WV Outlook August 4, 2011

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There is definitely a buzz about The Bay. The first annual Art Walk was a huge success for the artists and businesses alike. And although the Seaside Market coincided with one of our latest monsoons, word on the street was that it was a “do-again”! Wednesday nights in the park boast of local talent – be it song or dance – ably coordinated by the Gleneagles Community Centre.

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The boys of summer will be stealing the limelight, along with some bases, dur-ing the 2011 Canadian Little League

Championship being held in North Vancouver this week.

Chris Zuehlke Park will be the scene of hun-dreds of elite little leaguers on the cusp of ado-lescence and stronger swings.

North Vancouver’s District Five is the host organization for the six-team national champi-onship, with Mount Seymour Little League the host team. As nine- and 10-year-olds, the team clinched the district title two years ago, thereby earning the right to represent North Van in the 11/12 majors tournament.

Wayne Hobson - seasoned District Five admin-istrator and national tournament director - is on the edge of his seat with anticipation. This has been his baby for the past two years.

“It’s fantastic,” he says, with some vigor. “I’ve been looking forward to this tournament for awhile now.

Nestled behind the soccer fields at Mahon Park and Carson Graham secondary - sur-rounded by majestic fir trees - is one of the pret-tiest ballparks in the Lower Mainland: North Vancouver’s own field of dreams, Chris Zuehlke Park.

Approximately $758,000 in upgrades – includ-ing a new clubhouse, dugouts and state-of-the-art scoreboard – have recently been added to the historic field and home of the North Van Central team; the key funding players are the City of North Vancouver and the federal government.

Perhaps even more of a local institution than the park itself is the legendary Zuehlke burger: caramelized onions made with Coke and vinegar, and the meat patty and wiener inside the bun.

Hobson reveals that there have between eight to 10 core people volunteering behind the scenes for many months now to make the national championship a reality in North Van – from bil-leting to accounting to umpiring.

Thousands of people are expected to be in attendance at the park over the next week including past North Van-bred ball players.

“We have been trying to get in touch with the ‘93 Lynn Valley team that went to the World Series,” says Hobson.

On Sat. Aug. 6 at 11 a.m., family members of the park’s namesake – Chris Zuehlke’s parents, brother and sisters – will be recognized at the opening ceremonies, which will include a flyover.

That evening is the Battle of B.C. between provincial majors champs Langley and Mount Seymour Little League at 6 p.m.

For more information on the tournament visit www.vancouver2011.ca. Also see Len Corben’s column on page 23.

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After months of intense preparation, Wayne Hobson is counting down the minutes to the first ball of the 2011 Canadian Little League Championships at Chris Zuehlke Park. Peter Taylor photo


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GREG HOEKSTRAS T A F F R E P O R T E R

A North Vancouver father-to-be is embar-rassed and upset after being scammed out of $1,638 by a crafty con artist last week.

The victim, who asked to not be identified, said he was tricked by an authentic-looking email that said he and his wife had won two permanent American work visas in the country’s annual Diversity Visa Program, better known as the “Green Card lottery.”

What made the email so believable, said the man, is that the couple had actually entered the lottery a few months prior. So when the email arrived in his inbox, he gladly wired the neces-sary “processing fees” to an address he thought was the U.S. embassy in England.

Several days later, the man learned the unfor-tunate truth.

“I was obviously pissed off when the visas didn’t arrive,” said the man in an interview with The Outlook last week. “I wasn’t worried about the money. I was worried that someone was able to do that. They had a lot of information about me.”

The man said the email looked convincingly like the U.S. Department of State’s website, complete with official logos and letterhead.

“Everything was the same,” he said.The man, who moved to Canada only a few

months ago from Australia, said he and his wife — who is nine months pregnant — were hoping to move to California once their baby is born.

“My wife’s sister lives there,” he explained over the phone. “We wanted to move there so the two sisters could take care of each other. Now I don’t want her to find out and worry.”

Cpl. Richard De Jong, spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP, said police are investi-gating the case and trying to determine how the fraudster knew to contact the victim.

One possibility, said De Jong, is that an inter-net hacker managed to somehow access the list of lottery entrants. Another likely scenario, he said, is that the fraudster sent out thousands, or even millions, of similar emails, hoping to find someone like the victim who had actually applied for the lottery.

“In the world of emails and electronics, it’s often a game of hit and miss,” De Jong told The Outlook. “In a million emails, they get 100 peo-

ple who find it interesting, and 10 who will actu-ally send money.”

De Jong said police are attempting to deter-mine how the victim’s application information was made public. He said police also want to hear from any other potential victims.

Meanwhile, the man said he is disappointed but not deterred in his efforts to move his young family to the United States.

