Vancouver Courier July 31 2013

MIKEHOWELLStaff writer

City council has approved a controversial $6million plan it says will make cycling andwalking safer but limit vehicle access alonga popular driving route in Kitsilano.

After hearing from more than 100 speakers over sev-eral days, the Vision Vancouver-dominated council vot-ed Monday night to go ahead with changes to the stretchbetween the Burrard Bridge and Jericho Beach.

The plan calls for street closures, removal of park-ing spots, separated bike lanes, the widening of side-walks and upgrades to intersections and parks.

The most significant change will see the section ofPoint Grey Road between Alma and Waterloo streetsbecome a one-way street, with closures at Trutch andMacdonald streets.

The change will mean approximately 10,000 vehi-cles per day will be diverted to Burrard and Macdon-ald streets and West Fourth Avenue. “Change is dif-ficult and this [plan] is asking people to change theirbehaviour and that is going to be difficult,” acknowl-edged Vision Coun. Heather Deal in passing the plan.

But, Deal said, drivers heading to destinations suchas the University of B.C. will simply have to turn leftone kilometre sooner along Point Grey Road.

In return, she added, the upgrades will improvesafety for cyclists and pedestrians, and complete a 28-kilometre cycling loop that begins at the VancouverConvention Centre, goes around Stanley Park andover the Burrard Bridge into Kitsilano.

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N E W SMENTALHEALTH ARRESTS BYMIKEHOWELLThe Vancouver Police Department is seeing a steady increase in thenumber of times it arrests people under theMental Health Act.

12THANDCAMBIE:CRIMEDOWN BYMIKEHOWELLFor the sixth consecutive year, violent crime in Vancouver is down.The VPDwants it to go down further.

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MIKEHOWELLStaff writer

The Vancouver Police De-partment is seeing a steadyincrease in the number oftimes it arrests people un-

der the Mental Health Act.The most recent statistics available

from the department indicate policearrested 358 more people under theAct in 2012 than in 2010 for a total of2,636 arrests.

“More and more, we’re becomingthe agency of first resort where we’redealing with more mental health is-sues,” said Const. Brian Montague, aVPD media liaison officer.

The majority of arrests for the sta-tistical period occurred in the policingdistrict that includes the DowntownEastside and runs east to BoundaryRoad. Second to that district was thearea of downtown that includes thecentral business centre, the West Endand Stanley Park.

Thecalls totheDowntownEastsidefollow a trend the VPD revealed in a2008 report that said 42 per cent ofall police calls were related to mentalillness. The area is widely known tohave residents addicted to drugs andsuffering from various forms of men-tal illness, which was highlighted July24 in the arrest of a woman who gavebirth to twins in Oppenheimer Park.

Officers arrested the woman un-der the Mental Health Act and herbabies were placed under the care ofthe Ministry of Children and FamilyDevelopment. Police were concernedthe woman was going to harm thenewborns, said Police Chief Jim Chu,

who updated reporters Friday onwhat was initially reported the previ-ous day as a so-called good news sto-ry, where police assisted paramedicsto deliver the twins. “By interveningand removing the infants, they savedthe babies’ lives, in my view,” said thechief, who described the mother asholding the newborns tightly by thehead and neck as their legs dangled.“They had to act, the babies were ingrave danger.”

Chu noted the woman had previ-ous dealings with police related tomental illness but wouldn’t elaborateon the incidents.

Under the Mental Health Act, po-lice can arrest a person who is consid-ered a danger to themselves or plan-ning to harm others. That person isthen transported to a hospital, whichis what happened to the mother fromOppenheimer Park.

“We’re always concerned as a po-lice department about the mentallyill and the services that are beingprovided,” Chu said. “I used to say weare the mental health agency of lastresort. Now we’re almost the mental

health agency of first resort.”It is not typical for the VPD to re-

lease information about arrests madeunder the Mental Health Act. Butsince the department previously re-leased the news about the births, Chusaid it was important to release moredetails of what transpired in the park.

The VPD released its report titledLost in Transition in 2008. The reportsuggested “a lack of capacity in themental health system is failing thecity’s mentally ill and draining policeresources.”

The key recommendation in thatreport was for a 24-hour specializedcentre for mentally ill people to bebuilt in Vancouver.

Police argued for the centre be-cause they say there is no place in themiddle of the night to take people suf-fering from mental health or addic-tions problems other than a hospitalor jail. The centre would allow eachpatienttostayupto72hoursandhaveaccesstohousingforuptosevendays.A medical team could then properlyassess them.

Five years later, the governmenthas yet to act on the request, withthen-health minister Margaret Mac-Diarmid telling the Courier in Marchshe was worried about “duplicatingresources.”

She, instead, pointed to Asser-tive Community Treatment, or ACTteams, and the ongoing work of theVPD’s Car 87 — which is staffed byan officer and a nurse — as programsdedicated to mental health calls.

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Police seeing increase in mental health callsVPDMADE 2,636 ARRESTSUNDERMENTALHEALTHACT IN 2012;MOSTRECENTCASEINVOLVEDAWOMANGIVINGBIRTH TO TWINS INOPPENHEIMERPARK

“By interveningand removingthe infants, theysaved the babies’lives, in myview.”—Chief Jim Chu


A woman with a history of mental health issues delivered twins in Oppenheimer Park last week. Policearrested her under the Mental Health Act and placed the babies in government care.

Continued from page 1“This route is going to become a jewel

and very, very much appreciated by the peoplethroughout the region and beyond,” Deal said.“It’s a challenging change, it’s been a difficultprocess but I believe we will adapt to it and thatwe’ll be glad we did it, at the end of the day.”

Another piece of the project includes the cre-ation of bikeway along York Street, which keepscyclists off the busy stretch of Cornwall Avenueand will see upgrades for pedestrians in front ofHenry Hudson elementary school.

The plan passed despite NPA Coun. GeorgeAffleck’s unsuccessful request to delay a voteuntil October. Affleck said the plan dividedthe community and suggested the majority ofspeakers were opposed to the project.

“We have a lot of people in our city who areangry about this,” said Affleck, who called formore consultation to improve upon the recom-

mended upgrades.Council heard from the last round of speak-

ers Monday night, including Gerda Toffoli, whodescribed herself as a pedestrian, cyclist andoccasional transit user and motorist.

In panning the project, Toffoli suggestedroad closures along Point Grey Road wouldimprove property values for residentsalong that stretch while other Kitsilanoresidents would see more vehicles in theirneighbourhoods.

“It seems undemocratic to us Vancouvercitizens to pay millions of dollars for thebenefit of a few already privileged hom-eowners,” said Toffoli, who urged council toinstead widen Point Grey Road and upgradeexisting cycling routes in Kitsilano. “Pleaseconsider all voters, not just a select few.”

Point Grey resident Steve McMurdo, alawyer and former professional triathlete,

made an animated plea to council to makechanges to Point Grey Road to improve safe-ty for cyclists.

“This is not about my property valuesgoing up,” McMurdo said. “I’ve lived therefor seven years. I have seen hundreds ofinstances where death could have beenimminent.”

City staff conducted a one-day count inAugust 2012 that recorded about 450 peo-ple walking and 600 others cycling on PointGrey Road. Another 1,250 pedestrians and900 cyclists were counted on Cornwall Av-enue, which links with Point Grey Road.

Data from the Insurance Corporation ofB.C. showed 51 crashes involving cyclistsalong the Cornwall-Point Grey corridor, be-tween 2008 and 2012.

