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

Baseball’s fever pitch North Van hosts country’s best little leaguers MARIA SPITALE-LEISK CONTRIBUTING WRITER

he boys of summer will be stealing the limelight, along with some bases, during the 2011 Canadian Little League Championship being held in North Vancouver this week. Chris Zuehlke Park will be the scene of hundreds of elite little leaguers on the cusp of adolescence and stronger swings. North Vancouver’s District Five is the host organization for the six-team national championship, with Mount Seymour Little League the host team. As nine- and 10-year-olds, the team clinched the district title two years ago, thereby earning the right to represent North Van in the 11/12 majors tournament. Wayne Hobson - seasoned District Five administrator and national tournament director - is on the edge of his seat with anticipation. This has been his baby for the past two years. “It’s fantastic,” he says, with some vigor. “I’ve been looking forward to this tournament for awhile now. Nestled behind the soccer fields at Mahon Park and Carson Graham secondary - surrounded by majestic fir trees - is one of the prettiest ballparks in the Lower Mainland: North Vancouver’s own field of dreams, Chris Zuehlke Park.

Approximately $758,000 in upgrades – including a new clubhouse, dugouts and state-of-the-art scoreboard – have recently been added to the historic field and home of the North Van Central team; the key funding players are the City of North Vancouver and the federal government. Perhaps even more of a local institution than the park itself is the legendary Zuehlke burger: caramelized onions made with Coke and vinegar, and the meat patty and wiener inside the bun. Hobson reveals that there have between eight to 10 core people volunteering behind the scenes for many months now to make the national championship a reality in North Van – from billeting to accounting to umpiring. Thousands of people are expected to be in attendance at the park over the next week including past North Van-bred ball players. “We have been trying to get in touch with the ‘93 Lynn Valley team that went to the World Series,” says Hobson. On Sat. Aug. 6 at 11 a.m., family members of the park’s namesake – Chris Zuehlke’s parents, brother and sisters – will be recognized at the opening ceremonies, which will include a flyover. That evening is the Battle of B.C. between provincial majors champs Langley and Mount Seymour Little League at 6 p.m. For more information on the tournament visit www.vancouver2011.ca. Also see Len Corben’s column on page 23.

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Young family’s hopes dashed by green card scam North Vancouver man loses $1,638 after receiving fraudulent email GREG HOEKSTRA S TA F F R E P O RT E R

North Vancouver father-to-be is embarrassed and upset after being scammed out of $1,638 by a crafty con artist last week. The victim, who asked to not be identified, said he was tricked by an authentic-looking email that said he and his wife had won two permanent American work visas in the country’s annual Diversity Visa Program, better known as the “Green Card lottery.” What made the email so believable, said the man, is that the couple had actually entered the lottery a few months prior. So when the email arrived in his inbox, he gladly wired the necessary “processing fees” to an address he thought was the U.S. embassy in England. Several days later, the man learned the unfortunate truth. “I was obviously pissed off when the visas didn’t arrive,” said the man in an interview with The Outlook last week. “I wasn’t worried about the money. I was worried that someone was able to do that. They had a lot of information about me.” The man said the email looked convincingly like the U.S. Department of State’s website, complete with official logos and letterhead. “Everything was the same,” he said. The man, who moved to Canada only a few months ago from Australia, said he and his wife — who is nine months pregnant — were hoping to move to California once their baby is born. “My wife’s sister lives there,” he explained over the phone. “We wanted to move there so the two sisters could take care of each other. Now I don’t want her to find out and worry.”

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North Vancouver RCMP are investigating a fraudulent email that tricked a local man into wiring a lump sum of cash overseas. The phony email told the man that he and his wife had won U.S. work visas in the country’s annual “green card lottery.” Greg Hoekstra photo Cpl. Richard De Jong, spokesman for the North Vancouver RCMP, said police are investigating the case and trying to determine how the fraudster knew to contact the victim. One possibility, said De Jong, is that an internet hacker managed to somehow access the list of lottery entrants. Another likely scenario, he said, is that the fraudster sent out thousands, or even millions, of similar emails, hoping to find someone like the victim who had actually applied for the lottery. “In the world of emails and electronics, it’s often a game of hit and miss,” De Jong told The Outlook. “In a million emails, they get 100 peo-

ple who find it interesting, and 10 who will actually send money.” De Jong said police are attempting to determine how the victim’s application information was made public. He said police also want to hear from any other potential victims. Meanwhile, the man said he is disappointed but not deterred in his efforts to move his young family to the United States. “I want to make my wife happy,” he said. “As a man, I want to look after my family.” ghoekstra@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/greghoekstra

