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Sound business plan Squamish Nation’s DJ O Show doesn’t just perform at the turntables — she’s a music mogul in-the-making

MICHAELA GARSTINS t A f f R E p o R t E R

When heavy smoke engulfed Orene Askew’s apartment

earlier this month she had only seconds to escape. But, as she dashed out, deciding what to save from the fire was easy.

She grabbed her prized DJ set, the lifeline for her growing North Vancouver-based business.

“Instinct took over. I don’t remember grabbing it,” says Askew, whose stage name is DJ O Show.

She was asleep as a fire tore through her complex on West Fourth Street, completely destroying her neighbour’s suite and caus-ing extensive smoke dam-age to hers.

Everyone survived, but Askew and others living there were left temporarily homeless.

But this horrible event hasn’t put a damper on Askew’s three-month-old company Orene’s DJing Services.

“I’m just happy to be alive,” Askew tells The Outlook, wearing a black-and-yellow hat labeled “O Show” across the front.

After completing a radio broadcast program at BCIT and taking courses at the School of Remix in Vancouver, the Squamish Nation member and Carson Graham grad knew DJing was her calling.

Before venturing out on her own, she worked at a radio station in Washington and at Vancouver’s Beat 94.5, where she was given her nickname.

And so far the 29-year-old has put her four years’ worth of experi-ence as a freelance DJ to good use.

In order to break into the market, she created a detailed busi-ness plan that’s won her Best Business Plan from the Aboriginal Best Program and a trip to the Young Entrepreneurs’ Symposium in Ottawa.

“If you want to do something for the rest of your life, you have to give it your all,” says Askew, whose love of music stems back to her teenage years when friends would ask her to burn personalized CDs. “I’ve always loved music. I would spend all my allowance money on CDs.”

After submitting a proposal to the Squamish Nation, she was award-ed a grant to buy her own DJ set, the same equipment she saved from the fire.

DJ gear is less clunky today. With new technology, Askew only has to carry around a mini turntable that she attaches to her MacBook.

In the future, she plans to hire other aboriginal youth to help grow her business.

“I’d like to travel across Canada to different reserves and show them, if I can do it, they can do it too.”

Askew has had support from other female DJs in Vancouver, who have been growing in number during the last decade.

“There’s a difference between female and male DJs. It’s hard to explain, it’s an emotional thing, so we can tell what a crowd wants.”

Talent is needed to become a successful DJ, says Askew, but making contacts in the industry and having a proper business plan are also vital.

“I don’t only want to play music but make a whole company out of it.”

Besides regular gigs downtown and at private events, she is holding a launch party at Mist Ultra Bar in West Vancouver on Nov. 24.

For more information, go to facebook.com/DJOShow or follow Askew on twitter.com/DJ_Oshow.

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More than 100 people packed a marathon public hearing at North Vancouver city hall

Monday night, most waiting hours for a chance to speak about a massive rede-velopment project that, if approved, will bring more than 45 storeys of condo, office and retail space to the heart of central Lonsdale.

Developers Onni Group are looking to build a 24-storey and a 17-storey condo tower atop two retail platforms with an adjacent six-storey office building in the 1300 block of Lonsdale Avenue, pres-ently home to the Safeway grocery.

The plan would add about 350 condos to the neighbourhood, a new Lonsdale Energy Corporation plant, a grocery store, a 37-space childcare centre, 926 parking stalls and 715 bicycle parking stalls.

Supporters of the project — which far exceeds current building height and density restrictions for the area — out-numbered naysayers at the hearing 3-1, with 65 people speaking in favour of the Onni development, 21 speaking against, and a handful of residents on the fence.

The hearing was part of a special council meeting dealing solely with the Onni project, after which council were

to give second and third readings of two agenda items concerning the develop-ment. The first was to amend the city’s Official Community Plan to allow great-er height and density for the area. The second was to rezone the project lots of 1308 Lonsdale Ave., 130 East 13th St. and 117-133 East 14th St. to allow for comprehensive mixed-use development.

But as the public hearing carried on without interruption into its sixth hour — and with it, into Tuesday morning — and once the 90th and final speaker fin-ished at the microphone, council voted to defer a decision on the project until next Monday, Nov. 26.

