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With close to a year left in campaigning, the foundation is hoping to raise $25 million for an acute mental health building. The new four-storey, 26-bed facility includes a space for the University of British Columbia faculty of medicine and a new ambulance station for BC Ambulance Service. It will replace the current Activation building. The province is backing the project to the tune of $38.2 million.

Support from the community has been stron-ger than the foundation expected, Kristy Gill says.

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Although West Vancouver council voted to put $3.1 million into the Ambleside revitalization project,

some councillors questioned whether it was putting the cart before the horse.

One goal of AmblesideNow is to move the police and fire departments into a new integrated post-disaster-stan-dard building on district land beside city hall, leaving the 1300-block of Marine Drive open to redevelopment.

But first, Mayor Pamela Goldsmith-Jones told council Monday night, money is needed to look at some big questions. For example, the municipality must examine whether it costs more to bring the current police station up to today’s standards or to construct a new build-ing. The district also doesn’t know if it’s the best idea to put the police and fire units together. However, since both departments need buildings which can withstand earthquakes, this is something worth exploring, she said.

The district intends to pay the $3.1 million it will cost to answer those ques-tions through the sale or lease of district land, such as 2301 Ottawa Avenue and the Horseshoe Bay Fire Hall lots.

“What we are trying to do, from the very beginning, is lay the groundwork for the future of West Vancouver. It real-ly is the next 10, 20 years of planning and we know it is going to be challeng-ing” Goldsmith-Jones said. “What is not

challenging is to sit on the sidelines and accept the status quo and watch a police station crumble around our ears.”

Council needs to keep AmblesideNow under control, Coun. Michael Smith said. Some of the questions about the new building’s size and location should be answered before more money goes into the project, he said. Smith also expressed concern that too many AmblesideNow projects are happening simultaneously, noting they should be separated. He suggested council review current information and then advance funds as needed.

“I think it’s irresponsible; we don’t have enough information,” he told coun-cil. “My alarm bells are ringing here because I think haste makes waste and we should by all means proceed with the projects but we should do it in a very careful manner, making sure we are not wasting taxpayers’ dollars.”

Coun. Bob Soprovich agreed. At the very least, council should be able to determine how much it would make from the sale or lease of the district lands, he said. With Metro Vancouver bills on the rise, West Vancouver resi-dents won’t be able to afford any addi-tions to municipal taxes, he warned.

“There are many who are finding it very, very difficult to put forward a $7,000, $10,000 or $12,000 tax bill every year,” Soprovich said.

The $3.1 million will help the district investigate police and fire being placed in a shared or separate buildings as well

as the immediate construction costs and long-term upkeep, said Grant McRadu, the district’s chief administrative officer.AmblesideNow is a big project and it’s also intertwined, he noted. Plans won’t be able to move forward along Marine Drive until a decision is made with the police station.

The district has recruited a very expe-rienced and professional group of advis-ers to aid with planning, McRadu said, before reiterating that all decisions made will come before council.

“We will be under the magnifying glass on how these dollars are spent,” McRadu said.

With the exception of Soprovich, council voted in favour of the budget. It will be back before council for second and third reading.

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West Vancouver’s crime rates are still falling, bolstering its reputa-tion as one of the safest com-

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Property crime was down 35 per cent compared to a five-year aver-age, break and enters dropped 44 per cent, while commercial break and enters fell 70 per cent.

The department highlighted a need to take on property crime two years ago, West Van police chief Peter Lepine said. The damage done has not been great, just annoying, he said.

“For the most part the way we have been tackling it is through our education process,” Lepine said.

This includes visiting elementary and secondary schools to discuss the cost and harm of such property dam-age, he said, noting these facil-ities are targets of such crimes in the summer time.

The number of drug offenc-es over the past six months

jumped by 31 per cent — with 104 inci-dents reported, 25 cases more than the five year average of 79 incidents. This is largely due to the department’s proactive approach to catching people with drugs, Lepine said.