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VanOpen tourney kicks off at Hollyburn SEAN KOLENKO S TA F F R E P O RT E R

here are a few hallmarks to being a ball girl at a tennis tournament. You have to know where to to stand, if a player needs their towel and, most importantly, who needs the ball. The program doesn’t change much from year to year and after four summers volunteering at the Odlum Brown VanOpen at West Vancouver’s Hollyburn Country Club, 13-year-old Angie Walker knows the ins and outs of the ball girl world. But, she says, it’s still exciting. “The chance to watch the professionals play is a great experience,” says Angie, a North Vancouver resident. “They’re so good.” When she isn’t donning the red and blue uniform of the tournament’s ball people, Angie is a Hollyburn member and a dedicated tennis player. She comes from an impressive athletic pedigree. Both her mother and younger sister play tennis, and her father, Fabio Walker, was a former Canadian national junior champion. It’s been a life, albeit a brief one, on the hardcourts for Angie. She’s been around the game longer than many far her senior, but every now and then, she says, there are moments that ensure she stays on her toes. “Sometimes, yeah, when the men play,” she say, laughing. “One guy hit the ball 147 miles per hour. That was pretty scary.”

It’s been a rather meteoric rise for the VanOpen, which began as a female-only event at Jericho Tennis Club in 2002, with a total prize purse of $25,000. This year, the VanOpen boasts a $200,000 purse — $100,000 to winners in both the men’s and women’s categories — and 140 competitors from around the world. When tournament organizers announced a $25,000 boost to the women’s draw in June, local media arrived at a significantly less bustling tennis club. Until August 7, however, Hollyburn Country Club will be a hectic place. Fans, parents and coaches already mill about the recentlyerected grandstands. Sponsor banners hang from the fences, and the sound of swatted tennis balls can now be heard into the evening. Floyd Hill, tournament chairman, told The Outlook he’s proud the tournament has been able to improve upon itself each year. For 2011, organizers brought in new scoreboards and speed guns, which read the pace competitors hit their serves at. “It’s another step, you know,” says Hill, with a proud smile. “And support comes from so many places, the public, box holders, corporate sponsors. We had a problem with some road work outside the club, so I called the guys at West Vancouver and they told us they would finish the work after the tournament to help us out.” skolenko@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/seankolenko

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

Canadian players competing in the Odlum Brown VanOpen Men: Philip Bester, Erik Chvojka, PierreLudovic Duclos, Peter Polansky, Vasek Pospisil, and Steven Diez. Women: Aleksandra Wozniak, Stephanie Dubois, Sharon Fichman, Gabriela Dabrowski, and Heidi El Tabakh. For details visit www.bctennis.com www.vanopen.com

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West Vancouverborn Anthony Findlay has trained some of B.C.’s top athletes from his gym, Level 10 Fitness, in North Vancouver. But watching regular folks change their lives through fitness is what makes it all worthwhile. Sean Kolenko photo

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here are so many newspaper stories about the athletes who have trained at North Vancouver’s Level 10 Fitness that a few framed pictures have to sit on the floor against the wall. There just isn’t any more room to hang them. Professional hockey players, football players, snowboarders, skiers — including five Olympic medalists — are but a few examples of the toptier competitors who have passed through the gym. An impressive roster, to say the least. But gym owner Anthony Findlay has a rather simple answer for how his club attracted such notable clientele — “things just grew.” “Level 10 [Fitness] started 15 years ago,” says Findlay. “It just began with friends, family COFFEE and associates. Then it went to WITH some high school teams. Then the wives of some Canucks Sean Kolenko joined, then some Canucks. skolenko@northshore And then some provincial and outlook.com national teams.” Growing up in West Vancouver, athletics was always a passion of Findlay’s. As a youngster, Findlay never figured sports would be a means of paying the bills. After graduating from West Van secondary, however, Findlay went on to play football at the University of British Columbia and then landed with the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, but after breaking into Canadian football bigtime, Findlay quickly turned his attention back the classroom. Only one player, the Roughriders’ centre, had a university degree. And the CFL, in comparison to the football leviathan south of the border, isn’t exactly paying big dollars. Findlay knew he needed to further his education. After wrapping up a psychology degree at UBC, Findlay eventually entered the then burgeoning field of personal training. In those days,

says Findlay, personal training was a bit of a cutthroat gig, as trainers rarely supported one another and important credentials were often lacking. The field, he says, has come a long way. The younger generation of trainers, he says, need to have a willingness to be mentored. There are more and more young professionals starting out with Master’s degrees, a positive step in the previously credential-deficient profession, but “a Master’s doesn’t always mean you’re ready,” says Findlay. “If you’re going to be spending three of four hours a week with someone, you have to hire people with good hearts and a good personality. The bottom line is you have to care about people. You have to want to help people.” And not just the athletes plastered on the walls. Level 10 Fitness trains a team in nearly every North Shore school, the North Shore Winter Club and an evergrowing list of regular North Shore folks signing up at the club. Every one of Findlay’s employees, now 25 strong, is also required to donate one hour a week to a community cause. Sure, the professional-level attention is flattering. One doesn’t tire of seeing the likes of Ed Jovanovski, Duncan Keith and Maëlle Ricker walk through the gym’s doors. But working with dentists, housewives and “the kid at the corner store” is where, Findlay says, some really profound physical changes can be achieved. “We really are lucky to do what we do. And seeing athletes is really exciting and special for us,” adds Findlay. “On any given week we’ll see 1,000 different people. But the ability to affect young students, or to help someone with a physical problem, helping them to walk again, that’s amazing. It really is a passion, not a job.”

