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GROUND BREAKIN’ - A Ventana construction worker surveys Pacific Arbour’s site at Marine Drive and 22nd Street in West Van.Maria Spitale-Leisk photo

Work starts on seniors’ home DWV gets $14.5 million from Pacific Arbour Retirement Communities

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A sizeable cheque was delivered to the District of West Vancouver last week by Pacific Arbour Retirement Communities

who have now broken ground on a state-of-the-art seniors housing development.

The DWV acquired four lots on the northwest corner of Marine Drive and 22nd Street includ-ing the former Wetmore Motors site for $5.56 million in 2001. A decade later, West Vancouver is seeing a return on that investment.

District staff signed a 125-year lease agreement with Pacific Arbour worth $14.5 million last week, which will be placed in the DWV’s endow-ment fund.

The seven-storey, 130-suite Westerleigh Retirement Residence – scheduled to open in summer 2013 – will feature a bistro, music room, winter solarium and auditorium.

It will also house a 3,000-square-foot satellite campus for Capilano University’s Edlercollege, which offers courses for those aged 55 and older.

DWV community planning manager Geri Boyle said the development will feature many green components. During a tour of the site last Friday, Boyle highlighted some of those areas.

“This is a very unique California Bay here on

22nd Street,” said Boyle, pointing to a towering, umbrella-like tree at the entrance to the site. “It is being protected throughout the whole con-struction process.”

As part of their lease agreement, Pacific Arbour will initially contribute $500,000 up front and then $20,000 annually to the DWV for upgrades to John Richardson Park, which is adja-cent to the Westerleigh development.

“It’s to open [the park] up to broader users and to improve the pedestrian system so coming from the community centre you won’t be faced with walking along Marine Drive,” said Boyle.

Pacific Arbour and its contractor Ventana Construction Corporation are aiming for LEED gold status with the Westerleigh development.

Some of the green building initiatives that will be implemented include high-efficiency mechani-cal systems, a green roof, high-efficiency bath-room fixtures and a solarium.

The DWV is anticipating traffic delays during the year-and-a-half long construction process.

Ventana spokesperson Stuart Kernaghan said construction equipment staging on the north side of Marine Drive in the curb lane - between 20th and 21st streets - will routinely impact one lane of west-bound traffic for approximately one year.

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TODD COYNES T A F F R E P O R T E R

Underneath the north side of the Iron Workers’ Memorial Bridge floats an empty boathouse on a

swirling bit of aquatic real estate.Until last month, it was home to North

Vancouver’s contribution to the Port Metro Vancouver fireboat program.

But recently the Port Metro municipali-ties revisited their 20-year-old fireboat agreement and now the North Shore will be without its two dedicated fireboats for the first time since 1991.

It was during that year that a consor-tium of Port Metro municipalities bought and began operating five small high-speed fireboats to replace one large fireboat that Vancouver had owned until 1987, when it sold it to San Francisco.

That fireboat consortium included both the city and district of North Vancouver — where one fireboat each would be staffed and operated — but excluded West Vancouver, which felt the fireboat program was unnecessary west of the Capilano River.

Under that previous agreement, Vancouver operated and housed two boats, Burnaby and Port Moody shared one boat, and the city and district of North Van each had one boat.

Now 20 years on, the boats are aging and North Shore firefighting needs are changing, according to North Vancouver district fire chief Victor Penman.

Under the new agreement, North Vancouver will still have access to a Port Metro fireboat when needed, but the boat won’t be staffed by North Van firefighters and won’t have a North Shore port to call home.

Instead, Vancouver will operate two of the old fireboats and cover the majority of the costs of the program, Burnaby and Port Moody will still share a boat, and one vessel will be kept in reserve as a spare and the fifth will be mothballed.

This new agreement is only slated to last until the end of 2013. By March of 2012, the Port Metro municipalities are expected to have hammered out a new long-term fireboat agreement.

“The difference is that over the last 20 years the District of North Vancouver shared in the operation of the boat and we don’t have to do that anymore,” Penman told The Outlook. “So we still receive the service at 50 per cent of what the previ-ous cost was and we can reallocate those funds and all the time we spent training and repairing and maintaining those boats to those things we encounter more fre-quently.”

Penman said under the new agreement the district’s fireboat budget would be $31,000 as opposed to the previous annual bill of $62,000.

In the city, the new cost is much less.But the head of the North Vancouver

district firefighters’ union, president Brian Leavold told The Outlook the new agree-ment would leave residents less protected.

“We’re certainly not behind this. It’s

less service for the residents of the North Shore and Indian Arm. They’re still going to be covered but it won’t be as quick,” Leavold said, adding the firefighters’ union protested the changes in the new agree-ment but was powerless to fight it.

“There was a reason the [boats] were put here before — because they thought it was a good place to have them,” he added. “I don’t know what changed, other than cost savings.”

Leavold agreed with Penman, however, that the loss of the fireboats would free up

North Van firefighters to train for more commonly needed operations like techni-cal rescues and industrial spills.

Penman said fireboat calls are very infrequent in the district — only about five per year — and rarely are they calls to places that can’t also be reached by land, with the exception of a few remote areas of Indian Arm.

The district of North Vancouver will not change staffing levels at its fire halls because of the new service agreement.

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ANCHORS AWEIGH - North Vancouver Fire Chief Vic Penman at the boathouse that used to hold the municipality’s fireboat. Rob Newell photo

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TODD COYNES T A F F R E P O R T E R

Avalanche rescue specialists from the most rugged regions of the Lower Mainland

descended on the North Shore Tuesday night to hash out this year’s mountain rescue response plan.

Hosted by North Shore Rescue, they met in the main garage at the North Vancouver city works yard.

