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When new neighbours moved into the3800-block of West 18th, William “Bill”Davies was always the first person they met.He remembered everyone’s names. He

mowed lawns for people who worked orwho were retired. He went on walks withpockets stuffed with dog treats. He hadkeys to everyone’s houses, either to tend totheir homes during vacations or if someoneforgot their own keys.And though Davies passed away July 25

at 81, his legacy of being a good neighbourlives on.

Bill and his wife Shirley moved intoDunbar in 1957 on the day of their secondwedding anniversary.“We were the youngsters and our neigh-

bourhood was filled with old people,” saidShirley.Caring for neighbours was a year-round

affair for the family, recalled daughter Deb-bie DeWolff.“My brother and I were always expected

to look after the old people on the block,”said DeWolff. “So when it snowed, we wereexpected to shovel their sidewalks and in thefall we were expected to rake the leaves. Inthe spring, we were expected to bring freshcookies down and have tea with the elderly

people... It was just something we grew up tobelieve that you did anyway, and as the yearswent on, mymom and dad were kind of asource of neighbourhood activity.”The Davies house is fittingly at the centre

of the block, the hub of anticipated blockparties visited even by police, firefighterswith their trucks, former neighbours andthe curious of the 3900-block.“That’s where the cookies were,” said

DeWolff. “That’s where the swing set was,by the little swimming pool. It was a placeto kick the can.”“It was required, laughingly, one must

start the block party with a bowl of Bill’schili,” said Shirley.

Another ritual was the New Year’s Eveparade, complete with bagpiping. Everyonebundled up and marched down frosty side-walks at midnight and the evening alwaysended with fireworks and champagne.Some children slept at six in the evening torest for countdown festivities.The area is vibrant with friendships but

neighbours credit Bill and Shirley as theglue. Shirley returned food containers neverempty but filled with goodies. Children whoforgot to bring lunches were welcomed overfor a bite. In the community, Shirley was aBrownie leader and head of many commit-tees at school.

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PAINTINGTHETOWN West EndArts Society cofounders JohnHewson, Satomi Hirano and artist SteveHornung hope amural Hornung painted at theWest EndCommunity Centrewill help kickstart anarts scene in their neighbourhood. See story page 19. PHOTODANTOULGOET

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I sorta, kinda feel guiltyabout something.I missed a Vancouver

Police Board meeting twoweeks ago.I know, I know, the hor-

ror, the horror.But this, ladies and

gentlemen, is rare for me.Unfortunately (fortunate-

ly?), the NPA called a pressconference around the sametime to introduce more ofits council candidates. Iflipped a coin and endedup outside the Roundhousecommunity centre in Yale-town to meet the politicalwannabees.As a result, I didn’t get a

chance to meet the five newpolice board members. ButI did send our resident shut-terbug, Dan Toulgoet, tothe meeting to take photos;good guy that Toulgoet.Police board meetings,

thankfully, are now live-streamed, which I’ve toldyou about before. So I’mabout to watch and will getback to you when I’m donewith all the names of thenew board members.Here I go…

…and I’m back.I should tell you although

the live-stream is help-ful and cool and all that,it’s not the same as beingthere; can’t really interviewthe chief or mayor frommy desk or follow up withspeakers — or ask why oneof the new board memberswas on crutches.Anyway, the new board

members are:• Caroline Askew, a

longtime lawyer who hasoperated a private practicefor almost 40 years and wasonce chairperson of TheHorse Racing Commission.She is also Vision Vancou-ver’s former chairpersonand the city’s only appoin-tee to the board.• Claire Marshall, the for-

mer manager of aboriginalrelations for the B.C. Trans-mission Corporation and isa director with the Lu’maNative Housing Society.• Peter Wong, a physi-

cian and businessman.Wong is vice-chairpersonof the Yue Shan societyand is a founding memberand director of the WestPoint Grey Academy.• Mark James, founder

of the Mark James Group,which operates several craftbrewery restaurants, includ-ing Yaletown Brewing Co.