City staff pointed out the data didn’t in-clude accidents where cyclists didn’t make a

claim to the insurance corporation or statis-tics on hit-and-run incidents.

The council vote Monday night was sev-ered into several sections, with NPA coun-cilors Affleck and Elizabeth Ball opposed tosegments of the overall plan.

Green Party Coun. Adriane Carr voted forall of the plan, except for the creation of theYork Street bikeway, saying more consulta-tion was needed.

Vision councillors Deal, Tony Tang, An-drea Reimer, Geoff Meggs, Raymond Louieand Tim Stevenson were unanimous in theirsupport for the plan.

Mayor Gregor Robertson recused himselffrom voting because he recently purchaseda house in the neighbourhood near York Av-enue. Coun. Kerry Jang was absent.


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Hello, I’m back. I was away work-ing on a couple of feature sto-ries and, sadly, I missed a Van-couver Police Board meeting and

failed to make it to city hall; apparently, there’ssome fuss being made about bike lanes, orsomething?

Anyhoo, since some of you might have hadyour fill about bike lanes and bike share sys-tems and bike this and bike that, I thought I’dget you caught up on some cop stuff.

The mayor’s office let us media types knowlast week that Mayor Gregor Robertson washappy with Police Chief Jim Chu and his de-partment’s progress on reducing violent crime.If I read the release correctly, 2012 marked thesixth consecutive year that Vancouver’s violentcrime rate has fallen. In fact, since 2008, vio-lent crime dropped 16.6 per cent.

“These consistent reductions in violent crimein Vancouver are a great credit to the leadershipof the VPD and the countless neighbourhoodvolunteers who work to make our communitieseven safer and more livable for everyone,” saidthe mayor, who doubles as the chairperson ofthe Vancouver Police Board.

Well, that’s great news for the city.But Vancouver isn’t alone in Canada when it

comes to reductions in violent crime, accordingto Statistics Canada’s recent report on “police-reported crime statistics” for 2012.

The number of violent crimes has decreasedsignificantly across the country, with policereporting just over 415,000 violent incidentsin 2012. That is a decrease of about 9,000 in-cidents from the previous year. In fact, the na-tion-wide violent crime rate fell three per cent,its lowest level since 1987.

In addition to fewer homicides, the largest

decreases were in sexual assaults, robberiesand assaults on police officers, according to thenational data.

Police Chief Jim Chu and his 1,300 officerswant to reduce violent crime by 2.5 per cent fora total reduction of 12.5 per cent over the nextfive years.

So how does the VPD plan to do it?The VPD’s mid-year business plan, which

went before the police board July 16, shedssome light on what police are doing to keepviolent crime low.

Here’s a few strategies:

• Patrol district analysts complete weeklyanalysis reports on violence committed bychronic offenders.

• The analysts also create, track and distrib-ute weekly bulletins with respect to newly re-leased offenders from jail, offenders with con-ditions and outstanding warrants for arrests.

• Ongoing projects targeting chronic offend-ers committing property and violent crime.

• The high risk offender unit ensures all pa-trol districts receives notifications of offendersand their probation orders.

• Deploying more officers from the beatenforcement team on foot two days beforeand after “welfare Wednesday” in the Down-town Eastside. The VPD says the police pres-ence has reduced the previous number ofrobbery and assault offences during thattime of the month.

• Continue to work with women’s groups inthe Downtown Eastside, including the Down-town Women’s Centre, as part of the VPD’s ef-forts to reduce violence against women.

Another report that went before the po-lice board noted violent crime decreased 9.6per cent to 1,510 offences when comparingthe second quarter of 2012 to 2013.

The biggest drop — 15.2 per cent — wasin patrol district three, which includes theneighbourhoods of Sunset, Renfrew-Collin-gwood, Mount Pleasant, Killarney, Victoria-Fraserview and Kensington-Cedar Cottage.


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The Vancouver Her-itage Commission,which advises thecity on heritage

matters, rejected the rezon-ing application for the oldAvalon Dairy property at itsJuly 29 meeting.

But the five-member panelindicated it would reconsid-er its position if the applicantre-works the plan for the1.26-acre site and presents itto the commission at the de-velopment permit stage.

The rezoning applicationstill has to go before theurban design panel, whichadvises the city on develop-ment proposals, July 31.

Avalonna Homes boughtthe Avalon Dairy propertyat 5805 Wales St. for $6 mil-lion in 2011. Since it’s zonedsingle-family residential,the owner could subdivideit into 10 or 11 lots, but thecity is willing to consider ex-tra density in order to pre-serve the Craftsman-stylefarmhouse on the lot, whichAvalon founder Jeremiah

Crowley built in 1908.The re-zoning application,

submitted by Hywel JonesArchitect Ltd., proposes re-storing the heritage A-listedfarmhouse in its current loca-tion and building eight othermulti-family buildings up tothree-storeys high containinga total of 68 units.

The application also pro-poses underground parking,completing the greenwayalong 43rd Avenue and add-ing community gardens.

Richard Keate, chair ofthe Vancouver HeritageCommission, said while

there is support amongcommission members forthe density and number ofunits, more work needs tobe done on the location andsize of infill buildings to al-low for greater open spaceand greater visibility of thefarmhouse.

He said the commission isreserving its support for theheritage conservation planbased on whether it seesa re-worked design at thedevelopment permit stage,including the floor platesand subdivision plan for theheritage farmhouse plus ex-

terior details and choice ofmaterials for the proposednew buildings.

“We were unanimouslyconcerned that no onewould see the farmhousefrom Wales Street (fromthe southeast) and therewere plans to divvy up thefarmhouse into three suites,which wouldn’t leave anyheritage fabric or view cor-ridors behind. In short,there was nothing for heri-tage to justify the densityjump from maybe 33 dwell-ing units under RS-1 to therequested 68,” Keate wrote

in an email to the Courier.Hywel Jones, principal at

Hywel Jones Architect Ltd.,toldtheCourierTuesdaymorn-ing the heritage commission’sopinion contrasts with neigh-bourhood opinion.

“It’s actually contrary towhat the residents wantbecause where the heritagecommission is coming fromis that they wanted moreopen space around thefarmhouse and yet they sup-ported the proposed num-ber of units and the squarefootage. So, they suggestedthat the buildings got taller

— up to six storeys in partsof the site to provide thatarea and that’s somethingwe know that the neighbour-hood won’t support,” Jonessaid. “[The height] is notgoing to fly. We either upsetthe heritage panel or we up-set the neighbourhood, so Iguess it’s up to the planningdepartment to decide whatthe priorities are.”

Kent Munro, the city’s as-sistant director of planning,told the Courier early Mon-day, prior to the heritagecommission’s decision, thatthe rezoning proposal isan opportunity to save thefarmhouse, that it also savessome significant trees neigh-bours are fond of and thatfeedback about the projectwithin the community hasbeen generally good. Themost recent open house wasin late June.

“As we usually get, therewere questions about thingslike parking and access andstuff like that. They’re pro-posing more than the bylawminimum requirements forparking, but people still getconcerned about parkingin streets. But generally,the idea and the concept offinding a solution that pro-tects and saves the heritagehouse has got a pretty goodlevel of support in the com-munity,” he said. “I thinkpeople realize with this be-ing zoned for single fam-ily right now that it’s betterthan the alternative.”

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Heritage commission opposesAvalon proposal

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The Vancouver Heritage Commission does not support the rezoning application for 5805 Wales St., theformer Avalon Dairy property. The rezoning application goes before the City of Vancouver’s urban designpanel Wednesday, July 31.