Those opposed to the sizeable rede-velopment — which would see both the tallest building on the North Shore and a close runner-up built on the same site — took issue mainly with the densifica-tion of the neighbourhood and the asso-ciated problems of traffic, lack of park-ing and strain on infrastructure.

Among those opposed were two highly regarded former city councillors, Stella Jo Dean and John Braithwaite.

Braithwaite, for whom the city’s John Braithwaite Community Centre is named, slammed the design of the proj-ect, calling it a “monstrosity.”

Jo Dean, for whom a small park

immediately adjacent to the project is named, also panned Onni’s plans and criticized the city for what she called the “exorbitant” density bonusing city staff were prepared to allow for a single project.

The bonuses allow developers to sur-pass things like building-height and density restrictions in return for com-munity amenities such as affordable housing and childcare space, “employ-ment-generating” office space, commu-nity art contributions and environmen-tal commitments.

Still others criticized those members of council who, in their 2011 runs for office, accepted campaign donations from Onni parent company RPMG Holdings, calling the matter a conflict of interest. Both Mayor Darrell Mussatto and Coun. Linda Buchanan accepted $5,000 and $1,500 from RPMG, respec-tively.

Still, supporters of the Onni proj-ect overwhelmingly had the strength in numbers Monday, most speaking in favour of the 1308 Lonsdale plan because of its addition of much-needed housing, childcare and new retail space to the area.

Don Peters of North Shore Community Resources was one of many representing social service providers who spoke in support of the project, notably for its planned 12 to 15 units — or, 10,000 square feet — of affordable housing expected to be set aside for a low-income or disability housing opera-tor, if the project wins approval Monday.

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The four futures of Ridgeway AnnexTODD COYNES T a f f R e p O R T e R

Nearly 100 North Vancouver residents and seven school board trustees gathered in

the gymnasium of the once vibrant, now vacant, Ridgeway Annex school Tuesday to hear four possible futures for the former school property now up for grabs.

The lease and purchase proposals were made by representatives from three interested property development companies and one local childcare busi-ness.

But when all the cards were down, Ridgeway’s four possible futures could be grouped into just two options. One, the building is saved and renovated for use as daytime daycare and nighttime community centre. Or two, it’s bull-dozed and new housing is built atop the Ridgeway property at 450 East Fifth St.

Vancouver-based developer Anthem Properties pitched first, offering a variety of possible housing styles for the site including townhouses, single-family homes or a combination “pocket neighbourhood” comprised of a mix 30-foot and 50-foot lots.

But Anthem president Eric Carlson told the scores of residents gathered that the company’s preferred plan is to build just eight single-family homes, eight laneway homes and a small “pocket park” on the Ridgeway site, estimating the work would take about two and a half years to complete if they started tomorrow.

With a proposal for 15 detached

homes, fellow developer Atti Group varied little from Anthem in their pro-posal. But with an option to build 28 units of duplex housing on the site, Atti also put forth the highest density plan of the night.

The only proposal to receive a burst of applause — albeit brief — came from Oliver Webbe, president of North Vancouver developer Darwin Construction, whose suggestion that the former school’s large gravel yard should be turned into a grass park won the ascent of many in attendance.

Adjacent to the public park, Webbe proposed, would be nine duplex homes; five fronting onto East Fifth Street and four fronting onto a laneway behind those East Fifth Street homes, backing onto the park.

On the question of affordable hous-ing, Webbe estimated duplexes in the Ridgeway neighbourhood would still likely sell on today’s market in the ballpark of $850,000 per unit, not exactly starter home prices.

However, Darwin was the only of the three developers to indicate the compa-ny would be open to the idea of enter-ing into a long-term lease deal with the North Vancouver School District for the property, an option the Atti Group flatly declined and Anthem hadn’t addressed.

“In our study, we believe that the resale value for a home, if it’s on leased land, could be around five to 10 per cent less than if it was not on leased land,” Webbe said, estimating a leased-land duplex at the same site would go for about $775,000.