“I want to make my wife happy,” he said. “As a man, I want to look after my family.”

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North Vancouver RCMP are investigating a fraudulent email that tricked a local man into wiring a lump sum of cash overseas. The phony email told the man that he and his wife had won U.S. work visas in the country’s annual “green card lottery.” Greg Hoekstra photo


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VanOpen tourney kicks off atHollyburnSEAN KOLENKO

S T A F F R E P O R T E R

There are a few hallmarks to being a ball girl at a ten-nis tournament. You have

to know where to to stand, if a player needs their towel and, most importantly, who needs the ball.

The program doesn’t change much from year to year and after four summers volunteering at the Odlum Brown VanOpen at West Vancouver’s Hollyburn Country Club, 13-year-old Angie Walker knows the ins and outs of the ball girl world. But, she says, it’s still exciting.

“The chance to watch the pro-fessionals play is a great expe-rience,” says Angie, a North Vancouver resident.

“They’re so good.”When she isn’t donning the red

and blue uniform of the tourna-ment’s ball people, Angie is a Hollyburn member and a dedi-cated tennis player. She comes from an impressive athletic pedigree. Both her mother and younger sister play tennis, and her father, Fabio Walker, was a former Canadian national junior champion.

It’s been a life, albeit a brief one, on the hardcourts for Angie. She’s been around the game lon-ger than many far her senior, but every now and then, she says, there are moments that ensure she stays on her toes.

“Sometimes, yeah, when the men play,” she say, laughing.

“One guy hit the ball 147 miles per hour. That was pretty scary.”

It’s been a rather meteoric rise for the VanOpen, which began as a female-only event at Jericho Tennis Club in 2002, with a total prize purse of $25,000. This year, the VanOpen boasts a $200,000 purse — $100,000 to winners in both the men’s and women’s cat-egories — and 140 competitors from around the world.

When tournament organizers announced a $25,000 boost to the women’s draw in June, local media arrived at a significantly less bustling tennis club. Until August 7, however, Hollyburn Country Club will be a hectic place. Fans, parents and coaches already mill about the recently-erected grandstands. Sponsor banners hang from the fences, and the sound of swatted tennis balls can now be heard into the evening.

Floyd Hill, tournament chair-man, told The Outlook he’s proud the tournament has been able to improve upon itself each year. For 2011, organizers brought in new scoreboards and speed guns, which read the pace competitors hit their serves at.

“It’s another step, you know,” says Hill, with a proud smile.

“And support comes from so many places, the public, box holders, corporate sponsors. We had a problem with some road work outside the club, so I called the guys at West Vancouver and they told us they would finish the work after the tournament to help us out.”

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North Shore tennis player Angie Walker is volunteering as a ball girl at the Odlum Brown VanOpen. “The chance to watch the professionals play is a great experience,” she says. One of those pros is Olivia Rogowska, below, who won her match against Kristyna Pliskova on Tuesday. Peter Taylor photos

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In this special edition, the Outlook has partnered with Argyle Secondary School Digital Media Academy. Feature stories and photos have been written and

composed by Argyle students. Their perspective is perfect, of course, and webelieve you will enjoy their insight as they contemplate the coming school year.

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There are so many newspaper stories about the athletes who have trained at North Vancouver’s Level 10 Fitness that a few

framed pictures have to sit on the floor against the wall. There just isn’t any more room to hang them.

Professional hockey players, football players, snowboarders, skiers — including five Olympic medalists — are but a few examples of the top-tier competitors who have passed through the gym. An impressive roster, to say the least. But gym owner Anthony Findlay has a rather simple answer for how his club attracted such notable clientele — “things just grew.”

“Level 10 [Fitness] started 15 years ago,” says Findlay. “It just began with friends, family and associates. Then it went to some high school teams. Then the wives of some Canucks joined, then some Canucks. And then some provincial and national teams.”

Growing up in West Vancouver, athletics was always a passion of Findlay’s. As a youngster, Findlay never figured sports would be a means of paying the bills. After graduating from West Van secondary, however, Findlay went on to play football at the University of British Columbia and then landed with the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, but after breaking into Canadian football big-time, Findlay quickly turned his attention back the classroom. Only one player, the Roughriders’ centre, had a university degree. And the CFL, in comparison to the football leviathan south of the border, isn’t exactly paying big dollars. Findlay knew he needed to further his education.

After wrapping up a psychology degree at UBC, Findlay eventually entered the then bur-geoning field of personal training. In those days,

says Findlay, personal training was a bit of a cutthroat gig, as trainers rarely supported one another and important credentials were often lacking. The field, he says, has come a long way.

