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Plans for a giant media screen thatwould be lowered each night at dusk forseveral hours on the side of the TelusGarden office building will be presentedat an open house Wednesday.Henriquez Partners Architects has ap-

plied on behalf of Westbank Corp. andTelus for an amendment to the city’s signbylaw to allow for the screen.Measuring 7.5 by 11 metres, if ap-

proved it would appear on the west facadeof the building at 520 West Georgia St.,facing Seymour Street, between the 16thand 18th floors where the so-called “skygarden” protrudes from the building. Thescreen would be retractable and dropdown in the evening hours from dusk to

11 p.m. daily, according to the proposal,which notes it will use rear projectiontechnology that’s only viewable in low-lightconditions and it “will showcase video artand community programming and an-nouncements, with limited brand recogni-tion for businesses at Telus Garden.”The media screen has always been part

of the general plans for the Telus Gardendevelopment with the understanding thatits approval required an amendment tothe sign bylaw.“The screen drops from the inside of

the glass on the 18th floor,” explainedRhiannon Mabberley, Westbank’s devel-opment manager for Telus Garden.A view-line study was completed, ac-

cording to Mabberley, who said thereare no residential towers with a sightlinedirectly into Telus Garden at the 16thfloor. The tower directly across is ScotiaTower.“Obviously, it’s also an office building

and they have the biggest direct sightlineinto the tower, if you will, at the 16thlevel and there’s no residential directlyfacing that building,” she said. “It’s

meant to be for the benefit of pedestri-ans to really add some vibrancy to theskyline. If you think of Vancouver on awet Wednesday night and you’re walkinghome in the middle of winter, it’s prettybleak. There’s not a lot of interest. So wecreated this as a way to add an interestingfabric to the urban realm.”Mabberley said they’ve looked to part-

ner with schools such as the VancouverFilm School and Emily Carr to providecontent for the media screen.“We’re really in the very beginning

process of partnering with those people tocreate a program whereby students couldcreate content for the screen,” Mabberleysaid. “The screen, of course, is not ap-proved by the City of Vancouver today,so don’t have a lot of information to goforward with, but should it be approved,that’s our intent.”While the application proposes the

possibility of “limited brand recognition”Mabberley said the screen is not meant tobe a billboard or advertising venture, butthere can be a cost for creating content.

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OPINION 10Geller on affordable housing

STATEOFTHEARTS 17Chutzpah! gets violent

URBAN SENIOR8Memories of war

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In Vancouver’s short modern history,lifelong residents recognize the city’scoming-of-age as a kind of biblical Beforeand After. We were one thing BeforeExpo ’86 and we were another After.Three decades later, many agree. On

the timeline of our post-colonial city, wecan pencil in a thick line for the year ofthe World’s Fair.The initially small-scale transporta-

tion expo cost billions of dollars and wascalled the “biggest single catalyst for thedramatic change in the city.”The north shore of False Creek be-

came the prototype for our city of glass,design grew sky-high where wood framescouldn’t follow. The SkyTrain deliveredthe suburbs downtown, and the futuristicgeodesic dome turned into the post-card-pretty landmark of our future.More than 22 million people stopped

by. The world came to visit and never left,as the joke went by Mike Harcourt, thecity’s mayor at the time.Five years this month after Vancouver

2010, can we say the same thing about theOlympicWinter Games? Did a brief, in-tense fixation with red mittens change us?Here’s what happened in the years since

VANOCbecame a household name.

Wecame throughVancouver 2010 was an abject failure

before it ever started. International head-lines declared it so. We had no snow. TheAthletes’ Village was still under construc-tion. And then the high-speed, accidentaldeath of Georgian luger Nodar Ku-maritashvili took our breath away as wepaused for a terrible moment of silence.How to go on? In Canada’s respectful

way, under the watchful eye and inescap-able coercion of the IOC.The mourning shroud lifted as the sun

came out and the Robson Square zip linewait times surpassed an hour. The Baysold out of red mittens.The Times of London described the

scene as “joyful.” We were “modern,”“beautiful,” “an amazing party town.”Yahoo.com wrote, “…it’s the people thatpower the movement. The Canadianpeople pushed these games back from thebrink of disaster and right off into histo-ry.” Salon, famously, announced: “Thesewere the best Winter Games ever.”

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A giant block party, prideand a great transit line ourlegacy from five years ago

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Hey all you people of mygeneration, remember thatgreat TV series Columbo?That’s right, the one

starring Peter Falk as ahomicide investigator withthe Los Angeles PoliceDepartment.I was reminded of the

show and the characterlast week when I got easilybaffled by a motion success-fully brought before councilby NPA Coun. ElizabethBall on how Vancouvershould tone down all thosebright lights in the big city.Yep, Columbo meets city

hall.Weird connection, right?Let me explain: Way back

in my days at journalismschool, I had a prof whoreferred to Columbo whenteaching us young studentshow to ask questions. If youwatch the show, he wouldsay, you’ll see a puzzledColumbo (in a trenchcoat,of course) scratching hishead and chomping ona stogie while slowly anddeftly articulating a line ofquestioning that eventuallyhelps him solve the case.A clever and deceptive

approach.So there I was last week,

scratching my head overBall’s motion and wantingto go into full Columbomode. The reason: In thecouncillor’s statement ofdisclosure, which eachmember of council isrequired to file every Janu-ary, Ball lists she has one ormore shares in LightsceneVentures Inc. and EosLightmedia Corp.In fact, Ball is the co-own-

er of Eos Lightmedia Corp.So, I ask you my fellow

detectives, doesn’t it seemodd that a person whomoved a motion to tonedown the lighting in the cityalso happens to have a light-ing design company that hasdone work for Telus Worldof Science, the SoutheastFalse Creek Energy Centreand B.C. Place Stadium?Apparently, it’s not odd

at all, according to Ball,whom I interviewed underthe lights of the councilchambers’ lobby. And, sheadded, there is no conflict inher moving such a motion.“There is no way I could

benefit in any way from notputting light in the sky,”she answered when I askedif this put her in a conflict.“I’ll benefit like the rest ofthe world. It’s not aboutfixtures, or selling fixtures oranything like that, it is aboutthe correct use of light.”I didn’t really understand

Ball’s answer. Maybe it wasmy line of questioning. So Iasked her if the companiescould be consulted in citystaff’s work to develop anoutdoor light strategy. Afterall, Ball’s motion requestsstaff to consult with a vari-ety of folks, including “light-ing designers.”