More than 65 officials and moun-taineering experts attended the workshop, including those from the Canadian Avalanche Centre, Emergency Management B.C., the RCMP, the coroners service, search and rescue teams from Lions Bay, Squamish and Coquitlam and ski patrols from of all three North Shore mountain resorts.

Together they reviewed and final-ized the 2011 avalanche response plan, now in effect until late spring.

“We actually used this document for a search two weeks ago on the front side of Grouse and it works really well,” North Shore Rescue team leader Tim Jones said of the new protocol manual.

Following discussion of the new 18-page protocol that spans a typi-

cal avalanche scenario step-by-step from risk assessment to body recov-ery, the group broke off into teams to rehearse some worst-case calls involving multiple-victim snow slides and multiple-agency respons-es.

Using area maps and practising chain-of-command roles, the teams worked through their responses which, with a big year for snow already underway, will surely be called upon before next year’s ava-lanche response plan meeting.

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IN COMMAND - North Shore Rescue manager Bruce Moffat leads a team through an avalanche rescue scenarioTodd Coyne photo


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UNLIKELY STORY - Vivian Krause went from environmental insider to outcast.Rob Newell photo

Green envy: A tale of two industriesNorth Van writer and researcher Vivian Krause’s recent work has been cited

by Conservative pundits and policy-makers, including the Prime Minister

Deep within B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest, where the controversial Northern Gateway oil pipeline is projected to meet

the pristine spawning waters of the Pacific salm-on lies the intersection of a modern public opinion war.

It’s also where Vivian Krause was born.

But it took the North Vancouver writer and researcher decades of travel and work abroad with the United Nations in “some of the most corrupt countries around the world” to realize that something didn’t smell right about the push-back from environmentalists in the oil and fisher-ies debates happening here on the B.C. coast.

Armed with a Master’s degree in nutrition, Krause set to work ten years ago with a Dutch company farming salmon off northern Vancouver Island.

The relatively young industry was booming and so was the company. So much so that supply soon outweighed demand — the “biology side of the business got ahead of the marketing side,” — and the market was soon flooded.

Krause had served as her boss’s right hand for nearly two years, liaising with other nutritional scientists and environmental watchdogs. But

when he was let go, she was forced to follow suit.

“I pushed the company to trust the environ-mentalists,” Krause told The Outlook in the liv-

ing room of her home. “Now most of those enviros think I ride around on a broom.”

That’s because three years after leaving the fish farming industry behind, Krause was one day busy at work for the Adoptive Families Association of B.C.

Herself an adopted child, one of Krause’s roles on the

non-profit board was to scare up any funding grants potentially available to the society and apply for them.

“So right away I find this one $190-million grant program for wild salmon. And just because of my general interest in salmon I took a look, you know, because it was just a few clicks away on the mouse,” Krause said. “At first I thought this is fantastic because if they have $190 million for fish, imagine what they could do for kids.”

What they could do for kids, Krause said, was negligible.

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Slate debate

Editor, In light of all the incumbents being re-

elected in the District of North Vancouver, a civic party may be needed in order to present to the voters a slate of candidates that stand for a common set of policies.

A new civic party might also be the alter-native the district needs to get more than a 21 per cent voter turnout.

Some policies that come to mind are:

■ Amalgamation of all three North Shore municipalities

■ Citizen-initiated referenda■ Adherence to OCP, unless there is a

unanimous council vote to amend it■ Growth contingent on additional trans-

portation infrastructure (roads, SeaBus, buses, bridges)

■ Internet voting

In the District of Mission a slate of candidates (Citizens for Responsible Government) ran 100 per cent successfully as a civic party with the purpose of winning over the great advantages of the incumbents (to read about it, visit: missionmessenger.com).

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Paper report cards could become a thing of the past and the current teachers’ job action is showing us how.

While many people still cling to the idea of children bringing home a piece of paper with grades and com-ments at the end of term, it may be time to take another look at this standardized approach.

For generations, the industrial-style education sys-tem has been fixated on producing graduates like wid-gets and report cards have mirrored this model with an overly simplistic analysis of students’ strengths and weaknesses. Admittedly, report cards have been upgrad-ed over the years, with more comments and a reduced emphasis on grades at the primary level, but overall, they haven’t changed much.

What educators now know — and B.C.’s new person-alized learning agenda aims to address, at least in prin-ciple — is that students have different learning styles and require assessments that are measurable, flexible, adapt-able and motivating. Students need a plan that more closely reflects their learning styles, interests and goals instead of a standardized set of outcomes and report cards to match.

So far, the province has done a poor job in defining personalized learning and conveying exactly what and how it will change B.C.’s education system — and under the current model of labour relations in education, it’s hard to know how this will be achieved.

Still, the teachers’ contract dispute has shown there are many ways to assess and report on student learning. Liberated from many administrative duties, teachers are communicating with parents and students by email and telephone, posting information online, sending home records of individual assignments and outlining specific problems that need to be addressed.

What’s more, parents are being encouraged to seek out information about their child’s learning. There may be some gaps if parents don’t know how or are unable to communicate with their child’s teacher. In this event, it would have to be up to teachers to reach out.

There will always be a need for some standardized assessment and recording, especially for those headed for university, but a piece of paper at the end of term is not now and never has been a fully meaningful record of success for all students.

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CAT CALLS To send event information to Cat visit her website www.catherinebarr.com or fax 604-903-1001. Follow Cat on Twitter: @catherinebarr

The holiday gala season would not be complete without The Arthritis Society’s 2011 Bluebird Gala. Sponsored by Scotiabank the gala-style cocktail reception raised over $120,000. Entertainment for the night included music groups

“LesIsMore” and “Van Django.” Comedian Patrick Maliha had everyone giggling as he sported a “Movember to remember” moustache for extra effect. Also last month, Canadian journalism icon Allan Fotheringham held a special private reception for friends and family for the launch of his newest book – a collection of memories entitled

Boy From Nowhere – A Life in Ninety-One Countries. With some tell-all secrets from the past, and a warning for the future, this book is a must read.

