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Argyle students take over The Outlook and share tips on lockers, surviving your first day of high school and staying in touch with summertime friends

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Lonsdale Avenue Construction

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The City will be installing underground pipes along the east side of Lonsdale Avenue from 13th Street to 17th Street. This work will accommodate expansion of the Lonsdale Energy Corporation (LEC) district energy system. LEC currently provides highly efﬁcient, renewable and cost effective heat and hot water to 23 buildings in Lower and Central Lonsdale.

Saturday, August 20 from noon - 8pm at Shipbuilders' Square (foot of Lonsdale)

Construction is scheduled to begin on Monday, August 22 and will take approximately 8 weeks to complete. During this time, trafﬁc diversions, parking restrictions and road closures will occur, and every effort will be made to minimize construction impact. Sidewalks and pedestrian access to all businesses will remain open. Work is scheduled to occur from Monday to Friday, from approximately 7:00am - 4:30pm. Details at www.cnv.org/Construction.

Summer comes alive at the popular Shipbuilders' Square, located at the foot of Lonsdale on the City's waterfront. Join us for a day of great music at this free outdoor concert, and check out a variety of unique vendors and local artisans. The ﬁnal Concerts in the Square event will take place on August 27. Learn more at www.cnv.org.

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These informative and practical workshops demonstrate sustainable gardening techniques that help North Shore residents reduce waste, support our local ecology and grow their own food. A number of new workshops are being offered this summer including Growing Great Garlic and Preserving the Harvest.

Vacation season is underway and residents are advised to reduce their risk of being bitten by mosquitoes that may carry West Nile Virus. While the virus has not yet been detected in the Lower Mainland, the ﬁrst human case in BC was conﬁrmed in 2009 in the Okanagan. Information and helpful hints to avoid mosquito bites and reduce mosquito populations in your home and yard are available at www.cnv.org.

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What’s in that locker? It’s your closet away from home for the year. Dress it up! MCKENZIE RAINEY ARGYLE SECONDARY

t’s the closet away from home… or just a metal container where you stash books. Either way, why not upgrade your locker and decorate it? Magnets, mirrors and stickers are standard (just make sure the stickers are removable!) But poster paper can be put to good use too – as wallpaper or even to cut out shapes. Get creative. I recently saw a locker with a dozen different faces, cut out of yellow poster paper illustrating all of the locker owner’s different moods. Cover your locker with Postit notes for friends to write little notes on, or just write them yourself. You are the one looking at it every day, after all. What do you prefer to open the door to? Whether it is a two-foot-tall poster of your favourite (shirtless) movie star, a cardboard seascape, or just all-black wallpaper, it’s up to you.

Check list Lockers aren’t only for books. They are a great place to store a “school safety kit” for moments when you are in desperate need. In the spirit of self-preservation, here are a few suggestions. • Advil (ibuprofen, aka painkillers) • Socks • Shoes (it really isn’t a bad idea) • Shelves • Spare paper • Wite-Out • Forks, napkins, spoons if you tend to forget them • Kleenex • Halls/sore throat tablets • Tide to Go • Contact lenses if you need them • A small amount of money And finally… food. One day, you will forget your lunch. If you don’t, somebody else will. Keeping the spare granola bars and packs of crackers in there can help. If you are the prepare-for-nuclear-warfare type, you can go all the way; grab a box and fill it with your favourite fruit leathers, juice boxes, chocolates, et cetera.

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It’s your first day of high school. It seems so much bigger than your elementary school. On the next page, read what you can do to make the transition into Grade 8 the most fun and least stressful as possible....

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igh school can be an intimidating place for those entering the halls for the first time. After all, it’s unknown territory, with lots of skyscraper-tall people who somehow seem to know where they are going, all the time. It isn’t really so daunting – and we have talked to students to prove it. We polled a selection of people so that all future Grade 8s can arm themselves with advice. • Carrying every single book around doesn’t lead to more brains – only an aching back. Fortunately, someone already thought up a solution – the locker. Save yourself the back pain and the chiropractic bill and use it! To see tips on what to put in a locker and ways to decorate it, see the locker article on page 7. • Students are often pushed into lockers – on daytime TV. Lockers nowadays are designed that the only way to get stuck in one is to step into it yourself. • You will not get lost. It is a new environment, a new building, but the school will give you a map. Or even two. And by the way, if you do get lost, it doesn’t matter much. Most teachers remember their days in high school, are not vampires, and will not bite you if you are lost. Still worried? Head to school early and find all your classes ahead of time. • Contrary to popular misconceptions, older students do not normally pick on younger ones. That story from a cousin about getting his head stuffed in a toilet? That doesn’t really happen. Nor does “widgeting” (the cruel, rumored-of practice of marking new students’s foreheads with Sharpie) or any other fish story.