“No, not unless they wereinvited by the city as one ofthe hundreds of designers inthe city who deal in this as-pect but — no,” she replied.“There couldn’t possibly bea conflict in suggesting thatyou shield lights.”Right, I said, but then

wouldn’t you need a com-pany/consultant/expert tosay how to shield lights?“Actually, there are hun-

dreds of thousands of themall over the world workingtowards the same thing thatI’m talking about. So this isnot any one specific compa-ny, person or anything. Thisis a universal need that hasbeen expressed by medi-cal professionals, as well aslighting professionals.”I guess I should have

been more specific. All Iwanted to know is whetherLightscene Ventures — acompany she has “a smallshare in” — and Eos, whichshe co-owns, could poten-tially gain from her motion.I tried one more time.Her answer: “I have no

ability to influence or effectanyone who is hired at thecity — and no councillordoes or should.”She emphasized the

purpose of her motion wasto develop a strategy tocontrol “harmful” outdoorlighting, which can havedetrimental effects on hu-mans, animals and birds.Anyway, that’s all I’ve got.You can read Ball’s

lengthy motion on the city’swebsite by going to thecouncil page. Search for theFeb. 3 council meeting. Co-lumbo re-runs, meanwhile,can be viewed on YouTube.

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tenants in the building only isif you want to create contentfor the screen, you’d havethe opportunity to show yourlogo in a very controlled wayfor a small percentage oftime,” she said.Some large signs/bill-

boards have been controver-sial over the years. The TerryFox Plaza advertising screens

sparked complaints fromneighbours bothered by thelight and visual pollution.And, after years of legal

battles, the city forced theowners of the Lee Buildingat Main and Broadway toremove the large advertisingsign atop that building.Jane Pickering, deputy

director of planning, saidthe Lee sign was an illegalsign on top of a building,which isn’t permitted inVancouver.“That’s what that was

about. This is not aboutthat,” she said. “It’s

interesting to call it a signbecause it’s a big projectionscreen that was integratedinto the building and wasreviewed when the rezoningwent forward to council. Sothe intent was always thereand the content on it wasnot going to be for advertis-ing purposes. It’s to displayabout 90 per cent of cul-tural [content]…. It isn’t anadvertising sign. About 10

per cent of it would be forcity usage. So, if the City ofVancouver want to put upsomething that we’re doingwith civic events it couldutilize the sign.”Pickering said the city is

still looking into whether ornot there should be oppor-tunities for acknowledgmentof sponsors on the screen.The Telus Garden media

screen open house runsfrom 5 to 8 p.m., Feb. 11 atthe Westin Grand Hotel inthe Allegro boardroom, 433Robson Street.

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Environmentalist DavidSuzuki joined more than300 people from unions,business, health and educa-tion circles Feb. 5 in packeda downtown universitybuilding to kick off a cam-paign to urge Metro Van-couverites to vote Yes in thespring plebiscite on transitand transportation.Suzuki didn’t speak but

watched from the front rowof a conference room atSimon Fraser University’sSegal Building on GranvilleStreet as the CEO of hisfoundation, Peter Robinson,and other staff membersspoke in favour of a 0.5 percent tax hike to help pay fora $7.5-billion plan devisedby the region’s mayors tocut congestion.“I can’t remember an

instance where such a di-verse group from across thisregion came together for asingle issue,” said Robinson,one of four co-chairpersonsfor the Better Transit andTransportation Coalition,which represents more than90 organizations.The David Suzuki

Foundation had the biggestvoice at the rally, with twoof Robinson’s staff mem-bers addressing the crowdin Chinese, Mandarin andPunjabi while the event wasemceed by former COPEexecutive director AlvinSingh, who now works forthe foundation.Standing on a stage with

supporters holding Yes

signs, Robinson said thefoundation’s research hasshown the transportationsector consistently ranks asone of the major contribu-tors to greenhouse gas emis-sions in Canada.“We believe that improv-

ing transit and transporta-tion is the most effectiveresponse we can maketo climate change in thisregion,” he said, noting onemillion people are expectedto put more pressure on theenvironment as they moveinto the region over thenext 30 years. “One millionmore residents, in the ab-sence of an effective transitsystem, is 600,000 morecars. Clearly, doing nothing

is not an option.”Dr. Victoria Lee, the

interim chief medical healthofficer for Fraser Health,stressed the health benefitsof getting people out oftheir cars and predicted areduction in injuries anddeaths related to trafficaccidents, if fewer vehicleswere on the road. Lee citeda recent study conductedby local health authoritiesthat showed transit users,cyclists and pedestrians are36 per cent less likely to beoverweight than motorists.“I encourage everyone to

vote Yes for health,” saidLee, noting more transit op-tions, including the mayors’call for more frequent Han-

dyDart service, will benefitpeople who require accessto health services.Bahareh Jokar, vice-

president of external affairsfor AlmaMater Society ofUBC, spoke to the crowdon behalf of what she saidwas more than 135,000post secondary students inthe region who use transit.Jokar said a Yes vote

in the spring plebiscite isimportant to shaping thefuture of the region, wheretransportation choiceswould be sustainable andmeet the demands of popu-lation growth.“With post secondary

students, faculty and staffliving in every corner of our

region, we all benefit froma robust and accessibletransit and transportationnetwork,” she said.In taking questions from

reporters about voters’concerns about TransLinkand whether the organiza-tion will be trusted to spendthe money on the mayors’plan, Gavin McGarrigle,B.C area director of Uni-for, which represents busdrivers, acknowledged thepublic’s concerns but saidthe plebiscite is not abouthow the transit agency isgoverned; only two mayorssit on the TransLink, whichmeets privately.“Instead of getting dis-

tracted by issues that aren’teven on the ballot, we canjoin together,” saidMcGar-rigle, adding that themayors’plan will be audited annually.Iain Black, CEO of The

Vancouver Board of Trade,pointed out it was “rare” tohave themajority of mayorsagree to a plan and have theprovincial government agreeto legislated safeguards toensure themoney is directedto the plan. Black is a formerprovincial Liberal cabinetminister and one of the fourco-chairpersons of the transitand transportation coalition.Black characterized the

No campaign — led by theNo TransLink Tax groupthat calls for the plan to bepaid from future growthrevenue in municipalitiesinstead of a tax hike — asspreading “speculative cyni-cism.” The No campaignhas called TransLink awasteful organization and

pointed to the millions ofdollars lost with CompassCard and fare gate systems.The plan, which hinges

on significant contributionsfrom the provincial and fed-eral governments, calls fora subway along Broadway,a light rail transit systemin Surrey, a new PattulloBridge, an increase in buses,more frequent SeaBus andHandy Dart service and up-grades to road, cycling andpedestrian infrastructure.Black said he was con-

fident the provincial andfederal governments willcontribute fully to the plan.But, he said, voters firsthave to support a Yes voteto show that the region is onboard with the plan.“This is not a new funding

formula, this is not a newratio breakdown, there’sa great deal of precedenceand history,” he said of thestandard one-third fundingfrom three levels of govern-ment. “And that, in my view,makes it reasonable for themto plan on that basis.”People who turned out to

Thursday’s event includedJim Iker of the B.C. Teach-ers’ Federation, Irene Lanz-inger of the B.C. Federationof Labour and NDPMLAsGeorge Heyman, JennyKwan and Spencer ChandraHerbert. AnneMcMullinof the Urban DevelopmentInstitute, SFU chancellorAnne Giardini and CharlesGauthier of the DowntownVancouver Business Im-provement Association werealso in the crowd.

