation for

people who think that their

lives don’t have anything todo with the criminal justicesystem,” Story explains.“Those of us who thinkwe’re outside of it somehow,that it has nothing to dowith our lives, to actually feelimplicated.”Sometimes we’re impli-

cated directly, like when wehear messages left for prison-ers in Attica, and other timeswe’re left to make our ownconnections, such as whenStory guides us through amortgage loan companyspearheading an urban revi-talization project in Detroit.Bruce Schwartz acts as

a spokesman for QuickenLoans, showing us how safedowntown has become whilediscussing the spiraling rent.While he speaks, Story

cuts to a shot of a fewblack people in the dis-tance, suggesting they’vebeen excluded from therevitalization.“You really feel that

when you’re downtown thatdowntownDetroit is a muchwhiter space than it ever hasbeen before,” Story says.Story has tackled other

social justice issues includ-ing housing and poverty,but somehow, “they leadback to the issue of in-carceration in one way oranother,” she says.

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According to her Kitsi-lano high school yearbook,Ruth Enns (née Allison) isa tall, well-dressed brunette,known for her comicalcharacter. She lists “fuss-ers” as her pet peeve and,as I learned firsthand, is notexactly a fan of communitynewspaper editors reluc-tant to give her a definitiveanswer whether they canattend and write about herclass reunion.After several increasingly

blunt emails and phonemessages launched in mydirection, Enns decided tobring out the big guns forher persuasive argument:the promise of live music,a flagrant use of punctua-tion marks and a fondnessfor the caps lock on hercomputer’s keyboard.“WE ARE EVENHAV-

ING BAG PIPES!!!!!!!!!!!”she wrote me. “THIS isNOMICKEYMOUSEOPERATION.”If you haven’t guessed,

Enns is what you would calla “firecracker” — energetic,tenacious, unrelenting andcharmingly quirky.It also explains why

Kitsilano’s Class of 1946has whooped it up everyyear for the past 20 and lastweek marked its 70-year“grand finale” with a mod-est luncheon at the MarineDrive Golf Club. Twenty-three Kitsilano graduatesand guests walked, shuffledand rolled into a smallbanquet room at the poshprivate members’ club lastThursday, and Enns greet-ed them all with a hug, kiss,smile or quip. “Oh he’sa miserable old bugger,”Enns said of a classmatewho wasn’t happy with theseating arrangements.While Enns never stopped

moving, her sharp dressedright-handman on the orga-nizing committee, BobKerr,maintained amore casualpace collecting the $25 ad-mission fee from classmates.“Ruth runs the show,”

said Kerr. “Without her, weprobably wouldn’t have thisreunion.”Kerr’s favourite memories

of high school have noth-ing to do with education.When pressed for specifics,he mentions a classmate’scovert attempts at makingbathtub gin and how he andhis group of friends inex-plicably decided to all wearpyjama tops to school oneday, which resulted in a tripto the principal’s office.The memory seems as a

quaint as the nametags scat-tered across the reunion’swelcome table: Edith,Trudy, Gilbert, Vivien,Reta, Bernice.Of course, life for these

former classmates wasn’tall quaint or without strife.Kitsilano’s Class of 1946grew up during theDe-pression, lived through theSecondWorldWar andsaw classmates of Japanesedescent sent to internmentcamps, never to be heardfrom again. But when askedabout their time in highschool, everyone I talked toonly recalled fondmemories:themusic of JimmyDorsey,GlennMiller, and Sinatra,sock hops, paper drives,saddle shoes, bobby sox, Pe-ter’s Ice Cream shop, lastingfriendships and an abun-dance of jobs and affordablehouses after graduation.“It was such a wonderful

time,” said Pat Edwards, aretired school teacher, likeEnns, now living on theSunshine Coast.When a microphone was

passed around the room forgrads to chime in with their

favourite memories, VivienSanford (née Parfitt) said,“All the boys,” followed bya chorus of giggles.She then paused and got

