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atrick Sullivan rides his bike. He rides, as he explains in a poem, because his “heart aches with loss;” his son cries a “brother’s silent tears;” his daughter is solemn with a “sisters wise sadness;” and his wife has the grief of a mother “searching for answers.” He rides because the last thing Finn said to him was, “Daddy, you have a big belly.” But mostly, the 42-year-old North Vancouverite says he rides his bike to celebrate the life of his son. Finn Sullivan was 21-months old when, in February 2007, he was diagnosed with a rare form of childhood cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma. “He went through the chemotherapy, radiation treatment and surgeries,” recalls Sullivan. “We thought we were finished but in the spring of 2008 there was a follow-up MRI which showed that the cancer had come back. It was incurable. “For the next several months we lived as much as we could and then he died in October 2008. But I like to focus on the fact that he lived.” And so, starting Sept. 7 Sullivan will take part in the 58-participant 2011 Sears National Kids Cancer Ride, cycling across Western Canada from White Rock to Winnipeg with a goal of personally raising $25,000 for the cause. His teammates will then take over the second half of the journey, riding the rest of the way to Halifax as Team Finn. Sullivan’s bike will be wrapped with several little pictures of his family forming a larger picture of his kids. “I consider that I ride for three ambassadors: I ride for Finn; his big sister, Sarah; and his twin brother Baird,” he says. “So, with the wrap I will have all three of them coming with me on the bike.” Sullivan says he will have all them on his mind while he makes the long trek eastwards, along with the Team Finn mantra created by the image of the way Finn lived his life: “Running, jumping, bouncing, dancing, singing, loving, smiling and riding.” “I am doing the last one but I expect to do a bunch of the others in between too,” he says, “although I’m hoping to avoid the bouncing.” For more information or to donate visit: www.teamfinn.com.
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B.C. have pretty conclusively spoken that that is not how tax policy should be made in this province. “I am pleased to the extent that we are going to now have the opportunity to have a public discussion, which has not gone on at any time in the last 10 years, about fair and effective taxation in our province.” With the B.C. government now owing the feds $1.6 billion in transition money — not to mention the costs of re-establishing a sales tax administration and audit department — Keating said Finance Minister Kevin Falcon has a difficult job ahead of him. However, he said, the federal government should be contributing to the solution. “When the federal government was paying us the $1.6 billion nobody lit their hair on fire and said, ‘Oh my God, the federal government has to give up $1.6 billion,” said Keating. “I think it is only fair that the province is going to have to figure out a way to pay that back (but) I really think the federal government, as Jack Layton said in the last campaign, is complicit in this whole HST debacle in B.C. and they should probably be forgiving it.” Locally, the majority of voters in all three ridings produced results out of step with all but 21 other ridings in the province. West VancouverCapilano voters supported the HST by 64.52 per cent while North Vancouver-Seymour had 60.59 per cent of its voters support the tax. North Vancouver-Lonsdale saw a closer vote with only 51.84 per cent of voters casting ballots not to extinguish the HST. The result is, of course, little consolation to the latter’s MLA, BC Liberal Cabinet Minster Naomi Yamamoto, who has been a proponent of switching to a HST system long before her own party changed its policy towards the idea. “I have actually supported it since I started my small business over 20 years ago and I remember lobbying Paul Martin, as Minister of Finance at the time, saying that a harmonized sales tax would be much more efficient,” said Yamamoto. “So, I am really disappointed for British Columbians but at the end of the day British Columbians have spoken overwhelmingly to eliminate the tax.” Yamamoto said she was surprised that the vote was not closer, conceding that the manner in which the Liberals rolled out the HST contributed to its early 80 percent disapproval polling numbers, an unpopularity it never surmounted. “We didn’t do it well but I can tell you honestly that it wasn’t something that we change our minds about,” she said. continued, PAGE 15