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Eric Hamber graduate Rosy Teedwill head to McGill University atthe end of next month equippedwith a scholarship of up to

$80,000 for four years of study.Teed won the Loran Scholarship for her

community service and leadership skills.For the last two school years, Teed has

served as editor-in-chief of Hamber’s year-book and student newspaper, which sheco-founded, president of the student fo-rum, Compassionate Leadership Club andthe Hamber Food for Humanity, which shefounded, an officer with St. John Ambu-lance, a volunteer with Canuck Place Chil-dren’s Hospice, a peer tutor and a fundrais-er for World Vision.

She also paddled in dragon boat nationalchampionships, participated in a modelUnited Nations conference and, this year,played violin in her school’s symphony or-chestra, all while maintaining a minimum85 per cent grade average.

Teed’s mother is a family doctor and herfather a personal injury lawyer. She says her

urge to help others may stem from them.“Everything [I] see makes me want to help,”

said Teed, a resident of South Cambie. “My-self, coming from a privileged family, there’salways something I can do to give back.”

Teed started the Hamber Food for Hu-manity baking club after she saw someoneoverdose in the Downtown Eastside.

She corralled 15 classmates to bake withher, asked her home economics teacher tosponsor the group, contacted the SalvationArmy Harbour Light, which runs a drop-in

shelter called Anchor of Hope, and can-vassed grocery stores for donations of in-gredients.

Now the club bakes dessert and breakfastgoods every two weeks for the approximate-ly 30 people who sleep at Anchor of Hopeeach night.

“It was something that, really, I had to doas a citizen of Vancouver,” Teed said. “It’sjust one small thing that I could do, it wasn’ta big stress on me, but it could help themand brighten their day and maybe show

them there are people out there who caredabout them and who wanted to help themrecover.”

Teed plans to study commerce at McGill.She’s interested in law, archeology and an-thropology. She hopes to dragon boat andplans to get involved with her university andthe surrounding community in Montreal, arequirement of the scholarship.

Loran awards up to 30 students a yearwith up to $80,000. Each award includes anannual tuition waiver, a stipend of $9,000,access to summer internships and mentor-ship opportunities. Founded in 1988, theCanadian Merit Scholarship Foundation,which awards Loran Scholars, was the firstnational organization in Canada to grantscholarships based on a mix of academicachievement, extracurricular activity andleadership potential.

Teed says she’s given up time with friendsand in front of the TV and computer to ac-complish as much as she has.

“I guess it’s worth it,” she said. “In someways it is; in some ways it’s not. I wish Ihad gone to parties and all that stuff, butit is worth it because at the end of the dayyou’ll see that you’ve actually accomplishedsomething with your life and even thoughI’m only 18 and I haven’t done too much,I’ve done something.”

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Loran Scholarship winner Rosy Teed will study commerce at McGill starting this fall.


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ANDREWFLEMINGStaff writer

There’s no other street inVancouver quite like Com-mercial Drive. There are,however, now dozens of

streets in the surrounding area cur-rently misidentified as “The Drive”after a recent marketing campaign bythe Commercial Drive Business Society(CDBS) took a wrong turn.

Since many people refer to the iconicGrandview-WoodlandstripsimplyastheDrive, the local business improvementassociation decided to order dozens ofnew signs that would add the term toexisting Commercial Drive signage.

Newly installed CDBS executive di-rector Jane McFadden said city workersthen accidentally put some of them upon neighbouring streets when they wereinstalled in June. She said many of thesigns not on Commercial Drive itself willbe removed but isn’t sure when.

“To be honest, I think the city isbacked up,” said McFadden. “They aredefinitely taking them down in the sur-rounding area but they haven’t con-firmed a date with us just because thereare so many of them on holiday.”

Most new signs on the Drive itself fea-ture a logo of the Italian flag while thoseon side streets do not.

McFadden, a former board memberof the Yaletown BIA, wasn’t involvedwhen the decision was made to installthe signs and said she didn’t knowhow much they cost.

Jak King, co-founder of the GrandviewHeritage Group, said he finds it difficultto believe city workers would install signsanywhere they weren’t told specificallyto do so. He said he called 311, the city’sinformation line, after hearing dozens ofcomplaints from local residents and end-ed up talking to Phil Wong, an engineerwith the city’s traffic department.

“I certainly got the impression fromhim that there had been some long cor-respondence with the BIA, several yearsworth, about getting these signs up so I’msure it wasn’t a mistake,” said King. “It’sall very well and good for them to wantto brand it, but their remit is only on theDrive, they don’t deal with anything eastor west of the Drive. The city shouldn’tjust go around doing these damn thingswithout speaking to people like theGWAC [Grandview Woodland AreaCouncil] and other local organizationsthat represent the residents.”

The Courier wasn’t able to speak withanyone from the city’s traffic operationsdepartment but, as the paper was beingready to be sent to press, it received anemail from a corporate communicationsstaffer saying “crews are going to starttaking the signs down in residential ar-eas as soon as today and work with thestaff they have available to complete thework over the next few weeks.”

The CDBS is one of 22 BIAs inVancouver. The non-profit received$435,343 in funding from the city forits 2013-14 budget, a three per centincrease from the previous year. Ear-lier this month, it launched a lawsuitagainst a Commercial Drive pharmacyfor using the CDBS logo — a circularbrand that contains the words “TotallyDrive certified” — without permission,citing loss of reputation and confusionamong its members. Its other recentinitiatives include putting up fabricbanner signs and converting the re-cently installed giant coffee cup sculp-ture in Grandview Park into a flowergarden after residents complained itwas becoming an unofficial garbagecan and posed a danger to children.

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Grandview-Woodlandsignage hits overdrive


Dozens of new street signs in Grandview-Woodland added last month are now being taken down.

SANDRA THOMASStaff writer

The Vancouver Police Department could have usedsome assistance from British spy James Bond Satur-day night as the annual Celebration of Light fireworksfestival drew the annual miscreants who just couldn’t

leave the booze at home.According to the VPD, liquor-related violations topped the

list of infractions on opening night of the three-evening festival,which launched July 27 with the United Kingdom presenting aJames Bond-themed spectacular.

Other than the liquor violations, the VPD said there were noserious incidents at the event, which drew an estimated crowd ofbetween 250,000 to 300,000 to the city’s beaches. In total therewere 612 liquor pour-outs, nine arrests for being drunk in publicand 35 liquor seizures. Then there were the annual weapons sei-zures (eight), 135 violation tickets and 14 arrests. But for the ma-jority of the crowd, the fireworks display went on without a hitchas the Brits lit up the skies over English Bay with their License toThrill-themed show, which started at 10 p.m.

Patrick Brault, executive producer of the festival, said organiz-ers invited the team to take part in last year’s festival. “But theywere smack-dab in the middle of the Olympics,” said Brault. “Sowe’re glad to have them.”

During a media tour of the Honda Celebration of Light fire-works barge in English Bay Friday morning, the UK team wasbusy filling shells and mortars with explosives and wiring the py-rotechnicstospecialboardsthatwilleventuallybesyncedtocom-puters to be detonated. Those computers are stored in an orangehutattheendofthebarge,wherefireworksmagicwillhappenoneach of the three nights of the festival.

The Celebration of Light is not only Vancouver’s biggest event,but also the largest offshore fireworks competition in the world,attracting more than 400,000 spectators along the shores of Eng-lish Bay each evening. This is the 23rd anniversary of the festival,ownedbythenon-profitVancouverFireworksFestivalSociety. It’sestimated the festival contributes about $39 million towards thecity’s tourism and hospitality industries.