The final proposal of the night

came from Ridgeway’s neighbour, the KidsLand Childcare Centre at 443 East Fifth St.

It’s there that Ramak Toufanian operates a 20-spot childcare facility with what she describes as a “solid” wait list.

Her proposal is to lease a completely renovated Ridgeway building from the North Vancouver School District to run a year-round daycare facility for 100 children during the day, turning the building over for community recre-ational use at night.

This would boost KidsLand’s child-care capacity fivefold, as Toufanian said she would keep her existing care centre open for young toddlers while using Ridgeway to house expanded programs for older kids.

City of North Vancouver develop-ment planner Carl Purvis told the meeting that any of the four options except the daycare proposal would require an amendment to the city’s Official Community Plan to change the Ridgeway property’s zoning from school-institutional use to residential.

The North Van school board will now evaluate the proposals further, as well as any public input they receive, and interview the proponents over the com-ing weeks before announcing a decision on the property in late January, accord-ing to board chair Franci Stratton.

In the meantime, the former Plymouth elementary school is set to undergo the same process of a public hearing of proposals as Ridgeway on Dec. 4.

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NDP hopes to avoid déjà vu, again

She’s just out of an eight-hour all-candidates boot camp, but Terry Platt

is no newcomer to politics for North Shore New Democrats.

The 56-year-old BC Ferries worker is now prepping for her third run at incumbent BC Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan, who has held the West Vancouver-Capilano rid-ing seat since 2001.

With the May 2013 election now less than six months away, Platt finds herself the senior B.C. NDP candidate for the North Shore, but has yet to hold a seat.

This proud Luddite and animal lover recently sat down with The Outlook in her rented West Van home to discuss, among other things, her conspicuous lack of an online presence or social media strategy in the run-up to 2013.

Despite eight years of politicking with the NDP — including one federal run for

MP in 2011 — there is sur-prisingly little public infor-mation out there about Platt, who prefers to live her life offline.

And while that lack of a social media presence may seem a liability for some party bosses who are forever looking for new ways to con-nect candidates with con-stituents, Platt says for those doing the candidate vetting for the New Democrats, it

was a non-issue.“I have no Facebook, I have

no Twitter, I have nothing,” says the West Van-Cap con-tender, whose candidacy so far amounts to nothing more than a Nov. 4 announcement.

“I have better things to do than checking up on my Facebook account or checking up on my Twitter,” she adds. “I have a life.”

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Waterfront plansEditor,

I have just viewed the options for the foot of Lonsdale and Lot 5 developments. I can’t believe it.

Why would we use prime waterfront land for a museum and an art gallery – even a col-lege?

These are interior activities. They could go anywhere. What is most important about this site is to let people access the water.

I don’t mean getting in a 42-foot boat and running across to Coal Harbor. There are plenty of private marinas that support this activity.

I mean small boats with regu-lar people getting on the water and enjoying it as the resource that belongs to all of us.

I recognize that the harbour is busy with commercial and com-muter traffic; however we can use creative means to direct rec-reational boating channels for kayakers, rowers, dragon boaters and other small craft.

We should seriously be consid-ering a community based water-sport centre that houses dragon boats, First Nations canoes, row-ing and kayaking programs run by community groups for the use of groups and individuals.

Imagine the best of Granville Island and Jericho Beach in one

place. Yes there is a SeaBus. Yes

there is a shipyard. Yes there are port facilities.

And we should still have public access to the ocean. Our waterfront has largely been conceived as a concrete cliff — removing people from the water, not inviting them to it.

Between Ambleside and Cates Park where can a person actu-ally access the water to get their feet wet or watch the kids try to hold back the tide with their dams or wobble around on a paddle board?

How about a “real accessible” beach? Too pie in the sky?

Look directly south across the harbour! Right beside Ballantyne Pier — one of the busiest container ports in the harbor — is a real beach.

Have we so forgotten that boat-ing and access to water is part of the community’s history that we focus on saving pieces of our ship-building heritage, but do not actu-ally let people access the water?

Let’s give this space and all of our public waterfront lands a big rethink.

How might they become a real waterfront for you and I to use in order to explore the natural resource we collectively own?