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THE SOUND OF VANCOUVERMORNING NOON DRIVE

Womandies afterbeing hit by SUVPolice are investigating

a fatal accident Mondaynight involving a pedes-trian at East Sixth Avenueand Keith Drive near theVCC-Clark SkyTrain Sta-tion. Shortly after 11 p.m.,police found a 51 year-oldwoman who had beenstruck by a vehicle. Shewas taken to hospital andlater died from her injuries.The driver of the sport

utility vehicle remained atthe scene and is cooperat-ing with police.The darkness and wet

weather likely contributedto the collision.Police say speed and

alcohol do not appear tobe factors.Anyone who may have

witnessed the collisionis asked to call the VPDCollision InvestigationUnit at 604-717-3012.This is Vancouver’s

third traffic-related fatal-ity in 2015.

TimHortons sorryfor soaking ofhomelessmanTim Hortons has of-

fered an apology after theowner of a Robson Streetlocation was seen dump-ing a bucket of water ona homeless man sleepingoutside.“On behalf of Tim Hor-

tons we sincerely apolo-

gize,” said Tim Hortonsspokesperson MichelleRobichaud in a preparedstatement released Sunday.“The regretful actions

in a moment of frustra-tion at one of our Van-couver locations [are]not at all reflective ofour brand and restaurantowner values.”The company launched

an internal investiga-tion, saying the franchiseowner would person-ally apologize and will bemaking a “meaningful”donation to the Belkin

House, a local SalvationArmy shelter.The incident was first

reported Feb. 6 by awitness on social media.Arianne Summach wroteon Facebook that a TimHortons worker was seendumping a bucket of wateron the man, his dog andall of his belongings whilehe was sleeping outside.She also urged a boy-

cott of the Tim Hortonsoutlet, located near thecorner of Richards Street,on a post that was sharedmore than 4,000 times.

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While serving with theRoyal Air Force during theSecondWorld War, airgunner Ernest “Peter” Bonetrained in Winnipeg, butsays his mind was never farfrom his family in Londonliving through what hassince become known asthe “Blitz,” — sustainedstrategic bombing of Britainby Nazi Germany.Speaking to a large crowd

gathered at the Vancou-ver Aboriginal FriendshipCentre onHastings StreetFeb. 3, Bone spoke not onlyabout his time during thewar, but also of his work vis-iting schools as a long-timevolunteer with theMemoryProject Speakers Bureau.TheMemory Project, an ini-tiative of Historica Canada,gives veterans and servingmembers of the CanadianArmed Forces an opportu-nity to share their stories ofmilitary service through itsonline archive and volunteerspeakers bureau. Bone, whohas shared his stories withstudents at more than 45schools, was honoured withan award at the event lastweek in recognition of his

volunteer service to the proj-ect. The project also collectsstories and photos and poststhem on its website.Bone said after speaking

at numerous elementaryschools over the years, hereached out to every sec-ondary school in Vancouverlast year.“And all but three re-

sponded immediately,” saidBone, who noted he initiallythought 2014 might be hislast year to take part in theMemory Project due toconcerns around mobility.On the Memory Project

webpage dedicated to Bone,he writes in part, “I feelhonestly that sometimesthe only way to overcomea great evil is to resort to alesser evil. There is no blackor white in war, only grada-tions with much grey in be-tween. There isn’t a simplematter of idealism; there’sno morality in war. It’suseless and stupid to lookfor morality in war becausewar isn’t moral. War is eviland killing people is evil.But there are times when ithas to be done and Britainand the allies, or Britainparticularly under Churchill[Winston Churchill, primeminister of Britain] wasn’tprepared to take that awfulrisk to adhere to the GenevaConvention…”Last week’s ceremony

opened with a blessing by

elder Joe Calder of Nisga’aNation, who sang anddrummed, followed by per-sonal notes of thanks readout by students from SirWilfred Laurier elementary.Following a presentation toBone fromGrade 4 studentsCasey Schmidt and SophiaTines, Roshin Sandhu toldthe Courier he wasn’t awareof too many details of theSecondWorldWar beforeBone visited his school. Ro-shin said his favourite partof Bone’s talk was relatedto the death of Adolf Hitler,leader of Nazi Germany.Bone told the crowd thatwhen he speaks to studentshe likens Hitler’s behaviourto that of a “grown up”schoolyard bully.“I like how he tells the

story of the war,” Roshinsaid. “And the part whenHitler dies.”At last week’s ceremony,

31 veterans of conflictsranging from the SecondWorld War to the war inAfghanistan received certifi-cates of achievement recog-nizing their commitment toeducating younger genera-tions about the sacrificesexperienced by Canada’smen and women in uniformand their contributions tothis country’s history. Stu-dents from both Sir WilfredLaurier elementary andIdeal Mini School attendedthe ceremony.

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One veteran watchingwith interest was Annie“Mary” Hokonson, whosported an army cap andchest full of medals rep-resenting her time servedin the Second World Warduring which she servedin Canada, Holland andGermany. Hokonsonjoined the CanadianWomen’s Army Corpsin 1942, and while shestarted her army career asa waitress in the officer’smess in Vancouver Bar-racks, she ended it servingoverseas in Holland andGermany. On the MemoryProject’s website, Hokon-son writes about boardinga ship in Halifax, whichtook three weeks to get toEngland.“We were evidently

the first troop ship togo through the EnglishChannel and we docked inLondon, which was beingbombed at the time, andI thought to myself after

spending 21 days on thatwater, I don’t want it tobe bombed before I getoff this ship,” Hokonsonwrote in part. “So it wasquite a relief to get on atrain and head for Al-dershot, where we werestationed until we got ourpostings to various com-panies in England, and Iwas sent to London to 50Company.”Senior project man-

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offer representation fromall Canadian tours andconflicts to ensure thenext generation of youngCanadians can continue tolearn about this country’smilitary history. To thatend, the Memory Projectis actively recruiting Ca-nadian Forces personnelstill serving and veteransto join their community ofvolunteers. Visit themem-oryproject.com for moreinformation.

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More than 30 veterans received certificates of apprecia-tion from the Memory Project Feb. 3 at a special ceremonyheld at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre on Hastings Street,including Ernest “Peter” Bone, Michael Harvey, Poldi Meindl,George McLean, Shirley Ridalls, Paul Richards, SvendHansen, Gordon Mumford, Ann Styles, Orme Payne, DennisKirkpatrick-Crockett, Jim Harris, Margaret McKay, Jack Pur-die, Keith Lang, Helmut Lemke, Boyd Affleck, William Booth,Frank Leighton, Art Lang, Ernie Poignant, Karl Charest, BillCameron, George Anderson, Margaret Kury, Noel Butcher,Jean Hubbard, Bonna Young and John Lees.

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Coalition,which is urgingMetroVancouver residents to vote Yesin theupcomingplebiscite.

300Theapproximatenumberofpeoplewho turnedout fora rally at SFU’sdowntowncampus lastweek in supportof voting Yes in theupcoming

plebiscite.