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ast month, Chesterfield Holdings, developer of the currently-under-construction rental building on West First Street, asked City of North Vancouver council to waive nearly $500,000 in fees to help the struggling project. Costs such as engineering fees and a connection to the Lonsdale Energy Corporation, which combined for more than $463,000 of the company’s half-a-million-dollar request, were said to prevent the project from turning a profit until 2016. Council, having already given Chesterfield Properties a 35-percent break on development cost charges, voted unanimously to investigate ways to suspend other city fees — to be repaid at a later date — to provide some further

assistance. Spurred by that discussion, staff drafted a report titled “city financial support for market rental housing,” and presented it to council on July 25. The document caught the ire of some councillors, who said such investigations cross the line between what a city can do to help foster much-needed market rental projects and subsidizing a private business at the expense of homeowners. “We are a small jurisdiction with a narrow fiscal base. The city is supported by owners of property,” Coun. Guy Heywood told The Outlook. “Metro Vancouver needs rental properties. It’s a big need. But can we favour any industry over another? We can’t say we’ll subsidize one restaurant over another.” The report echoes, in parts, Heywood’s concerns. “Rental prop-

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rooke Angus sits in a chair beside Yasmin Teja’s bed. The music therapist strums her guitar’s strings and leans into the instrument as she hits the deep yearning notes of “Besame Mucho.” Then, slowly, Brooke begins to sing. “Besame, besame mucho, como si fuera ésta noche la ultima vez.” Her voice seems to make all the lines in the cream-coloured room dissolve. With every chord comes a sense of freedom, as though here, in this fuzzy cocoon, life is no longer restrained by form. Yasmin closes her eyes. Her eyelashes flutter as her thoughts ebb between the past and present. She begins to whisper. “Besame, besame mucho.” The Spanish tune speaks of love; passion so deep and powerful that a single kiss feels as though it may be your last. This was Yasmin and Sadrudin’s song. They grew up as neighbours in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Their mothers helped plan the union, but it was a “love marriage.” For 41 years they planted kisses on each other, until a year ago, when Sadrudin succumbed to cancer, and they shared their last. Here, lying among the folds of sheets on an adjustable bed in the North Shore Hospice, Yasmin awaits a similar fate. Five weeks after Sadrudin’s death, Yasmin was re-diagnosed with cancer. It started in her breast and has now reached her lymph nodes and her brain. Her hair is shorn short, a legacy of her brain surgery; her body looks bird-like when compared to the glowing woman, who stands tall beside Sadrudin in a photo tucked away carefully in her dresser. Although the disease limits her movement to the slight twist of a wrist or beckoning of a finger, Yasmin hasn’t let it eat away at her creativity. She’s been working on a project, an endeavor she calls a “piece of herself.” Over the past few weeks, Brooke has become an important part of Yasmin’s life. She’s helped Yasmin create a CD. The tracks feature Yasmin’s quiet voice reciting her poems in Urdu, an IndoAryan language. Accompanying her satiny words is Brooke’s guitar and when each soliloquy finishes, Brooke sings an English translation. Last night Yasmin unveiled her project in her room. It is her way to thank those who have rallied around her. It was also a special moment in knowing that although she will be gone soon, her words will live on.

***** For seven years, Brooke has watched the power of music unfold in front of her. Two days a week she visits Lions Gate Hospital’s palliative care patients and the North Shore Hospice. Not all patients want to create a CD like Yasmin; some simply don’t have that much time left. Some patients ask Brooke to sing or play a familiar tune. Others want to play or sing themselves. But no matter who the person is, there’s something intimate about music, Brooke says. It can create an unspoken trust, open emotional doors or ease anxiety. Currently, Brooke is only one of approximately five full-time equivalent music therapists working for Vancouver Coastal Health. Right now she spends her time between 10 patients in hospice and seven patients at the hospital’s palliative care wing. But that number fluctuates, with as many as 30 patients registered in Lion Gate’s palliative care program. Over the last year and a half, a gradual ellimination of music therapy jobs throughout B.C. — including one position at Lions Gate — has caught the attention of the Music Therapy Association of BC. “It has been a growing concern,” says Meg Fildes, the association’s spokesperson. “We are tackling it right now and starting a committee about this issue.” Recently, B.C.’s Interior lost three music therapists. The post at Lions Gate Hospital was reclassified and downgraded, Fildes notes. The bereavement manager position, a woman who also worked as a music therapist, was cut. In the past two years, St. Paul’s palliative care saw its music therapy position disappear, as did Marion Hospice. MSA Mission Memorial hospice cut eight hours from its music therapy program. On top of that, between 2002 and 2004, all music therapy jobs in cancer agencies in Vancouver, Surrey and Kelowna were eliminated. Christian Sjonnesen is one of the Interior music therapists who found himself faced with a 30-day notice this spring. After six and a half years working in an Interior Health Authority extended care facility — Polson Residential — Sjonnesen says he was told by management that his six-hour-a-week job would be taken over by volunteers. Sjonnesen attended Capilano University, the only post-secondary education institution in Western Canada that teaches music therapy, to receive his bachelor’s degree.