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or how long it would take. “It was a 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900,” said Fram. “The only thing he wanted was for it to be as accurate as possible. He said, ‘Don’t make it shiny; make it right. If right is shiny then great. But if not, just make it like it would have been built in 1937 or 1938.’” After carefully disassembling the car, trying all the while to determine what was an original or correct piece and what was not, the crew began an intensely detailed investigation into the history of the vehicle’s make and model. “We were lucky to find an unrestored car in Kentucky that had not been messed around with too much and flew down there to take detailed notes on it,” he said. “We also had access to (the Alfa AC 2900’s) sister car locally. So, we had that a car as a reference for some of the parts that were incorrect due to past restorations. Part of it too was just using an artistic eye and intelligently looking at how it would have been made and trying to recreate that. “Then it was just a matter of breaking it down into subcategories and building it back up again.” The vehicle ended up placing runner-up to Best in Show at the world-renowned 2006 Pebble Beach Concours d’Eleganc, winning six awards in total. “That car was a real eye-opener in terms of how to restore a car properly,” Fram said. “Since then we have really shifted in how we do things. Now, we restore cars to how they would have been built instead of what we think looks best. “It is a piece of history so treat it like one.” Pebble Beach judge and Alfa Romeo worldauthority Nigel Matthews said RX Autoworks prominence comes not only from their passion for detail but also because, by doing almost everything in-house, they are able to keep the different aspects of a cars’ restoration highly consistent. “Everybody is working in harmony,” Matthews said. “They are also mostly self-taught. They make a lot of their own equipment and they do all the time honoured skills of forming, bending and shaping sheet metal. “They are very well-known in the collector car community.” Matthews will once again be judging some of their work at the Vancouver Luxury + Supercar Weekend — Sept. 9-12 at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver — although Fram said it has not yet been finalized which cars will be there. According to Matthews, event organizers are hoping to turn the weekend into an annual worldclass affair, complete with a car contest, similar to Pebble Beach. For Fram, the shows are fun and winning awards at them is great, but the best part of his job remains working in the shop with his friends and colleagues. “We are all car guys obviously,” he said. “We would do it, even if we weren’t getting paid for it. This is what we are into, so it is easy to keep challenging yourself and find ways to make it better. I feel just incredibly lucky.” newsroom@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/nsoutlook
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heses days much of the dialogue surrounding the troubled HMCS Annapolis, a 113-metre former Canadian navy destroyer currently being prepped for sinking by the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia, is focused on the warship’s uncertain future. Since 2009, the vessel has sat off Gambier Island waiting for its descent into the waters of Howe Sound, fulfilling the ARSBC’s plans of sinking the ship in nearby Halkett Bay and establishing a readily accessible place for Vancouver-based scuba-enthusiasts to dive. Environmentalists, on the other hand, have argued toxins from a sunken ship would contaminate the waters and bay residents are worried their secluded hamlet will become a popular dive-tourism destination. But after nearly three years of playing the waiting the game, the longest such period of limbo for any of the ARSBC’s seven projects to date, the Annapolis doesn’t just represent a tale of what’s next, but a story of what happened to produce this drawn-out saga in the first place. X Marks the Spot “Halkett Bay was not our first choice, in fact, it wasn’t high on our list at all,” says Howie Robins, president of the ARSBC. “Because it’s a fjord it’s difficult to find a place in Howe Sound to sink a ship. No sooner do you think you’ve found a place that you learn of a terrain change, either a precipitous drop or precipitous rise. We needed a consistency in depth, suitable for a ship this size.” The society’s initial location, says Robins, was Pasley Island, located between Bowen Island and Gibsons. That site had a great deal of flat ground on which to land the ship but the idea was met with such resistance from residents that the society decided to entertain other locales. Enter Halkett Bay. Using SONAR equipment, says Robins, his team mea-
sured and examined the area for six weeks, ensuring it would have enough flat ground to land the large ship. And after finding a plot 1,470 square metres in size, they have just enough room to pull it off. The seabed found in Halkett Bay has long been damaged from the area’s logbooming past, according to the ARSBC. Over the years, bark and other fibrous materials from lumber-booms found their way to the bottom of the bay, smothering the area. By sinking the Annapolis on top of the debris, says Robins, the ship creates a new environment for sea-life that hasn’t been able to exist with the current sediment. But what of the supposed toxins from the ship’s lead paint and the explosives that will be used to sink the vessel? Do residents and environmentalists have a reason to be concerned?
DIVER DOWN - John Webb of North Van's Edge Diving Centre. Peter Taylor photo
Robins claims the Annapolis will be the cleanest ship “ever put down” and will set the standard by which all future ARSBC projects will be measured. “This will be a defining moment for us,” says Robins. “The Annapolis will become a living laboratory, perfectly suitable for all divers. If the ship isn’t clean, it won’t go down. We play by the rules.”