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A study in contrasts if ever there was one, for both the outsider who may assume West Van is home to only the wealthy and local residents who aren't used to seeing examples of homelessness in their neck of the woods.

One such resident is Michael Markwick, a communications instructor at Capilano University and spokesman for the festival.

While in the classroom, Markwick rou-tinely talks about issues surrounding home-lessness with his students, including frank discussions about how many of those in the room believe that they will have secure hous-ing within 10 years of graduation.

These days, he says, no one's hand goes up when he asks that question.

And while the power and importance of university-level discourse shouldn't be dimin-ished, one's perception changes when faced with the reality — in this case the remnants — of homelessness so close to home.

"We get to the beach [at Dundarave] and we see emergency blankets steps from where the trees are. It was shocking," says Markwick.

"It shocked me and I've been research-ing homelessness and taking people to the Lookout Shelter. It's a Dan Ackroyd moment. You feel like you're on some mis-sion from God, like you can't do enough. So, how did I feel? I felt impatient."

Newfound originsMarkwick's involvement with the

Dundarave Festival of Lights hasn't always included some element of divine pressure. Years ago, he and and his family were par-ticipants in a similar event then organized by the Beach House restaurant, a Dundarave neighbourhood staple

In 2008 when Markwick went to the Beach House to offer his yearly support, he was told the restaurant would no longer be organizing the holiday fundraiser. There sim-ply wasn't any time, he was told.

Instead of shrugging his shoulders and looking for another cause to support, Markwick decided he was interested in tak-ing on the responsibility of spearheading the event that year.

But his newfound role would require some quick thinking — he got involved only six weeks prior to Christmas that year — a lot of work and a new team for support. Markwick and his crew first decided to change the busi-ness model for the festival, creating a non-profit entity called the Dundarave Festival of Lights Society.

Then, the donation process changed. In the past, donations were made to the restaurant to pay for a tree and a portion of the money was then given to a charity. With Markwick and his team at the helm, those interested in contributing financially to the festival are asked to give $110 to put a tree in the ground at the Dundarave gazebo and make a charitable donation to the Lookout Society's North Shore Shelter.

"When we rolled this plan out in 2008 we were facing the credit crunch and a global downturn in the economy and we had only six weeks," says Markwick.

"And it was an astounding response. Led by the contributions of the firefighters we raised $25,000 that year."

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In the true spirit of community giving, the Dundarave Festival of Lights raises money 'so no one's left out in the cold'

The gazebo on the beach in West Vancouver's Dundarave community, ground zero for the neighbourhood's annual Dundarave Festival of Lights, is minutes from some of the most sought after and expensive real estate in the country.

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When Markwick and company inquired about who used the space, they were told the kitchen was sporadically used by church groups but sat empty most of the time. Employees at the shelter, however, did express an interest in housing a vocational cooking program for the homeless or those at risk of homelessness.

After hearing those plans, Markwick knew where the money was to go. All $25,000 raised that year went to establishing the North Shore Culinary School. Fast forward three years and, under the leadership of chef Don Guthro, the success of the program has prompted Guthro to consider an expansion into the vacant building formerly used by the North Shore Horseshoe Club in North Van's Mahon Park.

"The Dundarave Festival of Lights is a pow-erful community event," says David Newberry, community liaison worker at the North Shore Shelter.

"It raises awareness of a very important issue as well as the political will to change that."

In his role with North Shore Shelter, Newberry is tasked with discussing homeless-ness with those in the community and raise awareness of the issue across the North Shore.

Just as Markwick was shocked to see emer-gency blankets on the beach in West Van, so too are some that Newberry speaks with about the state of homelessness north of the Iron Workers and Lions Gate bridges. There is this notion, he says, of perceived wealth on the North Shore and that there are no homeless.

But having wealth doesn't mean there isn't poverty, adds Newberry, and this year's homeless statistics are a testament to that. According to figures released last May as part of the Metro Vancouver Homeless Count, there are 117 people identified as homeless on the North Shore. That number is down from the 123 counted in 2008, but Newberry says

both numbers illustrate but a snapshot of a larger picture.

The 117 people counted this year only rep-resent those that could be located during the 24-hour window that the homeless count was being done. The North Shore number, Newberry suggests, is likely closer to 300 peo-ple.

As a result, the North Shore Shelter, which has 45 emergency shelter beds, operates at 104 per cent capacity year-round.

"It would be more if we could do more," says Newberry.

"The need is certainly greater than 45 beds plus four per cent."

How to solve such a problem quickly becomes an intensely political discussion, and any hope of ending homelessness will require the construction of not just shelters but of affordable housing. Newberry calls this phase "the next step."

But what does the community do in the interim? How does the North Shore tackle an issue that can often feel insurmountable?

From a grassroots level it's about raising awareness and funds, both "vital ideas" and things the festival does well, Newberry says.

"The Dundarave Festival of Lights is work-ing to pursue options," he adds "and it is fac-ing a profound problem."

The arts The other focus of the Dundarave Festival

of Lights is to support the arts. By creating the aforementioned non-profit society, festival organizers were able to begin applying for arts-related grants from the government.

In 2010, the festival received $45,000 from the Department of Canadian Heritage. In 2011, they received another $41,000.

FUNDRAISING FOREST - (From left) Dundarave Festival of Lights spokesman Michael Markwick, North Shore Shelter community liasion worker David Newberry and June Harmon of the Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers and Musicians. Rob Newell photo

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North Vancouver’s Robert Luft topped the competition with his pulled pork during the first stage of Food Network Canada’s reality show Recipe to Riches. Now he needs Canada’s vote to claim the

$250,000 prize — a portion of which he says he will donate to charity if he wins.