Over the years the department has used roadside spot checks to enforce far more than drinking and driving regula-

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The department has been able to look for sustainable crime reduc-tion solutions because it has one of the lowest caseloads per office in the province, Lepine told

The Outlook. However, that doesn’t meanpolice can sit back and relax. It’s like a playing in the NHL, he explains – teams want to win the Stanley Cup, not just to do well.

“[The department] is not one that set-tles with one of the lowest [crime] rates,” he said. “You want to eliminate all crime.”

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In Peggy MacAulay’s food class a group of students gather in front of a screen ready to lis-ten to each other’s year-end presentations. On a table sit two big buckets full of food scraps.

A gaggle of boisterous boys, who’ve been pointing out some of the items in the containers, fall silent as MacAulay begins to speak.

“Today is a big day; it is a chance to see every-body’s work,” she says.

This class is helping the school district with some big decisions. The students have stud-ied different types of composters to find out which one would work best for the school. Once they have come up with an answer, the school district will take their advice into account when adding to the school’s existing composters. Besides MacAulay, school board trustee Jane Kellett has come to lis-ten to the reports.

The bins at the front of the classroom are stuffed with three days’ worth of four food classes’ scraps, MacAulay explains. It’s a lot of organic waste that ends up in the landfill, she notes.

This class is one example of a student-based movement that is reshaping the school. Thanks to the Environment Club, sustainability issues — such as composting, recycling and soon green energy — are working their way into the curriculum. And as this small group of Rockridge secondary school students break for summer, they’re already thinking about what they can do in the next school year.

The majority of them will be entering Grade 12 and it’s their final chance examine the impact of their efforts. Their work has crept into class agendas, popped up in the hallways and next year it will even be on the roof.

“Waste is a hard thing to get people interested in,” club member Callum Kelpin says. “People are interested in science, so we look at it from that

approach.”Three years ago, the pupils started an annual

garbage audit. Jonathan Harrison, who gradu-ated this year with a $5,000 Toyota Earth Day scholarship for his part in making Rockridge a sustainable school, has tracked the garbage num-bers since the beginning of the waste reduction program. What he discovered was the majority of the trash was compostable. So, with the help of North Shore Recycling staff member Amanda Vantol, the club set up compost bins in the caf-eteria and hallways throughout the school. This school year, students composted 700 pounds of organic waste.

“The last two years our waste was down 45 per cent,” Kelpin says.

Next school year, the club hopes to roll com-posting out in the food class, hence the need

for more composters. To add to the progress they’ve made curtailing junk, the club members also set about getting solar panels. The self-initiated project was set into action when Kelpin and Kelsey Dennison saw a news-paper ad about a Solar B.C. grant for schools. After working on the application for two months, Rockridge won $20,000 to place 15 230-watt panels on the roof. The panels will produce 3.45 kilowatts of energy daily, saving approximately three per cent of the school’s hydro consumption, Kelpin says.

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lessons, such as mathematics and science. Using a computer program, students will be able to see how much energy the solar panels are creating at any given time, Dennison notes, adding this information will be regularly updated and posted throughout the school’s hallways.

“I like to think of Rockridge as a living labora-tory,” she says.

With examples of sustainable living around them, students are starting to catch on, Dennison says. Recycling and adjusting the way we con-sume products has to be a way of life, rather than a trend, she adds.

“We don’t have a choice; this is really the gen-eration that has to change.”

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It was the height of summer in 1995 when Burns’s parents called to tell that her brother, Sebastian, had been arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated first-degree mur-der.

“There’s just no way that anyone can know how to deal with that,” says Burns. “It’s just shocking.”

But what made the news even tougher to swallow, she says, is that her brother is an innocent man.

So too, she adds, is his close friend Atif Rafay, who, nine years after their arrest, was sen-tenced alongside Sebastian to three terms of life in prison for the gruesome murder of Rafay’s mother, father and sister.