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“Vancouver will always be an expen-sive place to live. However, with innova-tive planning and financing ideas, we cancreate more affordable housing choicesthroughout the region.”So read the announcement for last

week’s talk at Simon Fraser University.Titled “12 Affordable Housing Ideas forVancouver,” it examined housing designsand financing programs from around theworld that should have a place in MetroVancouver.While I was pleased that more than

230 people showed up, I was disappoint-ed that Green Coun. Adriane Carr wasthe only Metro Vancouver politician inattendance. To broaden affordable hous-ing choices in the region, we need localpoliticians to better understand availableoptions and approve zoning changes tomake them happen.Hopefully, the numerous municipal

planners and others in attendance willpass on to the politicians what they sawand heard, as urged by SFU city pro-gram director Gordon Price in his closingremarks.During the question-and-answer pe-

riod, Coun. Carr asked a number of goodquestions on how best to fund futuregrowth and gain community support forzoning changes. Before repeating myanswers to her questions, here are a fewof the 12 ideas I presented.Many of us grew up in three-bedroom

houses of less than 1000 square feetHowever today’s new houses are signifi-cantly larger.It is time to reinvent the past and build

smaller detached houses on smaller lots.In some cases, it would make sense tosubdivide 50-foot-wide lots into two 25-foot lots as they are doing in Seattle.Laneway houses and coach houses,

as they are sometimes called, providean attractive new housing choice formany households. However, not every-one wants to be a renter. Under certaincircumstances, laneway houses shouldbe available for sale, especially on largercorner lots or single family lots with char-acter houses.All new houses in Vancouver have side-

yards on both sides. However, often oneor both side-yards are rarely used. Tomake better use of land, we should modi-fy zoning bylaws to allow houses with justone side-yard. In planning terms, this is

known as zero lot-line housing.Duplexes are attractive forms of hous-

ing for many households. They combinetwo units side-by-side, up and down orfront and back.However, purchasers often do not real-

ize they are strata-title developments. Forthose wanting to avoid this legal arrange-ment, semi-detached housing, whereeach house sits on its own lot, would bean attractive option.Many people would consider moving

into a townhouse; however, they do notwant to live in a condominium and haveto deal with a strata council. A fee-simpletownhouse, where each unit sits on itsown legal lot avoids condominium own-ership. While popular around the world,our zoning and subdivision bylaws gener-ally discourage this housing form.For those who cannot afford a town-

house but do not want to live in an apart-ment, a stacked-townhouse could be theanswer. A popular housing form in To-ronto, it is in limited supply here. Withone townhouse stacked above another,this housing form meets the needs ofthose not minding stairs and appreciatinghaving their own front door at the street.While we tend to think of ownership

and rental as the only two tenure options,there are other choices. Shared-equityownership is a hybrid model that com-bines the advantages of both. Life-leaseownership allows someone to purchase ahome at a lower price on the understand-ing that there will not be price appre-ciation. The Performing Arts Lodge atBayshore in Coal Harbour is an excellentexample of how effectively this can work.To reduce housing costs we need to

rethink how we finance growth. Underthe current system, new home buyersare often subsidizing social housing andother amenity costs that should really beshared by more taxpayers over time. Lo-cal Improvement Charges or long-termBond Financing could be more equitablefunding approaches.To help neighbourhoods understand

and accept new housing forms, it wouldbe helpful to build demonstrationprojects. Often the only way to appreci-ate these housing ideas is to see on-the-ground examples.While Vancouver will never be as

affordable as Winnipeg, with govern-ment support, these housing ideas couldimprove affordability for many localresidents.

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Jurassic World, the latest sequel/re-boot/re-imagining of the Jurassic Parkseries, premieres this June.I may very well be outside the theatre

with a protest sign, and it will read“Feathers Not Scales!” Plus as manyexclamation points as I can fit on theposterboard.Let’s go back a little bit. To the first

Jurassic Park film in 1993, to the 1990novel by Michael Crichton, and backbefore that, too.Way back, to Victorian England, and

the Great Exhibition of 1851.During this world’s fair-style event,

Victorian Londoners got their first viewof one of the newest/oldest wonders ofthe Earth — dinosaurs!A series of life-sized sculptures had

been created of iguanodon, megalosau-rus and hylaeosaurus.There were also an aquatic ichthyo-

saurus in a pond, pterodactyls and agiant sloth.All of them were utterly wrong.The dinosaurs, in particular, looked

bizarre. The iguanodons were sprawledgiant lizards. The predatory megalo-saurus was a hump-backed quadruped,a sort of crocodile-hyena hybrid, notthe two-legged beast it was in reality.And of course, all the dinosaurs had

scales.“Saur” means reptile, right?What we should have realized sooner

was that birds are dinosaurs. From thediscovery of Archaeopteryx in the early1860s, some scientists realized it wasclosely related to dinosaurs, but alsoclearly an early bird.It took until the 1970s for most

scientists to accept this link, during theDinosaur Renaissance, a huge changein how dinosaurs were seen.Researchers like John Ostrom dug

up new fossils and re-imagined existingdinosaurs.No longer were they tail-dragging

lunkheads, now they were fast-running,maybe warm-blooded hunters andherbivores.And here’s where we get to Jurassic

Park.Real velociraptors were small ani-

mals, somewhere around the size ofa turkey or a mangy underfed coyote.And they were definitely feathered —we’ve found a lot of their relatives with

feathers fossilized in place, and we’vefound tiny knobs on velociraptor armbones where quills for large featherswere attached.The “raptors” in Jurassic Park were

based more on critters like the related,but larger deinonychus.When Crichton first wrote the book,

only a few people believed that variousraptor-relatives were feathered.By the late 1990s, when the last

in the trio of Jurassic Park films hittheatres, it was gaining acceptance. Afew years later, it was fully confirmed.Pretty much every paleontologist nowagrees on this.Documentaries and illustrations

show feathered raptors, even featheredTyrannosaurus rexes.But the director of Jurassic World

doesn’t want to have accurate dino-saurs.Nope, they’re going to be the same

scaly lizardish critters from the firstmovie.Why? Why can’t hundreds of artists

and animators come up with a scaryfeathered dinosaur? Wolves and hyenasand tigers are fuzzy-wuzzy, but per-fectly frightening in films.This is extra disappointing because

Jurassic Park, book and movie, em-braced the Dinosaur Renaissance.They were among the first big popculture hits to feature fast-moving,warm-blooded animals rather than thetail-draggers of the 1950s and ’60s.Jurassic World will probably be fun.

But it could be better.It could go back to the roots of the

first movie, and mix the best knowl-edge of its time with a thrilling adven-ture story.And frankly, if you can’t make a fun

movie with realistic dinosaurs, youdon’t deserve to be in the movie-mak-ing business.

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Feb. 9, 1891: The city’s very first live entertainment venuemade its grandpremierewith a performance of RichardWagner’s Lohengrin. The ornate, 1,200-seat venue at 765 Granville St. was financed by the Canadian Pacific Railwayat a cost of $200,000 in exchange for land concessions and soon became thecenterpiece of the burgeoning Theatre Rowdistrict. The theatrewas sold in 1911to U.S.-based Sullivan and Considine and later was turned into amovie theatre. Itwas eventually demolished in 1969 tomakeway for Pacific Centremall.