The younger generation of trainers, he says, need to have a willingness to be mentored. There are more and more young professionals starting out with Master’s degrees, a positive step in the previously credential-deficient profession, but “a Master’s doesn’t always mean you’re ready,” says Findlay. “If you’re going to be spending three of four hours a week with someone, you have to hire people with good hearts and a good person-ality. The bottom line is you have to care about

people. You have to want to help people.”

And not just the athletes plastered on the walls. Level 10 Fitness trains a team in nearly every North Shore school, the North Shore Winter Club and an ever-growing list of regular North Shore folks signing up at the club. Every one of Findlay’s employees, now 25 strong,

is also required to donate one hour a week to a community cause.

Sure, the professional-level attention is flat-tering. One doesn’t tire of seeing the likes of Ed Jovanovski, Duncan Keith and Maëlle Ricker walk through the gym’s doors. But working with dentists, housewives and “the kid at the corner store” is where, Findlay says, some really pro-found physical changes can be achieved.

“We really are lucky to do what we do. And seeing athletes is really exciting and special for us,” adds Findlay. “On any given week we’ll see 1,000 different people. But the ability to affect young students, or to help someone with a physi-cal problem, helping them to walk again, that’s amazing. It really is a passion, not a job.”

‘A passion, not a job’

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worthwhile.Sean Kolenko photo

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In what West Vancouver Police are calling “a high-risk, drama-filled rescue,” a couple and their dog are safe after a near-100-foot fall in Cypress Ravine.

On July 30, a dog belonging to a couple walk-ing in the area of Cypress Ravine fell over a cliff. In an attempt to rescue the pet, the hus-band slipped over the cliff, breaking his fall by grabbing branches. As the husband clung to the branches, his wife called 911.

Const. James Hudson, a dog handler and search and rescue technician for the WVPD, tied multiple dog leashes together to and lowered the line to the stranded man. With his partner,

Const. Dominic Toa, the officers pulled the man to safety unharmed.

Once on solid ground, the focus of the rescue turned toward the couple’s dog, which had fallen the length of the ravine. Eventually the pet was pulled to safety, but not before a rockslide took place during the rescue. A veterinarian treated the dog for non-life threatening injuries.

Police say the rescue is a warning to future walkers of the dangers present on the trails and ravines of the North Shore.

The WVPD was assisted by the North Shore Rescue helicopter team and the West Vancouver Fire Department’s high angle rescue squad.

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Police start planning for the holidays

GREG HOEKSTRA S T A F F R E P O R T E R

While most North Shore residents

are basking in sum-mer’s late arrival, the West Vancouver Police Department is already planning for the yule-tide.

Recently the organiza-tion announced it had selected the winner of its first-ever holiday card contest.

Grade 9 Collingwood secondary student Erin Johnston designed the winning entry, which shows Santa Claus flying above the North Shore in a West Vancouver Police sleigh.

The drawing will be featured on WVPD’s official greeting card this winter.

Cpl. Jag Johal, spokesman for the WVPD, said in a press release that the contest was cre-ated “in an effort to invoke community spirit and involve and acknowledge West Vancouver youth in a positive way.”

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Brooke Angus sits in a chair beside Yasmin Teja’s bed.

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“Besame, besame mucho, como si fuera ésta noche la ultima vez.”

Her voice seems to make all the lines in the cream-coloured room dissolve. With every chord comes a sense of freedom, as though here, in this fuzzy cocoon, life is no longer restrained by form. Yasmin closes her eyes. Her eyelashes flutter as her thoughts ebb between the past and present. She begins to whisper.

“Besame, besame mucho.”The Spanish tune speaks of love; passion so

deep and powerful that a single kiss feels as though it may be your last. This was Yasmin and Sadrudin’s song. They grew up as neighbours in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Their mothers helped plan the union, but it was a “love marriage.” For 41 years they planted kisses on each other, until a year ago, when Sadrudin succumbed to cancer, and they shared their last.

Here, lying among the folds of sheets on an adjustable bed in the North Shore Hospice, Yasmin awaits a similar fate. Five weeks after Sadrudin’s death, Yasmin was re-diagnosed with cancer. It started in her breast and has now reached her lymph nodes and her brain. Her hair is shorn short, a legacy of her brain surgery; her body looks bird-like when compared to the glow-ing woman, who stands tall beside Sadrudin in a photo tucked away carefully in her dresser.

Although the disease limits her movement to the slight twist of a wrist or beckoning of a fin-ger, Yasmin hasn’t let it eat away at her creativ-ity. She’s been working on a project, an endeavor she calls a “piece of herself.”