Last Wednesday (Nov. 30) night, the Upper Lonsdale resident was forced to contain his elation — he already knew the outcome — while his friends and family watched for an hour as Luft was grilled by the judges and completed arduous tasks on the “entree” episode of Recipe to Riches.

In true reality TV show fashion, the drawn out suspense was painful. But finally Luft’s name was called.

“For five minutes you couldn’t hear yourself think,” said Brock Koch, the stepson of Luft’s longtime friend Paul Shipton.

The premise of the show sees Canadian home cooks battle to have their original recipes become a President’s Choice product, win $25,000 and become eligible for a grand prize of $250,000, Luft already has achieved two out of the three.

On Saturday, he was campaigning for votes at the Real Canadian Superstore in the Seymour area. One female customer picked up the small, green box containing the winning pulled pork entree — complete with an emblazoned caricature of Luft — out of the freezer. She did a double take when Luft appeared behind her.

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“I never doubted you for a minute, buddy,” Shipton told his longtime friend, from across the aisle.

Luft joked that Shipton was the worst for trying to get the secret out of him for months. When asked how he managed to not slip up, Luft said it was the steep fines for spoiling the show that were laid out in his contract.

Starting on Wednesday Dec. 7 people from across the country can vote online at foodnetwork.ca for one of seven Recipe to Riches finalists, includ-ing Luft. If he wins the $250,000 Luft will donate $25,000 to fund inner city school hot lunch programs.

The following Sunday he will be in Toronto to shoot the finale of the show which will air on Food Network Canada on Dec. 14. Luft’s pulled pork dinner retails for $6.99 and is now available at the Real Canadian Superstore.

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A TASTE OF SUCCESS - Recipe to Riches winner and Upper Lonsdale resident Robert Luft meets his fans at the Real Canadian Superstore in North Vancouver last Saturday.Maria Spitale-Leisk photo


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June Harmon, who grew up in Dundarave, is a performer with the Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers and Musicians, a festival staple. Harmon says the traditional-style performance — morris dancing is a form of English folk dance some trace back as early as the 13th century — fits in well with Dundrave’s village history.

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The eggs from the females and the milt from the males are then taken and fertilized. The hatchery employs a “one-to-one” spawning method, where each male and female salmon in the brood stock are used but once for fertilization.

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The hatchery, says Smith, is also “heavily involved in habitat restora-tion” and over the years has helped create more than 40,000 square metres of fisheries habitat outside of the main stem of Seymour River.

Work in that realm has included digging ponds and channels for fish and adding boulder clusters to streams, which provide fish with areas for hiding. Hatchery staff and volunteers have also built creeks such as the small Hurry Creek located just behind the volunteer-built hatchery building, and the larger Bear Island enhancement project located directly below the nearby dam.

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The remaining component of the hatchery is education. This spring marked the first time in 15 years the hatchery did not offer a free educa-tion program for elementary school students across the Lower Mainland. But thanks to a successful fundraising period recently, a new program called “Gently Down the Seymour” will be launched in spring 2012.

“Kids from Maple ridge to West Van can come and get a hands-on, all-day experience,” says Smith.

“We get outside, put the waders on and get right into the streams.”

And when in the stream, Smith says students will be able to collect bugs to examine under microscopes, count the fish they spot and learn about forest ecology, such as what types of trees grow close to water and which don’t.

The benefits of teaching kids, Smith says, is instilling an understanding of the aquatic ecosystem at a young age. The 9-to-5 grind at the hatchery involves an intricate, seemingly-end-less commitment but the ethic at its core remains a simple one: Healthy streams benefit more than just fish.

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hallmark of their Catholic school education. There had been a col-lective ‘no’ when asked if they should wear their uniforms on the Downtown Eastside.

The students were afraid area residents might think they wanted to preach to them.The students were accompanied by their teacher Mr. McCaffery, a school counsellor and STA’s police liaison, Const. Christy Mohr of the North Vancouver RCMP during their tour of the hardscrabble neigh-bourhood with the Odd Squad. They split into groups and zeroed in on Main and Hastings streets.

“Standing around the Carnegie Centre there were so many drug deals going on even though there was a police officer with us,” said STA senior Miranda Defer.

The stench of human feces and urine travelled with the students down alleys and side streets, they recalled. Residents of the area openly smoked crack.

Then came the tour of the single room occupancy Balmoral and Regent hotels.

“It had a different smell on every floor,” said Grade 11 student Natasha Marzbani. “There were some people that didn’t like you star-ing at them.”

Her group met a guy that everyone in the area knows simply as ‘Chains’ because he routinely adorns himself in industrial chains. They woke him up from a nap. He told them of a lawsuit he has going with his neighbour.

Another man was picking at his arm with a syringe. The students learned how he desperately wants to get off the streets. He had a wife and a job as a bricklayer. He lost them to drugs. The students estimat-ed he was in his early thirties.

One Grade 11 student noticed a girl who looked to be high school aged hanging around a man who was “way older than her.” Other Downtown Eastside observations by the students: an overrepresenta-tion of First Nations people.

“My parents always lock the doors when we drive by that area,” added one female student during the round-table discussion on Thursday.

Justen Bungag interjected with “I feel like it’s somewhat of a stereotype to say that all street people are dan-gerous,” adding that some people he met were remorseful and not proud of the things they have done to get the drugs.

The afternoon spent on the Downtown Eastside is being char-acterized as an eye-opener by the students. The same can be said about the common misconception that drug use doesn’t exist in a high school setting.