“I couldn’t believe it,” says Burns, who was in the court-room on the day the ver-dict was read. “There was no evidence at all to convict them. Their alibi was airtight. Neighbours heard the murders taking place at the exact time

[Sebastian and Atif] were seen across town. The conviction just didn’t make sense.”

In the years since the two former West Van Secondary School students were first arrested, Burns has dedicated nearly every day of her life to trying to clear their names.

In 2004, she released an award-winning documentary that exposed a controversial RCMP investigation method called “Mr. Big,” in which police officers go undercover, pose as gang criminals, and build rela-tionships with suspects.

It was through such an inves-tigation that Mounties were able to get a confession from Sebastian and Atif for the 2004 murders. But Burns argues the confession was a false one, given to impress a police officer “posing as Tony Soprano.”

“The only reason they are in prison right now is because of a false confession to Mr. Big,” she says. “In a situation like that, you might feel so threatened or scared that these gangsters are going to kill you or your loved ones if you don’t tell them exactly what they want to hear. You’ll say anything, even if it’s not true.”

In addition, Burns notes that Mr. Big stings are illegal in the

U.S., where the two men were tried and imprisoned.

This Friday (July 8) the two men’s lawyers will make that argument, along with a list of others, in a Washington State Court of Appeals. The law-yers will be campaigning for a new trial to be ordered, with the ultimate hope of setting Sebastian and Atif free.

The fact that it’s taken seven years for the courts to grant an appeal hearing is frustrat-ing, says Burns, but the family remains “cautiously optimistic” that the tide is turning.

“All you can do is look for-ward. You can’t let it wear you down,” she says. “We don’t know what’s going to happen this week, but we are really hopeful. The appeal brings up so many points that were important. I’m looking forward to justice finally being done.”

The family’s spirits have also been bolstered by the support of American DNA expert Greg Hampikian.

Hampikian joined the Burns and her parents at a screen-ing of Burns’s documentary in Seattle last week, and told reporters he is convinced there was not enough forensic evi-dence to convict the two.

The appeal has also gar-

nered support from the Innocence Network and Innocence International, founded by Dr. Rubin Hurricane Carter. “It’s a good feeling right now,” says Burns. “Innocence groups don’t just come on board for no reason. They do a lot of research first.”

Regardless of what happens tomorrow, one thing’s for certain — Burns will not stop fighting on behalf of her brother, a funny, smart, easy-going man who she says was unjustly torn away from her family.

“I think everyone has challenges in their life and every person has something going on in their family that they have to deal with. This is just what’s happening in my fam-ily,” she says.” I don’t see myself as doing anything special or different. We’re all in this together and we all stick together.”

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“No skin showing,” a prison guard tells a young woman dressed in designer ripped jeans.

It’s a busy Sunday inside the visitors’ waiting room at Monroe Correction Facility, a rambling, century-old brick prison that broods over the small town of Monroe, Wash.

Glammed-up girlfriends, parents and young mothers carrying toddlers and sippy cups are lined up to pass through a metal detector. Ken Klonsky, a retired teacher and writer, is in the lineup but he’s not waiting to visit an inmate; he’s here for the book club.

Every third Sunday, the Vancouver man drives down the I-5 in his Prius to attend a session of the Concerned Lifers Organization (CLO) reading group. All but one of book club’s mem-bers have been convicted of murder. Klonsky, 63, began volunteering with the group a few years ago after meeting one of its members, Atif Rafay. Today, in a classroom inside the educa-tion annex, just past the razor-wired prison yard, the group will discuss a book selected by Rafay, a former West Vancouver resident and Cornell University student now serving three consecu-tive 99-year sentences for murdering his family in 1994.

Rafay’s selection, Vladimir Nabokov’s Invitation to a Beheading — the story of a man “sentenced to death for an imaginary crime” — is particularly poignant, says Klonsky, who believes strongly in Rafay’s innocence. “Atif Rafay is inca-pable of that crime.”