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Province not principalFamilyDay funds providerRe: “Vancouver’s top five Family Day

events,” Feb. 4.I would like to make a correction

about the report regarding the financ-ing of our Family Day event at TroutLake Community Centre. To clarify, theGrandview Community Centre Associa-tion (GCCA) provided the majority ofthe funding for this event. We do ap-preciate the approximate eight per centof the Family Day budget the provincialgovernment put towards the activities inthe form of a grant.The dedicated volunteer board

members on the GCCA work tirelesslyfor the Trout Lake community on theFamily Day event (as well as many otherevents throughout the year) by creatinga budget, hiring staff, organizing per-formers and activities as well as volun-teering at the event.Also, the Vancouver Park Board staff

work in partnership with the associationto make these events successful. It isimportant for our community to knowthat the fees they pay for programs arere-invested into the community throughevents such as Family Day.

Beth Beeching, GrandviewCommunity Centre Association

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In CoachGourley’s cornerRe: “‘Always putting kids first,’” Feb. 4.I cried when I read this. I am Jeff’s life

partner and I have watched this man giveeverything he’s got for no reason otherthan he feels compelled to give what he,himself received when he played as a kid.What you may not know is that when

we first moved into this neighbourhood 15years ago, he began coaching at the localelementary school, Livingstone, whenhe heard from our daughter (who was astudent there) that they were only goingto have a boys basketball team althoughmore girls showed up for the tryouts thanboys. He walked over there and said, “I’llcoach the girls 6/7 team.” Which he didfor two years. Then he moved over toTupper secondary, where he has coachedfor 12 years.Jeff built a basketball program at that

school. He built a name for that school.He inspired the Tupper Tigers to winthe city championships two years run-ning (2011/12 and again in 2014). Hehas taken them to provincials. At this verymoment, as I type, Jeff came in to tell methe Tupper Tigers are number one in theprovince!This past Monday night, he was hon-

oured for what he has done for countlessboys and young men through his years ofcoaching. A small group of parents wereinspired to honour him. It was so beautiful.The boys mobbed him with hugs.And, to be perfectly honest, I was

stunned to see so few teachers at the event.One. One teacher. Not one person fromthe athletic dept. No speech from theprincipal, no thank you card. So I’m writ-ing to say thank you for seeing the invisibleguy. What I see is that you see him. Theteaching beyond the tech skills, the loveand beyond the call of duty that he brings.Thank you for taking the time to speak tohis past and present players about what hisimpact has been on their lives.

Anita Roberts, via Comments section

Citymore sneaky than sloppywithYaletown land swapRe: “Sloppy city hall led to Yaletown

ruling,” Feb. 6.“Sloppy” this was clearly not. In fact, as

every new detail has emerged by painstak-ing FOI request and ultimately throughSupreme Court petition, it has been shownto be a story of a supremely calculatedeffort to defraud the public through thedisposal of public land at an unbid, fire-sale price.The fact that the city (using taxpayer

dollars) fought for a year to block disclo-sure and then to argue on behalf of thedeveloper in court is proof that democracyhas died in Vancouver. We all know whoruns city hall, and it is not the voters andcertainly not even taxpayers.

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Courier scores filmcreditRe: “Top 5 things to do in Vancouver

tonight: Feb. 7, 2015,” online onlyThank you so much for sharing the

double feature event. Most of After FilmSchool was actually shot with a camerathat I was only able to afford becauseof a London Drugs gift card we wonfor the Vancouver Courier’s VancouverMinute video contest a year ago!

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Don’t tellmewhat the poetsare doingRe: “The Tragically Hip play Fully

Completely in its entirety,’” online only.I lived in Canada for 10 years and

have always appreciated Canadian musicbut this band has got to be THE worstband to go mainstream. (Well, OK, onlyin Canada.) The lead singer sounds likehe’s gargling, yodeling and trying to singall at once.

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We didn’t buy tickets for this tour be-cause the last couple times we saw them,ol’ Gord was just too wacky and we lefta bit disappointed.

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Lumber baron gives $8M to UBCFeb, 10, 1965: Lumbermagnate Harvey Reginald “H. R.” MacMillan donates awhopping $8.2million to the University of British Columbia for postgraduateeducation. The 79-year-old graduated from theOntario Agricultural College (thenpart of the University of Toronto) in 1906with a degree in biology and receivedan honorary degree fromUBC in 1950. Both the “Modern Tudor” H.R. MacMillanBuilding, featuring brown brickswith Gothic-like pilasters and ornamentationbuilt two years later, and the H.R. MacMillan Theological Librarywere named inthe late philanthropist’s honour.


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Matching the parent inthe audience in the Van-couver Academy of Music’sMary Olson Hall with thestudent musician wasn’tdifficult — it was oftenthe person sitting ramrodstraight on the very edgeof their chair and clappingfuriously as soon as the lastnote of the piece faded.The usual recital staples

by composers Tchaikovskyand Vivaldi were played butif you had happened to hearthe music before seeing themusician, you might be sur-prised to see some studentsso young their feet couldn’treach the floor from thepiano bench.Saturday’s Strawberry

& Tea recital was namedfor the big bowls of fruitplaced next to the big bowlsof whipped cream servedin the school foyer at therecital’s conclusion. It waspart of the fourth annualWinter Wander at VanierPark where the $5 admis-sion included entry to theMuseum of Vancouver,H.R. MacMillan SpaceCentre, Vancouver Mari-timeMuseum, City of Van-couver Archives and Bardon the Beach. In additionto VAM’s free open house,its students performed at

most of the nearby venuesthroughout the day.The building on the edge

of Vanier Park’s lawn hasbeen home to the VAMsince 1976 and has grownto prestigious proportionsthat now include a col-lege division along with itspreparatory classes for bothchildren and adults underexecutive director JosephElworthy. Those familiarwith the Vancouver Sym-phony Orchestra will recog-nize the name. Elworthy, acellist, was a member priorto his 2011 appointmentwith VAM.The non-profit school has

produced many notablesthrough the years (even El-worthy himself attended asa young child) but Saturdaythe focus was on the younglearners.The audience of mostly

family members, filling thefront row just a few feet fromthe low stage, made up forthe hall’s empty seats withtheir delighted excitement.Peter Dryden was one of

those in the front row, therefor his 14-year-old grandsonBrandon Krezeski who wasfirst on the program to per-form with a beautiful rendi-tion of “Spanish Romance”on the guitar.Dryden and his wife have

attended more recitals thanthey can count for bothBrandon and his nine-year-old sister Mia.“We’ve supported them

at every single one whenwe’ve had the opportunity,”said the proud grandfather.“By being here, hopefullywe encourage them and, no,we never get tired. Thereare some very talentedyoungsters here.”The Strawberry & Tea

recitals used to be heldonce or twice every year,now they’re every month,added Brandon’s momSusan Krezeski. And itwas at one of these studentshows where Mia decidedshe wanted to add the celloto her existing repertoire ofpiano— at the age of four.“Music is a great avenue

as later on in life it’s some-thing they can do and en-joy,” said Susan. “They saymusic is good for the soul.”A few years older than

the Krezeski siblings isAdam Junk who decidedto pursue a path of musicas a VAM trumpet studentwho’s tackling both hismusic degree as well as adiploma in composition. Inaddition, Junk is also theschool’s library assistantand helps out with specialevents, such as the WinterWander open house.“Last year was my first

year here and I didn’t evenknow it was an event,” hesaid. “Now that I know, Ithink it’s a wonderful wayfor people to get aroundand see some of the culturein Vanier.”