and The Flying Beaver inRichmond. He was the oneusing crutches.• Sherri Magee, an inde-

pendent cancer researcherwith a PhD. Magee spentfour years researching theprocess of recovery oncetreatment for cancer isfinished. She co-authoredPicking Up the Pieces: Mov-ing Forward After SurvivingCancer, which was pub-lished in 2006. (For those ofyou wondering, Magee is norelation to Mayor GregorRobertson’s chief of staff,Mike Magee.)The five new members

join Thomas Tam, DaljitSidhu andMary Collins.Robertson doubles as chair-person of the board for atotal of nine people provid-ing civilian oversight overthe police department.“We were certainly chal-

lenged by workload andthis is just a great oppor-tunity to have more linksto community and moreexpertise around the table,”said Robertson, noting thebigger size of the board.“So I’m looking forwardto working together in themonths and years to come.”The police board doesn’t

meet again until September.I’ll see if I can make it.

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Continued from page 1Bill, a former electri-

cian with B.C. Hydro andall-around handyman, hungaround the nearby DunbarVacuum and ShoppersDrugMart just to makesure everyone was OK.Once, he chased two bur-glars out of his house witha two-by-four, striking oneand denting their vehicle.Every neighbour has a

Bill story.Chris Donaldson met

Bill when he moved to theneighbourhood nine yearsago. But he got to knowhim more when one daywhen he found Bill in Don-aldson’s living room watch-ing TV on the couch.“You left your front door

open,” Bill told him.“It was kind of annoying

to be honest,” said Donald-son. “But at the same time,it wasn’t, as he was genu-inely concerned.”John Beach, a resident

of the block for 26 years,remembered trying to turnoff the water main beforeleaving for vacation withhis family. “The wholething came off in my hand;the full force of city waterpressure shot across mybasement,” said Beach.“Nobody has one of thosekeys that shuts off the waterat the street level. Of course,Bill had one.”Joe and Jenny Belanger

met Bill the moment theyarrived at the house in1979. He proceeded to un-load half their moving truck

himself and helped aroundever after.“I never did anything

without Bill lending ahand,” said Joe.“He expected to be

called, really,” added Jenny.Today, the whole neigh-

bourhood is rejuvenatedwith young families and newhomes. Coming full circle,Shirley said she and Bill tookover the role of old people.When Bill was diagnosed

with cancer, Donaldsonworked with neighboursand the city to grant Billand Shirley the key to the

block and a certificate fromMayor Gregor Robertson asa tribute to “the Mayor ofWest 18th.”Ten-year-old Armon

Nouri thanked Bill for thelife lessons in a card: “I amso sorry about any negativethings that have happenedto you in your life. Everyday I wake up thinkingabout how to make theworld a better place. Youare the reason that my life isso happy and why I love thisblock...”There’s talk in Vancou-

ver about loneliness and

isolation, but for Bill andShirley, there was no big se-cret to having relationshipswith neighbours: just say hiand show little gestures ofbeing interested in others’lives. That’s all it took tobring the block together,and that tradition lives on inthe neighbourhood.In Dunbar, Bill will al-

ways be remembered.“If you knock on any

single door on the entireblock,” said Donaldson,“somebody will be able totalk about him.”

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Shirley Davies and late-husbandWilliam 'Bill' Davies were the centre of community on the 3800-block of West 18th Avenue, with manymemories taking place on their front porch. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

Bill Davies, seen here two years ago, taught the children of the block important lessons like being a goodneighbour and how to open a freeziewith scissors. PHOTO SHIRLEYDAVIES


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After promises made toseniors that plans for theKillarney Seniors Centre willcontinue with a budget sur-plus, the City of Vancouveris withholding an additional$1.2million pledge towardsthe long-awaited project.The Courier has obtained

a July 24 memo by citymanager Penny Ballemto council saying that thepromise of $1.2 millionsurplus on the project isunnecessary thanks to anadditional $1.2 millionpledge from the province.The province’s additionalmoney was announced aftercouncil’s February $1.2million pledge to meet theseniors centre’s estimated$7.5 million budget, andaccording to the memoeliminates “the need forthe additional $1.2 millioncommitment by council.”The original $2.5 millionthe city committed in 2011to the project will remain.Vision Vancouver Coun.