The rules The agency in charge of ship sinking is Environment Canada, with consultation from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Transport Canada. In the early 1990s, the ARSBC, under then-president and West Vancouver-based lawyer Jay Straith, helped the federal departments write the rule book for these projects. All vessels earmarked for sinking must be stripped of all floatable objects and cleaned of toxins and hydrocarbons, to name but a few of the expectations. The ship must also be free of all PCBs. Because the ARSBC is a non-profit organization, the navy removed all such substances to assist the society before handing the vessel over, according to Robins. Canadian Artificial Reef Consulting, an international artificial reef firm estab-
lished by Straith after he broke away from the ARSBC, adheres to the same set of Canadian-established guidelines when working on reef projects abroad. The International Maritime Organization, an agency within the United Nations, has copied those expectations, as has the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Thus far Robins’ group hasn’t had the best of luck getting federal approval. In late 2009 and 2010 respectively, reports from the DFO and BC Parks recommended the project move to a new location because of the ship’s size and potential disruption to the area. March 2011, however, marked a change in attitude towards the Annapolis when former Minster of Environment Murray Coell promised the provincial government would assume possession of the ship after the feds had signed off and the vessel was sunk. The ARSBC immediately approached Ottawa again for permission to sink the Annapolis, but problems on the ship prevented their request from getting the go-ahead. Another inspection is expected soon, as the optimal time for sinking a ship is before the coldweather season.
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the Annapolis in Pasely Island but the people said ‘hell no’,” says Gary McDonald, spokesman for Save Halkett Bay, a group comprised of area residents fighting the Annapolis project. “And the next thing we knew a guy who was doing some work in Halkett Bay tells us of their plans to sink here. So, this is not the first one to meet with community push back. It’s not as if these plans are uniformly welcome.” The concerns of McDonald and his group are twofold: the potential damage to the waters and the assumed increase in visitors to the normally quiet bay. The root of their environmental concerns, he said, has been getting assurance the ship will be thoroughly cleaned. He understands the vessel will be examined but he claims he has asked for the results of previous cleaning inspections, just to see what was found on the ship, and hasn’t received any information. Data on the current state of the Annapolis, he feels, isn’t too much to ask considering his community is the proposed site. In the past, the ARSBC has held open houses onboard various vessels to educate community on its plans and to let residents get a look at the condition of a particular ship. The HMCS Mackenzie, sunk in 1996, hosted two open houses, as did the Saskatchewan project in 1997 and the Cape Breton in 2001. Thus far, no open house on board the Annapolis has been held. A jump in traffic, adds McDonald, is also worrisome. Halkett Bay is different than a place like Porteau Cove, for instance. The bay is small and quiet, he says, and will not handle significant increases in traffic without disruptions to residents. “He [Robins] says we’re out to lunch, just a bunchy of rich, NIMBY land owners, but we’re not,” says McDonald. “We have real environmental concerns. Can they get it clean? We fundamentally believe that Halkett Bay is not the right place for this to happen.”