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Cops and citizens honoured for deeds that went above and beyond to make North Van safer

Ever wonder what you’d do if a bank robber hopped into the back of your car?

Cabbie Kuldeep Dosanj can answer that question.

It was crisp January morning back in 2011 that quickly turned unforgettable for the vet-eran driver.

His gut told him that something wasn’t right about the guy who’d just hurriedly jumped into his taxi.

He was breathing fast and kept saying, “let’s go.”

Dosanj just happened to be the first cab in the queue at the foot of Chesterfield outside the SeaBus that day. The passenger told him to take him to Pacific Centre.

Just as Dosanj was about to click on his fare meter, he looked into his mirror and caught a glimpse of two men in suits in hot pursuit .

This was trouble, he thought. To stall, Dosanj pretended his electric taxi

wouldn’t start by cleverly leaving his foot of the pedal when he pressed the starter button.

Then, he auto-locked the doors so the sus-pect was trapped inside but the man in the backseat managed to escape.

That’s when Dosanj, along with the two bank employees who had been running down the street, corralled the suspect.

He was a large man, recalls Dosanj.Dosanj is a polite, average-sized guy but

that didn’t stop him.One of the other Good Samaritans, branch

manger Stanley Yee received injuries to his hands during the struggle that ensued. Donsanj, a driver with North Shore Taxi for more than a decade, and bank manager Bardia Pourmalek fortunately weren’t hurt.

During the struggle, Dosanj, who had a Bluetooth device in his ear, managed to call 911 and police arrived quickly. The thief, police say, had allegedly robbed five banks in a span of two weeks.

That night at the family dinner table, Dosanj’s three children were amazed by their father’s tale of foiling a robbery attempt. Apparently the story resonated with them.

Recently, his 19-year-old son, Parmvir, made news-paper headlines and the six o’clock TV news after he thwarted a purse-snatching attempt involving an elderly woman.

“I’m so proud of my son too,” he says.

Recently at a special cer-emony at Northlands Golf

Course, it was Dosanj’s son’s turn to be proud as his humble father and several other North Vancouver civilians — including Yee and Pourmalek — were recognized by the North Vancouver RCMP for going out of their way to assist police and their fellow citizens.

Sixteen police officers, support staff and 10 members of North Vancouver Crime Prevention Society were also honoured for their exemplary service.

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THE GIFT OF GIVING - West 49 manager Amber Pattison and staff at the West Vancouver store have been collecting coats for charity this holiday season. Rob Newell photo

Spreading the warmth

Last year, the outpouring of support was overwhelming. There were boxes of kids’ coats packed away in the

stockroom, all ready to ship out for a sec-ond life keeping another toddler or teenager warm — just like the year before.

But this time around, the Coats for Kids collection bin at the West 49 store in Park Royal mall has far from runneth over.

It’s not that there are no coats coming in, they’re just not coming in the same num-bers as years prior.

“In the past we’d always have a bunch boxed up by now, so this year’s definitely been slower,” says Amber Pattison, a man-ager at the West Vancouver store. “It’s kind of a bummer because obviously winter is coming.”

So while many are welcoming the linger-ing fall weather and maybe putting off replacing their old winter coat, for charity drives like West 49’s, the warmer weather has put a freeze on donations.

“People just aren’t coming in and looking for new coats and bringing their old one in yet,” Pattison tells The Outlook inside the Park Royal outlet.

She had hoped the late arrival of the season wouldn’t prevent the Canadian company from reaching its nationwide goal of bringing in at least 10,000 coats for the needy.

“Hopefully other West 49s aren’t facing the same problem,” she says, noting the company has been collecting all sizes of gently used jackets and offers customers a $25 discount per donated coat.

“Everything from really tiny ones to men’s and ladies’ — anything helps.”

Being a store that specializes in snow-boarding apparel, much of what gets donat-ed is naturally the same type of warm, apline attire, some even looking like it was bought recently from other West 49 stores.

“Some of these will be brand new styles,” Pattison says, rooting through the big round drum that serves as the store donation bin. “A lot of these I recognize from last year.”