“I hate to say it but it’s probably as prevalent as public schools,” said McCaffery, a former VPD officer.

“With independent schools there is much more pressure on the stu-dents to be high performers in society.”

An immediate hum filled the classroom. The students all chimed in. “I’ve seen it. It’s younger students too. It’s a weird sight to be see-

ing someone who you think should be playing with G.I. Joes smoking pot.”

Now, it’s up to the Odd Squad graduates to talk to their peers about the repercussions of drug use. They are scheduled to give a presenta-tion to the Grade 8 students in January. McCaffery is also exploring the possibility of having the group speak to Grade 7 students from STA’s feeder schools.

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Ingrid Torrance’s shot from cen-tre court at Handsworth exactly 25 years ago this week was a long

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So her shot wasn’t during a game. It was at halftime in a contest to try to win $100.

But what became a very, very long shot became a very, very short shot, which may seem rather confusing at first but which will become abundantly clear very… uhh… shortly.

It all began when I was coaching basketball at Handsworth. In fact it was actually my suggestion to John Bennett – then the school’s athletics director – that we needed to do some-thing special for the student body to create some buzz about the season. My idea was to randomly select three students from the stands at halftime of the first senior boys’ home basketball game. Each would have one shot to score from centre for $100.

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between Windsor and Handsworth on Dec. 9, 1986.

Bennett really got into it because when halftime arrived he got a ladder and taped two $50 bills to the basket to help hype the event.

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story – especially the drama that led to the selection of Ingrid as one of the contestants – until I caught up with her the other day.

“Mr. Bennett was one of my favou-rite teachers,” she tells me. “He was my Law 12 teacher and I had really ticked him off that day. He had set up two months of mock trials for our class. I was the defense lawyer. I actually went to the RCMP in North Vancouver, told them I was doing a class project and asked how I could possibly get my client off in this mock trial. And they gave me several outs. So when I came to class that day – the first day of our two-month trial – I was able to get the court case thrown out on that first day. So we had nothing to do for two months. I got an “A” grade, but he [Bennett] was choked at me.”

A huge crowd showed up for the basketball game that night and most of them wanted a crack at that $100.

“It was a packed crowd,” Ingrid remembers. “They were really, really into it.”

And, of course, it was Bennett, as athletics director, who was going to pick the contestants.

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“I had my hand up and I was waving, pick me, pick me,” she recalls. “Everybody was doing that. He [Bennett] purposely looked at me and shook his head and then kept pointing at me and pointing at somebody else. He was just being so cheeky with me because I had ruffled his feathers in class that day.

“But then something happened and he got called away before he could pick anybody. The person that took his place picked me. So I came down and he turned around, saw me and was just shaking his head and sort of laughing. We got along famously so he mocked me the entire time just to egg me on.”

Two boys were the first contes-tants and they missed their shots.

“Everybody was yelling and screaming… oohing and ahhing, when people missed,” she says, reflecting on the memory.

Then it was Ingrid’s turn.“I am the most uncoordinated person you could possibly imag-ine,” she admits. “I have no skills at basketball.”

So, knowing she couldn’t pos-sibly throw the ball overhand with one or even two hands, she chose to chuck it underhand with two hands, like old-time basketball players used to shoot foul shots back in the 1940s.

“I took that basketball,” she says, “and threw the thing and it went straight up in the air and came straight down. People were laughing hysterically. I was horri-fied and so embarrassed. I turned away from the net and was look-

ing at Bennett when I heard the crowd yelling. The ball had bounced on the floor and went right back up and it didn’t even hit the rim. It swooshed through the basket.

“The crowd went crazy, just insane. Oh, it was beautiful. It wasn’t a skilled shot. It was a horseshoe shot, a very lucky shot. It was such a fluke.

“I went over, held my hand out and said, ‘Gimme the money.’ He was so upset. It was great. It couldn’t have been more classic.”

Bennett playfully argued with Ingrid, claiming that bouncing it in didn’t count. Ingrid would have none of it.

“I made him take his cheque book out and write me a cheque right there on the spot, right in front of everybody.”

This week I learned that Bennett actually paid the money out of his own pocket, not from any athletics account. He’s been retired on Hornby Island since 1997, minus his hundred bucks.

You should also know that Ingrid, who now lives in West Van, has made a career out of the film industry: acting, pro-ducing, coaching actors on the set, teaching aspiring actors and authoring a book called Act! (Check out her website at ingrid-torrance.com). Indeed, her pas-sion is acting.

But that was no act that day in Grade 12. It actually happened.

This is episode 443 from Len Corben’s treasure chest of stories – the great events and the quirky – that bring to life the North Shore’s rich sports history.


THIS IS NO FAIRY TALE - Ingrid Torrance (above) has an upcoming role in Once Upon a Time, a new fantasy/drama television show which began airing in October on CTV Sundays nights; but this week’s Instant Replay tale features Ingrid and former Handsworth teacher John Bennett (photo she’s holding) in an all-true story that even fiction writers would have trouble concocting. Len Corben photo


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In the most troubling incident, following up on a tip, officers apprehended a female driver who was found to be almost three times over the legal limit of .08 and travelling in the wrong direc-tion on Highway 1 near the Cypress Bowl exit.

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HIGHLANDERS - WVSS senior rugby members (from left) Spencer Thompson, Johnnie Allan and Owen Perley. The rugby squad is currently fundraising for a 16-day tour of Argentina next year.Rob Newell photo

Argentina dreamin’ WVSS senior boys’ rugby team is in the midst of a fundraising drive for a

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West Vancouver secondary’s senior boys rugby team is looking past the frost on the ground and focusing on the sunny

skies and vibrant culture that awaits them in Argentina this spring.