A new life For the past two years, North Vancouver’s John Webb has volunteered his time getting the Annapolis ready for its descent. He’s broken down parts of the ship so nothing will be swept away once it meets the seabed and wiped countless surfaces onboard. Pipes, in particular, always have some “residual stuff” on them, he says, so every one is cleaned thoroughly. Those that have been bent or damaged are removed and those in good condition are opened up for inspection. The Annapolis, he stresses, isn’t going to be sent off and made into razorblades. It’s a part of
Canadian history and all the work the dozens of volunteers have put in is to ensure the ship is able to again serve its country, albeit in a slightly different way. “We’re fulfilling all the required standards,” says Webb, who guesses he’s spent about 60
days on the Annapolis since he began volunteering. “But it’s a real boon for the Vancouver dive industry. The site is 20 minutes from Horseshoe Bay. If Vancouver gets on the map more and more for diving, it will be a major plus for us. It can really be one of those beautiful B.C. things.” Webb, an employee at North Van’s Edge Diving Centre, is quick to admit that sinking a ship does do some damage, such as killing the species it lands on, but says the life that grows on the reef afterwards outweighs the hurt it causes initially. And the Annapolis, he adds, has a landing pad that will “provide more surface area for habitat.” Like Robins, Webb cites the damaged Halkett Bay seabed as a reason for the site’s selection. He’s dove in Howe Sound numerous times and says bark has “smothered” the bottom of Halkett Bay. The opportunity to change that should not be missed. Divers from across the Lower Mainland are excited to see this job come to an end and even after more than 200 career dives, so is Webb. “You’re always seeing new things. You can go to the same site and see different stuff each time,” he says. “It’s the array of life and the personal challenge of learning something we as humans are not supposed to do. Through technology and trail and error we’ve figured diving out. That’s what keeps me coming back.” skolenko@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/seankolenko
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including sellers at the Lonsdale Quay. “The more local the better,” says Marsia. “We don’t need to know the pig’s name but we at least want to know from where it came from and what it was fed; that it was free from drugs.” “It is important,” says Wayne, not only because it is more sustainable for the earth and healthier for the body but also because “it just tastes better.” The proof is in the product, they say, and many seem to agree as the Hunters estimate about 60 to 70 per cent of their business is repeat customers. Their first paying-customer of the night is a thirdtimer named Margaret Carroll who made a special visit down to the pier to buy a Blue Smoke BBQ sandwich. “We love it,” says Carroll, referring to herself, neighbours and friends. “The sauce is really good and it is all really fresh. You can’t beat it.” With Vancouver’s food cart industry blossoming and the North Van municipalities seemingly following its lead with the creation of four new markets, Wayne believes Blue Smoke BBQ is ahead of the curve. “The night markets were a bit of a test by the district and the city to see how they would be received and I think it has been an overwhelming success,” he says. “It almost feels like we are part of a gypsy tribe, here,” agrees Marsia. “If we need anything or need help with anything, we know we can ask people here. And the same goes for them to us.” Ever the entrepreneur, Wayne already sees room for improvement and expansion. There are three types of food carts, he explains: the “corporate” carts; carts affiliated with a restaurant or a retired chef; and the mom-’n’-pop carts, like theirs, which he says makes up the majority of the industry. “There is a tremendous need for carts like us to have a place we can park our trucks and prepare our food,” says Wayne. “It is too impractical for us to cook out of our house so we are using extra space at a caterer’s. But for many it is really hard to find a restaurant or caterer willing to let you use their kitchen.” He says by next season, he would like to open a fully-licensed commissary with proper cooking infrastructure, fridges, storage space and parking spots where food-carteurs can prepare their food. In addition, Wayne would also like to franchise Blue Smoke BBQ in Australia, as the City of Sydney is currently running food-carteurs trials. “It is just such a fun business to be in, serving people up tasty food,” concludes Marsia. “And it has been great doing it along side him.” For more info on Blue Smoke BBQ or to check out their schedule visit: www.bluesmokebbq.ca.
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let them go,” he said. “I see it every day. People are still using their phones, still texting. They’re looking down at their knees.” Distracted or inattentive driving is the number one cause of 45 per cent of fatal crashes in the Lower Mainland, Gaumont said, adding it’s the worst rate of any region in the province. “It really causes devastation on our road ways,” he said. Gaumont said another RCMP ticket blitz in September will again target illegal use of electronic devices and failure to use seatbelts. More than half of drivers surveyed in the Ipsos poll reported seeing other drivers break the ban on handheld device use several times a day. The top excuses for using a hand-held phone while driving? Forty-two per cent said it was a very short call or they use the speaker function. Others said they pulled over after answering (37 per cent) or they were stopped at a red light (29 per cent). Still others said they don’t have a hands-free system or that “it’s simply a force of habit.” “Many people don’t realize that it’s also illegal to take a call or text while waiting in traffic or stopped for a red light,” said Fiona Temple, ICBC’s director of road safety. “You lose 50 per cent of what’s going on around you when you’re talking or texting on a hand-held device. This
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FALL FESTIVAL AT THE SHIPYARDS - On Sunday, September 18, the Lower Lonsdale Business Association brings live entertainment and flat-out family fun to the waterfront at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue. Some of the featured entertainers are: Bobs & Lolo (left), Lynn Canyon Band (top), and Deanna Knight & The Hot Club of Mars. grown produce. This year’s featured pie will be pumpkin. Prospective pies and produce can be dropped off from 9 a.m. to noon at the information tent. For more information go to: www.lowerlonsdalebusinessassociation.com.