Klonsky’s group, Innocence International, a

Canadian-based advocacy group for the wrong-fully convicted led by Dr. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, took on Rafay’s case three years ago.

After he retired from teaching, Klonsky, a lover of opera, classical music and literature, never planned to spend his Sundays behind bars, or usehis free time to read trial transcripts and police reports and correspond with convicts. That changed in 2004 after he received an unsolicited letter postmarked from a New York prison.

The letter-writer was a young man named David McCallum, who had been convicted of murder during a car-jacking in Brooklyn when he was 16. In prison, McCallum read a magazine article Klonsky wrote about Carter, the ex-boxer imprisoned for nearly two decades for a mur-der he didn’t commit. (Carter’s plight was made famous in the Bob Dylan song “The Hurricane” and later turned into a movie of the same name starring Denzel Washington.)

McCallum desperately needed somebody out-side the prison walls to look at his case. Klonsky couldn’t ignore him.

“So he started sending stuff. Copious amounts of stuff,” says Klonsky, a tall, angular man with a dry wit.

After reading the courtroom transcript, Klonsky agreed with the guilty verdict. But then he watched the videotaped interrogations.

“A confession is very easy to get from a teen-ager. They were almost farcical. One took 11 minutes; the other four minutes. And this con-victed them for 25 to life. There’s no question [McCallum] was not a good kid that way. But he never killed anybody.

“So, that is what made me think it could hap-pen to my son. It could happen to anybody.

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Retired teacher Ken Klonsky, now works with the organization Innocence International.Greg Hoekstra photo

Ken Klonsky has spent years deconstructing the murder conviction of WestVan’s Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay — and is convinced they’re innocent


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to McCallum twice a week, has doggedly tried to help him get a new trial. During that time, Klonsky’s family has gotten to know the prison-er: When Klonsky and his wife visit their home city of New York, they regularly visit McCallum and when their son was getting into trouble in his teens, McCallum counselled him.

McCallum was Klonsky’s first innocence case. Since then, he’s culled through a stack of pleas from inmates, but the group must be ultra-selec-tive — taking one wrong project could destroy its credibility.

Klonsky became interested in Rafay’s case after watching Mr. Big, a documentary about the controversial RCMP sting tactic that ulti-mately led to the conviction of Rafay and his friend Sebastian Burns, and countless other tar-gets. “Right away I got the feeling again — the false confessions stuff. It’s incredibly easy to get people to confess. The problem is that they’re not always guilty.”

Shortly after, Klonsky and Carter sat in a prison visiting room peppering Rafay with tough questions for three hours. Rafay, jailed for the past 17 years, told them everything he knew.

Ever since, Klonsky has been deconstructing the case, recently writing a paper on the crime titled The Presumption of Guilt: The Wrongful Convictions of Sebastian Burns and Atif Rafay. “For me there are two fundamental issues: one, that there is no evidence that connects them to this murder. And the second is that the alibi is actually very, very, strong.”

As Rafay’s advocate (he’s not permitted to also work with Burns), Klonsky knows him better than most do. In the office of his Kits condo, he pulls out a large envelope stuffed with dozens of handwritten letters stamped with a Washington State Department of Corrections insignia. Although much of the pair’s correspondence focuses on the case, it often delves into other subjects, such as philosophy, classical music and movies. Klonsky also assists Rafay with getting

magazines, academic journals, books and CDs. Most recently, he helped Rafay get an essay on freedom published in the award-winning Canadian magazine The Walrus.

“This is the worst case I have ever been involved in because Atif lost his family, and his freedom.”

Of course, Klonsky concedes that he’s one of the pair’s few supporters. Still, if you’re trying to prove your innocence from a prison cell, Klonsky is the man you want in your corner. This is a high-stakes, full-time job for him. “Every single day, David and Atif,” says Klonsky.

As a teacher working with troubled kids Klonsky earned a reputation for rarely giving up on his students. His tenacity and patience may soon be rewarded. Just weeks ago, he was brought to tears after learning that McCallum’s murder case is going to be reopened.