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Aspiringmusiciansa treat for the ears

1. Vancouver Academy of Music student PrincetonWong performs composer Ferdinando Carulli’s“Waltz” during Saturday’s Strawberry & Tea recital as part of Vanier Park’s fourth annualWinterWan-der open house. 2. AdamJunk is a trumpet degree student at VAMwho also helps out with specialevents. 3.WinterWander participants were invited towatch Vancouver Academy of Music’s operastudent rehearse the No. 12 Finale II scene from TheMerryWidow. 4. PrincetonWong’smother was inattendance at the Vancouver Academy of Music’s Mary OlsonHall stage to cheer on the performance.See photo gallery online at vancourier.com.PHOTOSREBECCA BLISSETT

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1. Funny people saying funny things de-scend upon Vancouver and the hinterlandfor the Northwest Comedy Fest, Feb.12 to 21. In addition to films, tributes, va-riety shows and debates, standup comicsappearing at the festival include HannibalBuress, John Mulhaney, Brian Posehn,Ali Wong, Craig Ferguson, Todd Glass,Andy Kindler, Moshe Kasher, Doug Ben-son and the incomparable Maria Bam-ford, among others. Details at northwest-comedyfest.com.

2. Presented by MovEnt, the popular mu-sic and dance seriesDances for a SmallStage gets all romantic for Small Stagepoint 5: Valentine’s edition Feb. 12 to15 at the Emerald. Pairing dancers withfive musicians, the collaborative couplesinclude Delhi 2 Dublin DJ/producer andtabla player Tarun “Tspoon” Nayar withOdissi classical Indian dancer Schehe-razaad Cooper, co-curator Tariq Hus-sain with Ballet BC alumni Chengxin Wei,and singer-songwriter Louise Burns withburlesque performer Burgundy Brixx,among others. Tickets at eventbrite.ca.Details at movent.ca.

3.Mad geniusAriel Pink leaves hisband the Haunted Graffiti at home whenhe brings his freaky pop stylings to theRickshaw Feb. 11 in support of his mind-bending solo album, Pom Pom, whichfeatures collaborations with Spiritualized’sJason Pierce, Azealia Banks and infamousrock impresario Kim Fowley just beforehe died. Fellow Los Angeles experimentalpsych-popster Jack Name opens. Tickets atRed Cat, Zulu, Highlife and ticketweb.ca.

4.We won’t lie to you. South Africanchoreographer Vincent Mantsoe lookslike an intense guy. And perhaps rightlyso.Mantsoe visits the Firehall Arts CentreFeb. 11 to 14, to perform two solos,NTUand Skwatta, “that embody the limitlessspirituality and realities of his homeland.”Details at firehallartscentre.ca.

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Warning: do not attemptto produceOne Man, TwoGuvnors unless you havesomeone as prodigiouslytalented as AndrewMcNeein the role of the titular OneMan. You need someonewho can do a double take,a triple take, multiple som-ersaults, survive many kicksto the crotch, blows to thesolar plexus and pratfallsaplenty. And that’s not all.In the role of Francis, Mc-Nee has to eat his face off,vomit, fart and, on openingnight, be able to pick up thepace after someone in theaudience offered him a half-eaten sandwich. McNeelost it to the absolute delightof everyone: one of thoseglorious moments whenthe fourth wall really, reallycomes down.So, you get it. This is

farce, a contemporary Brit-ish dishing up by RichardBean of Carlo Goldoni’s1743 Italian farce A Servantof Two Masters. Bean sets itin Brighton, 1963.ButOne Man, Two Gu-

vnors is a strange hybrid ofcommedia dell’arte and mu-sic hall entertainment (withan onstage four-piece bandplaying music composedby Grant Olding under themusical direction of AntonLipovetsky). Each memberof the band (Lipovetsky,

Scott Perrie, SpencerSchoening andMatthew J.Baker) also plays multipleroles in the play. And, ina turnabout, most of theactors take a solo turn on aninstrument — including axylophone-like instrumentand a contraption of bicyclehorns. Andrew Cowndenblows a mean harmonica— although it’s so good, itcould be faked (but isn’t).In short,One Man, Two

Guvnors is a show that willdelight many and frustrateothers to distraction. Markme down as frustrated.Under David Mackay’sdirection, it’s really hard toget into in the first place.Who are these people andwhere are they? If it’s aliving room, it’s weird:two sofas, a fireplace, overwhich hangs a huge portraitof Queen Elizabeth II.

The British accents makeit difficult to understandwhat’s going on and, likeGoldoni’s original, the plotis crazy: Rachel (CelineStubel) is dressed as a guyin order to find out whomurdered her twin brotherRosco. Rosco was engagedto marry Pauline so whenRachel, pretending to beRosco’s identical twinbrother, turns up, Paulinefinds herself engaged to bemarried to Rachel/Rosco’stwin brother. Or somethinglike that. Much is madeof just what, exactly, is anidentical twin — a conceptabout which everyone, withthe exception of Rachel —seems to be foggy. Allan(Ryan Beil), a would-beactor, and Pauline are inlove but being kept apartby Pauline’s father (GerryMackay). Good grief, do we

really need this?If the plot is stupid — and

it is — what’s to keep youfrom leaving at intermis-sion? McNee, totally off hisleash, will — in spite of allthe food he has to eat in thevery drawn out hotel diningroom scene — lose weightwith all his fantasticallyenergetic shenanigans. Beilis always worth watchingand here he’s an anguished,woe-is-me sort of characterwho, with a deadpan de-livery, delivers some of theplay’s funniest lines. Thewomen’s roles, with theexception of Rachel/Rosco’stwin, aren’t really big butare excellently played byLauren Bowler (as dumbblonde Pauline) and CailinStadnyk (as well-endowed,sexy Dolly). Stubel, asRachel, is terrific in a kindof cock-of-the-walk sort ofway, but the role is nuts.The surprise of the

evening is Cownden who isabsolutely terrific as Alfie,a white, wispy-haired oldtimer, who takes a lot ofpunishment including acricket bat to the head.But altogether,One Man,

Two Guvnors is a dog’sbreakfast that neverthe-less got a standing “O” onopening night. With theloonie seemingly in free fall,audiences must be hungryfor something to laugh at.For more reviews, go to