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“The health care system is so administrative heavy there is no money for professionals,” he says. Once music therapy positions are axed it is only a small step for health authorities to strip other therapy resources, such as recreation therapists, from hospitals, hospices and residential facilities, Sjonnesen warns. He’s written to Premier Christy Clark and hopes public attention will help save jobs. “I would like to see music therapists reinstated where they were cancelled,” he says. “We are taking quality of life of residents.” The number of music therapy positions in Vancouver Coastal Health has been steady over the years, says Gavin Wilson, VCH spokesperson. In Richmond, such jobs have increased by 0.2 per cent, he notes. As for the LGH position, the full-time job was dropped and two part-time workers hired. This better fulfills patients needs, allowing staff to cover a broader time spectrum, Wilson says. “We found that [the full-time job] wasn’t meeting the needs of the clients,” he says.

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**** Brooke is grateful for her job. It is emotionally stirring work, she says, but also rewarding. She shares some of the most intimate moments in a person s life. “It is so moving these people can invite me into their room when they don’t have a lot of time left,” she says. After The Outlook’s interview, Brooke and Yasmin recorded four more poems, including one Yasmin wrote for her mother and another for her father., Khanum Schmitz. Yasmin’s sister-in-law, who has been by Yasmin’s side since her diagnosis, says it was amazing to watch Yasmin recite them from memory. Yasmin and Khanum have always had a close relationship. When Khanum s brother was alive, the three would often vacation together. Now she says they are closer than sisters. And every Thursday, the day Brooke visits Yasmin, Khanum finds joy in watching Yasmin’s face spring to life. It’s helped Khanum mourn the loss of her brother and the impending loss of a dear friend. “It is very special to me to finally have Yasmin’s poetry so other people can hear it,” she says. Yasmin needed to get her words out before she could move on. Making the CD has brought her joy and strength. Khanum knows how this story will end, but it s been a beautiful journey, she says. “I take something from everything. Life is very precious and I believe the meaning of life is all about relationships.” “Besame, besame mucho como si fuera ésta noche la ultima vez.” Kiss me, kiss me a lot, as if tonight was the last time.

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ooking through clear water to see fish dart over stones, sunlight reflected on their scales, is an amazing experience. It is an experience Mark Mentiply manages to capture in metal. The North Shore artist will share the steps of his process at the Copper & Fire Arts Festival atthe Britannia Mine Museum this coming Sunday. “I’ll bring my torch and my welder to do a practical demonstration where I show people how I get the colour for the fish and the bears. I’ll do some polishing and some heating and maybe I’ll drill some rocks,” he told The Outlook. Rocks play a big part in Mentiply’s work. “When I go out for walks with my son and my wife, we collect rocks. We have rocks from various places all over B.C. I put a piece of ready rod into the rock and then I have something to weld to. Then I match a bear or a fish to the rock. Each rock has a unique quality and the sculpture is informed by that look.” His love of fish began when he was a young boy growing up on the Capilano River in West Vancouver. It seemed natural to incorporate that fascination in his art. “I worked with steel and I love fishing, so the next thing I knew, I was making metal fish. I’ve been working on sculptures for 15 years and I’ve specialized in making eagles, bears and fish for six years.” Mentiply uses a process that is called oxyacetylene welding. “I treat the steel with oxyacetylene. That gives it colours that range from auburn, to purple to blue. And I polish the steel by hand with a grinder. So that’s the process – I polish it, I heat-treat it and I bend it.” Mentiply’s pieces come in a variety of sizes. The biggest fish is 34 inches long; the smallest is two inches. They are all individually handmade and range in price from $7.95 to $1,200. Landscapers also feature some of his designs. “One of my larger pieces is on display at the North Shore Credit Union in Whistler,” Mentiply says. “I’ve also created three birds for the Crazy Raven, a bar on Cypress Bowl. The three ravens look like they are flying across the bar with fivefoot wing spans. They have about 200 individual feathers and look really cool.” Mentiply has also made the trophies for the largest salmon tournament in North America organized by West Coast Resorts. He cares deeply about B.C.’s nature and uses his skills to support various charitable organizations. “I am an avid fisherman and I support the Pacific Salmon Foundation. I donate a lot of items for silent auctions for fundraising. I also support the Seymour Salmonid Society, The Harvest Project, the Whistler animal shelter, the burn unit of the fire department and children in Tibet. Whether it’s children, animals or fish, I help where I can.” Working on his sculptures is not Mentiply’s only occupation, nor his primary source of income. He does special effects in the film business where he works a lot with steel. He calls the film industry his “golden handcuffs” and admits that he would like to one day break free. Mentiply enjoys the Copper & Fire festival. “I am also trying to get enough large pieces together to for a show at the Britannia. I’d love to focus more on bigger pieces.” The Britannia Copper & Fire Arts Festival is Sunday, August 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In addition to artists’ presentations and family activities, there will be live music including Kostaman, Pawnshop Diamond, The Magician and the Gates of Love and more. Admission if free for members and those who purchase a regular museum pass. Visit www.bcmm.ca for details.