Raymond Louie said sug-gestions in January that theproject could cost morethan $7.5 million were out-dated. City staff have un-dertaken an analysis withinthe last couple of monthsand concluded the projectcan be completed within theinitial estimate, he said.Longtime seniors activist

Lorna Gibbs was disap-pointed with the newsdespite applauding Louie asa “great supporter” of theseniors centre. She antici-pates some amenities wouldbe cut with the loss of thecity’s $1.2 million.“The seniors would have

liked to have their own ex-ercise room for osteo fitnessbecause the main fitnesscentre at the communitycentre is loud noise, andgreat big guys,” Gibbs said.Wai Young, Conservative

MP for South Vancouver,hosted a roundtable withseniors recently and saidseniors were “distressed” atthe news of the $1.2millionwithdrawal. Young told theCourierThursday the seniors

were concerned about the$7.5million budget set sev-eral years ago and brought upthe issue duringmeetings.“This budget was set in

2009 by the city when theydid a preliminary feasibilitystudy,” Young said. “That’sfive years ago. So I’m surethe construction cost has in-creased over the last five years.So I’m quite surprised they’restill using a 2009 figure.”The much-needed

10,000-square foot seniorscentre, equipped with acommercial kitchen andelevator, will be adjacent tothe Killarney CommunityCentre. It would serve anestimated 27,000 seniors,a third of all the seniors inthe city, who live in south-east Vancouver. The centrewould be the first for thatpart of Vancouver, whereasseven seniors centres oper-ate west of Cambie Street.According to the city

memo, construction on thecentre is expected to start byMarch 2016 and should becompleted within two years.

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Musician sylvi macCormac found the popular Gumhead installation at the Vancouver Art Gallery inac-cessible for her wheelchair. PHOTO DAN TOULGOET

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While most visitorswouldn’t think twiceabout sticking a pieceof gum on the popularGumhead installation, aninnocent-looking plat-form is deterring those inwheelchairs from partici-pating in public art.Sitting on top of a

grassy mound outside theVancouver Art Gallery is aseven-foot-tall sculpture ofartist Douglas Coupland’shead. Many have alreadystuck gum on the gallery-commissioned sculpturesince its inception on May31 as part of a crowd-sourced and interactiveproject.However, when musician

sylvi macCormac visited

the installation last monthshe couldn’t contributeher piece because of themound being a step aboveground and impossible forher wheelchair to access.Approximately over 15

per cent of the city’s resi-dents have some form ofphysical disability or mo-bility restriction, accordingto the City of Vancouver.

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Access creates stickyproblemContinued from previous pageAlthough the city values

being an inclusive Van-couver with programstargeting accessibility inbuildings, public transit,parking and other publicamenities, the location ofthe Gumhead was de-termined by the City ofVancouver.Art gallery staff did not

agree to an interview butreplied in a statement to theCourier that “the normalpermit process” was fol-lowed to install the work.“This was deemed the

best space for the workafter researching variousoptions around the site,”wrote director of opera-tions Tom Meighan. “Wehad to stay within strictguidelines for the installa-tion to ensure the safety ofthe work and the public.Also, this space is partof the overall heritagefootprint on the site of theGallery. Changing it in anyway would be difficult.”Feeling frustrated after

her Gumhead visit, mac-Cormac fumed about theincident on Facebook ask-

ing, “If art is not access-able does it exist? ... whydo they build ramps whenthey are building thebuildings and then takethe ramps out?”She acknowledges that

the problem she faced wasan isolated incident anddoesn’t reflect the ac-commodations made forgallery staff and visitors.