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The applicant proposes to build 8 residential town-homes and 1 commercial unit. The commercial unit fronts Gallant Ave. The town-homes will be on top of the commercial level. The pedestrian access to each residential unit is through Caledonia Ave. The development will feature a landscaped court-yard on the residential level. There will be covered parking level with access on Gallant Ave. The meeting is being held by GBL Architects on behalf of Inoable Industries Inc. in compliance with District of North Vancouver Council Policy. The applicant will present details of the proposal and discuss any concerns residents may have. Information packages are being distributed to residents within 75 meter radius of the site. If you would like to receive a copy or if you would like more information, contact Steven Petersson of the Community Planning Department at 604-990-2387 or Stu Lyon of GBL Architects at 604-736-1156 or bring your questions and comments to the meeting. *This is NOT a Public Hearing. Council will receive a report from staff on issues raised at the meeting and will formally consider the proposal at a later date.
www.northshoreoutlook.com from PAGE 4 “It was a situation where one day we found out that we were going to be $1 billion in the hole from reduced corporate taxes and of course the economy was taking a dive.” And when the Province of Ontario, gaining concessions from Ottawa, decided to adopt a HST, Yamamoto said, the B.C. government decided it needed to do so quickly as well to remain competitive — an advantage now squandered, she suggested. “I am not a fan of the PST,” Yamamoto concluded. “I have been in small business long enough to know that it is an archaic hidden tax. It is quite insidious and to go back to the old system is disappointing but we will do it. “I don’t know what the finance minister is planning ... There will be some tweaks but more administrative, I think.” One point of discussion is whether the government will reinstate the same PST exemptions that existed before the HST, including restaurant meals, haircuts and services such as junk removal. Salmon House restaurant general manager Ann Bentley would be happy to see the exemptions return but she is skeptical that they will. Bentley said the West Vancouver restaurant took a hit when the HST was brought in, adding an extra seven per cent tax to its customers’ food bills — although that was slightly mitigated by a reduction in overall liquor tax from 15 to 12 per cent. “(The HST) really affected our corporate and tour business quite heavily because we do a lot of group functions and then when you’re all of a sudden saying all food and beverages are subject to 12 per cent HST that is a lot of money,” Bentley said. “It is hard to say by how much because there’s so much going on with tourism and the economy since the recession but it definitely affected large group (bookings). “It was one more hit the industry certainly didn’t need.” However, Bentley said once she had resigned herself to losing the PST exemption and the HST was initiated, she felt voters should have opted to keep the harmonized system. “To go back and now administer two taxes seems a bit ridiculous in the sense that there are huge costs in administrating this,” she said. “Plus, the provincial government has to pay back $1.6 billion to the federal government for backing out of the deal and there is a huge cost again for setting
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he caller display ID reads Beverly Hills, California — and the woman on the other end nonchalantly mentions that George Clooney just held the door open for her at a local coffee shop. Vancouver-born model, actress and entrepreneur Mashiah Vaughn is living the LA dream: the weather is almost always agreeable and the pool inviting at her Tuscan-style home, which is partially draped with cascading vines and flowers. Catching a movie with Marisa Tomei and friends or attending catered barbecues in the Hollywood Hills is the norm for the 35-year-old, blue-eyed blond who exudes both beauty and confidence with her classic pinup looks. At this particular moment, she is rushing to the set of Gene Simmons Family Jewels reality program to film an episode with close friend and fellow Canadian, Shannon Tweed. A few minutes later, Vaughn arranges a call for a secondary interview with her long-time partner, celebrity streetwear designer, Jason Dussault. The background noise on his end is refreshing: a youngster running around him outside his tree-lined property in Lynn Valley. “Sorry, I’m going to have to call you back,” says the distracted, doting father. Dussault has already had his taste of Hollywood, opening a million-dollar flagship Dussault Apparel store on Melrose Avenue in 2006. Inspired by Rob Zombie horror flicks, the store with $2,500 hoodies hanging inside, was painstakingly carved out by Dussault as a “1970s roadside motel” that you wouldn’t want to get caught overnight in. Celebrities like Nicole Ritchie, Criss