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Dr. Riley Senft likes to think that it’s mind over matter when it comes to the physical and mental stress of running a marathon every day. Senft started his run across Canada to raise money for prostate cancer research at the northernmost point of Newfoundland Labrador. Michael Downie photo

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unning across Canada: for many of us, Terry Fox is the first name that comes to mind. Before he died of cancer in 1981, Fox made himself a legend by taking on the challenge of running across country to raise awareness and money for cancer research. He covered 5,373 kilometres in 143 days on the road. Now meet Dr. Riley Senft, who is in the midst of attempting that same unimaginable feat — using two legs to conquer Canada and cancer. “Terry Fox was an incredible person. He essentially said, ‘What is the hardest thing for me to do? Run? Okay then I’ll run across Canada,’” Riley says in an email interview when he was resting in Wawa, Ontario, in preparation for his journey along Lake Superior’s rugged shoreline. “Terry had one leg, he had cancer, and he didn’t have access to the GPS or social media or any of the other technology that has evolved since he ran that I have access to and yet he managed to capture the heart of our nation and leave an incredible legacy. I don’t have cancer, I have two legs, I have a bigger support vehicle, and I still find this a huge challenge.” People run marathons all the time. And the 42.195 kilometres to cross the finish line is viewed as a huge test to how far the body and mind can be pushed. Riley is more than halfway through his run across Canada and is clocking roughly 60 kilometres a day, well over one marathon every 24 hours. His body is being beaten and the pavement gives no mercy. “I still have blisters all over my feet and I have given up on the idea that I’ll ever be blister-free during this run. I’ve learned how to minimize them as much as possible but in the beginning I found myself in hospital in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, because of infected blisters that had me off my feet for two days. My legs have gotten used to

the mileage but I had hamstring and calf issues in the beginning that I had to see physiologists for along the way. The recent heat wave was brutal and I was drinking over 10 litres of fluid a day.” But despite the grind, Riley says it’s all worth it to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer. His charity is called Step into Action and his goal is to raise $1 million during his run. “I’m doing this because I’m tired of prostate cancer having such a large impact in my life and I want to raise prostate cancer awareness so that men know when they should be getting checked and so that they don’t fear the digital rectal exam because it’s not a big deal at all. “My grandfather died of prostate cancer, my father currently has prostate cancer, a number of close family friends have prostate cancer, and odds are either myself or my brother will get prostate cancer. I hate prostate cancer and this is my way of going to war against it.” His heart was and is in the right place, but when Riley’s father Rod first heard of what his son wanted to do, it was a shock. “It was the sheer enormity of it,” says Rod, in an interview at The Outlook’s office. “He was in the worst shape of his life. He was three and a half years into his medical residency living in Winnipeg. In winter you don’t get the chance to go out and train.” Riley may have been out of shape when he started his run this past May, but his family knew that no matter what the circumstances were, if Riley said he was going to run across the country, that was exactly what he was going to do. “When he sets his mind to a goal, I’m confident he will achieve it,” says his proud father, who raised his family on the North Shore, a place he still calls home. “When I first heard about it, I thought he was nuts. It’s an ambitious thing to do. Of course you worry,” sister Lauren chimes in.

Riley and his brother Derek are no strangers to tackling Canada from east to west. Nearly 10 years ago, separately, they both rode their bikes across the country for Habitat for Humanity. “Running has always been Riley’s passion and running across Canada was something floating around, he would always consider it,” says Derek. In order to stay sane, Riley listens to audio books and plays mind games to trick his head into thinking there is less mileage than there really is. He’s also got a crew including friend Michael Downie and David Bell to help him keep in touch with others, spread the word on prostate cancer and make sure he can achieve what he has set out to do. “Raising awareness is just as important because if you can detect prostate cancer early in stage one, there is over a 90-percent cure rate,” Riley says. Vancouver Prostate Centre’s clinicianscientist and urologic surgeon Dr. Martin Gleave applauds Riley’s quest. “I think it’s a great illustration of the length of which people will go to get a message out to raise awareness. I think that in general the awareness of cancers, particularly in prostate, has increased.” Gleave and Riley both agree that advocates of breast cancer awareness have done a phenomenal job in delivering early detection and prevention messages to the public. And it’s Riley’s mission to make prostate cancer an issue on the forefront of men’s minds. “If I could get prostate cancer the same sort of recognition that breast cancer has among females then maybe I could feel like I’ve done enough to raise awareness but we are a long way away from that point,” Riley says. Riley’s journey will end in Vancouver around mid-October, a month after his father gets an update on his diagnosis and treatment. “Fall is going be a time when this illness

will be front and centre in our family’s life,” Rod says. After the run, Riley intends to head back to Winnipeg to finish his residency. He plans to return to the North Shore to practice. He’s now more than halfway through his province-to-province tour. This weekend he will be running through Thunder Bay, the place where Fox had to end his run. Follow Riley’s journey by visiting www. stepintoaction.ca.