On Wednesday, July 31, Calgary-based Fireworks Spectacularswill represent Canada in the competition and on Aug. 3, the finalewillshowcasetheskillsofThailandFireworks,whichboaststhe2007Guinness World Record for biggest firework shell, at 54 inches.

The Honda Celebration of Light festival has a downloadableapp for smartphones that offers all of the event information, in-cluding a schedule of bands performing during SHOREfest onEnglish Bay and at Sunset Beach, a map of things to see and dobeforethefireworks,asoundtracktoeachfireworksperformancethat will play automatically when the show begins, and a votingfunction. To hear the music during each performance, spectatorscan also tune into SHORE 104.3 FM. Don’t want to download theapp? Visit hondacelebrationoflight.com for information.

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Groping around for an argumenton the last day of the legislativesitting last week, the New Demo-crats seized on a startling topic:

ferry-building.Given the party’s track record when it

comes to building ferries — which is: threeswings, three spectacular misses — it was astartling choice. It has been 13 years since thefast-ferry experiment sank under the weightof its own incompetence, but the memoriesare still vivid. You’d think the topic wouldbe marked in the Opposition files under theheading “Still Too Soon.”

The NDP criticizing a ferry-building projectis like the Vancouver Canucks teaching a course in goaltender management.

But the temptation was irresistible, given the setup. B.C. Ferries needs threeintermediate-class ferries and this week got the OK from the ferry commission-er to build them.

The NDP has been stung by criticisms that their election campaign failed toshow the slightest interest in jobs. So the obvious line of attack involved wherethe ferries will be built. The Opposition is primed for a reprise of the argumentnine years ago that erupted after B.C. Ferries stiffed local shipyards and went toGermany to get the three coastal-class vessels built.

The NDP took part then in a concentrated campaign against that decision. Itdidn’t change the company’s mind, but it did sensitize people to the issue. Thistime, though, it looks as if they are getting ahead of themselves.

The entire round of questions and criticisms this week was devoted to thetheme that the B.C. Liberals are going to stand idly by and do nothing whileB.C. Ferries goes offshore again to get ferries built.

NDP Leader Adrian Dix said B.C. jobs come number two.“You either believe we should build ships in B.C. or you don’t.”Opposition MLA Gary Holman chimed in, accusing the Liberals of turning

their backs on the opportunity to build family-supporting, tax-contributing jobsin B.C. From the general tone, you’d think the deal was done and those Germanwelders were already clocking in what should have been B.C. jobs.

But all that’s happened so far is that the company has said it needs threeships. And in fact, it’s specifically invited “Canadian and international ship-yards” to bid on the jobs.

The NDP campaign seems to be based on the idea that the government andthe corporation should have slammed the door and confined the bidding pro-cess to just B.C. yards.

But that doesn’t sound like a particularly sound way to keep the bids competi-tive. In fact, it would amount to gift-wrapping the opportunity and delivering itto the B.C. yards on a silver plate.

The line of questioning also seems to assume that an offshore yard will auto-matically beat local yards.

Not so fast. It’s a whole different story this time around.The ferries needed are scarcely half the size of the coastal-class ships that

were built in Germany. Ships with 125- to 145-car capacity are much morewithin the range of B.C. yards. The most recent ferry order was that size, and itwas built locally, in 2008.

And Seaspan and other yards are beefed up compared to where they werenine years ago. Seaspan is well into a $180-million upgrade of its yard in prepa-ration for its share of the long-term federal contract it won.

There are a small handful of B.C. yards that could bid on the ferry work andwin the job. It depends a bit on the timing, particularly in Seaspan’s case, sinceit would have to coincide properly with the rollout of the contracts the federalgovernment will be letting.

The one question mark is the idea of powering them with liquefied naturalgas, which is being considered.

That would be a novelty for the local shipyards. But it’s not as if they have tobuild LNG units. They just have to install them.

LNG-powered engines would be components you buy like any other.They would make it more complex and expensive, but hardly impossible.We are still several steps away from taking to the streets again to protest for-

eign-built ferries. And the landscape is so different now, there’s an even chancethere will be no need to do so.

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K&KGETSKUDOSONCORBELLAKVETCHTo the editor:Re: “Hearing impaired,” Ku-dos and Kvetches, July 26.I had not heard about the LiciaCorbella story (auto-correctwould not let me spell her firstname, funnily enough) until Iread Kudos and Kvetches. Thankyou for once again making melaugh and calling her out forher ridiculous nonsense. Shesounds like yet another reasonwhy I never need to visit Calgary.Julia Longpre,Vancouver

MOBILEMARKETPLEASESGRANVILLERESIDENTTo the editor:Re: “Mobile market bringsgroceries to seniors,” July 26.This is great news for the se-niors of South Granville regard-ing the new affordable produceoptions. This area is made up ofmany not-quite seniors, rent-ers, singles, car-less people andpeople who simply would likemore food choices other thenthe pricey Meinhardt. Our otherchoices are Safeway at Oak andKing Edward, IGA at Broadwayand Vine, No Frills at Fourth andPine and Granville Island. All ofthe above are a great distancewith bags in tow. Bring on theaffordable competition please.Emma Logan,Vancouver

CITYSHOULDRECLAIMPT.GREYROADALLOWANCETo the editor:Re: “Social engineering atwork on Pt. Grey Road,” July 26.Why are we paying an engi-neering department in the City ofVancouver to ignoremaintenanceand transportation planningwhile promoting rarely usedseparated bike lanes as a socialexperiment?Columnist Allen Garr hasgrasped the point— this is anattempt to rewire the brains ofcitizens rather than a practicalsolution to congestion in the city.The concept that reroutingtraffic is aminor glitch in ourlives is the newmantra of theVisionistas.Mobility is a huge issue inVancouver. A very small seg-ment rides bikes or ever will butif people can’t get downtownefficiently, it will shrivel up as abusiness centreThe other side of the coin ispicking winners and losers fortraffic calmingmeasuresWhy should Fourth Ave resi-dents suffer when the city ownsenough roadway clearance onPoint Grey Road to add bike lanesand widen the existing roadwayat no cost other than cement andlabour to reconfigure the street.Simply use the full road allow-ance and take back the propertythe homeowners have freelyhomesteaded upon for decades.Public disclosure that theadjacent properties are using city

land free as a buffer could wakeup voters to “the Big Con” thatVision is promoting secretly inthis debate.The only solution is to use a

wider roadway. This way, every-one will benefit from a redesignwithout sacrificing beach andview access for the 96 per centwho don’t peddle a bike or peddlefalse options as Vision propa-ganda policy against cars.Rick Angus,Vancouver

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USEMYTAXDOLLARSTOIMPROVECYCLINGSAFETYTo the editor:I’m a 50-year-old year-roundbicycle commuter on Point GreyRoad. I have been both hit andthreatened by motorists, whoI’m doubtful even live there. The30km speed limit is certainly notobserved.There are also a number ofsmall parks, but motorists rare-ly slow or stop to allow pedestri-ans easy access. With moderncar electronics and GPS, carscould easily be limited to 30km/h when in a 30km/h zone, butcar manufacturers won’t do itunless pushed. Speed sells. I’mnot sure which changes need tobe made, but it’s very clear thatsome of my property tax dollarsneed to go to improvements sothat cyclists and pedestrians canfeel safe in the area.Colin Bryant,Vancouver

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Last go atAirCarerecalls Stellar time

Ihad to take the car (I’ve owned itlong enough for a simple definitearticle) through AirCare this week,for the last time. It got a simple

pass after they hooked up its electronicguts to a computer and determined ithad been a good little engine for thepast two years. They printed out mypass form on the last dot matrix printerin B.C. and sent me away.