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British farce frustratingly sillyOneMan, Two Guvnors and a whole lot of wacky nonsense

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One dancer grabbedanother by the throat at arehearsal Thursday after-noon. Dark, forebodingmusic morphed into moviesoundtracks of sword fightsand gushing blood, onlyto be punctuated by thesomewhat comical sound ofexpiring in a 1980s video-game.Award-winning chore-

ographer and dancer ShayKuebler explores violence,voyeurism and death in hisnew work,Glory, with hisnew six-person ensemble,Radical System Art.The world premiere of

Glory will animate the Nor-man and Annette Roth-stein Theatre as part of theChutzpah! Jewish Perform-ing Arts Festival that runsFeb. 19 to March 15.Kuebler started perform-

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in Edmonton at age 5. Soonafter, he started trainingin martial arts, a steppingstone to his training indance.“Action movies were at

their pinnacle and violencewas becoming a little moremainstream in cinema andI realized just how muchviolent material was aroundme,” Kuebler said of hisyouth in the late ’80s andearly ’90s. “I was goingto adult action films andwatching guys explode andget shot and all this stuff,and I realized how muchI was nurtured to acceptviolence.“All of this inspired me to

make a show about the factthat we glorify experienceand, in particular, we glorifyviolence and death, beautifydeath, we place it in a re-ally shaped, nice acceptingtone,” he said.Kuebler’s exploration of

violence is influenced by thetime when movies featuringJean-Claude Van Damme,Chuck Norris and StevenSeagal, in addition to Rocky

IV, were all the rage, butKuebler’s exploration ofvoyeurism is also shapedby newer videogames andsocial media.“To me, voyeurism is this

idea of getting as close tothe experience as possiblewithout the repercussionsof that experience,” hesaid. “It’s crazy to me tothink about the games that

I played when I was a kid,Ninja Turtles and stuff likethis. If you killed the baddude, he flashed and hethen he disappeared. Nowkids are holding rifles andshooting guys.”Kuebler isn’t one to shy

away from bleak, but relat-able, themes.Shay Kuebler and Radical

System Art’s first produc-

tion wasKAROSHI, namedfor the Japanese word fordeath from overwork.“I really like visceral qual-

ity to performance,” Kue-bler said. “I always want totalk about something thatcan relate to almost every-body in some way, they cantranslate.”Kuebler, who cofounded

Vancouver’s acclaimeddance troupe the 605 Col-lective, executes his ownsound design. His mashupsforGlory include clangingelectronic music, battlescenes and snippets fromvideogames. Performanceswill feature interactiveelements with lighting andmicrophones and live andpre-recorded video.He and the other danc-

ers played toddler tag, theirarms held away from theirbodies, fingers spread,Thursday. They drew onmartial arts, hip-hop andcontemporary dance tomix seemingly suspendedand bouncy movementswith dynamic spins andturns.

“I want to bring in peoplethat don’t normally seedance shows and theatreshows,” Kuebler said. “IfI can bring them in on thesurface, the challenge isthen to take them on a ridethey don’t expect and to goaround corners they don’texpect, to open up the un-derbelly of some things.”Glory runs Feb. 21 to 23.

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National champion gymnast AaronMah will take onan honorary role at the B.C. Winter Games this week inPrince George. At the Opening Ceremony on Feb. 13,he will be the official lantern carrier along with flag bearerand Saanichton hockey player Micah Hart.Mah is joined by 25 Vancouver athletes and roughly

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TheChurchill Bulldogstook a big bite out of thethree-time defending citychampion Britannia BruinsFriday night and came awaywith the first senior girls bas-ketball title in school history.Churchill extended a

one-point first-quarter leadinto a 13-point spread athalftime Friday night atBritannia secondary. TheBulldogs outscored theBruins by 11 points in thethird quarter and held thehosts to only eight points inthe fourth to run away withan 81-53 victory.“This was— I told them

at the beginning— thebiggest game they’ve playedin,” said Bulldogs coach Jen-nifer Eng. “They embracedthe moment, everyone onour team stepped up.”Despite outscoring the

Bruins every quarter, thegrowing gap didn’t comfortthe Bulldogs, said Eng.They’ve lost games they’dcomfortably led.“We play very poorly

when we’re ahead.We don’thave the experience to knowwhat to do, when to pushthe ball and when to slow itdown.We’re great when we

have to come back,” said theChurchill coach and alumnawho has led the Bulldogswith Sabrina Chan since theyboth graduated in 2005.Five-foot-five guard Elo-

ise Faehndrich, who’s oftencharged with defending anopponent’s post player, saidthe Bulldogs can get toocomplacent when they’reahead. They don’t flinchwhen an opponent goes ona scoring run as long as theystill hold a lead. But whenthey’re trailing, “We reallyup the ante,” she said.Against Britannia in the

city championship, they trieda different approach to pro-tect their growing advantage.“At halftime I remember

the coaches telling us, ‘Youdo play better when you’relosing. I hate to tell you.’”According to Faehndrich,

her teammate KatrinaKwong suggested, “Whydon’t we just make thescore the opposite for usand say we’re losing.”“It was in the back of

our minds,” continuedFaehndrich. “We werenot going to let this go andfall into our bad habit ofletting things slip when itreally matters.”Playing in its fourth city

final since 2012, Britan-nia was on the hunt for afourth consecutive title.Undefeated in seven regularseason games, the Bruins

had beaten Churchill twicethis year, once in a leaguemeeting and again in a tour-nament. Both games wereclose, marking Churchill’simprovement since lastseason when they were wal-loped 67-38 by Britannia.Churchill counts one

Grade 12 student whomissed much of the seasonbecause of an injury. Theroster is otherwise madeup of four Grade 10 andsix Grade 11 players, nonetaller than five-foot-10.In the championship,

Tova Rae led with 20 points,five steals and seven re-bounds. Faehndrich had 16points and seven steals. AlexaLeynes added 15 points andsix steals. Grade 10 pointguard Kwong, who had 13points, runs the Bulldogsoffence and plays for TeamB.C. along with Leynes.Because of injuries, Bri-

tannia was short several keyplayers, including star JulianDuong.“Winning really means a

lot seeing our team is reallyyoung. It’s really just notunderestimating any teamwe would come up against,”said Faehndrich.“We’re a very consistently

fast team. Lots of the play-ers on our team can runwith the ball and move itup the court quickly. Lotsof our points are scored ontransition. Our coaches do a

lot to prepare us.”Churchill coaches Eng

and Chan reviews tape withthe team and scouts opposi-tion to set up the Bulldogsfor success.“What really helped as

well is that we have a deepbench, players who can stepup.We’re not dependenton one player on our teamand that makes us so toughto play because we haveseveral payers that need to beguarded,” said Eng, who isalso an assistant coach withthe Langara Falcons wom-en’s program, where her dadGreg runs the program.The senior boys from

Churchill made history oftheir own last season whenthey won the B.C. AAAAsenior boys championship.The girls are forging ahead,too, said Faehndrich.“What’s really encourag-

ing is that we get to use thisyear as warm up even thoughwe already did have a reallyencouraging result. Nextyear we’re going to be able tobuild evenmore on what wehave together as a team.”The Bulldogs enter the

AAA LowerMainland zonetournament as the No. 1seed out of Vancouver. Theymust reach the top three toadvance to provincials.The Bruins advance to the

AA zone tournament, also asthe No. 1 Vancouver team.