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STEP INTO ACTION • 1 in 6 Canadian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. • 1 in 34 will die from prostate cancer. • Family history in which a father or brother has had the disease doubles a man’s chances. • Men of African ancestry have a 60 per cent greater chance (one in four) of developing the disease. • Diagnosis in Stage 1 offers a more than 90 per cent success rate and the least invasive treatment options.

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Provincial pride on display North Vancouverites celebrate B.C. Day with live music, face painting and food at Lonsdale Quay

Hundreds descended upon Lonsdale Quay Aug. 1 to take part in the holiday Monday’s “Summerfest” celebrations. Far left, local songwriter Kyla Rawlyns performs a bluesy number for a crowd near the Quay’s iconic fountain. Left, threeyear-old Jess from North Vancouver admires her face paint in a mirror. Bottom right, festival goers get a lesson in the art of steel drumming. Greg Hoekstra photos

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Situated on quiet Allan Road, a short walk to Lynn Valley Centre and Westlynn Shopping Mall. Three large bedrooms up, four full baths and two half, and a huge finished attic that makes a great playroom, or guest accommodation. Three fireplaces, oak floors, mudroom off the main kitchen (yes, there are two!), family room with vaulted ceilings – and that’s to start. Outside has a large covered patio off the living/dining room, facing the pool, hot tub, gazebo/tiki bar and nice yard. Too many features to mention – come by and see for yourself. No need for a vacation home – it’s all right here. Open House: Sunday, August 7, 2-4. To View - Call Bev or Toni

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Beautifully remodelled from bottom to top that beats a new house in one of the most demanding area, in Delbrook, almost 3000 sqft of high quality which fits 2 families, 2 brand new open kitchens with S/S appliances, new dark H/W floors for the entire house ,new windows with high-end coverings ,new plumbing & wiring, new roof and hot water heating system. Sitting on a newly Land Escaped lot, finally enjoy an out-door swimming pool on newly fenced and private backyard.

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The ultimate in luxury. This gorgeous Penthouse is being offered for the first time on the market. The private elevator will lead you into the foyer and into the lap of 3300+ square feet of luxury. You wont believe your eyes as you gaze upon the best view in West Vancouver from every room. Step onto a 1500 square foot veranda to breath in the fresh mountain air. It almost goes without saying that only the best quality finishes and fittings are featured in this home as every upgrade imaginable was ordered.

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BACK ON MARKET! OFFERS WELCOMED! Lower Lonsdale dale Beauty, just East of Lonsdale, below Keith Rd., thiss immaculate townhome has 4 BR, 3 lvls. and massive crawlspace. New laminate Åoors thr throughout main areas, top Åoor as, 2 private patios and spacious to deck with views ews of city and Burrard Inlet. Sellers moving out of BC. $615,700. C. Very quiet! 1700 sq. ft. $615,700 Heather, 778-847-1452 78-847-1452 or Vera 604-318-0 604-318-0024

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Two house in one. 3 bedroom up, a self-contained 2 bedroom legal suite down, side by side entrance. House has a total of 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2 kitchen, a store room and a full-sized double garage. Features a newly added sun room of 277s.f., central A/C, a tankless hot water heater, and an electrical upgrade of 200 AMP along with a covered walkway and a new driveway. Located at the end of a C-D-S and is walking distance to/from Park Royal & nearby elementary school. House is well-kept and at a move-in condition. Ideal for self-use or investment.

Popular Yorkwood North 3bdrm/4 bath townhome. Fabulous family complex with lots of room. Remodelled kitchen is bright and spacious, room for a table! Downstairs is a great media room or 4th bedroom for guests with their own 3pce bath. Snuggle up in front of the fireplace, or relax on the private south facing patio. The kids will enjoy street hockey with the neighbours or a refreshing dip in the pool. Call today to view. Irene Mandzuk, Royal LePage Northshore 778-8364648. More pictures at www.imandzuk.com, or email me for more details imandzuk@gmail.com

NOT GROUND LEVEL. SOUTH FACING. No wasted space here at all. 2 bdrms & a den. Beautiful new hardwood floor, updated bathroom & all new stainless steel appliances. Extremely bright corner unit w/a large usable, covered deck. Approx 2000 all plumbing, Boiler and a new roof was done. A few blocks to Lonsdale Quay, restaurants & shopping. Pets & rentals allowed.