choked up. “So many mem-ories,” she said quietly.With the average age of

graduates between 87 and88, Kits’ Class of 1946 has,not surprisingly, steadilydwindled. Seventy years ago,they numbered 174 strong,but now only 48 remain,according to Enns who livesin Kitsilano after stints inArmstrong and elsewhere inthe LowerMainland. At thebeginning of the luncheon,Kerr asked for a moment ofsilence in honour of the class-mates who had died sincethe last reunion, includingHelen Boyce (née Santos)who called herself the world’soldest cheerleader and wouldgleefully lead a cheer at everyreunion.Enns then read a poem

she had written for theevent about her old highschool, which began withthe lines, “They ripped outher guts with those massivemachines/but they couldnot tear out her heart/stillsweetly, painfully throbbing/with teenage memories.”A few minutes later, Enns

pulled out her kazoo andeveryone rallied around tobelt out their beloved schoolsong, “Hail Kitsilano.”The song still gets per-

formed at school functionsand was written in 1936by Sanford’s father, IvorParfitt, who was the highschool’s music teacher.“How do you think all of uskids got A’s,” she said.On the subject of teach-

ers, in a “fun vote” held atthe reunion, the Class of ’46awarded P.E. teacher MissGladys Munton (all thefemale teachers were namedMiss) as their favourite edu-

cator, narrowly beating outmath teacher DonMcK-enzie. After the vote, Kerrconfided he had voted forMiss Sellon — the Frenchteacher. Say no more.At the end of the lun-

cheon, former classmates,reacquainted pals andlifelong friends joined armsin a circle to sing “AuldLang Syne,” with Bob Gibbon pipes, before releas-ing helium-filled balloonsin the school’s blue andgold colours in memory ofthose who died that year.As an emotionally stunted44-year-old man, I have toadmit that bagpipes and“Auld Lang Syne” are theclosest things to Kryptonitefor me. I’m just glad theydidn’t sing “Danny Boy”for an encore, or I’d havebeen a snotty mess.“It’s a close group and see-

ing everyone for these lun-cheons keeps us close,” Kerrtoldme. “It’s a very happytime and it’s a sad time. It’sgreat to see everyone, but forsome it’s the last time we’llever see each other again.”I talk to Enns the next

day on the phone to getsome background informa-tion, but before I can saymuch she tells me, “I’ve gotto say, that photo of you inthe Courier doesn’t flatteryou at all. I was expecting amuch older man.”Duly noted.Enns says they still might

hold a small reunion or coffeedate next year for Kitsilano’sclose-knit Class of 1946, butthey wanted to go out witha bang while they still hadsome spring in their step. Ifthey do hold a 71st reunion,there will be fewer in atten-dance. But I have no doubtEnns will be among them.I also expect at least half adozen emails and phonemessages lettingme know.

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Class of ’46 celebrates 70 years of Kits high memoriesIN FOCUS

Ted Glenn and Ruth Enns, with her kazoo, lead the Class of 1946 ina rendition of “Hail Kitsilano.” After that, former Kits high class-mates locked arms to sing “Auld Lang Syne” and released balloonsin honour of thosewho had died that year.See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOSDANTOULGOET


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tunnels, which we enteredby descending severalstories into a well and exitedfrom a pondside cave. Andyet when I asked him abouthis favourite memory fromthat day, he mentioned ouraccidental hike. I didn’trecall him being a happyhiker, but he wasn’t having

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chase on time in Lisbon,where each day begansketched lightly and wasprogressively shaded in onwhim. Our wandering ledus to Oceanarium, Lisbon’saquarium, which we almostskipped because it was, well,another aquarium. Thecentrepiece of this familyattraction, which was builtfor Expo 98, is a 5,000-cu-bic-metre tank that holdsmanta ray and zebra sharks.A wraparound pathwayleads visitors from the top ofthe tank all the way down.It’s here we sat the babyon the ground to watch thebubble-eyed bottom feedersthrough the window. Be-cause we’d wanted to pleasethe baby, we had stumbledonto an unexpected delightfor ourselves.My daughter, of course,

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Formore than 20 years, theDragon Zone Paddling Club“squatted” on the southeastshore of False Creek. Theclub’s general manager gave alittle laugh about this fact andacknowledged how gratefulshe was for the allowanceand access to land that isnow closer to becoming theclubhouse they covet.“The community has