“Sometimes you feel like you want to give up (but) you feel if you do, they will. Look how long it takes.”

He’s equally optimistic about Rafay and Burns, who will have their appeal heard on Friday, July 8. “I think they are going to get a another trial.”

Ironically, the very trait that makes Klonsky such a valuable ally on the outside also has an imprisoning effect on him.

“I’m not actually very good at what I’m doing because I can’t distance myself at all. I have this vision of being stuck in a prison, the doors clos-ing, and I haven’t done anything. It’s the ultimate nightmare. Not a day goes by where I don’t have that vision of what it’s like to be in a prison.”

Two hours after disappearing behind a sliding iron door at Monroe Prison for the book club, Klonsky emerges. He’s upbeat. It was a stimu-lating discussion. For many of the prisoners, Nabakov’s novel helped shed light on their own situation.

“[Atif] was very happy to see me,” he adds.

Postscript: Recently, the murder of a prison guard at Monroe Correctional Complex forced the cancellation of the book club. If the club is reinstated, Klonsky plans to return as a volun-teer.

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Warm , inviting 5, bedroom family home on a large 1/2 acre property with oceanviews. Vaulted ceilings,custom windows, hardwood oors, new cedar decks, great yardspace. Easy driveway with tons of parking including double garage.Bonus in-law accomodation too! Located on the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in beautiful Lions Bay...10 mins on the scenic Sea to Sky from West Vancouver. See you at the open house.

Spectacular oceanviews from this private westcoast contemporary home. 5 bedrooms+den, 4.5 baths, with all main living to that great view! Open plan main, large rooms and expansive decks. Easy care lot, faces west for all day sun and gorgeous sunsets. 2 bdrm, 2bath mtge helper is a great bonus...tons of storage...a perfect family home.

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Outstanding oceanviews from this rare townhome offering in Lions Bay. 2 beds, 1.5 baths, large kitchen, lv rm with replace and view deck, private garden from family room, all with gorgeous views...10 mins to the beach...2 mins to bus...15 mins from Lions Gate...

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Outstanding ocean views from every oor of this meticulous Kelvin Grove home. 3 beds, 2 baths, hardwood oors, custom kitchen, custom bathrooms, custom paint, bonus 1 bdrm mortgage helper. Private garden on the view side, level driveway and RV parking...a great package!

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Incredibly well built with an excellent fl oor plan and fantastic outdoor space this family home is beautiful. Nothing to do but move into this 4 bedroom, 4 bathroom, 3 level with attached 2 car garage and gorgeous outdoor patio’s with huge stone fi replace and hot tub. Top of the line fi nishing’s including wood mantled river rock fi replace, large gourmet kitchen, granite countertops, custom wood cabinetry, over height ceilings, crown mouldings throughout and much more. All this nestled into an easy-care lot on a quiet cul-de-sac only steps to trails, marina, parks and schools. Very nice!

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From the hardy plank exterior & 4 year old roof to all the updating throughout the interior this character home is extremely nice. Partial city & harbor views, gorgeous landscaping, fenced backyard & lane access. 4/5 bdrms, 3 bathrms, 3 levels, gas F/P, 2 bdrm suite down, single garage plus ample parking (RV). This totally renovated home oozes with all the charm of yesteryear with all the conveniences of today. Nothing to do but move right in. Excellent value!

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West Van’s Ambleside Pier, the location for the Harmony Arts Fest food and wine event.Submitted photo

Arts fest hosts food and wine event on Ambleside Pier


Wine is similar to music, Michelle Bouffard says.

It’s got a history, a tone and culture behind it, says the co-owner of house wine, a wine consulting company. Originally from Quebec, Bouffard came to Vancouver to study classical music at the University of British Columbia. She was introduced to the wine industry while serving in fine dining restaurants and her vinous horizon broadened when she became a flight attendant with Air Canada.