She called it a slip in theplanning stages.“Its intention was to

include everyone, butbecause there’s a step,people with disabilities inwheelchairs or walkers orcanes can’t quite get upthat step. To me it was anexample of so many things

that by not thinking aboutit, it becomes inacces-sible,” said macCormac.Having recently visited

the Vancouver Art Gallery,VancouveriteMatthew Lorecalled visiting the upperfloors where smaller roomswith special exhibits werelocated. Lo doesn’t use awheelchair but he imaginesthe small corridors andspecial rooms with intricatestructures inside to be “…strenuous for someone on awheelchair to be navigating.”“Everywhere should be

wheelchair accessible. Theart gallery is a fixture in thecity so it is important forthem to be accessible by allkinds of people,” added Lo.Jill Weiss, chair of the

disabilities advisory com-mittee to the city, saysthe committee focuses onhousing so wasn’t involvedin the art installation. ButWeiss was shocked thepermit came from the city.She suggested macCormacfile a human rights com-plaint because it violatesSec. 8 of the B.C. HumanRights Code.

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How do you stop whales,porpoises and dolphinsfrom breeding at the Van-couver Aquarium?It’s a question the president

andCEO of the VancouverAquarium found himselfanswering after five VisionVancouver park board com-missioners decided July 31 toban the breeding of cetaceansat the facility in Stanley Park.Though the aquarium has

two female belugas and twofemale Pacific white-sided dol-phins, it also has two harbourporpoises— onemale andone female named Jack andDaisy, which were rescuedone year apart as babies.So how do you stop them

from breeding?“You don’t,” Nightingale

told theCourier the day afterthe park board’s vote. “Con-traceptives have been rarelyused in cetaceans. And whenthey have been used, it’s onlyfor very short term issues.”Nightingale said the

porpoises have lived to-gether for three years andhe described them as “bestbuddies.” He said keepingthem in separate tanks atthe aquarium “might bephysically impossible andwouldn’t be the properthing to do for them.”If a birth were to happen

at the aquarium, it’s unclearwhat kind of consequencesthe aquarium would face.The park board’s decisionlast Thursday to ban thebreeding of cetaceans at theaquarium did not set outconsequences or penalties.When told of Nightin-

gale’s comments about notstopping the breeding of theporpoises, park board chair-person Aaron Jasper said hisunderstanding fromNight-ingale in an earlier conversa-tion was that “techniques”could be used to lower or killa male cetacean’s libido.Jasper said if Nightingale

“is signaling” the porpoisescould breed, then he willrecommend to staff to givesome thought to what type ofpenalty should be imposedwhen drafting the new bylawon banning breeding. Thatsaid, Jasper wants to knowwhether the porpoises havetried tomate since beingbrought to the aquarium.“If the [porpoises] have

not had a history of tryingto couple, then chances arethe odds are low that it’sgoing to happen,” said Jas-

per, noting Nightingale stillhasn’t given him a clear an-swer on why the breedingprogram is necessary. “Weare still waiting for an an-swer because, for us, that isthe bigger question.”The aquarium is expand-

ing the facility and plansto have six to eight belugaswhen the work is complete.The aquarium has seven be-lugas on loan to aquariumsin Georgia and San Diego.Nightingale was still reel-

ing from the park board’sdecision to ban breed-ing when he spoke to theCourier Friday, saying hedoesn’t believe the boardshould have such power toset rules for the aquarium.“The management, the

planning and the strategyfor the care of the animalsneeds to be left in the handsof experts,” he said, notingthe aquarium proposed tothe park board a regular in-dependent review of animalwelfare at the aquarium.Instead, the park board

agreed last Thursday to cre-ate an oversight committeecomprised of animal welfareexperts to ensure the safety andwell-being of cetaceans. In anopen letter Nightingale postedFriday on the aquarium’s web-site, he called the park boarddecision “misinformed, mis-guided and pits the park boardagainst the facts, the scienceandMother Nature herself.”“Mating is the most

natural thing in the world,”he wrote. “In fact, sex andreproduction play an impor-tant role in our research andin our education programs.For the park board to stopwhales and dolphins fromdoing what comes naturallyis like telling park boardcommissioners not to havesex, ever. It’s unnatural.”Jasper said he has heard

frommany people, includingthose at three nights of hearingslast week and via email andpetitions that the park boarddidn’t go far enough with itsdecision to ban breeding.“We could have actually

said: ‘No more whales —period. What you’ve gotis what you’ve got.’ Butwe didn’t take that route,”Jasper said. “So you’redamned if you do, you’redamned if you don’t. Butwe thought what we did wasthoughtful, science-based,fact-based. It really was abalance between the twoextremes on this issue.”The vote was taken

without the park board’s two

NPA councillors present.John Coupar recused himselffrom the hearings becauseof business interests he haswith the aquarium.MelissaDeGenova was on holiday.NPAmayoral candidate KirkLaPointe issued a statementlast Thursday saying hesupported the aquarium’spolicies on cetaceans.