It’s the last time I’ll have to get the carAirCared, as the program is ending as ofthis year.

That will feel strange. I’ve been driv-ing cars through AirCare testing bays ever since I started driving.

The program started in 1992, two years before I got my license.My cars and AirCare have seldom been friends. Like most of us, I owned

a series of early vehicles that teetered on the line between “car” and “pileof rolling metal.”

My worst car was a 1988 Hyundai Stellar.Never heard of the Stellar? That’s because of its painful failure to live up

to its name. A small four-door sedan, its main selling feature was the verysmall amount of money I paid for it. It took me to and from college andsurvived almost through a full year of my first post-schooling job.

Even before its untimelydeath, it had seen the whitelight at the end of the tunnel afew times.

Its most impressive near-deathexperience was its black lungdisease. Apparently, for the en-tire life, the exhaust system hadbeen building up deposits thatwere slowly choking the engineto death.

The car started losing powerso slowly that I hardly noticed, until going up hills was as painful as athree-pack-a-day smoker climbing 10 flights of stairs.

I took the alleged car to two repair shops.The first one quoted me a price of $1,300 to fix it, approximately five

times what I judged the car to be worth. The next shop suggested $1,600would be an appropriate repair bill.

Possibly taking pity on my sad facial expression (I was still in school andapproaching dead broke) the fellow there suggested I take it to KershawPerformance, an old-school shop that still operates in Langley.

The Kershaw mechanic poked his head under the hood, said he couldmaybe do something about it, and then took out a thin piece of steel rod,inserted it into the engine, and whaled on it with a ball peen hammer.After he dislodged the accumulated gunk, the car ran for another year be-fore it succumbed to a new ailment. They charged me $25.

The Stellar’s tale was not yet over, however. I put it up for sale, basicallywilling to accept any offer. A friend of a friend of a neighbour turned upand offered me $300 for the barely mobile vehicle, and I took it withouthaggling. He then gave me $150 — all in $5 bills that smelled suspiciouslyof cannabis — and drove it away.

After he was gone, I noticed that he had filled out part of the transfer pa-pers incorrectly. I tried to call him, but for three days, he ducked my calls,probably because he didn’t want to pay me the remainder of the money.

The next day, I got a call from the RCMP.Did I know that a car registered to me had sped away from a police stop,

run over a stop sign, and crashed into a ditch? Had the driver, now in cells,stolen my car? I explained the situation, and I swear I could hear the of-ficer on the other end of the line roll her eyes when I mentioned the pileof $5 bills.

The car was still legally mine, she said, and I could come down to theimpound yard and pick it up if I wanted to pay the fee.

Otherwise, it would be crushed into a cube.It would cost about $150 to get it back. I left it to its fate, and it has now

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GRANDVIEW-WOODLAND“Wear what you want and feel free to befabulous,” is the message from the organiz-ers of the third annual Trans & GenderqueerLiberation and Celebration event, which be-gins with a march down Commercial Drivestarting at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2.

Participants are asked to gather at 5:30p.m. at Clark Park, located at East 14th Av-enue and Commercial Drive before march-ing to Victoria Park on Grant Street. It wasin 2010 when members of the trans andgenderqueer communities marched priorto Pride weekend as a political protest andcelebration of gender diversity. Later thatnight, the all-ages GenderTRASH partytakes place at Gallery Gachet, 88 EastCordova.

The next day, Aug. 3, the annual DykeMarch begins at noon at McSpadden Parkon East Fifth Avenue near Commercial be-fore meandering to Grandview Park for theannual festival. Former city councillor EllenWoodsworth will be the first-ever paradegrand marshall of the march.

It was 10 years ago when the Vancou-ver Dyke March and Festival Society wasfounded in response to a growing grass-roots movement to create a family andchild-friendly event with a focus on queerwomen who often felt overshadowed by thegay men participating in the annual PrideParade.

Entertainment at the festival includessoul/Motown band Queer as Funk, singer-songwriter Melissa Endean, DJ Kasha Ken-nedy, the drag performances of Fake Mous-tache, Eirene Cloma, Leaping Thespiansand Boyfriends.

WEST ENDThe Celebrities Stage: Davie Street Partytakes place Friday, Aug. 2, from 7 p.m. tomidnight with special guest Jinkx Mon-soon, winner of season five of RuPaul’s DragRace. Other performers include JeromeMandrake, Ada Burger, Symone, MandyKamp, Lux Dance Company, Sienna Blaze,Kiki LaWhore, Destineak, various DJs andmore. The party will be hosted by drag divaextraordinaire Joan-E.

No Pride weekend would be completewithout getting your pancake on Saturday,Aug. 3 — and I’m not talking makeup.

The annual hangover-friendly, Terry Wal-lace Memorial Breakfast takes place Aug. 3beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the corner of Buteand Davie streets in the new permanentcommunity space created as the result ofa recommendation included in the DavieStreet Revitalization Report created andcompiled by the City of Vancouver LGBTQAdvisory Committee.

The 35th annual Pride Parade, which was

recently deemed an official civic event bythe City of Vancouver, begins at noon Aug. 4at the corner of Robson and Thurlow streetsbefore heading west to Denman and finallyalong Pacific to Sunset Beach.

Spectators are urged to arrive early toensure a good spot to catch the action andto bring their spare change for the ToonieBrigade, collecting cash in support of theVancouver Pride Society.

Then there’s the annual Sunset BeachFestival and Market, which takes place Aug.4 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. to coincide with thePride Parade.

The only issue I’ve ever had with this fes-tival is that it’s just too darn popular andfinding a cold beer or even just getting onto the festival grounds can be a wait. But anew addition this year will solve those prob-lems. Festival-goers won’t miss a minute of

the parade, while still grabbing those cov-eted seats in the beer garden, thanks to theinstallation of a high-resolution LED screenwhere the action will be broadcast fromstart to finish. On tap will be Vancouver

Pride G’Ale beer produced in conjunctionwith the Vancouver Pride Society and R&BBrewing.

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PICNIC IN THE PARKThis past Saturday, Picnic in the Park markedthe official launch of Vancouver Pride 2013.Photographer Rebecca Blissett dropped byBrockton Oval in Stanley Park to catch thecolourful festivities, complete with bears, beer,volleyball, drag queens and high heel races.

1 . Self-proclaimed “Ambassadors ofFabulousness” Shawno A Go-Go and partner-in-crime Hugo A Go-Go provided some bubblyentertainment during the Picnic in the ParkSaturday in Stanley Park.2 . Debbie Robinson, who made the trip toVancouver from Prince George with her wife,gets dolled up in some of the costumes on hand.3 . Picnic in the Park even boasted its owntemporary dog park manned by volunteers andmany canine visitors.4 . Vancouver Bump Volleyball Club players andtheir cheerleaders took a break from playing fora rather animated selfie.5 . Vancouver drag queen extraordinaire CarlottaGurl entertained Picnic in the Park goers withher energetic take on Lady Gaga’s “Born ThisWay.”

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One of Vancouver city hall’s work yards, the Ev-ans Yard, needed to clean up its financial act,and the city says that’s being done.

“There is potential for improved internalcontrol and additional risk mitigation in project manage-ment, work orders and time entry, purchase and vendormanagement and hiring practices.”