But by the last day of the drive on Wednesday, the company had only collect-ed about 4,500 coats, shy even by half of its 10,000-coat goal, although a final tally remained to be taken by press time.

From 2002 to 2011, West 49’s Coats for Kids put more than 80,000 coats on the backs of those in need, according to a com-pany spokesperson.

Across Canada, the coats campaign helps large established charities like the Salvation Army, United Way, Covenant House and Big Brothers Big Sisters, as well as dozens of local non-profits.

This year, staff at the Park Royal West 49 store picked foster-child charity

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From there, the coats are either given directly to chil-dren and mothers in need or are resold at the charity’s

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Aunt Leah’s Place coordinator Angelina Oates says she’s not sure who at the West 49 store chose her charity as the recipient of the donated coats or why. But one thing is for sure; she’s grateful they did.

Serving as a lifeline for vulnerable kids in foster care and young mothers and their newborns, Aunt Leah’s counts on volunteers and donations to support an array of social programs for about 200 children and moth-ers a year, as well as two residential houses for pregnant and parenting teen moms.


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For its 46th season, Footlight chose Grease!, a story that Lindbjerg Strelau said is known around the world and needs no interpretation.

In fact, the company was in awe when it came to open audition calls earlier this year: about 200 actors — most of them aged between 18 and 23 — lined up to be part of the show, which opened Nov. 7.

“They just blew me away at the cast-ings,” Lindbjerg Strelau said. “Grease! is an ensemble piece and every single person cast is so strong. If you pack them together, their energy can be overwhelming.”

Footlight will have 32 actors on stage for Grease! — twice as many as seen with other companies. Several of the actors are from the North Shore. “One of our goals is to do very large family-friendly musicals,” she said. “When you go to see a musical at the Arts Club Theatre, it’s going to be great but you’re going to have a very limited cast because they all have to be paid. It’s expensive but that’s how those companies succeed: by cutting the number of actors.”

Rather, Footlight tries to highlight as many triple threats as it can to give them a leg up in the industry. For Grease!, it is only paying for one actor: Jennie Neumann (Rizzo) as she is part of the actors’ union.

The other actors are volunteer and “are doing it simply because they want to do Grease!” Lindbjerg Strelau said, adding, “We get people who are just on the cusp and starting their profes-sional careers.”

She cited two examples: Langley’s Kaylee Harwood, who played her first musical theatre role in Cinderella for Footlight six years ago, has since gone on to perform at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and on Broadway in New York City; and Coquitlam’s Jennifer Gillis, 16, who was cast as the Dorothy understudy last year for The Wizard of Oz and recently returned home after a stint on CBC’s Over the Rainbow.

Port Coquitlam’s Jianna Ballard, 18, said she was thrilled to be selected as Pink Lady and beauty-school drop-out, Frenchy, for Grease!, which will be her fifth Footlight credit (she also worked on Cinderella, Meet Me in St. Louis, Joseph and The Wizard of Oz).

“All the Footlight shows I’ve been in have been completely different, which is great as an actor,” she said. “You learn so much, and it has certainly helped me grow as a teacher as well as a performer. Meeting new cast mates who have the same passion as you is also really fun.”

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Overhead hangs a portrait of Robert Baden-Powell, the early 1900s founder of what would become the international Scouting Movement.

“That is my man, that is my hero,” Platt says, looking on admiringly at the reproduced painting.

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Removing inva-sive species from Lighthouse

Park has become a 25-year quest for a West Vancouver couple. Ivy, scotch broom, lamium and knotweed are on the top of Elspeth and Ray Bradbury’s search-and-destroy list.

“Lamium travels like lava over the forest floor, it’s planted in hanging baskets then dumped, and ivy invades every-where,” Elspeth tells The Outlook. “We want these gone because they sur-round and kill native plants.”

After ripping out the noxious invaders, the Bradbury’s replant native trees and shrubs much more suitable for the area.

Along with other volunteers from the Lighthouse Preservation Society, the couple looks after five other parks nearby.

The Dale Park is the most infested, they say, and like others will take years to restore. On the upside, Lighthouse Park is almost clear of ivory now.