• Getting involved in activities truly does help with making friends. High school sports teams aren’t just for competing; they are a great place to meet people. Or join a club that suits your interest: poster-making, debating, raising awareness for whatever it is you want to raise awareness for… High schools are teeming with clubs. • A note to quiet people: all the other new students are anxious too. It helps to try to be friendly, and break the ice imposed by nervousness. At the very least, it is a good idea to attempt conversation with others in your classes. Not only will it help you if you miss an assignment, you might meet someone you like! • The thing about high school is… homework. It comes like bad weather, when it’s least wanted. The best thing to do is learn how to manage time and deal with it in the younger grades, so when the real storms hit, they won’t seem half as bad. Get an agenda (most schools provide them) and do the hardest, most difficult things first.

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• Sleep is very important, both for growth and all-round happiness. Teenagers to tend to stay up all hours but it is an unhealthy practice. Health Canada studies suggest that the teenager needs eight or nine hours of sleep nightly, and most get less than that. Getting more hours in bed will improve grades, mood levels, energy… helping the happiness of not only the teen but also the people who live with them! • You might want to keep a journal to help document this time in your life. Whether it is writing rants, bubbling about a new friend or starting a story, verbal vomit should be saved. It will grow in value later – journals are like cheese, they improve with age.

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est Vancouver’s Park Royal Shopping Centre continues to open new doors with the inclusion of yet another tasty spot. Rogers’ Chocolates, famously known for its pink checkered wrappers, has set up shop in the Village and earlier this month they invited friends and guests to enjoy a opening celebration chocolate party. Rich dark chocolate “shots”, chocolate carvings and live music by the Lynn Canyon Band were all part of the evening. Also, West Vancouver’s Beachside Forno restaurant CAT’S featured North Shore winery EYE owners at their recent “Know Your Neighbours” Cat Barr winemakers’ dinner. Host cbarr@westvancouver.com Kurtis Kolt introduced a delicious menu which was paired with elegant wines from Haywire Winery, Tantalus Vineyards and Painted Rock Vineyards. Lastly, it was an international affair last week at West Vancouver’s Ferry Building Gallery as honorary Bolivian consul Pilar Izzard and her son Peter Langer hosted invited guests for “Impressions of Bolivia,” a celebration of Bolivia’s national day.

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Seven year-old Mikayla doesn’t mind it when her mom says “Time for bed!” What neighborhood do you live in? Lynn Valley, North Vancouver Who lives in your house? Me and my Mom live in our house. I’m going into Grade 2 at Lynn Valley School. Best thing about my room: I like my bed the most because it’s like a cave that no bad dreams are allowed in because if they come in they’re crushed. I also really like my museum about Barbies that I set up. My Barbies visit it a lot. What I would like to change: Only that it stays clean (from toys). I’d like it clean and tidy all the time. Features I brag about: My bed. My bed’s cool because we can go up top. It’s a bunk bed, but only one friend at a time. My favourite collection: My museum. It’s about things that Barbies need like rain boots, a brush, a pet, a doll, and a magazine. First you need a ticket that I made for the museum, then you can look at the things in the museum. Story behind the art: I have pictures that I made on the walls and pictures that my friends made like the one from my friends Poppy and Willow. But I have a plan to redecorate with Arthur and Numberjacks pictures. How I would describe my room to my friends: I have Barbies and felt stories, I also have little princesses and their house. Unless I have my Barbie music on it’s quiet in my room. Favourite after-school hang-outs: I play at Lynn Valley School park, Fromme school park, Kilmer Park

and sometimes we meet friends at Delaney’s in Lynn Valley Village. Describe your “homework” space: I don’t have much homework but when I do I sit at the coffee table to work, that’s where I do all my writing and art. Favourite thing to do at home: My favourite things are playing in my room, playing on the computer and colouring.