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Theweek in num6ers...

1.2Inmillions of dollars, the

amount ofmoney the City ofVancouver is withholding from apledge to put towards buildingthe long-promised Killarney

Seniors Centre.

27In thousands, the estimatednumber of seniors who livein the southeast corner of

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I have always tried to live by the notionthat if you criticize something, you mustoffer a better solution.Last week I criticized the City of Van-

couver for inappropriately filling large,expensive new social housing projects oncity lands with predominantly homelessand hard-to-house residents.A case in point is Marguerite Ford

House at 215 West Second Ave. It’sa 146 unit building that was filled tooquickly with too many people sufferingfrom mental illness and substance abuseand is still struggling to become a healthyliving environment. Just ask the policeand fire departments who are regularlycalled to the building.While we must continue to construct

new social housing, the buildings neednot be so large and expensive. We shouldput an end to the extravagant architec-tural designs that have often becometheir hallmark. We should also put morefaith and money in more cost-effectivesolutions.In no particular order, here are some

alternative approaches:Accommodate more people in scat-

tered rental apartment suites around thecity, rather than in brand new purpose-built buildings, and provide social ser-vices on an as-required basis. This is theapproach adopted by Toronto’s Street-to-Home Foundation with considerablesuccess.Vancouver’s Street-to-Home Founda-

tion has been very effective at raisingfunds and supporting the homeless innew projects. However, it might considerdoing more along the lines of the To-ronto model.A related solution is to offer rent

supplements to people and let themchose where they want to live. Whilethis also eliminates the opportunity forpoliticians to be photographed at ribbon-cutting ceremonies, it is another way toavoid concentrating homeless people inone building or neighbourhood. Provin-cial Housing Minister Rich Coleman isto be complimented for promoting thisapproach.As we have recently learned from the

Oppenheimer campers, many of theprivately owned SRO buildings in theDowntown Eastside are in deplorablecondition. Rather than expect the prov-ince to buy up these badly maintained

hotels, the City of Vancouver needs tobecome more aggressive in enforcing itsstandards of maintenance bylaws andcompel the owners to fix them.If building owners do not carry out the

necessary repairs, the city should arrangefor repairs to be done and bill the owner.Unfortunately, when the city did thismany years ago, a lawsuit resulted andthe city has been reluctant to go in whenit should.One contributing reason why many

buildings are in such poor condition isthat most tenants cannot pay more than$375, the shelter component of welfare.It is worth noting that this allowance wasfixed at $325 for 14 years, in part becauseDowntown Eastside activist Jean Swan-son “did not want to put more moneyin landlords’ pockets.” This sum doesnot buy much shelter, as most of us wellknow. A higher shelter allowance andgreater maintenance enforcement wouldresult in improved accommodation.Given the urgent need to get people

off the streets, from time to time it isnecessary to create new shelters. How-ever they can be extremely expensive tooperate and many homeless avoid themsince they offer little privacy and security.It is a sad irony that some of the modernnew mini-storage facilities would offer ahigher standard of accommodation thanthe shelters I have visited.One of the many disadvantages of shel-

ters is that they do not provide someonewith an address. Without an address,it is more difficult to find employment.While many homeless people have chal-lenges that prevent them from gettingfull- or part-time jobs, others can workand would like to work. We need to domore for them. I salute organizationslike EMBERS which helps homeless andlow-income people find employment. In2008, its workers helped put up all mycampaign signs. Hopefully they can helpother aspiring politicians this year.Unfortunately it is difficult to find work

when your teeth are unsightly and hair isunkempt. We therefore need to expandprograms providing dental care, personalgrooming and clean clothing. Whilemany volunteers provide these services,more can be done.We also desperately need more drug

and alcohol rehabilitation facilities andfamily connection and reunification pro-grams. These will be topics for anotherday.