“The whole point is to increase biodiversity,” says Ray, explaining why its vital to look after surrounding parks. “The smaller the natural area is, the least amount of species it can support.”

They hope to link all the small parks together again, instead of hav-ing them on their “own little islands.” This way, animals can travel over longer distances.

“It’s heartbreaking to see how degraded parks have become through ignorance and carelessness,” says Elspeth.

Dumping invasive plants into parks without knowing the environ-mental consequences is a leading problem, she says, along with gar-deners planting foreign plants, like brightly-coloured flowers, because they look nice.

The Bradbury’s became founding members of the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society after they retired to West Van 25 years ago. Today the group has grown to over 150 people. Between 2005 and 2010 they helped restore the popular Beacon Hill Trail and made a map of Caulfeild Park’s native plant species.

They were awarded a West Van Environment Award earlier this month for their leadership.

Japanese knotweed, one of the most dangerous invasive plants, should only be handled by district staff, says Ray.

“You’re not going to get rid of it just by chopping it off. The roots go down three feet and spread 30 feet.”

Knotweed, a bamboo-like plant that grows up to five metres tall, is threatening parks throughout the North Shore. One of the only ways to control its spread, says Ray, is by injecting herbicide into the stem.

Lighthouse Park has already been treated for knotweed along with many other West Van parks, including Ambleside, John Lawson and Dundarave. “You can’t help the whole planet, so it’s good to start at your doorstep,” says Ray. “It takes hard work to do these things but we’re doing them for our grandchildren and future.”

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kNoT youR AvERAGE couplE - Elspeth and Ray Bradbury, pictured here with Coun. Nora Gambioli (centre), are on a mission to rid parks of invasive plants like knotweed. Submitted photo


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Reserve land on the North Shore, Surrey and Vancouver could be prime sites for new

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First Nations are vowing to open their own casinos in B.C., citing the prov-ince’s refusal to share its gambling

profits while continuing to expand the industry.

Reserve land in Surrey, Vancouver and the North Shore would be prime potential sites for a new aboriginal-owned casino in the Lower Mainland, according to Sto:lo Grand Chief Joe Hall, who heads the First Nations Gaming Initiative spearheading the concept.

Hall said the Semiahmoo First Nation reserve east of the White Rock waterfront would be perfect.

“It would be a prime location,” he said. “Because of the population and the location and because of the American traffic and the traffic from the Island that goes east.”

Hall said the Semiahmoo band has consid-ered building a hotel/conference centre that might also host a casino, but approval of a proposed 600-slot casino nearby in South Surrey would torpedo the band’s chances.

“I understood they were pursuing that but there was no consultation with their commu-nity at all. So they were basically shut out.”

Another option may be Katzie First Nation land near Fort Langley, Hall said.

The South Surrey casino/convention centre proposed by Gateway Casinos and Entertainment is just the latest irritant for aboriginal leaders, who have for years asked the province for a two to three per cent share of the $1.1 billion in annual profits B.C. reaps from gambling.

Hall said the Sto:lo are unhappy they’ll get no benefit from a newly opened commu-nity gaming centre with slot machines in Chilliwack that replaces an old bingo hall.

Similar mini-casinos have also sprung up in recent years in Abbotsford, Mission and Langley without contributing to local First Nations, he noted.

“The one in Chilliwack is very disturbing because it’s built on former reserve land that used to belong to the Ch’ihl’kway’uhk people.”

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“We’ve attempted to go through the front door, but enough’s enough,” Hall said.

He accused the province of “racing” to add new casinos ahead of First Nations.

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Hall agreed possible sites there could range from Tsleil Waututh reserves in North Vancouver to the Squamish Nation’s Park Royal Mall site in West Vancouver.

A Nov. 9 letter from Hall and the First Nations Gaming Initiative to Premier Christy Clark accuses the government of “deliberate and systematic exclusion” of First Nations from gambling revenue and outlined their new strategy.

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Revenue from a casino would be shared with all First Nations in B.C., he said, adding the host band would get a larger share.

“We’re doing this in a very careful, structured manner,” he said.

Gambling revenue could offset the impacts on bands from gov-ernment cuts and perhaps buy medical equipment or upgrade needed infrastructure.