Angel and Kid Rock endorsed his brand. Gene Simmons became one of his closest friends. Then the recession hit and people couldn’t afford to be sporting a “MoneyBag” logo. Two years ago, when Dussault was forced to consolidate he decamped to North Vancouver. “It breaks my heart that I had to close that store,” he says. That’s when the cameras starting rolling on “an edgy docu-sitcom” called Dussault Inc., airing this fall on CityTV, which showcases the couple’s struggle to keep their businesses and their relationship afloat. The home base for season one of Dussault Inc. is the couple’s former home on East 13th Street, just east of Grand Boulevard. In the premiere episode, “New Showroom,” Dussault opens a Dussault Apparel showroom in Vancouver; meanwhile, Vaughn needs him to watch the kids, 15-year-old Ayden and 24-month-old Ronin, so she can close a deal for her bath product line, Open Sundaes. She is met with resistance from Jason who has made plans, himself, to hang out with his friends from Nickelback. “It’s not uncommon to see us argue,” promises Dussault. “Mashiah and I have, in a lot of ways, opposite views on life. And I would say the majority of our arguments centre around the way I promote my brand.” Dussault characterizes Vaughn as being extremely old fashioned. He says using sex appeal is necessary to promote his cutting edge brand and he admits to spending a lot of time with beautiful women. “The bikini episode is a pretty funny one, you will look forward to that,” he laughs. Vaughn doesn’t refute being labeled old-fashioned. She was raised in a strict Christian household. Calling herself a private person, she was initially hesitant to do the reality show. In the end she resolved that it would bring exposure to her charity work. When asked about the bikini episode Vaughn responds: You mean the one where he goes missing? “Like he would go to Vegas when I was pregnant and I would be just Susie homemaker doing my business and he would go missing in Vegas,” she reveals. “Everyone is probably going to think that I’m a bitch to him because they are going to see him constantly hitting on me and me constantly saying please back off.” Differences aside, the couple does have mutual respect for each other. “I think Jason’s an extremely talented artist,” says Vaughn. “He’s always had a kind, sweet heart.” And Vaughn has the whole package — intelligence and beauty, says Dussault. “I tell her constantly that I think she is the most beautiful girl on the planet.” Dussault Inc. is definitely not without controversy, though. Dussault promises that he will offend with his “sense of humour a few people might find controversial.” The reality show will also have its touching moments. Both Dussault and Vaughn are passionate about fundraising for children’s charities. For instance, Dussault designed the world’s most expensive pair of jeans, adorned with gold, diamond and ruby embellishments, for a charity in Red Deer, Alberta and he does a lot of work for Canuck Place. Vaughn, meanwhile, is on the board of director for Children’s Wish in Vancouver and has travelled to Africa to work with organizations that empower women. Their next argument will pit North Vancouver against LA for a permanent homestead for the couple. “LA is a mecca for [Mashiah], North Van is more my style,” says Dussault. “We are definitely going to come to a crossroads here.”
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The game within the game Bragging rights between the Graham sisters are at stake Monday in Boston
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he sibling rivalry between two ultra-competitive North Shore sisters will be settled once and for all in a university field hockey game on Monday in Boston, some 4,050 kilometres from home. Len Corben For the metrically challenged, that’s 2,512 miles away as the lencorben@yahoo.ca crow – or better still, the Canada goose – flies. That’s when Nicky Graham, a 5’8”, third-year forward for Northeastern University, and “little” sister Michelle Graham, a 5’8”, first-year forward for Michigan State University, meet on Northeastern’s Sweeney Field in historic Boston. The field is less than a mile from Fenway Park and, oddly enough, sits just a couple of blocks from a road named Vancouver Street. (I wonder what they called it during the Stanley Cup final?) The game is not just the home opener for Northeastern, ranked 28th in NCAA Div. 1 field hockey. And it’s not just an opportunity for Michigan State, losers of their first three games, to get on the winning track and show why they have been ranked 13th going into the season. Plus it’s not just that this will be the first time that Nicky, 20, and Michelle, 18, who graduated from West Van Secondary in 2009 and 2011 respectively, have squared off against each other in a game, as noteworthy as that will be for the family scrapbook. Forget all that because the game is the tiebreaker in a little contest the sisters began in May. “We are sooooo competitive,” Michelle tells me, while Nicky smiles to