Over the past few weeks, Brooke has become an important part of Yasmin’s life. She’s helped Yasmin create a CD. The tracks feature Yasmin’s quiet voice reciting her poems in Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language. Accompanying her satiny words is Brooke’s guitar and when each soliloquy fin-ishes, Brooke sings an English translation.

Last night Yasmin unveiled her project in her room. It is her way to thank those who have ral-lied around her. It was also a special moment in knowing that although she will be gone soon, her words will live on.

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For seven years, Brooke has watched the power of music unfold in front of her. Two days a week she visits Lions Gate Hospital’s pallia-tive care patients and the North Shore Hospice. Not all patients want to create a CD like Yasmin; some simply don’t have that much time left. Some patients ask Brooke to sing or play a famil-iar tune. Others want to play or sing themselves. But no matter who the person is, there’s some-thing intimate about music, Brooke says. It can create an unspoken trust, open emotional doors or ease anxiety.

Currently, Brooke is only one of approximately five full-time equivalent music therapists work-ing for Vancouver Coastal Health. Right now she spends her time between 10 patients in hospice and seven patients at the hospital’s palliative care wing. But that number fluctuates, with as many as 30 patients registered in Lion Gate’s palliative care program.

Over the last year and a half, a gradual ellimi-nation of music therapy jobs throughout B.C. — including one position at Lions Gate — has caught the attention of the Music Therapy Association of BC.

“It has been a growing concern,” says Meg Fildes, the association’s spokesperson. “We are tackling it right now and starting a committee about this issue.”

Recently, B.C.’s Interior lost three music therapists. The post at Lions Gate Hospital was reclassified and downgraded, Fildes notes. The bereavement manager position, a woman who also worked as a music therapist, was cut. In the past two years, St. Paul’s palliative care saw its music therapy position disappear, as did Marion Hospice. MSA Mission Memorial hospice cut eight hours from its music therapy program. On top of that, between 2002 and 2004, all music therapy jobs in cancer agencies in Vancouver, Surrey and Kelowna were eliminated.

Christian Sjonnesen is one of the Interior music therapists who found himself faced with a 30-day notice this spring. After six and a half years working in an Interior Health Authority extended care facility — Polson Residential — Sjonnesen says he was told by management that his six-hour-a-week job would be taken over by volunteers.

Sjonnesen attended Capilano University, the only post-secondary education institution in Western Canada that teaches music therapy, to receive his bachelor’s degree.

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Music therapist Brooke Angus made it possible for hospice patient Yasmin Teja to recite the poems she wrote about her life, and her loves, on a CD. Rebecca Aldous photo


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Once music therapy positions are axed it is only a small step for health authorities to strip other therapy resources, such as recreation therapists, from hospitals, hospices and residen-tial facilities, Sjonnesen warns. He’s written to Premier Christy Clark and hopes public attention will help save jobs.

“I would like to see music therapists reinstated where they were cancelled,” he says. “We are tak-ing quality of life of residents.”

The number of music therapy positions in Vancouver Coastal Health has been steady over the years, says Gavin Wilson, VCH spokesper-son. In Richmond, such jobs have increased by 0.2 per cent, he notes.

As for the LGH position, the full-time job was dropped and two part-time workers hired. This better fulfills patients needs, allowing staff to cover a broader time spectrum, Wilson says.

“We found that [the full-time job] wasn’t meet-ing the needs of the clients,” he says.

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Brooke is grateful for her job. It is emotionally stirring work, she says, but also rewarding. She shares some of the most intimate moments in a person s life. “It is so moving these people can invite me into their room when they don’t have a lot of time left,” she says.

After The Outlook’s interview, Brooke and Yasmin recorded four more poems, including one Yasmin wrote for her mother and another for her father., Khanum Schmitz.

Yasmin’s sister-in-law, who has been by Yasmin’s side since her diagnosis, says it was amazing to watch Yasmin recite them from memory. Yasmin and Khanum have always had a close relationship. When Khanum s brother was alive, the three would often vacation together. Now she says they are closer than sisters.

And every Thursday, the day Brooke visits Yasmin, Khanum finds joy in watching Yasmin’s face spring to life. It’s helped Khanum mourn the loss of her brother and the impending loss of a dear friend.

“It is very special to me to finally have Yasmin’s poetry so other people can hear it,” she says.

Yasmin needed to get her words out before she could move on. Making the CD has brought her joy and strength. Khanum knows how this story will end, but it s been a beautiful journey, she says.

“I take something from everything. Life is very precious and I believe the meaning of life is all about relationships.”

“Besame, besame mucho como si fuera ésta noche la ultima vez.” Kiss me, kiss me a lot, as if tonight was the last time.