Rich Coleman, the minister responsible for gaming, was unavailable for comment.

But a ministry spokesperson said First Nations can host casi-nos or community gaming cen-tres on reserve and get the same 10 per cent share of profits as a hosting municipality.

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at “Young Multimedia Artists Today” at the North Vancouver City Library.

The series is part of Further Connections, a three-month multi-site, interdisci-plinary program focusing on the work of Canadian concep-tual artist Iain Baxter& (pro-nounced Baxterand).

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the senior Baxter&, and they are concepts are as uni-versal as the ways we communicate, the things we look at and how we think about the world.

Argyle Secondary grad and current University of British Columbia visual arts technician, Kevin Murphy, will be one of three presenters at the event.

The former North Vancouverite will talk about New Xanadu, a shiny metal futur-ist sculpture powered by solar panels and packed with bees.

“It’s a sculptural installation which also functioned as a work-ing observation hive,” Murphy says in a phone interview with The Outlook.

It took him years to build before it was put into action last sum-mer at the university’s botanical garden.

It has since been taken down for the fall and winter. But the concept remains a potent and timely one.

“Bees are really interesting to look at as a symbol,” Murphy says, “because they’ve been used as an exam-ple of an ideal utopia just because they have such a complicated social system.”

However, that uto-pia and the whole idea of utopia is cast into doubt, he adds, by the persistent and large-scale collapse of whole colonies of North American bees, for reasons not wholly understood.

“So it’s looking at what the future might look like for bees and then, by extension, for ourselves.”

Murphy will be joined by fellow UBC-associated artists Damla Tamer and Kevin Day, each of whom will present their own approxi-mately 20-minute talk before taking ques-tions from attendees. The event is free and begins at 7 p.m. on Nov. 27 in the Dr. G. Paul Singh Room at the North Vancouver City Library.

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All The buzz - Kevin Murphy’s metal hive sculpture was on display at UBC. Kevin Murphy photo

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One of the RCMP officers honoured was Const. Jas Dosanjh, who received a commendation for a late-night res-cue in February 2011.

That evening Donsanjh responded to a 911 call for a man who’d got-ten lost in a forested area near Lynn Canyon. He was wet and hypother-mia was setting in.

But before relaying any more details about his whereabouts to the 911 dispatcher, the caller’s cellphone died.

“When I referred to it as a needle in a haystack, that’s what it was,” says Dosanjh.

All he had to go on was a cell tower location, which only gave a rough idea of where to conduct the search, and the fact the caller had mentioned a trail and walking over planks.

Dosanjh along with a dog services member ventured into the forest. “The snow was up to our knees — absolute darkness,” recounts Dosanjh.

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Nearly an hour in, he finally heard a faint sound but couldn’t see any-thing.

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patched. But, in the meantime, Dosanjh had to keep the man’s spirits up until he could be safely evacuated.

He’d fallen in water, lost a shoe, and was hypothermic.

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“I’m proud to have been recognized for my actions,” he says, adding he’s also a little “perplexed.”

“Each and every member of this organization wouldn’t have acted any differently — this is what we do.”

Since the rescue, Dosanjh has twice bumped into the man whose life he saved.

“He’s grateful and I’m equally grateful that he’s OK.”

Still, Dosanjh figures his actions that night are just part of the job.

“[There’s] an expectation of excel-lence in regards to every file, wheth-er it’s simple or complex — a high expectation that the best and highest quality of service will be delivered. Anything short of that is unaccept-able — to not only the force but to that member.”

As Supt. Chris Kennedy said dur-ing the awards ceremony, it’s “com-forting to know” there are civilians like Kuldeep Dosanj and police offi-

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Dosanj’s now hangs proudly in his living room.

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Others honoured at the ceremony:

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Dr. Quinn’s wonderful gift gave me an opportunity to travel to Europe for the first time and experience the benefits of a new culture and research environment. With the UBC Vision Lab I have been studying how the brain processes visual information, and with the Multisensory Research Group in Barcelona, Spain I was able to expand this research to include touch. This has uncovered new knowledge about how we process information in our everyday lives. Understanding how the brain works under normal circumstances is a critical step in ultimately helping those with conditions such as Attention Deficit Disorder or Autism. Thank you Dr. Quinn.