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Lions Bay’s ecclectic beachside neighbourhood. This home exudes the special charms of a westcoast retreat;expansive decks, custom wood windows and detailing,3 bdrms,3 full baths, great room with stone Äreplace, seperate Coach house for guests or private ofÄce, an irreplacable package. Easy to show!

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

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

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MV growth plan clears last hurdle JEFF NAGEL BLACK PRESS

new accord to limit and shape growth across Metro Vancouver for the next 30 years is now in effect after the only holdout city – Coquitlam – dropped its objections and signed on. The new regional growth strategy was adopted July 29 and replaces the former Livable Region Strategic Plan. It should be more enforceable, requiring cities to concentrate dense development within an urban containment boundary that protects farmland, low-density rural areas and green space from sprawl. But the key changes are new rules to limit the redevelopment of industrial land into condos and stem the rapid proliferation of suburban office parks in areas hard to serve with transit. “That imposes tremendous public costs,” Burnaby Mayor and Metro regional planning chair Derek Corrigan said. Inefficient development undercuts transit use and increases road congestion and air pollution, he said, increasing public costs in other ways. Critics, including some Coquitlam reps, had argued the plan is regional in name only because Metro granted too much flexibility to each city to gain their support. That means, for example, golf courses are protected as green space in some cities but available for redevelopment in others. A committee of regional planners is to determine within a year whether to recommend changes to make the plan more consistent. Corrigan conceded the new protections to preserve land for industry and to slow office-park sprawl could have been stronger. “It was a hard battle to make the gains we did make,” he said. “But these gains were a great stride forward from our 1996 plan.” A citizens’ watchdog group said the land-use

deal was drawn up with little public awareness as planners in each city customized how it would apply locally. Most disappointed will be a coalition of business groups that wanted looser development rules since most of the land base is already protected by the Agricultural Land Reserve or other designations. The Business Coalition for a Sustainable Region feared more red tape on development would stifle job growth and constrict the shipment of goods through the Pacific Gateway. Metro and Coquitlam seemed headed for arbitration over the impasse, but Coquitlam reps backed down after mediated talks. Had Coquitlam kept its heels dug in, the delay might have made the growth strategy a political football in November’s civic election, unravelling the agreement. Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart said a couple of councillors still don’t support the plan and he also has concerns. “The region has gone to great lengths to accede to the wishes of each community,” Stewart said. “It’s better than nothing but it has some significant shortcomings. Those of us who believe in regional planning might perceive that this isn’t regional planning.” The strategy was ratified by all 20 cities, the Tsawwassen First Nation, TransLink and both neighbouring regional districts after several years of work, three sets of consultations and dozens of public meetings. Port Moody only signed after it was exempted from meeting its population growth targets until after the Evergreen Line is built. Metro planners predict the region will attract a million more residents over the next three decades and the plan aims to accommodate them without sacrificing farmland and green space. The vision is to build compact urban communities where residents can more easily walk, bike or take transit from home to where they work, study or play.

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Arts in West Vancouver’s popular Harmony Arts Festival kicked off this past weekend, bringing a slew of musicians, performers, craftspeople and artisans to the Ambleside waterfront. Above, Lawrence Lowe makes mini-creations by inking small blocks of cradled wood on Friday afternoon, while handspinner Rebecca Fisher (left) shows off her art form and two art lovers (below) take in colourful paintings by members of the North Shore Artists’ Guild. On Monday (Aug. 1) performer Dynamike (top right) thrills audiences with some daredevil unicycle tricks while musicians Robert Kennedy (right) and Lindsay May (bottom right) play for crowds on two of the festival’s Ambleside stages. The ten-day festival continues until Sunday, Aug. 7. For more info and a full schedule of events visit www.harmonyarts.ca. Photos by Jessica Young and Greg Hoekstra

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Traded at 12... plus other memories of the early days of Little League on the North Shore

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Recognize anyone on this 1954 Kiwanis team in the North Vancouver Jaycee Little League? Back (l-r): Coach Bob Dixon, Ken Menzies, Ian Dixon, Bryan Lemanski, Manager Al Bradshaw, Len Corben, Bruce Gladwin, Barry Johnstone, Coach Art Bryan. Middle: Grant Smith, Wayne Bryan, Spencer Cowan, Riccy Parkins, Bob Crawford. Front: Leif Jensen, Jim Bradshaw, John Maxwell and Richard Grant. Photo courtesy Len Corben collection a 14-3 record. At 5’4” and 114 pounds, I played 1B and hit .700 (28 for 40). Well, anyway, that’s what it says in my green book. Ian Dixon, a lifelong friend and the first North Shore Little Leaguer to make it to pro ball, played 2B. Teammate Bryan Lemanski hit six homers to lead the league. I never hit any, though I once hit a line shot to left centre field that struck the top two inches of the white picket fence that surrounded the outfield and only got a single. The home run target – especially for left-hand-

ed power hitters like Terry Dunn whose righthanded slants also produced three no-hitters for Imperials in 1954 – was the high brown fence, well beyond the lower picket fence in right field, which encircled the entire Confederation Park (now Kinsmen Stadium) site. It all seems so long ago now, which of course it is. Yet it seems like just yesterday too. This is episode 427 from Len Corben’s treasure chest of stories and photos – from the great events and the quirky – that bring to life the North Shore’s rich sports history.