Those are the findings of a January 2013 report fromthe city’s internal audit branch, which the Courier ob-tained through the freedom of information law. The City’sConsolidated Facilities Service Project (CFS) had askedthe city’s internal audit branch to review the Evans Yardoperation, which is housed at 955 Evans Avenue, nearTerminal Avenue and Glen Drive.

Evans Yard was funded mainly by the Vancouver Park Board,but is now under the city’s Real Estate and Facilities Manage-ment (REFM). It supports shop and warehousing duties, withsome Parks work such as landscaping and arboriculture.

Management says it is in the process of fixing all theproblems noted. The auditors found that “there were proj-ects where no overall project plan was provided to enableeffective management oversight of resources, budget, andschedule.”

Sandy Swanton, city hall’s communications manager,told the Courier that better processes were implementedin January to ensure all projects have a proper plan, bud-get and schedule before work is started.

“Work orders do not reflect the true cost of time spenton jobs,” auditors wrote. As well, “without having gonethrough the bidding process ... there is a lack of trans-parency, inability for strategic purchasing decisions, and apotential for overpayment for goods and services.”

Swanton said that work orders are now being reviewedupon closure, and variances reported to the manager forfurther investigation if needed.

There was a lack of justification for premium pay forOperations Worker II positions (mainly unskilled labour).“Under the current practice, there is a risk of incurring un-necessary labour costs if the pay premiums are not justi-fied ... the lack of criteria for applying premium pay maylead to a perception of unfairness amongst staff.” Swan-ton said job descriptions are all under review and stan-dard selection criteria for premium pay at Evans yard arebeing developed.

Moreover, the report called for “increased transparencyof the hiring process.” Under the Collective Agreement forCUPE 1004 in place during the audit, Operations Worker IIpositions did not have to be publicly posted. Workers withenough hours were put on a recall list, from which they couldbe interviewed for new positions that came up. The reviewfound a lack of documentation to support hiring decisions,and grievances have been filed on whether the seniority or-

der was followed. “The current process may lead to a percep-tion of subjectivity or favouritism in the hiring process, andultimately, dissatisfaction among staff,” it said.

Swanton said that hiring and selections processed atEvans Yard are under review and “are being aligned withstandard corporate practice.” These are governed by thenew CUPE agreement and a union representative can ob-serve the interviews.

Last May, after months of infighting, the local leadersof CUPE 1004 were fired by the union’s national adminis-trators. Despite repeated phone calls and emails from theCourier over the past two weeks, CUPE 1004’s nationallyassigned administrator Justin Schmid refused to discussthe audit, as did Vancouver business agents Karen Kin-drid, Glenn Jones and Steve Varty.

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SALTAIRE, Eng-land—“Paternal-ism” isn’t a wordused much any-

more, at least not in a goodsense. But 150 years agothings were different.

In the 1840s, the Industri-al Revolution was gatheringsteam in England, making

some rich but worsening theconditions of many more,who worked long hoursfor low wages and lived insqualor.

In Bradford, near Leeds innorthern England, the wooltrade’s growth had made thecity one of England’s fast-est-growing, but an 1845report on the conditions its10,000 wool combers en-dured found that a typicalapartment was “a miserablecellar in which four personswork, and five…sleep; fourfeet below the surface. Wallsblack with damp — stenchintolerable.” Moral decay— drink, drugs — vied withphysical illness like chol-era, and tuberculosis to seewhich could carry off work-ers quicker.

Paternalism was a re-sponse. In an effort to im-prove conditions, propri-etors took their workers ondays in the country wherethe air was fresh. Othersprovided allotment gardens,or schools, or better accom-modation. The most idealis-tic built whole villages.

Titus Salt, a Bradford tex-tile merchant who’d doneexceedingly well, was in thefront rank of the paternal-ists. In 1851, he began build-ing a town that would ulti-mately be home to 4,500.He called it Saltaire and

named its streets after his11 children. In 2001, littlechanged from its founder’sday, it became a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site.

Visitors today can walkits neatly laid-out streetsand admire the touchesthat made it special: itsunique Italianate/Victo-rian architecture, its lead-glass windows, its out-houses in every backyard.They can marvel at the gi-gantic mill that once held1,200 looms and turnedout nearly 30 kilometresof cloth daily.

Saltaire was built of brickand made to last. Althoughthe last loom stopped in1986 and the workers arelong gone, houses and millhave both found new pur-pose. The homes have be-come popular with youngprofessionals, who use theSaltaire train station tocommute to jobs in Brad-ford or Leeds (10-20 min-utes away).

That has led to a blos-soming of cafés and shopsalong Victoria Road,among them a store sellingChinese antique furnitureand the Don’t Tell Titus…Bar & Restaurant. (Salt, ateetotaller, wouldn’t allowliquor in Saltaire.)

The chief delight of thetown, though, is Salt Mill.

Like the rest of the WorldHeritage Site, its architec-ture has Italianate flourish-es: square cupolas, roundedwindows and a symmetricalfaçade — six storeys highand 166 metres long.

The mill now showcasesone of the world’s largestcollections of works by Da-vid Hockney, a Bradford ladmade good. More than 60of his pieces are on displayin the huge main-floor gal-lery/art shop. Upstairs are aspacious bookstore and tworestaurants. More retailers— a rug merchant, an inte-rior-design store — are scat-tered through the immensebuilding.

The only drawback is thatSaltaire is so successful asa going concern that noneof the workers’ homes havebeen restored to its 1850scondition. That, and some-thing to show how othermillworkers lived, couldsuggest that paternalism— this 19th-century version— was no bad thing.

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Saltaire visit www.saltaire-village.info. For informa-tion on travel in Britain goto the Visit Britain websiteat www.visitbritain.com

For more travel stories, visitwww.culturelocker.com.

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Part of the gigantic mill that used to hold 1,200 looms and turn out nearly 30 kilometres of cloth a day is now a hugegallery/art shop, containing the world’s largest collection of art by David Hockney, who grew up in nearby Bradford.


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VISIONING PROCESSOn Monday night, after much debate, consul-tation, studies, press releases and hot-airededitorials, Vancouver city council finally ap-proved its $6-million bikeway project, whichincludes a particularly posh strip of Point GreyRoad and the diversion of 10,000 motoriststo other routes. Not surprisingly, the vote fellalong party lines with the two NPA councillorsgiving the thumbs down, but to no avail.

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“Omigod You Guys,” this show is fun. That’s the open-ing song in this hilarious hoot in hot pink directed andchoreographed by Valerie Easton. Have these youngperformers got the moves? And does Easton put them

through them? You bet! Just wait ‘til you see “Bend and Snap”— a calculatedly flirty move designed to get a guy to noticewhat you’ve got — if you know what I mean.

Company coming from out of town? Take them to LegallyBlonde. Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) is all about thewhole package: Stanley Park, the beautiful formal gardensin front of the Pavilion, the tall evergreens, the squirrels, thepopcorn, the seagulls — and sometimes even an eagle soar-ing through which there was the night when I was there. Doyou want to impress your guests from Jolly Olde who think,‘hem, ‘hem, good theatre only happens on their side of thepond? Legally Blonde will convince them otherwise.

Before the curtain went up, I got talking to a woman fromYorkshire who, with her husband, is on a three-week west-ern Canada holiday — hiking in the Rockies, three days inour very own Jolly Olde Victoria, a few days in Whistler, allthe highlights. She had met someone on the street in Van-couver who told her to go to TUTS. Before the curtain wentup I was a little worried. I mean, these are amateurs onstage, eh? Sometimes they’re almost kids.