In 2003, Bouffard work as a som-melier at Marquis Wine Cellars and after she completed her wine edu-cation with the internationally rec-ognized Wine and Spirit Education Trust’s diploma, Bouffard and her friend Michaela Morris started their company, house wine.

“I just fell in love with wine,” she confesses.

On Thursday, August 4, Bouffard and Morris are sharing their pas-sion for wines with the rest of West Vancouver. The premier event held on the Ambleside Pier — which will be part of the Harmony Arts Festival and coordinated by the house wine — celebrates B.C. Day by pairing 10 North Shore restau-rants with 10 B.C. wineries. In the Best of the West gala, one wine is picked from each winery and chefs will prepare a special meal to com-plement the bottle.

“One of my favourite things in life is eating, drinking wine and being in good company,” Bouffard says noting it would be difficult to find a more beautiful location for such an event.

Picking the 10 wineries was a dif-ficult task, Bouffard says. She chose some crowd favourites mixed with some new wineries and unexpected tastes. There are names such as Mission Hill and CedarCreek.

“What I am excited about is [the event] holds a diversity of style,” Bouffard says.

There will be five red wines, three white, one bubbly and a rosé. The rose is produce by Haywire, which just bottled its first vintage. People often think of a rosé as a sweet wine, Bouffard says. Although that was the popular style in North America in the 1980s, Europe’s rosés have always been dry, she notes. The Haywire rosé is more true to the European form.

B.C.’s wineries are still young and mostly undiscovered around the world, Bouffard says.

“We are still trying to find out what we are doing best and where,” she says.

But she’s encouraged by British Columbians’ enthusiasm for local wines. The majority of wine pro-duced in Canada is divided between Ontario and B.C. Bouffard hopes this event will introduce more people to the province’s different flavours.

There are only 200 tickets for the event due to pier regulations, says Christie Rosta, the district’s special events coordinator. With restaurantsincluding Ambleside’s The Beach House, Louis Gervais and Grouse Mountain’s The Observatory par-ticipating, she’s expecting tickets to go fast.

“You’ll be able to go around and get a taste of a dish from each res-taurant,” Rosta says.

Despite location challenges, such as getting power to the chefs on the pier, organizing the event has been inspiring, she says, noting there will be live background music and a fabulous view.

“People love the waterfront,” Rosta says.

The event starts at 7:30 and ends at 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $75 and available online at www.harmon-yarts.ca or by calling 604-925-7270.

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and misleading as ever – HST Myths:

1. The HST is now 10% - False The HST is 12% and will not be 10% for three years – if ever. There will be an election before that, and even if the HST were to miraculously drop to 10% - it will still apply to hundreds more goods and services than a 12% PST/GST for a total tax increase to consumers of $1.6B per year. And who says it won’t go right back up again later?

2. The HST will lower taxes – False This one is hilarious. The HST increases taxes for British Columbians by $2.8 Billion per year. That’s an average annual increase of $500 per person - or $1208 per average family – forever. Finance Minister Falcon says if his side loses he may disregard the result and expand the PST to items previously exempt – which would be illegal. Do you really trust this guy to cut the rate if he wins?

3. The HST will save you money - False And the tooth fairy is going to leave you a quarter under your pillow too. To get their numbers to show the HST actually “saving” you money they are calculating only “routine purchases” and that 90% of what you pay in HST will be passed back to you in lower prices. Have you seen lower prices?... We didn’t think so.

4. The HST benefits seniors - False Seniors and people on fixed incomes are some of the hardest hit by the HST. A one time rebate of $175 if you vote in favour of their tax in exchange for paying it for the rest of your life is a deal only a snake oil salesman would offer. Why take $175 when you can vote to cancel the HST and keep all your money? How dumb do they think we are?