– Allison Brennan, PhD student

Nearly 80 men and women who served in the Second World War gathered in

West Vancouver last month at the fifth annual reunion lunch for North Shore veterans.

Hosted at the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre on Oct. 20, the event included bagpipip-ing by Simon Pitches, words from West Vancouver-Capilano MLA and Minister of State for Seniors Ralph Sultan, a toast to the Queen (a dram of single

malt, of course) and a chance for local war veterans to catch up and reminisce. Members of the North Shore Air, Army and Sea Cadets — who later this year will be interviewing these veterans to preserve their stories for future generations — also attended the event.

As the reunion wrapped up, the veterans were treated to We’ll Meet Again, a popular wartime song performed by Gwen Gouchee and Bob York.


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‘We’ll meet again’

VETERANS REUNITED - 1 Andrea Miller, Carol Harrington and Jim Miller, Canadian army. 2 Joni Vajda, with West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre, andStan Ward, founder of the North Shore Veterans’ Reunion 3 Roy Wozniak flew Spitfires for the RCAF. 4 Wozniak with fellow Canadian veteran Jim McCarthy.

North Shore war veterans gather for fifth annual reunion

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On October 13, 2012, at West

14th Street, North Vancouver,

B.C., Peace Officer(s) of the

North Vancouver RCMP seized,

at the time indicated, the subject

property, described as: a 2007

BMW X5, BCL: 710 WLD, VIN:

4USFE83557LY64918, on or

about 15:54 Hours, a Samsung

flip phone, on or about 15:39

Hours, $2,050 CAD, on or about

15:48 Hours, and $50 USD, on or

about 15:48 Hours.

The subject property was seized

because there was evidence

that the subject property had

been used in the commission

of an offence (or offences)

under section 5(2) (Possession

for purpose of trafficking)

of the Controlled Drugs and

Substances Act of Canada.

Notice is hereby given that

the subject property, CFO file

Number: 2012-1270, is subject

to forfeiture under Part 3.1 of

the CFA and will be forfeited to

the Government for disposal by

the Director of Civil Forfeiture

unless a notice of dispute is filed

with the Director within the time

period set out in this notice.

A notice of dispute may be filed

by a person who claims to have

an interest in all or part of the

subject property. The notice of

dispute must be filed within 60

days of the date upon which this

notice is first published.

You may obtain the form of a

notice of dispute, which must meet the requirements of

Section 14.07 of the CFA, from

the Director’s website, accessible

online at www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/

civilforfeiture. The notice must

be in writing, signed in the

presence of a lawyer or notary

public, and mailed to the Civil

Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234

Station Provincial Government,

Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.

In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT:

On November 24, 2011, at the

300 block of Marine Drive, West

Vancouver, B.C., Peace Officer(s)

of the West Vancouver Police

Department seized, at the time

indicated, the subject property,

described as: $1,552 CAD, on or

about 23:00 Hours.

The subject property was seized

because there was evidence that

the subject property had been

obtained by the commission

of an offence (or offences)

under section 5(2) (Possession

for purpose of trafficking)

of the Controlled Drugs and

Substances Act of Canada.

Notice is hereby given that

the subject property, CFO file

Number: 2012-1267, is subject

to forfeiture under Part 3.1 of

the CFA and will be forfeited to

the Government for disposal by

the Director of Civil Forfeiture

unless a notice of dispute is filed

with the Director within the time

period set out in this notice.

A notice of dispute may be filed

by a person who claims to have

an interest in all or part of the

subject property. The notice of

dispute must be filed within 60

days of the date upon which this

notice is first published.

You may obtain the form of

a notice of dispute, which

must meet the requirements

of Section 14.07 of the CFA,

from the Director’s website,

accessible online at www.

pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture.

The notice must be in writing,

signed in the presence of a

lawyer or notary public, and

mailed to the Civil Forfeiture

Office, PO Box 9234 Station

Provincial Government, Victoria,

B.C. V8W 9J1.

In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA

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