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designated boat house anddocks for the better part oftwo decades and came closeto realizing that ambitionroughly a decade ago beforethe 2010 Olympic Gamesupstaged plans to build anextensive paddling centre atthe future Creekside Com-munity Centre. Phelps, akayaker who has been in-volved with the club for 26

years, including 18 as GM,said the interruption cameas a surprise.“Wewere unhappy it was

stopped [at that time],” shesaid. “They decided that itwould be better as a generalcommunity centre with somelimited boating access.Werenewed our activities so wecould still get some docks.”The docks were permit-

ted, but the club expandedas it needed, said Phelps,letting out another littlelaugh. “I have to admitwe grew without anybodynoticing. We had a prettygood run.”The expanded pad-

dling centre opened withsix accessible docks andsix small storage units, animprovement, but a sizethat nonetheless limits theclub’s ability to expand, saidPhelps.“It’s built to house what

we have now,” she said.The docks accommodatetheir 800-pound dragonboats but they lack perma-nent winter storage anda club house for social,administrative and commu-nity space.

The next planning stageis for that boat house, butPhelps said the park boardhas halted plans. Nonetheless,the Dragon Zone PaddlingClub will build on severaldecades of advocacy and drawup its own designs, includinga space for rowers, who were“cut out of the equation” inthe latest changes.“We hope [the next

phase] will allow us to havesignificant growth as faras more equipment, moreprograming and a place for

the paddlers and rowers tocall home,” said Phelps. “Wethought we would be plan-ning it with the park board,but they have put that strat-egy on hold. So, we are goingtomove ahead and plan iton our own, then we will begoing after funding.”The park board approved

the latest improvements inMay 2014, pointing to thediscrepancy between thelarge number of committed,competitive paddlers and theirlacklustre dock and storage fa-

cilities. Initial estimates placedthe cost at approximately $3million, and the total bill was$3.2million. Funding camefromCommunity AmenityContributions, an accountbankrolled by developers inexchange for the city grantingdevelopment rights and rezon-ing. Long-term supportersof the Dragon Boat Festival,Concord Pacific, alsomade a$1-million contribution to thepaddling centre.The newwaterfront

centres are six small storage

buildings for non-motorizedboats, while and paddlingequipment, six floating docksand two ramps improve ac-cessibility for boats to enterand exit the water. In 2013,roughly 4,400 people, includ-ing school groups, participat-ed in the society’s programs.The club’s membership isroughly 2,300 paddlers.Inspired by the Chinese

origins of dragon boating,the architect used floatinglanterns as inspiration forthe new docks and storageareas. Semi-translucentpanels on square buildingscreate the effect, especiallyvisible at night, of course.False Creek is popular

with all kinds of non-mo-torized boat uses, includingkayakers, out-rigger paddlers,canoers, rowers and stand-up paddlers, if surfboards areincluded in the tally. Dragonboating was put before aninternational crowd in Van-couver during Expo 86.

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The expanded paddling centre on False Creek includes six small storage buildings for non-motor-ized boats and paddling equipment, six floating docks and two ramps to improve accessibility.PHOTO ROB KRUYT

The Concord PacificDragon Boat Festivalruns June 17 to 19 onFalse Creek.


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Your work place continues to be pleasantand affectionate, even if snafus and setbacksoccur. This is your last week of work and healthconcerns, and also your last week of indecision,delays and false starts. So delay new starts inprojects, purchases and relationships until May22 onward (May 26 if you want to also avoid abad practical/financial outlook). For now, upholdongoing ventures, and/or reprise the past.

This is your last week of revelry, celebration, andsocial whirling, so dive in and have fun while youcan. Remember, don’t start any major projectnor relationship before May 22 — spend yourtime with ongoing projects, or those that havereturned from the past. (That includes old flames— and old social/club involvements.) Get aweek’s worth of errands done Sunday (and someroutine ones Monday morning.)

Remember, Cap, start no new ventures norrelationships before May 22. Stick with ongoingprojects, or reprise the past. The general accentremains on creativity (careful, confusion reigns)romance, beauty, pleasure, risk-taking, and charmingkids. An old flame, if he/she hasn’t shown yet, mightthis week. (BTW, if you’re unattached, and have achoice between an old flame and a present one, theformer is more wedding-oriented.)