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Pride of place As a custodian at Rockridge secondary, Bob Rai can watch students grow and give back to their high school

est Vancouver’s Rockridge Secondary School is a decidedly quieter place this time of year — hallways and classrooms free of students certainly have a serenity to them. But that isn’t to say the school isn’t a busy place. There’s a lot of work that needs to be done before the kids swarm the place again in September. Floors have to be cleaned, gum needs to be chiseled from desks COFFEE and every room, floor to WITH ceiling, has to be disinfected. It’s a big job, to Sean Kolenko say the least, but it’s a skolenko@northshore outlook.com task custodian Bob Rai does year after year with a smile. “There’s always so much going on, but you just keep your plan in the back of your mind,” Rai says of his summer cleaning agenda. “I’ve been doing this so long, I guess you just know what you have to do.” But expecting the unexpected is a difficult chore. Last week, amidst the onslaught of cleaning tasks faced by Rai’s team, the school became a movie set. Film types, Rai says, can be a particular bunch so such a disruption threw the custodial squad off schedule a bit. And then there are the teachers. Sure, they have the summer off, but they’re always “thinking about work” and popping in looking to pick up or drop off something. Sure enough, shortly before sitting down to chat, a teacher with a Rockridge rugby shirt stops by and Rai helps him lug a few boxes into

the school. He pitches in without question; the errand is par for the summertime course, but Rai’s helping hand isn’t offered without a compliment returned. “You guys have really been cleaning,” the enthusiastic teacher says as he and Rai walk up a flight of stairs. It’s those moments, that sense of appreciation, that makes Rockridge a great place to work, Rai says. Students care, with the odd reminder, about their school. He watches, year after year, as the kids decorate the school for Christmas, or come back and help coach sports teams. He’s been sent thank-you notes, been the recipient of Starbucks gift cards for his hard work and, most importantly, been made to feel “part of the family.” “We want the kids to take ownership of the school, and they do,” he says. “And it’s nice to think that students think of this school as a fun place after they leave, as a place they really wanted to be.” An avid sports fan, Rai says he bleeds the orange and black of the BC Lions. He loves catching a game when he can, but is just as happy “kicking the ball around’ at the park when he isn’t manning the custodial controls. Rai and his sister, Kulvinder, grew up on the New Westminster-island of Queensborough and attended New Westminster secondary school. He remains a Royal City resident today. Kulvinder has since moved to Mission. A first-generation Canadian, Rai, 35, is the son

Back to school starts early for Bob Rai, who’s proud of the role he plays. Peter Taylor photo of Indian parents. To ensure his two-year-old son Taylor — and his soonto-be born-but-yet-unnamed boy — understands Indian culture, Rai says he speaks Punjabi around the house “as much as he can.” It doesn’t take much for a generation to lose touch with its roots, but Rai says he wants his kids to know where the family came from. “It’s really important and Taylor is doing well with it,” he says. “And my parents watch him three days a week so that’s Punjabi school for sure.”

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Meet a teacher who thinks outside the box VICTORIA FAWKES ARGYLE SECONDARY

hen thinking of the traditional teacher, one tends to imagine neatly cropped hair, a pressed button-down, and perhaps a classic brown loafer. He stands at the head of the class and quotes successful authors and philosophers to an attentive group. The typical teacher does not come to school in sandals, well-worn jeans, and a long ponytail fastened with a chunky hair clip. The traditional teacher also does not advocate an alternative classroom structure featuring a lesson plan engineered and executed by the student. However, Murray Bulger of Argyle Secondary School isn’t your typical