It’s currently the off-season for high school rugby and the boys are in fundraising mode for the planned two-week Argentina tour, which is priced at $120,000 for 30 players.

There are some hidden life lessons in the team’s campaign.

Recently the rugby players have been hitting the pavement in West Vancouver, seeking spon-sorship from the business community. For every $1,000 they earn, 60 per cent goes to the team and 40 per cent to the player.

“It’s hard to take in the ‘no’,” said WVSS rugby player Spencer Thompson, of the rejection from some businesses.

Perhaps its the scheduled dinner with flamen-co dancers or the chance to meet Argentina’s top rugby players that motivates them to keep their heads in the fundraising game.

In addition to paying their own way, the boys rugby team is asked to support the general ath-letic community in the school. This past week WVSS co-hosted the AAAA high school volley-ball provincials. Each rugby player was assigned to an out-of-town team and helped direct them towards food, water and first aid.

WVSS vice-principal and rugby coach Chris Sandor said Argentina is intriguing because it’s a growing rugby powerhouse. In the past, WVSS rugby teams have done tours in the U.K. among other strong rugby nations.

“Canadian players have a reputation for being pretty physical, hard-nosed and committed,” explained Sandor. “In Argentina, they will run into big physical sides that will test them techni-cally.”

Starting on March 6, the West Van boys will fly into Buenos Aires and later make stops in Cordoba and Rosario during the 16-day tour. The team will play four games in all including two against ex-pat, British influenced clubs.

“It’s a great way to develop skills,” said Sandor. “The team will definitely be tested.”

Sandor himself is a one-time high school and university rugby player who toured France, Australia and California. He said there is a brothers in arms-type culture that exists on these teams.

“The rugby community around the world is small,” explained Sandor.

Many of the WVSS senior rugby players grew up together. On weekends they bring a rugby ball to the beach.

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There are other team dynamics at play for the Argentina trip: One of the players happens to be from neighbouring Chile and another player will be embarking on his first plane ride.

“I’m going to remember this for the rest of my life,” said senior Johnnie Allan in advance of his first trip abroad.

The boys have already begun exploring uni-versity scholarships. Allan and Thompson are looking back east at Queen’s University for mining engineering and Ryerson University for broadcast journalism, respectively.

Prop Owen Perley, a one-time member of Canada’s U-17 national team, is considering general studies at rugby powerhouse University of Victoria.

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Bass players never seem to get the credit they deserve.

Stuck behind the always front-and-centre singer and solo-prone guitarists, the stringed half of a band’s rhythm section is an integral component to any group, just not a flashy one.

And they can be sources of inspiration, too. Capilano University student Supriya Crocker, the recent winner of the Canadian Music Therapy Trust Fund Scholarship, knows this well.

In a band Crocker was playing in a few years ago in her hometown of Calgary, Alta., the bass player was a music therapist. In her practice, she used ele-ments of music to help people having various dif-ficulties in their lives. Crocker, a piano player who was also teaching music lessons in her home at the time, thought she could use some music therapy practices with her students.

It worked. So, Crocker decided to enrol in Cap U’s music

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“It kind of validated the work I’ve been doing,” said Crocker, of her scholarship victory.

“It’s a nice pat on the back.”Crocker is the third Cap U music therapy student

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The application of a music therapy education is varied. Williams said most music therapists in the Lower Mainland work in hospitals, while the sec-ond most popular avenue is private practice.

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He’s also worked with a female client in the past that, he said, wanted to make “angry music.”

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106 AUTOMOTIVE

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106 AUTOMOTIVE

PROFESSIONAL JOB OPPORTU-NITIES. Troyer Ventures Ltd. is a privately owned, fl uid transport company servicing Northern BC and Alberta. We are an equal op-portunity employer now accepting applications at various branches for: Mechanics (Commercial Trans-port or equivalent). Wage range: $25. - $40./hour. Minimum experi-ence required: second year appren-ticeship or equivalent. Professional Drivers (Class 1, 3). Wage range: $25. - $35./hour. Minimum experi-ence require: Six months profes-sional driving. Labourers and Swampers. Wage range: $22. - $28./hour. Minimum experienced require: N/A. Successful candi-dates will be self-motivated and ea-ger to learn. Experience is pre-ferred, but training is available. Valid safety tickets, clean drug test, and drivers abstract are required. We encourage candidates of abo-riginal ancestry, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities to apply. For more infor-mation and to apply for these op-portunities, visit our employment webpage at:

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108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

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114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING

Class 1 Drivers &Owner Operators

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Some great kids aged 12 to 18 who need a stable, caring home

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130 HELP WANTED

Nechako Northcoast Construction, Terrace, B.C.

Has an opening for Mechanical

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130 HELP WANTED


134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

5 Food counter attendant needed Permanent, 40 hrs/wk, $10.14/hr Ability to speak English is required Will provide on-the-job training Nan-do’s restaurant in North Van. Email your resume & cover letter Address: [email protected]

FOOD SERVICESUPERVISORS

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142 OFFICE SUPPORT/CLERKS

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156 SALES

INSIDE SALES PERSON

An est. pet industry leader is looking for a highly motivated salesperson with knowledge of Salt Water Aquarium equipment. Sales Experience is a must. Base salary plus commission

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160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

Gutter Installer required full time for established growing gutter compa-ny. Good driving record, people skills, team player. Email resume to: [email protected]

130 HELP WANTED

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245 CONTRACTORS


260 ELECTRICAL

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281 GARDENING

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283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

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287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

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320 MOVING & STORAGE1PRO MOVING & SHIPPING. Real Professionals, Reasonable. Rates. Different From the Rest. 604-721-4555.ABBA MOVERS & DEL. Res/com 1-4 ton truck, 1 man $35/hr, 2 men from $45. Honest, bsmt clean up. 25 yrs of experience.604-506-7576