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Tyler Benson scored the winning goal with less thanfive minutes left in the third period as the VancouverGiants won a back-and-forth affair 5-4 over the visitingSeattle Thunderbirds onMonday afternoon at PacificColiseum. The G-Men also got goals from JacksonHouck, Jakob Stukel, Jesse Roach and Zane Jones asmore than 6,000 fans packed the place on Family Day.The Giants have lost 11 games and won six since

returning from the winter break. The slump has droppedVancouver to 22-29 and second last in the Western Con-ference with 47 points. They trail the conference leadingKelowna Rockets (42-8-3) by 41 points.The Giants are back in action at the Pacific Coliseum

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The tradition of brightlights and a full crowd onFriday night are two reasonsoutgoing Notre Dame quar-terback Theodore Landerscommitted to the Universityof Guelph Gryphons.Last Wednesday, Landers

made it official.“I really like the coaches

and the atmosphere,” hesaid of the town near LakeOntario with a universityprogram dating to 1950.“It’s a football town. Youwant to be somewhere wherefootball is so big and peoplewant to watch the games.“I like a place that has

tradition. Where the fam-ily is used to going to thegame, where it matters topeople because it’s been go-ing on for so long. I want toadd to the tradition.”TheGryphons have

finished second in OntarioUniversity Athletics for twoconsecutive years, and 2015will be the fifth and finalseason for (the incomparably

named) starting quarterbackJazz Lindsey. TheGryphons’pending change in personnelopens a door that Landers isdriven to enter.“I’ll be a rookie next year.

Once [Lindsey] leaves, I’llbe battling for that start-ing position. Knowing inmy second year, I couldpossibly be starting — thathelped me make my deci-sion,” said Landers.In addition to throwing

442 yards for four touch-downs for the Jugglers in2014, Landers also ran for390 yards (an average 9.5yards per carry) and fourtouchdowns.Landers plays basketball

and runs track for NotreDame. His versatility makeshim a greater threat on thefootball field.“With my speed, I feel

I can manoeuvre in thepocket, break into a run and

that helps me. Mentally, itgives me more confidence,”he said.He credits his dad for

helping hone his drive.“He’s always been in mycorner, living football,watching football together.I have that initial desire toplay and then to make himproud by playing is reallydear to me.”Landers started playing

club football in Coquitlamwhen he was eight. Sincehis family moved threeyears ago, he commutesto Notre Dame fromMaple Ridge and for twoyears has travelled to theU.S. for summer train-ing camps led by formerNFLers at a sports acad-emy founded by formerSan Francisco 49ersowner Edward DeBartolo.“It’s helped me the most

with my success,” saidLanders. “I think it sepa-rated me from some of thequarterbacks here.”When a new season starts

with the Gryphons, Landerswill see how he distinguish-es himself at the next level.


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Continued from page 1Sochi 2014 sure couldn’t

live up to that, not even asVladimir Putin chased allthe clouds away.

False Creekhasmoreglass to call homeAll in, it cost $1.1 billion

and possibly more. Theconstruction of the Athletes’Village on Southwest FalseCreek was granted to adevelopment company thatalmost sunk the whole proj-ect into the Salish Sea. Thecity bailed it out. A market-ing guru bailed the city out.Still, almost no one movedinto the ghost town.Now the neighbourhood

is a tony seawall destinationwith thousands of condounits filling the blocks northof West Second Avenue.Branded the Village onFalse Creek, the one thingthis the area code needs is amore honest name. NoMais taken, so don’t even try.

Regional travel issafer and fasterThe Canada Line

scuttled a handful of smallbusinesses on CambieStreet but made the airportmuch more affordable toaccess and the downtownmore approachable forinternational travellers.The improved Sea to

Sky Highway reduced thenumber of deaths on aonce dangerous mountainthoroughfare and openedSquamish in a similar waythe SkyTrain opened thesuburbs 24 years earlier.

Patriotism isn’ta dirtywordMaybe it was Crosby’s

Golden Goal or Canada’sfirst gold medal on home

soil despite two previousOlympic Games, one sum-mer and one winter.Maybe it was Jennifer Heil

and Alexandre Bilodeau,the two freestyle skiers whomade us all marvel as Cana-dians yearned for that goldenfirst. Heil was brilliant but inthe end, it was Bilodeau whoproved to be a huge-heartedcitizen and brother worthyof his place in national sporthistory.Or maybe it was that

plastic beer pitcher now ondisplay at the B.C. SportsHall of Fame because JonMontgomery surprisedthe ranks to win gold inskeleton and then guzzledmouthfuls of celebratorybrew as he drank with andwalked among the crowdsin Whistler Village.Ormaybe it’s the fact the

sun shined for two weeks inFebruary.What snow?Wedon’t need no freakin’ snow.The invitations were sent

and thousands came knock-ing at our door. The blockparty was in full swing.Across the country, ac-

cording to estimates, 80 percent of Canadians watchedthe men’s hockey final onthe last day of the Olympics.Statistically speaking, ifyou can name five friends,four of them could tellyou where they were whenSidney Crosby called out,“Iggy” and slipped the puckpast the U.S. goalie.For two weeks, Canadian

flags waved like it was July1 at Parliament Hill. Thenational anthem spontane-ously broke out at Robsonand Granville, and theclosed-off downtown streetshosted 150,000 nightly.Canada topped the medal

tables with 14 gold. It felt

good to say we’d won.

Volunteering is coolYou can still spot the

striking but unnaturally blueand decidedly uncool (sor-ry, it’s true) jackets worn by2010 Olympic volunteers.Hopefully you weren’t oneof those short-sighted albeitmortgage-helping residentswho absconded in fear ofa few visitors. Because,instead of watching fromthe Interior or Hawaii, youcould have been at the cen-tre of it all as a true host.Volunteers like Rowan

Bartlett took time off workto commute two hours andstand in the snow for eightmore. When she spread herarms wide to mark a path-way, she was rewarded withhugs. On the days she’dmiss her bus back down thehill fromWhistler, Bartlettwould be grateful. Her daywouldn’t drag on. Instead,she could soak in more ofthe atmosphere. She wasone of those doubters whoalmost left town.“If I had been in the city of

Vancouver and had voted [inthe referendum], I actuallywould have voted no becauseI thought it was an awful lotof money,” said the Burnabyresident. “When I was walk-ing around Vancouver inmy[Olympic] jacket, people saidthank you tome. At first, itwas like— are they talking tome? They were thankingmefor being a volunteer. It goesto show people do appreciatevolunteers.”The civic boosterism isn’t

as bright as those “blue-berry” jackets five yearsago, but the warmth theybrought can still be felt fiveyears later.


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