LifeThose that dwell on prayers, life is an excuse

for themThose that dwell on women, life is hell for

themThose that dwell on money, life is a fix for

themBut it is those that dwell on the laughter of

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breezeThey are the living. Life is life for them

During my time at North Shore Hopsice, I had occasion to meet with several wonderful people who have been so helpful in making this project possible. I especially like to acknowledge Brooke Angus, music therapist at NSH, who put music to my lyrics and much more.

Marylene Kyriazis, the pharmacist, who intro-duced artist Andrea Argyros to me, who did the artwork for the CD cover. Beyond all I want to acknowledge my sister-in-law, Khanum Schmitz, whom I love very much. She has been there for me in so many, many ways since the onset of my illness and to whom I dedicate my CD.

-Yasmin Teja

This painting by Andrea Argyros of Yasmin Teja is on the cover of Yasmin’s CD. The CD puts music to some of her poems and creates a lasting legacy. One poem is below.


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Looking through clear water to see fish dart over stones, sunlight reflected on their scales, is an amazing experience. It is an

experience Mark Mentiply manages to capture in metal.

The North Shore artist will share the steps of his process at the Copper & Fire Arts Festival atthe Britannia Mine Museum this coming Sunday.

“I’ll bring my torch and my welder to do a practical demonstration where I show people how I get the colour for the fish and the bears. I’ll do some polishing and some heating and maybe I’ll drill some rocks,” he told The Outlook.

Rocks play a big part in Mentiply’s work. “When I go out for walks with my son and my wife, we collect rocks. We have rocks from vari-ous places all over B.C. I put a piece of ready rod into the rock and then I have something to weld to. Then I match a bear or a fish to the rock. Each rock has a unique quality and the sculpture is informed by that look.”

His love of fish began when he was a young boy growing up on the Capilano River in West Vancouver. It seemed natural to incorporate that fascination in his art. “I worked with steel and I love fishing, so the next thing I knew, I was making metal fish. I’ve been working on sculp-tures for 15 years and I’ve specialized in making eagles, bears and fish for six years.”

Mentiply uses a process that is called oxyacety-lene welding. “I treat the steel with oxyacetylene. That gives it colours that range from auburn, to purple to blue. And I polish the steel by hand with a grinder. So that’s the process – I polish it, I heat-treat it and I bend it.”

Mentiply’s pieces come in a variety of sizes. The biggest fish is 34 inches long; the smallest is two inches. They are all individually hand-made and range in price from $7.95 to $1,200. Landscapers also feature some of his designs.

“One of my larger pieces is on display at the North Shore Credit Union in Whistler,” Mentiply says. “I’ve also created three birds for the Crazy Raven, a bar on Cypress Bowl. The three ravens look like they are flying across the bar with five-foot wing spans. They have about 200 individual feathers and look really cool.”

Mentiply has also made the trophies for the largest salmon tournament in North America organized by West Coast Resorts. He cares deep-ly about B.C.’s nature and uses his skills to sup-port various charitable organizations. “I am an avid fisherman and I support the Pacific Salmon Foundation. I donate a lot of items for silent auc-tions for fundraising. I also support the Seymour Salmonid Society, The Harvest Project, the Whistler animal shelter, the burn unit of the fire department and children in Tibet. Whether it’s children, animals or fish, I help where I can.”

Working on his sculptures is not Mentiply’s only occupation, nor his primary source of income. He does special effects in the film busi-ness where he works a lot with steel. He calls the film industry his “golden handcuffs” and admits that he would like to one day break free.

Mentiply enjoys the Copper & Fire festival. “I am also trying to get enough large pieces togeth-er to for a show at the Britannia. I’d love to focus more on bigger pieces.”

The Britannia Copper & Fire Arts Festival is Sunday, August 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In addition to artists’ presentations and fam-ily activities, there will be live music including Kostaman, Pawnshop Diamond, The Magician and the Gates of Love and more. Admission if free for members and those who purchase a regu-lar museum pass. Visit www.bcmm.ca for details.


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Running across Canada: for many of us, Terry Fox is the first name that comes to mind. Before he died of

cancer in 1981, Fox made himself a leg-end by taking on the challenge of running across country to raise awareness and money for cancer research. He covered 5,373 kilometres in 143 days on the road.

Now meet Dr. Riley Senft, who is in the midst of attempting that same unimagi-nable feat — using two legs to conquer Canada and cancer.

“Terry Fox was an incredible person. He essentially said, ‘What is the hardest thing for me to do? Run? Okay then I’ll run across Canada,’” Riley says in an email interview when he was resting in Wawa, Ontario, in preparation for his journey along Lake Superior’s rugged shoreline.