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Opinion

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The way it’s supposed to work is, allgovernment spending gets approved byelected officials before the money goesout the door.They divvy the government’s budget

into “votes,” with each vote represent-ing a ministry’s budget. Each one getsdebated and passed in the house, and themoney gets spent on the basis that it wasscrutinized by elected representatives.The Education Ministry’s $5.3-billion

vote for the year was passed May 1 onthe assumption that the money wouldrun the school system.But there was nothing during debate

about the prospect of carving $12 milliona day in unspent money due to a teach-ers’ strike out of the budget and handingit directly to parents.It raises the question of whether the

potential September tactic announcedlast week is appropriate. It might be onlyparliamentary purists raising eyebrowsat the government’s fallback plan if thestrike isn’t settled by next month.But forking over $40 a day per kid

under 13 to make up for the absence ofa school system would be a pretty noveluse of tax money that was originally dedi-cated for the school system — in fact,promised to school districts.No doubt there’s a way around the

convention, if it turns out to be a prob-lem. There usually is. If the plan takeseffect next month, the governmentcould argue the money can’t be spent asearmarked, because the teachers aren’tworking. So it is free to redirect it else-where. Or the issue could go to court,which is where the government and theB.C. Teachers’ Federation spend a lot oftime in any event.The B.C. Liberals are acutely con-

scious of how judges view their nego-tiating tactics these days, because theappeal of the government’s huge loss tothe BCTF is set for this October. TheSupreme Court condemned their nego-tiating strategy and quashed their lastlegislation to do with teachers — again —in January.The government desperately needs to

win the appeal and is leery of passinganother law, after two previous ones havebeen tossed out of court. Another losswould hand the BCTF a huge win on theexpensive learning-conditions issues thatare part of the dispute.

Also in play is a novel sort of ju-jitsustrategy the government has adopted.As explained by Finance Minister Mike

de Jong, teachers’ contracts have beenlegislated so often that the BCTF nowfully expects to be ordered back to workafter work stoppages. He said past gov-ernments have reacted too quickly.The idea is that the BCTF goes to the

wall with contract demands because theyknow a back-to-work bill will be comingeventually. The expectation becomes astrong part of their strategy.(That’s why the union had next to

nothing in a strike fund.)This time around, the government is

holding off, in a bid to force real negotia-tions. They’ve been negotiating for 18months, through two education minis-ters, two union presidents, a shake-up ofthe government negotiating side and oneelection. It’s all been a pointless waste oftime, but they’ll take another run at it onAug. 8.

The announced plan to compensateparents through September if there’sno deal confirms again there will be noback-to-work order at least until October.It gives teachers another paycheque-freemonth to examine their shrinking bankaccounts and watch $12 million a daythat could have been in their hands getdoled out to parents instead.It also turns on its head the historic

understanding that education is an essentialservice. It’s that designation that alwaysbeen used to justify imposing contracts onthe BCTF in the past. The government gotaway with letting most of June go by with-out imposing a deal because it’s a prettyunproductive month at the best of times.But holding to that stance at the start of

another year makes something unmistakablyclear. The B.C. Liberals think the educationsystem is essential only up to a point.The more essential things are to avoid

doing anything that would blow theirchances in court this fall, and force theBCTF to accept the fact that the deal hasto be negotiated this time.

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COURIERSTORY: “Concord goes to court over FalseCreek park site,”Aug. 1.GeraldDobronov:This is one of the biggest eyesores in the city. It’s just asphalt and oilspills. Concord has put almost zero effort in to the landscaping, even around their ownpresentation center.Not a single tree grows on the site. It’s a dead zone andwe all know theonly thing that will be planted there are condos.

COURIERSTORY: “BCTFbaffled byB.C. govt’s $40 a day proposal,” online only.slbeckett@slbeckett:Baffled? It seems quite straightforward. Theywere trumped.AndrewC.@zuiderdamman: If parents are getting $40 a day then I alsowantmy “school”portion of property tax returned tome.