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Buddies, making the club one big, hectic family. The group spent the year trying ARGYLE SECONDARY to overcome the divide between Life he students who participate in Skills and the general student body, proArgyle Secondary School’s Best moting nation-wide events like Spread Buddies chapter know the meanthe Word to End the Word – a caming of “unlikely friendship.” Each of the paign aiming to abolish the use of the 11 volunteer Student Buddies – all girls, derogatory term “retard.” between Grades 10 and 12 – has been Best Buddies may seem to be a simple matched with a peer in their school’s concept at surface level: a club that Life Skills program, which teaches basic encourages two people to be friends. skills to students with intellectual disHowever, the ripple effect caused by the abilities. Together, each Student Buddy students in the Argyle chapter seems to and her Life Skills “buddy” form a oneprove otherwise. What started off as a on-one friendship, solidified by lunch few students eating lunch every week hangouts and group with some of their activities. peers has become a “The moment I saw my buddy, I was the happiest symbol of growing Best Buddies is a club like none other. person in the room. He made me smile!” acceptance and equalWhile other clubs withity. Although it’s a slow in the school district Nushin Bollinger, Grade 12 student work in progress, the aim to promote things Best Buddies members such as diversity, envihope that the club is ronmental awareness, sending a positive mesand philanthropy, Best Buddies has a bond through books, games and puzzles; sage to the Argyle and North Vancouver simpler mission statement: to make new and overall just have a good time spend- community, and teaching a lesson about friendships, one by one. Students who ing time with each other.” overcoming judgment and discriminajoin the club, headed by Argyle Grade Adds Annie Marcoux, another Grade tion to form unlikely friendships. 12 student Emily Glass, are asked to 12 Buddy, “[My buddy] David is such The club still encounters setbacks, dedicate time every week to their Buddy a joy to hang out with. He is always and the students admit that some of and commit to regular group activities happy and cheerful, and sure knows their peers have disappointed them in and fundraisers. As many of the Student how to sing his Justin Bieber tunes!” terms of stereotyping and segregating Buddies will attest, though, the comAlthough the Best Buddies program is the club and the Buddy group. However, mitment soon becomes a moot point as based on individuals being matched as they remain positive. After all, the most they make the transition from “Buddy Buddies, the Argyle group has noticed important part of Best Buddies is the Pairs” to simply “friends”. the development of close friendships connection made between two people Coming into the club, most of the cur- throughout the entire chapter. The – a connection that doesn’t require anyrent students hadn’t met any of the Life group activities arranged throughout one’s approval or acceptance in order Skills buddies due to the physical and the year have made this club one of the to grow into a close relationship. What curriculum-based separation between most tightly knit of any in the district. Best Buddies has proved, without a the LS program and the general student For example, they’ve made it a group rit- doubt, is that small steps can lead to big body. At the first meetings, say club ual to attend Argyle’s Santa’s Breakfast changes, and unlikely acquaintances can members, there was some awkwardevery year; the Life Skills buddies can become lifelong friends. ness and uncertainty because they had meet new friends through their bud“I think everyone should join Best no experience spending time with inteldies, join in on the pancake breakfast Buddies,” confirms Nushin. “It’s a way lectually disabled peers. However, with and holiday karaoke. The chapter also to make new friends, open your mind to time, they found that natural bonds dressed in red and white to cheer on the new things and new people. It’s one of grew and friendships developed even in Torch Relay of the 2010 Olympics as a the best clubs I’ve ever joined.” the most unlikely situations. Summing it all up perfectly, she adds: team, and went on an end-of-year bowl“Before meeting my buddy I was “I have encountered many different peoing and swimming field trip. somewhat nervous, I didn’t know what ple in this world, but nobody as caring, Over the 2010/2011 school year, the to expect,” says Grade 12 student buddy considerate and loving as my buddy. My Best Buddies club grew substantially, Nushin Bollinger. “I didn’t know how buddy is someone I am never going to leading to the doubling up of buddy I should react. Now, though, my favouforget for the rest of my life.” pairs. Now, each Life Skills buddy has rite Best Buddies memory is meeting my been matched with two or three Student

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by NSNH to pre-teens ages 10 to 13. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The focus is to build individuals as community leaders through a series of six workshops and volunteer opportunities,â&#x20AC;? says program facilitator Sam Moscipan. Youth learned how to paint like pros from General Paint staff Chris Roper and Andrew Speidel. The room painted by Y4C participants is used for programs such as the Special Needs Teen Club, seniors peer support, ESL and tutoring programs, the Food Bank and other programs supporting the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want young people to have fun as well as experiences that will be meaningful for years to come. All of our programs whether for children, pre-teens or frail seniors are designed to be enjoyable and include opportunities to learn something new. We try to cultivate curiosity,â&#x20AC;? says Julie Norton, NSNH executive director. The free sessions, funded by the City of North Vancouver, begin again on September 21 and November 2. For more information about upcoming Y4C sessions, contact Sam Moscipan at 604-2588750.