“Terry had one leg, he had cancer, and he didn’t have access to the GPS or social media or any of the other technology that has evolved since he ran that I have access to and yet he managed to capture the heart of our nation and leave an incred-ible legacy. I don’t have cancer, I have two legs, I have a bigger support vehicle, and I still find this a huge challenge.”

People run marathons all the time. And the 42.195 kilometres to cross the finish line is viewed as a huge test to how far the body and mind can be pushed. Riley is more than halfway through his run across Canada and is clocking roughly 60 kilome-tres a day, well over one marathon every 24 hours. His body is being beaten and the pavement gives no mercy.

“I still have blisters all over my feet and I have given up on the idea that I’ll ever be blister-free during this run. I’ve learned how to minimize them as much as possible but in the beginning I found myself in hos-pital in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, because of infected blisters that had me off my feet for two days. My legs have gotten used to

the mileage but I had hamstring and calf issues in the beginning that I had to see physiologists for along the way. The recent heat wave was brutal and I was drinking over 10 litres of fluid a day.”

But despite the grind, Riley says it’s all worth it to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer. His charity is called Step into Action and his goal is to raise $1 mil-lion during his run.

“I’m doing this because I’m tired of prostate cancer having such a large impact in my life and I want to raise prostate can-cer awareness so that men know when they should be getting checked and so that they don’t fear the digital rectal exam because it’s not a big deal at all.

“My grandfather died of prostate cancer, my father currently has prostate cancer, a number of close family friends have pros-tate cancer, and odds are either myself or my brother will get prostate cancer. I hate prostate cancer and this is my way of going to war against it.”

His heart was and is in the right place, but when Riley’s father Rod first heard of what his son wanted to do, it was a shock.

“It was the sheer enormity of it,” says Rod, in an interview at The Outlook’s office. “He was in the worst shape of his life. He was three and a half years into his medical residency living in Winnipeg. In winter you don’t get the chance to go out and train.”

Riley may have been out of shape when he started his run this past May, but his family knew that no matter what the cir-cumstances were, if Riley said he was going to run across the country, that was exactly what he was going to do.

“When he sets his mind to a goal, I’m confident he will achieve it,” says his proud father, who raised his family on the North Shore, a place he still calls home.

“When I first heard about it, I thought he was nuts. It’s an ambitious thing to do. Of course you worry,” sister Lauren chimes in.

Riley and his brother Derek are no strangers to tackling Canada from east to west. Nearly 10 years ago, separately, they both rode their bikes across the country for Habitat for Humanity.

“Running has always been Riley’s pas-sion and running across Canada was something floating around, he would always consider it,” says Derek.

In order to stay sane, Riley listens to audio books and plays mind games to trick his head into thinking there is less mileage than there really is. He’s also got a crew including friend Michael Downie and David Bell to help him keep in touch with others, spread the word on prostate cancer and make sure he can achieve what he has set out to do.

“Raising awareness is just as important because if you can detect prostate cancer early in stage one, there is over a 90-per-cent cure rate,” Riley says.

Vancouver Prostate Centre’s clinician-scientist and urologic surgeon Dr. Martin Gleave applauds Riley’s quest.

“I think it’s a great illustration of the length of which people will go to get a message out to raise awareness. I think that in general the awareness of cancers, particularly in prostate, has increased.”

Gleave and Riley both agree that advo-cates of breast cancer awareness have done a phenomenal job in delivering early detection and prevention messages to the public. And it’s Riley’s mission to make prostate cancer an issue on the forefront of men’s minds.

“If I could get prostate cancer the same sort of recognition that breast cancer has among females then maybe I could feel like I’ve done enough to raise awareness but we are a long way away from that point,” Riley says.

Riley’s journey will end in Vancouver around mid-October, a month after his father gets an update on his diagnosis and treatment.

“Fall is going be a time when this illness

will be front and centre in our family’s life,” Rod says.

After the run, Riley intends to head back to Winnipeg to finish his residency. He plans to return to the North Shore to practice.

He’s now more than halfway through his province-to-province tour. This week-end he will be running through Thunder Bay, the place where Fox had to end his run.

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Things are once again heating up at West Vancouver’s Ferry Building Gallery.

Recently, the cultural hotspot launched its annual spicy summer dance program, Salsa by the Sea, for the sixth year running.

The classes, which take place Thursdays until the end of August, offer North Shore residents a chance to experience the music, rhythms, and dance of Latin America in a picturesque setting — Ambleside Beach.

Ruth Payne, the gallery’s visual arts coordina-tor, says dancers of all ages are welcome to come learn all the right moves in a supportive environ-ment.