One last week of hard work, Leo, then (Friday)you’ll enter a month of cheer, optimism andpopularity. Remember, start nothing new beforeMay 22. Until then, protect ongoing projects fromdelays and mistakes, and/or reprise ventures fromthe past. Ditto for relationships. You’ll impress theboss or another VIP during this easy, fortunateweek. (And soon, their requests and direction willemerge from the mist of cluelessness.)

The main accent continues to lie on your home,family, roots, security, nutrition, stomach and soul.There have been some twists and turns in this sectorover the last few weeks, indecisions and false starts,unexpected little glitches. But an air of affection andhope has buoyed you, too. Continue to avoid newstarts before May 22 (May 26, if you really wantto succeed, or if large money is involved). Handleneglected chores around the home.

This is your last week of delays and snafus —still, don’t start anything before May 22. Spendyour time protecting ongoing ventures and/orreprising past ones. If you’re single and an oldflame appears, welcome him/her – especiallySunday, when your magnetism and energysoar. (This day is great – after 4 a.m. PDT – forleading, seeing and being seen, persuadingsomeone to accept you or be on your side, andto impress significant persons.

The accent remains on errands, short trips,curiosity, media/news, visits, communications andpaperwork – busy stuff, but not important stuff.Don’t start anything new, especially in these busyzones, before May 22. (E.g., a new email campaignwould yield almost nothing.) For real success,wait until May 26 onward to begin projects orrelationships. Double-check figures and addresses.Prepare a list – actually, keep a running list – longbefore you go out to fulfill it.

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The number of high schoolsprinters who joined the top10 fastest athletes in the

100m, 200m, 400m and 800m(since records started in 2008)at a public school meet May

3 and 4.

12The number of seconds —12.56, in fact — Magee tracktalent Julie Kawai Herdmanran the junior girls 100m race,setting a new record for theage group at the Point Grey

track May 3.

16The points scored byunranked senior boys

Kitsilano Blue Demons ina one-point upset over

provincial top-10 Lord ByngGrey Ghosts May 3. The AAALower Mainland rugby zonetournament continues May

12 to 19.

: On the official status of spinningwheels…

1The Global Relay GastownGrand Prix is the only

criterium road race in Canadato earn UCI status, accordingto an announcement May 10.This year’s cobblestone critis July 13, part of B.C. Super

Week July 8 to 17.

“This UCI designationis a reflection of therace’s importance tobike racing in Canada.”— John Tolkamp, president of Cycling Canada Cyclisme, thecountry’s national governing body for the sport, on the fact theGastown Grand Prix was granted status by the Union CyclisteInternationale (UCI) as a sanctioned race.

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Six games coming to TV this summerMegan [email protected]

The summer televi-sion schedule just got alittle busier. The Vancou-ver Canadians inked abroadcast deal with ShawTelevision, and baseballfans can catch C’s gamesthrough the upcomingsingle-A season.The station will air six

home games, all of themon Saturday nights start-ing at 7 p.m.Aside from a single

game that was broadcastlast year as a trial eventfrom Nat Bailey Stadium,C’s games haven’t airedon TV since 1999 whenthe Vancouver club wasthe AAA affiliate of theOakland A’s, said Cana-dians communicationsmanager Rob Fai.“It’s something we’re

really proud of. It’s been17 years since we’ve donethis,” said Fai.The minor league Blue

Jays affiliate purchased theair time from Shaw andwill sell in-game “inven-tory” — which meansbusinesses can pay to at-tach their name to the firstpitch or the third inning orthe chicken dance duringthe seventh inning stretch,for example. (My choice isalready made, not that I’min a position to act on it.)The club does not influ-ence the commercials thatair during breaks in thegame. The evening broad-cast are sponsored byA&W, the restaurant chainwhose chairman is C’s co-owner Jeff Mooney.Last season, Shaw

broadcast a meetingbetween the C’s and thevisiting Eugene Emeraldson July 18 with ChicagoCubs first-round draftpick Ian Happ at centrefield.The five cameras used