5. The HST benefits families – False Next to seniors, working families are hardest hit by the HST because they are among the largest consumers and have dependent children. Bribes of $175 per child when your cost is closer to $400 a year each makes you wonder if they think all of us failed math as badly as they did. And what about a single mom with two kids going to college? She gets nothing while the Premier and Finance Minister who earn big six figure salaries get the rebate. Nice.

6. Business will pay more so you pay less - False A temporary increase of 2% in corporate taxes will be passed on to consumers with increased prices. Either way you pay the final bill whether it’s in HST or higher prices.

7. We’ll owe $1.6 Billion if we cancel the HST - False The “Independent Panel” says the HST generated $850 million more than budgeted. Setting aside that is the biggest tax grab in BC history, it means government already has $850 million to repay Ottawa. BC has only received $1B, and Ottawa collected $300M more in corporate taxes under HST than under PST. So it’s a wash. And keeping the HST would cost British Columbians alot more than killing it – over $28 Billion in new taxes in just 10 years.

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When a group of 24 West Vancouver art enthu-siasts arrived at Ian

Henley’s home on Bowen Island last Thursday, they were greeted by sweeping views of Tunstall Bay with Vancouver Island hovering in the background. The surroundings offered a sense of spaciousness but Henley’s house itself is not particu-larly large. All the more surprising was what they found inside: a sub-stantial collection of art produced by painters, photographers, sculp-tures, potters and jewellers associ-ated with Bowen Island.

The art is interspersed freely with the Henleys’ day-to-day essentials and adorns every wall, nook, shelf and ledge. The participants of the art tour, organized by the Ferry Building Gallery of West Vancouver, took their time to browse.

Ruth Payne is the gallery’s visual arts coordinator. “We do local tours where we take small groups to art-ists’ houses in West Vancouver and around the North Shore,” she says. “And we visit Bowen Island once a year because it’s so unique and we find these little hide-away places like this where you find wonderful art collections.”

Gallery assistant Mary Harrington remembers connecting with Henley the previous year. She said, “We heard about Ian from Jeanette Wrenshall, the potter who lives around the corner. She asked me if I had ever been to Ian’s house. I said no and she told me that he’s got 150 pieces of art that he’s col-lected over the years.”

When Harrington contacted the retired provincial court judge, he

said that he was interested in shar-ing his art but he was concerned that his pieces weren’t displayed properly; a lot of them were in stor-age. Henley took the opportunity to get organized. He found spaces to hang the art and he hand-wrote labels for his collection. When he phoned Harrington a week later, he said yes to hosting the group.

Henley is a hobby portrait painter. On his walls, there are the more familiar names of Ron Tribe, Sam Black, Ian Fry, Stuart Slind and Anne Lagasse. But equally prominently displayed are pieces by Andrew Cameron, Kaitlin Hunter and, Henley’s latest acquisition, a portrait by Robyn Westcott. Henley is especially fond of the art pro-duced by young artists and intro-duced 15-year-old Robyn to his guests. He said, “I saw a presenta-tion by this young woman and she has inspired me.”

Wendy Bain regularly signs up for the art tours. She said, “I love the pieces by Sam Black; he was my teacher at UBC. But what makes [Henley] so fascinating is that he has collected so much. And he has given so much encouragement to young artists; for instance the tal-ented young girl whom we just met. It’s wonderful to have the resources to buy art from emerging artists because you’re really giving them a step up.”

That is certainly the case with Westcott. She came away inspired not only by the art but also by the significance it holds for Henley who has a story to tell about every piece, every artist. Westcott is proud to be part of Henley’s collection that reflects the wealth and diversity of Bowen Island’s artistic community.

Not only is retired provincial court judge Ian Henley, left, an avid art collector, but he is a particularly ardent supporter of Bowen Island artists, especially young and emerging ones. This week he opened his Bowen Island home to a group of art enthusiasts from the Ferry Building Gallery, including Wendy Bain. Susanne Martin photo

Is it a house or a gallery?

Actually, it’s kind of both. There’s hardly a wall or flat surface bereft of art in

Bowen Islander Ian Henley’s home


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