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329 PAINTING & DECORATING

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353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS

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PETS

477 PETSBlood Hound pups, CKC Reg health ✔, 1st vac., micro chipped, 1 male, 6 fem. Liver & tan, ready to go 604-574-5788BLUE NOSE BULLIES. Pit bulls. Blacks/blues. Shots, Vet ✓. Ready to go.UKC reg. $1000 obo. Call 778-237-2824BORDER COLLIE PUPPIES P/B. Males $400, fem. $450. Vet chk, 1st shots Call 604-250-4360CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

CATS OF ALL DESCRIPTION in need of caring homes! All cats are

Spayed, neutered, vaccinated and dewormed. Visit us at

fraservalleyhumanesociety.com or call 1 (604)820-2977

Cavalier King Charles Spaniels 6 month old pup (1 male), looking for a loving home. Vet checked: eyes, ears & heart Regis-tered CKC & micro chipped Par-ents, champion CKC registered. Socialized with children and other animals Call : 604 - 460 - 8086

CHINESE SHARPEI PUPSMINI’S/TOYS-MALES -$1200.00

www.wrinklesrus.com604-315-8774

ENGLISH BULLDOG, CKC reg. 6 wks old, shots, microchip, vet ✔ Healthy, happy, gorgeous. Health gurant’d. $2800. Call 778-895-8453JACK RUSSELL pups 3 Female 1 male. Short legs, smooth coat. Dew claws done. $500. 778-883-6049MALTI / SHIH-TZU / POODLE X. Pups/adults. Non-shedding. Choco-late, white & beige. 604-820-9469NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.comNORWEGIAN ELKHOUND pups. Registered, micro chipped, 1st shots. Ready now. 604-823-2259 [email protected] NOSE PIT BULL - 9 months old. $1000: (Best offer) 604-534-1094, 729-3990SHIHTZU- Bichon Puppies, vet chkd, dewormed, 1st shots. ready to go. $500 ea. 2 F (604)581-8354SHIH TZU PUPS, 5 males, 1 fe-male. 1st shots, vet ✓ dewormed, family raised. $625. 604-575-3257.

TOY FOX TERRIER PUPPIESAvail. Dec.12/11. Aver. adult 5-10 lbs. Happy. lively, inquisitive, friend-ly, attach to family, easily trained, litter box train. Enjoy agility, Exc. for children 5+ yrs.,elderly & apt. Family raised w/children. CKC reg., vet ✓, 1st shots, dewormed, tattoo, 6 wks health ins. & puppy kit. IN-QUIRE KAREN: 250-656-9696. [email protected], a caring older couple to adopt an affectionate Golden Retriever, 4 year old spayed F. Loves to go for daily walks, adores car rides, obedient, very protective. Call 604-541-0344

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

518 BUILDING SUPPLIESSTEEL BUILDINGS END OF SEA-SON DEALS! Overstock must go - make an offer! FREE DELIVERY to most areas. CALL TO CHECK IN-VENTORY and FREE BROCHURE - 1-800-668-5111 ext. 170

545 FUELBEST FIREWOOD

32nd Season & 37,000 Cust Deliv. Fully Seas. Maple, Birch, Alder

604-582-7095

548 FURNITURE

MATTRESSES staring at $99• Twins • Fulls • Queens • Kings

100’s in stock! www.Direct Liquidation.ca (604)294-2331

560 MISC. FOR SALECAN’T GET UP your stairs? Acorn Stairlifts can help! No obligation consultation. Comprehensive war-ranty. Can be installed in less than 1 hour. Call now 1-866-981-6591.

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

560 MISC. FOR SALECan’t Get Up Your Stairs? Acorn Stairlifts can help. Call Acorn Stair-lifts now! Mention this ad and get 10% off your new Stairlift! Call 1-866-981-5991

563 MISC. WANTEDCASH FOR VINTAGE clothing & lace/linen costume & estate jewel-lery. Will pick up. 778-235-8752.

REAL ESTATE

615 COMMERCIAL PROPERTYBIG BUILDING SALE... “CLEAR-ANCE SALE YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS!” 20X26 $4995. 25X34 $6460. 30X44 $9640. 40X70 $17,945. 47X90 $22,600. One end included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca.

627 HOMES WANTEDWE BUY HOMES

Damaged House! Older House! Diffi culty Selling! Behind on

Payments! Need to Sell Now?NO FEES! NO RISK! QUICK CASH!

Call us First! 604.657.9422

636 MORTGAGESMortgage Help! Beat bank rates for purchases and refi nances, im-mediate debt consolidation, foreclo-sure relief, and equity loans. Free, fast, friendly, private consultations.

Call 1-888-685-6181www.mountaincitymortgage.ca

660 LANGLEY/ALDERGROVEHOMES FOR SALE-SUPER BUYS

www.dannyevans.caHomelife Benchmark Realty Corp. Langley

RENTALS

706 APARTMENT/CONDO

NORTH VANCOUVER

CENTURY APT250 East 15th Ave.

Spacious 1 & 2 bdrooms avail. 2 Blocks from Lonsdale Quay. Bal-cony parking at back. Laundry fac. avail. Swim pool & sauna.

Call 604-830-7587www.aptrentals.com

NORTH VANCOUVER

LEIGHTON APT130 East 11th Ave.

Recently renovated 1 & 2 bdrooms avail. 1 Block from Lonsdale Quay. Dishwasher, fridge, stove, laundry facility, u/g parking, balcony. Includes heat & water. Elevator.