during that game will be

augmented to six, with theadditional angle com-ing from behind homeplate. Sideline reporterVanessa Ybarra will workthrough the broadcastalong with Fai calling theplay-by-play and retiredMajor League infielderand current UBC T-Birdshead coach Chris Pritchettadding colour.The games will air re-

gionally with the poten-tial to reach a provincialaudience in the future.As Canada’s only minorleague baseball team, theclub’s president hinted atan ambition for furtherbroadcast expansion.“As an organization,

we are excited to have theopportunity to expand ourreach even further withthis new agreement,” saidAndy Dunn in a press re-lease. “We are committedto making the Canadians anational brand.”Besides the six that will

air on Shaw, all othergames will be broadcaston TSN 1040.

C’s to air on ShawCANADIANS BASEBALL

Goaltender played with VancouverMinor before bantam season with North ShoreWinterhawks


Jesse Makaj was only ninedays old when his parentsintroduced him to hockey,a swaddled newborn inthe stands to see one of histhree brothers on the ice.His first memories at the

rink are seeing his oldestbrother Josiah play for a B.C.championship with Vancou-verMinor— and win.“That was really an

inspiration for me,” saidMakaj, who was selected22nd overall by theKootenay Ice in the WHLBantam Draft in CalgaryMay 5.Years later, Josiah

strapped his oversizedgoalie pads onto his kidbrother and taught Makajall his moves. “What-ever he would say to me, Iwould do it,” he said.Makaj, a 15-year-old

who played with Vancou-ver Minor until he relocat-ed from East Van to playwith the North VancouverWinter Club this pastseason, was the top B.C.goaltender selected in the2016 draft, the first pickof the second round. (ThePortland Winterhawkswere forced to forfeit theirninth-overall pick.)The head scout for the

Kootenay club, GarnetKazuik, said six-foot-two

Makaj offers the Ice thedouble serving of size andspeed.“He’s a big goalie and

he improved as the yearwent on,” he said over thephone from Calgary, not-ing how Makaj impressedat the B.C. Cup in SalmonArm last month. “He ishighly athletic, stoppedlots of pucks and that iswhat attracted us to him.”The Ice do not have a

2000-born goaltender,which opens up more pos-sibilities for Makaj, whowill be eligible to play alimited number of gamesin the WHL next year asa 2001-born player. Apitcher and shortstop with

the North Shore Twins,Makaj will hang up hisbaseball glove to focusexclusively on hockey.The family received

numerous calls from otherteams, said Makaj’s fatherSteve, and they antici-pated he might be calledup sooner. Two Albertagoalies went in the firstround, one 10th overall toPrince George, and Van-couver picked up another20th overall. Left wingerPeyton Krebs was the No.1 draft pick, and a poten-tial teammate for Makajwith the Kootenay Ice. Heis invited to training campin the fall.@MHStewart

Makaj picked by Kootenay IceHOCKEY:WHLBANTAMDRAFT

June 25 vs. HillsboroJuly 2 vs. SpokaneJuly 9 vs. Tri-CityJuly 23 vs. EugeneJuly 30 vs. Tri-CityAugust 20 vs. Boise

C’s broadcastschedule on Shaw

C’spresidentAndyDunn.

Jesse Makaj was the top B.C. goalie picked in the WHL bantam draft May 5. He went to the Kootenay Ice 22nd overall, the first pickin the second round.


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Sweden’s rookie of theyear in 1994,Mats Lindgrenrepresented his country at the1998NaganoGames and in2002, added 14 points forthe Canucks. The forwardis coaching the latestWestCoast Express, an AAAjunior girls hockey team thatwon silver at the CanadaWest Cup in KelownaMay6 to 8. The elite players wererecruited from around B.C.and will travel to Ontario laterthis month for the TopTierTorontoGirls tournament.Picked in the first round of

the 1993NHL entry draft,Lindgren played for the Ed-montonOilers andNewYorkIslanders before he was tradedto Vancouver. Held back byinjuries through his profes-sional career, the forwardscored 54 goals and added74 assists in the NHL beforeretiring at the age of 30.

What is your idea of perfecthappiness? Spending timewith my family.

What is your greatest fear?Illness to people around me.

Which talentwould youmost like to have? To be agreat singer.