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etting traded is a fact of life A fifth team was organized, sponfor athletes. I learned that sored by Rotary. I was their 5’0”, early on because I was trad- 90-pound shortstop and batted seced at the tender age of 12. ond in the lineup behind 2B Eddie That’s just one of the many memDilks. Dale Wentland and Don ories I have of the early days of Herbert, who rotated between the Little League baseball on the North pitcher’s mound and centre field, Shore back in the 1950s. were the meat of the order along And with the 2011 Canadian with catcher Barry Sullivan. Other Little League majors (ages 11-12) regulars were 1B Ron Renville, 3B championships set to start on Bill Wilcox, LF Mike Hughs and Saturday at good, old (but newly RF Duke Fairbrother. The roster renovated) Chris also included Ross Zuehlke Memorial Hultman, Mike INSTANT Park, tucked in Lamusse, Brian REPLAY behind Kinsmen MacDonald, Roy Stadium, this is the McKinlay and Len Corben lencorben@yahoo.ca perfect opportunity Brent Wilcox. to recall those heady The manager was pre-teen days of yesHec MacDonald, teryear. the coach Earle That was long Wilcox. before the field then known as My first time at bat, I struck out Jaycee Park got the Zuehlke name against Kiwanis’ nasty lefthanded in 1976, in fact long before the park fireballer Dave Empey. Yes, that’s was configured as it is today. To put the same Dave Empey who gained it in perspective, it was even before considerable respect and a measure Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock of fame as the 1993-2001 mansent rock and roll on its way. ager of the B.C. Premier League’s Home plate was originally where North Shore Twins during the the present right field foul pole time he coached Ryan Dempster, is located, so the field’s line from Simon Pond and Chris Mears, all of home through centre field faced whom went on to play in the major southeast instead of the current leagues. southwest. There wasn’t even an I’m not certain if I actually recall outfield fence the first year. And striking out against Empey but I there was no infield dirt. It was all did keep detailed records (linegrass until 1953 when legendary scores, batting orders, statistics) in groundskeeper Bill Hoopfer and little green notebooks which I still other parents dug out the baselines. have and which helped immensely They never knew it but when no in writing today’s column. I do one was looking a couple of other remember my first hit, a double to eager 11-year-old players and I used right centre off Empey later in that the shovels we discovered had been game. left lying around to dig out much of Another hurler I faced with good the area between second base and success was the Legion’s Harry third. Jerome, a pretty fair chucker who North Vancouver was granted an eventually gave up pitching to be official Little League franchise 60 one of the world’s all-time great years ago in 1951 and operated its sprinters. first league in 1952 as the North Ray Wickland, who would win Van Jaycee Little League (now the Bobby Gaul Award in 1963 as North Van Central) with four teams, UBC’s top graduating athlete, led all named for the sponsoring serthe league with four homers. vice clubs: Jaycees, Elks, Legion and But the next year, 1954, I found Kiwanis. myself traded to Kiwanis. Sort of. There were only three other Little Little League was expanding Leagues in B.C. in 1952: Little rapidly. West Vancouver now had Mountain (the first permanent a league. Another circuit, called Little League outside the U.S. in North Van Rotary, was formed that season to play out of Jaycee Park 1951 when it was called Vancouver with three new teams (Nelsons, Jaycee Little League), which served Imperials and MacFarlanes) plus all of Vancouver with its National the Rotary club. As I was in the and American leagues; and New Jaycee League’s boundary, I was Westminster. Capilano had a quasiLittle League in 1952 before becom- sent packing to Kiwanis. In retrospect, it was a good thing ing officially affiliated with Little I didn’t have a no-trade contract or League Baseball Inc. in 1953. else I never would have played for I didn’t play in 1952 because I was afraid of getting hit by a pitched the Kiwanis team pictured above, winners of the Jaycee League with ball. I was 10 then and the possibility of getting clunked in the ribs or the head by a fastball from 12-yearolds Norm Strandebo or Jim O’Toole did not Dr. A.C. Mahdaviani appeal to me. By 1953, Strandebo Dr. Karen Mudry (the starting pitcher for • Comprehensive Eye Health the league’s first alland Vision Examinations star team) and O’Toole • Quality Glasses and Contacts (who pitched the • Laser Surgery Co-management league’s first no-hitter) were too old, so I was ready to play. #107-2609 WESTVIEW DRIVE • NORTH VANCOUVER • 604.980.5367

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