COURIERSOAPBOX: “CPneeds to treat ArbutusCorridor gardenerswithrespect,” July 30.Hermesacat:One article I saw suggestedCP isn’t interested in running trains along thecorridor again but hopes to use the land to build housing developments on.Hopefully, thelandwill be retained as green space, gardens and paths instead. Stupidly, CP apparentlycouldn’t wait till after growing season.No, they timed their evictions orders at the height ofgrowing season provokingmaximum resistance, bad PR and blowback on them.The peopleatCP in charge of this initiative don’t appear to be too bright and seem to be hurting their owncause.

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Aug. 5, 1966: Canada's newMaple Leaf flag is hoisted for the first time at a majorinternational sports event after the women's freestyle relay team, led by 15-year-old Vancouverite Elaine Tanner, won gold at the Commonwealth Games inKingston, Jamaica. Nicknamed "Mighty Mouse," the four-foot-nine swimmer alsowon three more gold medals in individual events and two silvers. Tanner went onto win two golds and three silvers the following year at the Pan American Games,and three individual silvers and a relay bronze at the 1968 Summer Olympics inMexico City before retiring at the age of 18.

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Bikehelmetssave livesTo the editor:Re: “Letter: Some hard-headed advice

for cyclists,” July 30.I’m having a difficult time compre-

hending the logic of Mr. van der Ee-rden’s belief that “wearing a bicyclehelmet increases the risk of head injury”as well as the logic of other statementsmade in his letter, such as “increasedhelmet-wearing is associated with in-creased risk taking.” These statementsseem counter-intuitive and spurious tome.One should be cautious of blindly

drawing conclusions from raw statis-tics or apparent associations. There aremany variables at play that should beconsidered. Mr. van der Eerden seemsto conclude that because the Dutch donot have helmet laws this has there-fore increased cycling participation bya third, and therefore slashed Dutchcycling fatalities by 75 per cent. Re-ally? Perhaps safety records would haveimproved even more significantly if moreDutch wore helmets. Perhaps the Dutchhave more dedicated bike lanes thatseparate cars and cyclists ( I believe theydo). Perhaps the Dutch have increas-ingly embraced cycling because a morehospitable environment has been createdfor cycling.

I have cycled for decades, both forrecreation and competitively. Contraryto Mr. van der Eerden’s view, cyclingdoes have an element of risk to it andthe longer you do it, the more likely youmay experience a mishap. Driving acar, which Mr. van der Eerden considers“safe,” also has an element of risk to it,although our vehicle laws evolved yearsago with the legislation of seat belts,airbags and other safety features whichhave mitigated these risks. Wearing ahelmet is a risk mitigation action, and

as with driving safety, cycling safety isfinally evolving too.

I agree a helmet may not save yourlife in a high speed impact with a car,but most bike/car collisions are not athigh speeds. Most occur when a carmakes a right turn in front of a cyclist,when a car turns left at an intersectioninto an oncoming cyclist, or when a cardoor is opened in the path of an oncom-ing cyclist. These are low speed acci-dents, but it does not take a high speedimpact to seriously injure the humanbrain.I know what Mr. van der Eerden is

thinking. Helmets provide a sense ofsecurity and therefore cyclists ride lesscautiously. However, I would arguethat those that wear helmets representa portion of the human species that hasevolved and are risk averse rather thanneedless risk-takers. Wear a helmet andmake it a low risk activity.I think a modicum of common sense

should be considered by Mr. van derEerden and others who insist that wear-ing bicycle helmets enhances the riskof injury, is a nuisance, and or, bad foryour hair. Personally, I value my brainmore than my hair.