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“She’s probably the best salsa dancer in Vancouver,” says Payne, a long-time student.

Payne says on a night with good weather, the lessons can draw up to 100 people to Ambleside Landing near the pier. Most come to dance, but some gather just to watch she says.

“It’s always a lot of fun,” she says. “It’s all about the rhythm. I don’t think there’s anyone who can resist Latin music. It’s very soulful.”

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Strategy passes after holdout Coquitlam signs on

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A new accord to limit and shape growth across Metro Vancouver for the next 30 years is now in effect after the only hold-

out city – Coquitlam – dropped its objections and signed on.

The new regional growth strategy was adopted July 29 and replaces the former Livable Region Strategic Plan.

It should be more enforceable, requiring cit-ies to concentrate dense development within an urban containment boundary that protects farm-land, low-density rural areas and green space from sprawl.

But the key changes are new rules to limit the redevelopment of industrial land into condos and stem the rapid prolifera-tion of suburban office parks in areas hard to serve with transit.

“That imposes tremendous public costs,” Burnaby Mayor and Metro regional planning chair Derek Corrigan said.

Inefficient development undercuts transit use and increases road congestion and air pollution, he said, increasing public costs in other ways.

Critics, including some Coquitlam reps, had argued the plan is regional in name only because Metro granted too much flexibility to each city to gain their support.

That means, for example, golf courses are pro-tected as green space in some cities but available for redevelopment in others.

A committee of regional planners is to deter-mine within a year whether to recommend changes to make the plan more consistent.

Corrigan conceded the new protections to preserve land for industry and to slow office-park sprawl could have been stronger.

“It was a hard battle to make the gains we did make,” he said. “But these gains were a great stride forward from our 1996 plan.”

A citizens’ watchdog group said the land-use deal was drawn up with little public aware-ness as planners in each city customized how it would apply locally.

Most disappointed will be a coalition of busi-ness groups that wanted looser development rules since most of the land base is already pro-tected by the Agricultural Land Reserve or other designations.

The Business Coalition for a Sustainable Region feared more red tape on development would stifle job growth and constrict the ship-ment of goods through the growing Pacific Gateway.

Metro and Coquitlam seemed headed for arbi-tration over the impasse, but Coquitlam reps

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might have made the growth strategy a political football in November’s civic election, unravel-ling the agreement.

Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart said a couple of councillors still don’t support the plan and he also has concerns.

“The region has gone to great lengths to accede to the wishes of each community,” Stewart said.

“It’s better than nothing but it has some signif-icant shortcomings. Those of us who believe in regional planning might perceive that this isn’t

regional planning.”The strategy was ratified by all

20 cities, the Tsawwassen First Nation, TransLink and both neighbouring regional districts after several years of work, three sets of consultations and dozens of public meetings.

Port Moody only signed after it was exempted from meeting its population growth targets until after the Evergreen Line is built.

Metro planners predict the region will attract a million more residents over the next three decades and the plan aims to accommodate them without sacrificing farmland and green space.

The vision is to build compact urban commu-nities where residents can more easily walk, bike or take transit from home to where they work, study or play.

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Arts in West Vancouver’s popular Harmony Arts Festival kicked off this past weekend, bringing a slew of musicians, performers, craftspeople and artisans to the Ambleside waterfront.

Above, Lawrence Lowe makes mini-creations by inking small blocks of cradled wood on Friday afternoon, while handspinner Rebecca Fisher (left) shows off her art form and two art lovers (below) take in colourful paintings by members of the North Shore Artists’ Guild.

On Monday (Aug. 1) performer Dynamike (top right) thrills audiences with some daredevil unicycle tricks while musicians Robert Kennedy (right) and Lindsay May (bottom right) play for crowds on two of the festival’s Ambleside stages.

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Getting traded is a fact of life for athletes. I learned that early on because I was trad-

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And with the 2011 Canadian Little League majors (ages 11-12) championships set to start on Saturday at good, old (but newly renovated) Chris Zuehlke Memorial Park, tucked in behind Kinsmen Stadium, this is the perfect opportunity to recall those heady pre-teen days of yes-teryear.

That was long before the field then known as Jaycee Park got the Zuehlke name in 1976, in fact long before the park was configured as it is today. To put it in perspective, it was even before Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock sent rock and roll on its way.

Home plate was originally where the present right field foul pole is located, so the field’s line from home through centre field faced southeast instead of the current southwest. There wasn’t even an outfield fence the first year. And there was no infield dirt. It was all grass until 1953 when legendary groundskeeper Bill Hoopfer and other parents dug out the baselines. They never knew it but when no one was looking a couple of other eager 11-year-old players and I used the shovels we discovered had been left lying around to dig out much of the area between second base and third.