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t’s an old story straight out of Grease – the weather cools, the sun goes down, and suddenly you lose touch with all the people you spent your summer with. Usually, the separation occurs just because life – school, homework, sports, and everything else that September brings – gets in the way. When everything gets so busy, what seemed so important in the summer fades into memory, and it gets harder to keep friendships going, especially if there’s a long-distance factor. The first step to keeping a summer friend or fling is deciding the direction in which you want the relationship to move. Remember that all it takes to stay friends is commitment from both sides, and a little bit of effort. With Facebook and other social media becoming so popular, keeping in touch is easier than ever and is usually worth your time. Once you’ve decided to keep in touch, find ways to connect with your summer people over the course of the year.

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... but don’t forget your old friends Wall posts on Facebook are definitely the most convenient way to stay in constant communication; send each other Youtube or StumbleUpon links that you would both enjoy, or play games like Would You Rather that will help you get to know each other better. If it’s a group of people you’re trying to stay in touch with, make a Facebook page or group that everyone can post on and use to share pictures. For something a little more special, try going old-fashioned and sending snail mail to each other. Students use the postal service less and less, because the Internet is simply more convenient, but there’s something special about holding actual letters that travelled a real distance to arrive in your hands. Send traditional letters, cards, drawings, photos, or anything you can think of – the originality and pauses between communications will make keeping connected seem like less of a chore and more of a fun activity. Remember, there are ways to find common ground even if your summer friends are far away. Compare your school lives and talk about the tv shows you all watch, or make a routine out of watching a show “together” – even if you’re apart, you can text or IM while you watch to compare notes. If you’re old enough to drive, plan a roadtrip to hang out with the summer friends you don’t often get to see. Even if your summer friend or fling doesn’t live far away, the beginning of school and autumn can still make it feel like there’s distance keeping you apart. The rhythm of life changes when summer ends, and it can be tough to adjust to the new speed and keep developing a new friendship at the same time. Try to make sure that you find balance between old friends and new ones, and incorporate both into your daily routines. It’s never a good idea to turn down your old

school friends in favour of new ones, especially since friendships made in the summer are built upon a different set of circumstances and will likely change a lot throughout the year, while old friendships are more solid and dependable. If your summer friend is still close by, make a routine that you can look forward to and depend on. Your time together will be a nice break from the time spent with people you see everyday – it’s always good to talk to someone who isn’t involved in your classes or your friends’ drama. Meet each other for brunch regularly. Breakfast is easy to cook, if you like being in the kitchen, and it’s much cheaper than going out for dinner if you’re the restaurant type. Also, spending the morning together gives you the opportunity to hang out for as long as you want, instead of going to something like a movie where you would usually go straight home afterward. If you want to keep it simple, go for walks or coffee dates. The world today makes it pretty easy to stay connected. There are thousands of ways to keep a summer fling going, from occasional texts to postcards, from rituals to roadtrips. The most important thing to remember is that your summer relationships are special because they’re summer relationships – they’re meant to be developed during long, hazy beach days and starry nights around a campfire. Making the transition from temporary to long-lasting friendship will take time and effort. Be aware that changes will occur – people will change, situations will change, and sometimes losing touch is inevitable. Most of all, make sure to live in the present. Reflect on your summer memories, but don’t rely on them – the only way your friendship will grow is by continuing to make new memories, in the weeks, months, and years to come.

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Defying the oddsmaker Brandon Kaye has beaten big odds on his baseball journey INSTANT REPLAY Len Corben lencorben@yahoo.ca

hat are the odds of your picture – one you didn’t even know had been taken – getting printed in the newspaper? And on your birthday, the very day you turned 13? What are the odds of a North Shore Little Leaguer, born in North Vancouver, growing up to play professional baseball? And right here with the home town Vancouver Canadians in 2011? What are the odds that both you and your older brother would get signed to play pro ball? And with the same major league organization, the Toronto Blue Jays? What are the odds of pitching your very first win as a pro ballplayer with your mom and dad, two of your three brothers and your twin sister all in attendance? And right on your dad’s birthday on July 19, 2011? What are the odds of all of these things happening to one person? Let me introduce you to Brandon Kaye and how he has defied the oddsmakers. Born in North Vancouver on Aug. 16, 1988, Brandon pitched and played shortstop on Forest Hills Little League all-star teams that won the B.C. District 5 (North Shore) 9- and 10-yearold championships in 1998 and