The curtain went up on “Omigod You Guys” and I stoppedworrying. There may only be four professionals in the showbut you’d have a hard time determining who they are. OnceBreanne Arrigo, as Elle Wood (the naturally blonde, laterthe legally blonde) arrives on stage in pink, Elle’s “signaturecolour,” you can’t take your eyes off her. If she had any moreenergy, she’d blow up like a big pink balloon and exploderight there on stage. She’s cute, she’s curvy, she sings anddances, and if you read her bio, you’ll discover she’s also anadvocate for children in need. With all that going for her,Arrigo is a shoo-in for Elle who at first seems silly and frivo-lous but turns out to be a warrior for the falsely accused.

And then there’s Katie Murphy who, as Brooke the fitnessinstructor, is also cute, curvy etcetera and does it all whileskipping rope. “Whipped Into Shape” she sings and the en-semble falls into place, whirling skipping ropes like lassoesand singing: “Whip it! Whip it!” I had trouble catching mybreath just watching them.

Cathy Wilmot isn’t a card-carrying professional, but shedoesn’t need a card to tell us she’s a pro. She’s got a bigvoice on her and a flair for comedy. She’s Paulette, the hair-dresser, with a yen for Enya and men from Ireland. Andthat, of course, gives director Easton an in to get everyonestepdancing à la Riverdance.

The love interest guys — Warner and Emmett — are ex-cellently played/sung by Peter Cumins and Scott Walters.

But it’s a power-to-the-girls show and proud of it. Elle is a

sorority gal who loves to party; what we don’t know about herat first is that she’s really smart. It takes getting into HarvardLaw School — in pursuit of the man who dumped her — forher to discover that there’s more to life than “bend and snap”although sometimes it comes in handy in the courtroom.

Legally Blonde is more than a fluffy musical based on aReese Witherspoon movie. Although it is that, too. It’s got amessage for girls — and a good one, too — love is importantbut knowing who you are is more important. Forget yester-day’s message: “Now that a man [has chosen] you/Your lifebegins today.” Omigod, we actually used to buy into thatnonsense. Elle gets past that, finds her way and find loves,too. OMG, how great is that?

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Mitch Miyagawa believeshe has the most apolo-gized-to family in Can-ada, maybe even the

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In 2006, the federal governmentapologized to his stepfather for theChinese head tax and to his aborigi-nal stepmother in 2008 for residentialschools.

In his first feature-length documen-tary, A Sorry State, Miyagawa exploreswhat these apologies mean to his par-ents, his young children and to Canada.It screens as part of the 37th annualPowell Street Festival, Aug. 3 and 4.

“I thought this is crazy and kind ofludicrous and sad and interesting allat the same time,” Miyagawa said.“I really just wanted to know moreabout what do these mean, mostly formyself… There was something aboutour story that really meant somethingabout our whole country and the workthat Canada’s tried to do to deal withthe past and that’s quite a universaltheme.”

Miyagawa originally envisionedstarting the story with his family andthen broadening his scope to differ-ent groups across the country and theworld that have received or were still

seeking apologies for governments’past racist actions.

“It’s really countries trying to dealwith the aftermath of colonialism,”Miyagawa said on the phone from hishome on Thetis Island.

But his family and their stories be-came the heart of the film, the focusfor its first half. Miyagawa visits thehome his father’s family was kickedout of in Mission and where they wereinterned in southern Alberta, and hevisits a residential school with his step-mother.

He visits the first Truth and Recon-ciliation Commission in Winnipeg inthe second half and interviews RoyMiki, a Japanese-Canadian poet andformer Simon Fraser University profes-sor who participated in the movementfor Japanese-Canadian redress.

Miyagawa says what Miki says Japa-nese-Canadians wanted 25 years ago,acknowledgement that the democraticsystem broke, not just compensationfor victims, is prescient in terms of theTruth and Reconciliation Commission.

“I can just see how it’s still turn-ing into this idea of victims in need ofsome kind of compensation rather thanhey, this is something that we were allinvolved in,” Miyagawa said. “This issomething where we really need toopen our hearts as non-aboriginal peo-ple to be involved in and not just see itas something that happened to them.”

Miyagawa, who wrote a cover storyby the same name for The Walrus mag-azine in 2009, says making the docu-mentary changed his life.

He learned much more about hisstepparents’ lives.

“And despite how we really want thepast to just have no meaning and foreverybody just to get along and move

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His new understandings have com-pelled him to focus more on helpingimprove human rights.

The screening is Miyagawa’s secondcontribution to the Powell Street Fes-tival. The Plum Tree, a play he wroteabout the Japanese-Canadian redressmovement, was included in the festi-val a decade ago.

A Sorry State, for which Miyagawawon a Writers Guild of Canada Screen-writing Award, screens Aug. 3 at theFirehall Art Centre at 4:45 p.m. It willbe followed by a discussion with ChiefRobert Joseph from Reconciliation Can-ada about progressing beyond apolo-gies, 25 years after Japanese-Canadianredress and five years after the apologyto residential school survivors.

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MEGANSTEWARTStaff writer

Two errors in one lacklusterinning wiped away the Hast-ings All-stars’ slim lead, end-ing their Little League season

Sunday at Elm Park in a 4-2 loss toWhite Rock in the B.C. majors cham-pionship.

With the win, White Rock willtravel to Glace Bay, N.S. for the Ca-nadian nationals where a team fromB.C. has won the title for the pasteight years and earned the right towear the Maple Leaf at the LittleLeague World Series.

Hastings went all the way to Wil-liamsport, PA last year and beforethat in 2009. White Rock went in ’07and ’08. Vancouver’s Little Moun-tain attended in 2010.

Although the winning LittleLeague trades in its team jersey forCanada’s colours, each roster turnsover almost completely each sum-mer as only a few prodigious 11-year-olds return the next season.The rest of the players are 12.

No Hastings All-star will returnto Little League next year and theboys’ crestfallen faces showed theirdisappointment. No eyes were dry,lips trembled and a player sobbedopenly in the arms of his father. Inone case, tears fell on the shadow ofa pre-teen moustache.

Hastings manager Vito Bording-non said his competitive club willalways try to win provincials as wellas nationals and conceded the boyswere not taking the loss easily.

“It’s tough. They know that some-thing has escaped from them. Theyhad a chance,” he said near theirdugout as White Rock players racedaround the ballpark, jubilant withtrophy in hand.

“All these kids want to go theWorld Series and this was their firststep to get there. They’re most dis-appointed about what could havebeen. And it’s tough.”

Cortez D’Alessandro and CarterKada-Wong were the only 11-year-olds on the All-star team in 2012when Hastings defeated White Rock20-0 to win the provincial title and

then went 7-0 to win nationals.In the round robin on Wednesday,

Hastings lost 12-9 to White Rock offa three-run walk-off home run. Inthe semi-final Saturday, Hastingseliminated Forest Hills 2-5.

In Sunday’s final with a crowd ofroughly 600 at Kerrisdale’s homepark, Kada-Wong, who batted .417through the tournament, set thescene for Hastings’s opening run inthe top of the third with a single toright field.

On a stand-up double byD’Alessandro, Kada-Wong confi-dently rounded the bases, circledfor home and just outreached the

throw to take a 1-0 lead.“It felt great. I was just running,”

said Kada-Wong, talking after theloss, his eyes downcast and red-rimmed. “We had a great season butcame up short.”

D’Alessandro scored on a NicoSantarelli RBI and Hastings led 2-0after three innings.