Call 604-830-7587www.aptrentals.com

751 SUITES, UPPERABBOTSFORD Upstairs Suite for Rent! Christian Landlords. 1,000s.f. 2 BR, 1 Bath. Patio entrance/car-port. Hydro. W/D. Stove/Ov-en/Fridge. NO Pets/NO Smkg. Ideal for newly-weds. Downes Rd, near Abb Auto Mall. $800 + Gas. Chris 604-308-4292

TRANSPORTATION

810 AUTO FINANCING

Auto Financing 1.800.910.6402

DreamCatcher Auto Loans“0” Down, Bankruptcy OK -

Cash Back ! 15 min Approvals1-800-910-6402www.PreApproval.cc

TRANSPORTATION

810 AUTO FINANCING

FREE CASH BACK WITH $0 DOWN at Auto Credit Fast. Need a vehicle? Good or Bad credit call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599 www.autocreditfast.ca. DLN 30309. Free Delivery.

WANT A VEHICLE BUT STRESSED ABOUT YOUR CRED-IT? Treat yourself this Christmas to $500 cash back. We fund your fu-ture not your past. All credit situa-tions accepted. www.creditdriv-ers.ca 1-888-593-6095.

818 CARS - DOMESTIC

1990 PONTIAC 6000, Air Cared, loaded, new winter tires, white, 4 dr., $1295 obo (604)826-0519

1993 Cadillac CTS. Black on black, leather, sunroof. Must see!

$10,500, Mint. Phone 604 809 6235

2002 CHRYSLER INTREPID 105K kms, great shape/condition, Air/care 2013, no accident, fully loaded, $2500 obo 604-441-7685

2009 CADILLAC DTS, black, grey leather, mint cond, 47K. Must sell! $25,000 obo. Call 604-805-4545.

821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS

2003 VOLVO V40, S/W, Blue, load-ed 155,000 kms. auto. new tires. $6000 fi rm. Phone 604-538-9257.

2007 Honda Civic DXG 5 speed standard, 2 dr., grey, 130K, p/w, p/l, a/c, am/fm/cd, no acc. $9,500 604-793-3819

828 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES

2011 5th Wheel 32’ Gooseneck Cargo Trailer, triple axle, 4000lb ramp, electric brakes, roof vents, 36” side door, like new, $12,500. Call 604-560-4037

838 RECREATIONAL/SALE

2003 21’ WILDWOOD 5th wheel, light weight, a/c, awning, slide-out beautiful cond. $16,500 obo. Call 604-287-1127

2004 F350 LARIAT CREW CAB, 4X4, long box, 5th wheel, 180K, full load $16,000 obo. 604-812-1278

845 SCRAP CAR REMOVALThe Scrapper

Autos • Trucks• Equipment Removal

FREE TOWING 7 days/wk.We pay Up To $500 CA$H

Rick Goodchild 604.551.9022

SCRAP BATTERIES WANT-ED We buy scrap batteries from cars, trucks & heavy equip. $4.00 each. Free pick-up anywhere in BC, Min. 10. Toll Free Call:1.877.334.2288

AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVALMinimum $150 cash for full size vehicles, any cond. 604-518-3673

#1 FREE SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL

ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME

604.683.2200

851 TRUCKS & VANS

1991 FORD F150, XLT Lariat 4x4, V8 auto, reg cab, 8’ box w/liner & canopy, new brakes, Aircared, more 210K. $2700/obo (604)820-8218

2003 LANDROVER V6 silver 140,000k loaded 4/whl dr $6,450 obo. 604-857-9037, 778-552-6300

2005 MONTANA SV6, loaded, On-star, 7 pass., new front rotors & brakes. Mint. $6000. 604-812-1278

TRANSPORTATION

851 TRUCKS & VANS

2009 FORD F 150 XLT, 38,000km, 4x4, 1 owner, no acci-dents, local, exc. cond. ARE cov-er. $29,500. 604-341-8694

MARINE

912 BOATS

ALUMINUM BOAT WANTED, 10’, 12’ or 14’, with or without motor or trailer, will pay cash, 604-319-5720

WAREHOUSEMAN’S LIEN

By virtue of WAREHOUSE-MAN’S LIEN for PAYLESS AUTO TOWING LTD., we will dispose of the following units to recover the amount of indebtedness noted plus any additional cost of storage, seizure and sale.

11-118C2004 KIA RIOVin: KNADC165946206760Registered Owner: WILHELM ESSER Indebtedness: $6,930.95

Day of sale is Thursday, December 15, 2011

@ 12:00 NOON.

Absolute Bailiffs Inc. # 104 - 20119 113B Avenue,

Maple Ridge, B.C. Contact: Sheldon Stibbs

604-522-2773.

WAREHOUSEMAN’S LIENWhereas

Corey Randall Swainis indebted to

Mitchells Towing Ltd. for storage and towing on a

2009 Pontiac G5Vin: 1G2AR15H897222678

A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing of $6,159.83 plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale. Notice is hereby given that on the 6th day of January, 2012 or thereafter, the said vehicle will be sold. The Vehicle is currently stored at Elite Bailiff Services, 20473 Logan Avenue, Langley BC V3A 4L8. The Vehicle was placed in storage on August 16th, 2011.

For more info. call Elite Bailiff Services at 604-539-9900

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WAREHOUSEMAN’S LIENWhereas

JW Auto Group Ltd. &Theodore Masumi Ohashi

is indebted toMitchells Towing Ltd.

for storage and towing on a2001 Nissan Maxima

Vin: JN1CA31A01T100024

A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing of $4,591.83 plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale. Notice is hereby given that on the 6th day of January, 2012 or thereafter, the said vehicle will be sold. The Vehicle is currently stored at Elite Bailiff Services, 20473 Logan Avenue, Langley BC V3A 4L8. The Vehicle was placed in storage on July 13th, 2011.

For more info. call Elite Bailiff Services at 604-539-9900

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