North Vancouver was granted an official Little League franchise 60 years ago in 1951 and operated its first league in 1952 as the North Van Jaycee Little League (now North Van Central) with four teams, all named for the sponsoring ser-vice clubs: Jaycees, Elks, Legion and Kiwanis.

There were only three other Little Leagues in B.C. in 1952: Little Mountain (the first permanent Little League outside the U.S. in 1951 when it was called Vancouver Jaycee Little League), which served all of Vancouver with its National and American leagues; and New Westminster. Capilano had a quasi-Little League in 1952 before becom-ing officially affiliated with Little League Baseball Inc. in 1953.

I didn’t play in 1952 because I was afraid of getting hit by a pitched ball. I was 10 then and the possibil-ity of getting clunked in the ribs or the head by a fastball from 12-year-olds Norm Strandebo or Jim O’Toole did not appeal to me.

By 1953, Strandebo (the starting pitcher for the league’s first all-star team) and O’Toole (who pitched the league’s first no-hitter) were too old, so I was ready to play.

A fifth team was organized, spon-sored by Rotary. I was their 5’0”, 90-pound shortstop and batted sec-ond in the lineup behind 2B Eddie Dilks. Dale Wentland and Don Herbert, who rotated between the pitcher’s mound and centre field, were the meat of the order along with catcher Barry Sullivan. Other regulars were 1B Ron Renville, 3B Bill Wilcox, LF Mike Hughs and RF Duke Fairbrother. The roster

also included Ross Hultman, Mike Lamusse, Brian MacDonald, Roy McKinlay and Brent Wilcox. The manager was Hec MacDonald, the coach Earle Wilcox.

My first time at bat, I struck out against Kiwanis’ nasty lefthanded fireballer Dave Empey. Yes, that’s the same Dave Empey who gained considerable respect and a measure of fame as the 1993-2001 man-ager of the B.C. Premier League’s North Shore Twins during the time he coached Ryan Dempster, Simon Pond and Chris Mears, all of whom went on to play in the major leagues.

I’m not certain if I actually recall striking out against Empey but I did keep detailed records (line-scores, batting orders, statistics) in little green notebooks which I still have and which helped immensely in writing today’s column. I do remember my first hit, a double to right centre off Empey later in that game.

Another hurler I faced with good success was the Legion’s Harry Jerome, a pretty fair chucker who eventually gave up pitching to be one of the world’s all-time great sprinters.

Ray Wickland, who would win the Bobby Gaul Award in 1963 as UBC’s top graduating athlete, led the league with four homers.

But the next year, 1954, I found myself traded to Kiwanis. Sort of.

Little League was expanding rapidly. West Vancouver now had a league. Another circuit, called North Van Rotary, was formed that season to play out of Jaycee Park with three new teams (Nelsons, Imperials and MacFarlanes) plus the Rotary club. As I was in the Jaycee League’s boundary, I was sent packing to Kiwanis.

In retrospect, it was a good thing I didn’t have a no-trade contract or else I never would have played for the Kiwanis team pictured above, winners of the Jaycee League with

Recognize anyone on this 1954 Kiwanis team in the North Vancouver Jaycee Little League? Back (l-r): Coach Bob Dixon, Ken Menzies, Ian Dixon, Bryan Lemanski, Manager Al Bradshaw, Len Corben, Bruce Gladwin, Barry Johnstone, Coach Art Bryan. Middle: Grant Smith, Wayne Bryan, Spencer Cowan, Riccy Parkins, Bob Crawford. Front: Leif Jensen, Jim Bradshaw, John Maxwell and Richard Grant. Photo courtesy Len Corben collection

plus other memories of the early days of Little League on the North Shore

a 14-3 record. At 5’4” and 114 pounds, I played 1B and hit .700 (28 for 40). Well, anyway, that’s what it says in my green book.

Ian Dixon, a lifelong friend and the first North Shore Little Leaguer to make it to pro ball, played 2B. Teammate Bryan Lemanski hit six homers to lead the league. I never hit any, though I once hit a line shot to left centre field that struck the top two inches of the white pick-et fence that surrounded the outfield and only got a single.

The home run target – especially for left-hand-

ed power hitters like Terry Dunn whose right-handed slants also produced three no-hitters for Imperials in 1954 – was the high brown fence, well beyond the lower picket fence in right field, which encircled the entire Confederation Park (now Kinsmen Stadium) site.

It all seems so long ago now, which of course it is. Yet it seems like just yesterday too.

This is episode 427 from Len Corben’s trea-sure chest of stories and photos – from the great events and the quirky – that bring to life the North Shore’s rich sports history.

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