What do you consider yourgreatest achievement? Insports, my greatest achieve-ment would be making itto the top, and personally itwould be my children.

What is yourmostmarkedcharacteristic?My calmness.

What do youmost value inyour friends?Honesty.

What is yourgreatest re-gret? I wishI wouldhave lis-tenedmore tomy bodyduring myactive hock-ey career.

What charac-teristic is neededto be an effectivecoach? To be agood communi-cator.

What is themost useful feed-back a coach gaveyou? The moretime you investin the game, the

better player you will be.

What skill do you find hard-est? Puck handling.

What did youwant to bewhen youwere growing up?A hockey player.

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The new senior athleticsdirector at UBC envisionsa richer, fuller experiencefor varsity athletes andfans by marketing marqueesports teams to leveragecorporate sponsorship andgrow Thunderbird coffers.The university an-

nounced Gilles Lepineas the incoming athleticdirector at the Point Greycampus May 6. For theprevious 12 years, he helda similar position at LavalUniversity in Quebec Citywhere the Rouge et Orwon numerous nationaltitles in addition to sevenVarsity Cup football cham-pionships in 11 years.Lepine, who taught a

sports marketing course atthe university, said “mar-ket-driven sports” suchas men’s basketball andfootball can be harnessedto benefit other teams andstudent-athletes.“No one program is

more important thananother, but we have totake care of our market-driven sports,” Lepinetold reporters last week.“We can bring a lot ofenergy in media attention,sponsors and fans. I canuse football as the mainengine of a train to exploreother possibilities.”UBC vice-president

Louise Cowin called Lep-ine a good fit for UBC’s“powerhouse” status.“The experience, pas-

sion, skill and energyGilles brings to UBC’sAthletics Department issecond to none,” she said.A former Laval vol-

leyball player and coach,Lepine said he intends to

tap business and industryto bolster university sport.“If we want to grow

as a varsity program, theuniversity cannot do thatby itself,” he said. “InVancouver, the potentialis incredible what we cando with business people. Ifwe convince [the commu-nity] that we are always onthe same pattern, meaningwe are selling somethinggreat, people will be soproud of what we have.”Deep pockets were

quickly turned into divi-dends when it comes tothe Thunderbirds’ footballprogram.Under the guidance

of first-year UBC foot-ball coach Blake Nill,UBC capped a thrillingCinderella season witha Vanier Cup — whichthey won at Laval. Thecoach was enticed awayfrom the University ofCalgary with the financialsupport of the 13th ManFoundation, a group ofbackers and alumni whoare funding improvementsto the team’s facilities oncampus.In a telephone confer-

ence call with franco-phone press, Lepine saidhis decision came withsome heartache but the61-year-old husband andfather was ready for a new“adventure” to take himacross the country.“Leaving is huge. I am

not walking away fromQuebec,” he said. “Iam going to live a newexperience. The Rouge etOr will always be a partof me,” he is quoted assaying in the Journal deQuebec.UBC whittled down its

search from 18 candidates

to five to two before hewas hired, added Lepine.“They are not numer-

ous, those francophones inimportant roles and otheruniversities [in Canada].The reputation of theRouge et Or goes beyondour regional and provin-cial borders,” he said inFrench.Lepine’s tenure begins

July 11.

UBC recruits Lepineas sports directorLaval Rouge et Or traded for T-Birds Blue and Gold

Sports & Recreation

The UBC T-Birds enterthe summer with twocoaching vacancies, onein women’s soccer and an-other in men’s volleyball.• Leaving the women’s

soccer program on ahigh note, Marisa Kovacscoached just one seasonat UBC but won a nationalwomen’s soccer cham-pionship last November,the 100th title in UBC his-tory. She won’t have thechance to defend that winsince resigning to move to

the East Coast where herhusband, James Colzie,was named the head foot-ball coach at Saint Mary’safter a year as UBC’sdefensive coordinator.• After 12 years at the

helm of themen’s volleyballprogram, Richard Schickwas let go in Marchwith anoverall 174-142 record.Applicants are being

interviewed for the soccerposition now. Applicationsare open for the volleyballcoaching job.

T-Bird Coaching Changes

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