acknowledge her agreement, as we met at William Griffin Field to take the photo shown here before they left for their respective campuses. They then proceed to explain. SETTLING THE SCORE - Nicky Graham (left) of Northeastern On the Victoria Day weekend, they played together in the Vancouver Invitational Tournament in University and sister Michelle Graham of Michigan State, who grew Burnaby on a team called the Blitz, organized by their older sister Kira who played at UBC. up in Lynn Valley but played field hockey and graduated from West Nicky and Michelle – who Nicky jokes are “Kira’s immature younger sisters” – decided they should Vancouver secondary, will square off against each other in Beantown conduct a little scoring competition between the two of them during the tournament. on Monday with more on the line than just a win for their university. “Originally it started as a friendly little competition,” notes Nicky. “It wasn’t until the final that we Len Corben photo realized we were tied 4-4.” Then the fun began. Nicky scored twice as the Blitz built up a lead during the championship game their team would eventually win 7-0. “That left me two goals down with 10 minutes left in the game,” Michelle offers. But, while Nicky was on the sidelines, Michelle scored with five minutes to go to narrow their individual competition to 6-5. Nicky admits, “I was freaking out and ran and subbed in for her so there was no way she could score again.” However, Michelle saw her tactics and subbed in for someone else as time ran down. “Our team got a short corner right before the final whistle,” continues Michelle, “and Nicky was up to take the shot. It was my last chance to tie her in goals so I ran in as a tipper and ended up getting a touch [on the ball that Nicky shot] and scored. She was not too impressed.” “I was the hitter from the top,” concurs Nicky. “Michelle tipped my shot up into the netting. I was so upset. I was like, ‘NOOO!’ as soon as she scored.” Michelle adds, “We aren’t too sure if Nicky’s shot would have gone in because the goalie might have saved it, but there was the possibility of it going in. She likes to think it was. Ha, ha.” To assure continued safety and system reliability, BC Hydro is removing vegetation around So they’ve agreed the tiebreaker will be the winner of the NortheasternMichigan State game. all BC Hydro padmounted transformers to clearance standards. No doubt the game will be a highlight in the Graham family’s field hockey Vegetation management work in North Vancouver, West Vancouver and on Bowen Island annals that began at least as far back as the girls’ grandparents, Andy and Sheila Graham, who both played for Kenya many years ago. will continue until March 31, 2012. Despite living in Lynn Valley, all three Graham sisters went to Little Flower Academy in Vancouver where their mom was teaching. When she BC Hydro requires the area around its electrical equipment to remain clear for the left to teach at St. Thomas Aquinas and eventually open Footprints on the following reasons: Shore, a Christian books and gifts shop just off Marine Drive, Nicky enrolled in Grade 11 at West Van Secondary. She applied to four schools and West ã for the safety of our employees operating the equipment, Van – much to the chagrin of the coaches at Argyle – was the first to ã to prevent overheating of the equipment, and respond with space. Michelle joined her a year later. ã to facilitate emergency repairs or replacement of the equipment. West Van won the B.C. “AAA” field hockey championships in both the
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This is episode 431 from Len Corben’s treasure chest of stories – the great events and the quirky – that bring to life the North Shore’s rich sports history.
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2007 and 2008 seasons, Nicky’s Grade 11 and 12 years. Michelle was on the 2008 winner as a Grade 10 as well as the school’s B.C. runners-up in 2009 and 2010. Amazingly, Northeastern of the Colonial Athletic Association and Michigan State of the Big Ten Conference each play seven games this season against teams that have at least one or two, and as many as three, North Shore players on their roster. As well, former Sutherland standouts, fourth-year Kaela Barker and thirdyear Lizzie Priest are the captain-midfielder and goalkeeper respectively on Nicky’s team. One of Michelle’s teammates is Holly Sherman, a fourth-year back who played with Nicky on West Van’s unbeaten ’07 provincial champs. The sisters’ parents, Ian and Linda Graham, are flying to Boston to see the game. So will they cheer for the underdog Huskies of Northeastern? After all, Nicky is the older of the two. Or will they root for the visiting Spartans of Michigan State? As a rookie, Michelle could use the support. The problem has already been solved. Ian will wear a Northeastern shirt while Linda wears one from Michigan State. Then they’ll switch shirts at halftime. Parents are so smart, aren’t they?
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