Continued on page 27

photosRebecca Blissett

Above: Teammates swarm AdamInouye (right) after he hit a homerunto the deepest part of the park July27 to eliminate Forest Hills. At right:Hastings Little League manager VitoBordignon holds the attention of theAll-stars after winning the semifinal.

BOIKO THREEPEATS AS STANLEYPARK OPENWOMEN’S CHAMPIONKaterina Boiko won her third consecutive women’s ti-tle, defeated Daniella Silva 7-6, 6-4. Philip Bester, whocompetes in the main draw at the Odlum Brown Van-couver Open at the Hollyburn Country Club this week,unseated defending champion George Jecminek 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in the men’s final.

Stanley Park Open mixed doubles champions Khris-tina Blajkevitch and Jerry Turek fended off Stefi Gjineand Nick Coutts, 6-3, 6-2, to win July 28.

Coutts had his answer in the men’s doubles; he andpartner Patrick Flint defended their 2012 title and heldoff Henry Choi and Jeremy Salvo 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

THOMAS SEVENTH ATWORLDSWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPNoemie Thomas was the youngest swimmer to race inthe 100-metre butterfly final at the world champion-ships Monday night in Barcelona.

The 17-year-old finished seventh in 58.13 seconds,nearly three seconds behind the winner from Swedenwho took gold in 56.53 seconds.

In the preliminary heat, Thomas qualified in 57.99,just out-touching her compatriot, Quebec’s Katerine Sa-vard, 20, who also raced in the final and finished fifth in57.97. Both advanced through the semifinal on Sundaywith Savard achieving a personal best and setting a Ca-nadian record.

Thomas, a student at Magee, said she wanted a fast-er finish in her first international appearance but waspleased with her progress.

“I’m not so thrilled about the time but I’m really happyabout how I just went in and tried my best,” she said in aSwimming Canada news release. “I think it’s good for our de-velopment as we get higher into the rankings. Every step is agood experience. I think we learned a lot from this race.”

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Hastings second baseman Adam Inouye seemed to makean excellent double play after he gloved a hard line drive.Hastings excitedly cheered their way to the dugout but theumpire stationed at second waved them back. The runnerwas safe; Inouye had only clipped the bag. The All-starspoured from both dugouts and took their place aroundthe diamond, both teams on edge for different reasons.D’Alessandro struck out the batter, his sixth of the after-noon, and Hastings hit the high point of their game withonly six outs between them and the championship.

“He pitched well, he threw excellent,” Bordignon said ofhis starter. “He hit spots, threw strikes. If we’d made a fewmore plays for him, we’d probably have gotten out of a fewinnings a little sooner. He did everything we expected himto do.”

D’Alessandro threw eight strikes and no walks. The right-hander allowed 10 hits in 84 pitches, just one below thelimit, in five innings. He worked the entire game for Hast-ings, mixing his curveball and fastball with an off-speedchange-up that baffled batters.

His fastball can reach 70 mph, but, said Bordignon,“We’ve never really clocked it.”

In the bottom of the fifth, the wheels came off. White Rockbatters singled on two middling ground balls, one thanksto a Hastings infield error, and on the next hit, White Rockloaded the bases with just one out. Two runners scored andtwo more came home on the next hit, a line drive to leftfield that was misjudged for a second error. Hastings trailed4-2 with a runner on third and only one out.

“One bad inning and a couple mistakes and that’s whathappens. Momentum changes,” said Bordignon.

D’Alessandro struck out the next batter and a pop-up wascaught to end the inning, leaving Hastings a final frame torally a come-back.

Matthew Shewfelt popped up a fly ball that was caught,Sam Van Snellenberg walked in a show of skilled defensivehitting, and the next two batters went down swinging.

“We couldn’t get out bats going, we couldn’t get it back,” saidBordignon. “It was too much, too soon and we couldn’t react.”

After the semifinal win, Bordignon sat his players down.“I was saying they were a good team. You’re good enough tobe here and there’s a reason why you’re here. And,” he toldthem, “make the most of your chance.”

After the loss he said, “They played with their hearts.They played well.”

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KERRISDALEHONOURSPIONEERINGLITTLELEAGUECOACHEven 20 years after her death, Annie Butterfield is stillremembered for her commitment to baseball funda-mentals and attention to detail. Butterfield startedcoaching in Kerrisdale sometime in the late ’60s and,as B.C.’s first female Little League coach, made his-tory as well as memories and skilled ball players. Sheplayed adult baseball and was invited to umpire a LittleLeague game, after which she moved from behind theplate to the dugout as the new manager of the ElmPark Chevrons. “I just can’t imagine summer withoutbaseball,” she said in a 1971 newspaper article in TheProvince.

During the Little League provincial championshipslast week at Elm Park, Kerrisdale Little League an-nounced it dedicated new bleachers in Butterfield’shonour. A friend, Marlene Flater, bequeathed $10,000in Butterfield’s memory. “Annie’s legacy truly lives onthrough this generous bequest and through the thou-sands of little leaguers over the last 50 years who alsocan’t imagine a summer without running those samebase paths at good old Elm Park,” stated a tournamentprogram.

“Annie was known as a stickler for detail and base-ball fundamentals. She had high expectations and theboys responded with enthusiasm and respect.”

—Megan Stewart

MEGANSTEWARTStaff writer

Twenty-six Vancouver ath-letes from 16 different highschools and three universi-ties are on their way to Sher-

brooke, Que. to represent B.C. at theCanada Summer Games Aug. 2 to 17.

UBC Dolphin Justin Chan (Van Tech)and Vancouver Pacific Swim Club’s Mi-cha Gay (Prince of Wales) join the team inthe pool. Fencers Vivien Cao (Churchill)and Emma von Dadelszen (Magee) wererecruited along with St. George’s tennisplayers Alexander Day and Patrick Hall.

Basketball prospects Elijah Campbell-

Axson (Vancouver College) and JessicaHanson (Little Flower) will play for B.C.as will rowers Spencer de Gelder, ConnorMcSweeney (Hamber), Shane Mullen (St.George’s), Angus Todd and Mark Goudieof Vancouver College and sisters Kather-ine and Ellen Gleadow (Crofton House).Gerissen Tang (Eric Hamber) of the FalseCreek Racing Canoe Club will paddle.

On the track, Stephanie Cho (whose biolists her at Van Tech, Prince of Wales andChurchill) will race the 400m hurdles andLord Byng graduate Devan Wiebe will runthe 800m and 400m. Carsten Lapointe(Prince of Wales and Van Tech) of RTCVancouver will run the triathlon.

Vancouver Courier 2013 Prospects

Kathryn Baker and Marc Magano, namedtwo of the top graduating athletes in thecity, will both compete for B.C. Baker, aKitsilano grad, will play soccer and Killar-ney’s Magano will wrestle.

Around the ball diamond, StephaniEllis (Prince of Wales) will play softballand B.C. Premier Baseball League playersKeenan Williams (Britannia) and BradleySmith (Point Grey) will play ball.

Royal Vancouver Yacht Club sailorLloyd Lyall, (West Point Grey) will race,Marine Drive Golf Club junior Trevor Yuwill teeoffandWhiteRockDivers’CarolynMacFarlane (Crofton House) will make asplash.

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Green & Kalamata

Olives

$599320g

Assorted

Chips

$229142g

Simply Natural Assorted

Salsa

$259-$289470ml

Omega Nutrition

Apple Cider Vinegar

$579

Coated Raisins

$499 $399

946ml

455gr

ThompsonRaisins

$5991kg

/lb$8.80/kg

6for each

Milk Chocolate Yogurt

Fresh

Documents

Vancouver Courier July 31 2013