1999 and the majors (ages 11 and 12) title in 2000. In 2001, Forest Hills lost to Highlands in the North Shore fina1 but Brandon’s picture was taken by Rob Newell during the action at Chris Zuehlke Memorial Park and it showed up in The Outlook on Aug. 16, 2001 – exactly 10 years ago – in a little photo feature called Player of the Week. While chatting with Kaye earlier this month, Brandon noted that The Outlook had printed his photo in 2001 on his 13th birthday. That was very lucky indeed considering there were hundreds of kids playing baseball from Cypress Park to Mount Seymour who could have been pictured. Even more impressive is that 10 years later he’s playing pro ball. The percentage of former local Little Leaguers that get that opportunity is astronomically small. My research indicates Brandon is possibly only the 10th since Little League began here in 1952. Ian Dixon was the first, signing in 1961 with the New York Yankees and playing in their farm system as a P-3B for four years. However, he wasn’t born here. He moved to North Van at age 10. To be born in North Van and go on to pro baseball has equally astronomical odds. Brandon is the son of Kelly Kaye (who coached Brandon in Little League) and Linda Kaye and the younger brother (by nine years) of Scott Richmond who is in his seventh season of pro ball, mostly in the Toronto Blue Jays’ organization. Scott, the eldest of Linda’s three sons by her first

husband, was also born in North Van and played in the Forest Hills Little League too. Kelly, though born in Vancouver, also played in the Forest Hills league, and – after graduating from Delbrook – went to spring training in Arizona with the Pacific Coast League’s Spokane Indians where an arm injury derailed his aspirations. Scott pitched for universities in far-flung Missouri, Louisiana and Oklahoma, then for pro teams as far north as the Edmonton Cracker-Cats, as far east as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats and as far south as the Dunedin Blue Jays as well as two seasons with the parent Blue Jays in Toronto in 2008 and 2009. He’s currently in the “AAA” Pacific Coast League with Toronto’s top farm club, the Las Vegas 51s, meaning he plays in a city full of oddsmakers. (Brandon should be so lucky.) On the other hand, Brandon – who moved with his family to Langley just after that photo appeared in The Outlook in 2001 – has had all his opportunities close to home. He played for the Premier League-champion North Shore Twins in 2007, then for Douglas College and UBC. He did play for Canada in the 2008 World University Games in Czechoslovakia, but his lone venture for a team based outside of B.C. was in 2009 when he pitched in Alberta for the Okotoks Dawgs of the Western Baseball League, a summer circuit for college players. As you can see by his brother’s travels

Vancouver Canadians pitcher Brandon Kaye (above) checks out the Aug. 16, 2001, issue of The Outlook that highlighted his picture in a Player of the Week photo feature (left) on the day he turned 13. Len Corben photo

– which are not too far from the norm – for Brandon to start his pro career with the Vancouver Canadians bucks all odds. Brandon was selected by Toronto in the 45th round of the 2009 major league draft. He elected not to sign in order to continue his education. However, the Blue Jays were still interested two years later and a deal was signed in Dunedin at the Blue Jays’ spring training site in June. His first win as a pro came a month ago at Nat Bailey Stadium against Eugene on July 19 (his dad’s 55th birthday) when he came in during the fifth inning to pitch three superb frames of shutout relief while his teammates scored four runs. He gave up only one hit but the Canadians caught that guy trying to steal.

Brandon also hit one batter... then picked him off first. What are the odds of pitching that well and finding your performance being overshadowed by the antics of a mascot in a chicken suit? Yes it did happen. But actually that’s normal. You see, it was the night the Famous San Diego Chicken was in town to entertain the fans by heckling the opposition and spoofing the umpires, which he does masterfully. Upstaging The Chicken is hard to do – even for Brandon Kaye who seems to defy the odds as well as just about anyone. This is episode 429 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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