David Taylor,Vancouver

Thanks for theFIFAscheduleTo the editor:Congratulations to the Courier for

printing out the schedule for the FIFAWorld Cup in such a clear format. Thevenues were clearly shown and as the se-ries progressed the winning teams wereneatly substituted in the schedule. I keptit by the TV and checked it each day.Well done Courier! Far better that the

Province.Isabella Brown,

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Riot breaks out in GastownAug. 7, 1971: Police on horseback and swinging batons charge into a huge crowdthat had gathered in Maple Tree Square as past of the "Grasstown Smoke-Inand Street Jamboree" organized to protest weeks of arrests of pot smokers byundercover cops. Seventy-nine people were arrested in what became known as theGastown Riot, but only 38 ended up charged for offences ranging from disturbingthe peace to possession of a dangerous weapon. An eventual commission ofinquiry was highly critical of the VPD's conduct and described the incident as a"police riot." The incident is commemorated in a two-storey-high photo mural byartist Stan Douglas in the atrium of theWoodward's complex.


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Apparently it was timefor the Powell Street Fes-tival to reinvent itself. Themove from its traditionalhome at Oppenheimer Parkwasn’t in the blueprintsfor the 38-year-old festivalthat celebrates Japanese-Canadian arts, culture, andheritage.But the park was taken

over by dozens of tents lastmonth in a protest againstthe city’s attempt to evictthe homeless from Op-penheimer so the oldestcommunity celebration in

Vancouver had to come upwith a quickly drawn-upbackup plan.“We got together and we

thought about the variousoptions that were there,keeping in mind we’d doneso much planning already,”said festival president NinaInaoka Lee. “We wantedto do it and be respectful ofthe community and what’sgoing on in the park rightnow.”The three-day long festi-

val held this past weekendturned into a block party.Craft booths were linkedtogether by flowing strips ofwhite sheets overhead forshade along the north endof Jackson Avenue while

the south end was packedwith food stalls offeringeverything from smokedsalmon to SPAMmusubi.On the stage at the Van-couver Japanese LanguageSchool Saturday was HazelYip, better known in herCosplay group as “Haru,”danced and spun to voca-loid Hatsune Miku’s popsong “Weekender Girl” ina black-and-white maid’soutfit that she and her boy-friend sewed together forher performance.The Vancouver Japanese

Language School is theonly property in the PowellStreet area that retainedJapanese ownership duringand after the internment in

1942. (The federal govern-ment sold the homes ofJapanese-Canadians andused the profits to pay forinternment after Japanwent to war with the Al-lies, including Canada, in1941.)Look closely at the tiled

entrances to buildings alongPowell Street, passersby canstill see Japanese surnamesleft in place from a timewhen about 8,000 JapaneseCanadians —more than athird of the country’s totalof 22,000 at the time —lived in the neighbourhoodduring the early 1900s.The festival also includeda walking tour of the areawhere buildings and his-

tory were revisited. Oppen-heimer was surely includedin the tour as the homefield of the wildly popularAsahi baseball team beforeit was disbanded, its playersinterned during the SecondWorld War.Inaoka Lee has more

recent history with area.She attended the JapaneseLanguage School and herfamily was always a part ofthe festival in both musicaland martial arts.“The festival brings a

familiar feeling. It feels likecoming home and connect-ing with people,” she said.“There is no communityhub for all the Japanesegroups that exist here in

Vancouver so I think whatthe festival does is bring ev-erybody together, it’s a bigreunion of sorts. I’m con-necting with my languageschool instructors, my peersI went to class with, theJapanese-Canadian com-munity.”More than a meeting

place, it’s also a great wayto educate others aboutJapanese-Canadian culture,Inaoka Lee added.“It’s a place for the Japa-

nese community to cometogether but it’s also a placefor people to learn moreabout Japanese culture andarts in this little area, in theneighbourhood.”

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Powell Street Festival becomes blockparty

1. Saturday afternoon’s attendees of the Powell Street Festival were treated to performances on the main stage from the Satsuki-kai Dancing Group. The dancers are from the Nishikawa School ofclassical Japanese dancing. 2. The Powell Street Festival's craft booths were popular with children this past weekend. See photo gallery at vancourier.com. PHOTOS REBECCA BLISSETT

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Simulations of railwayconstruction and powerstruggles over wheat are metwith laughter and commu-nity in the West End.Jim Balakshin, volunteer

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create a public, welcomingopportunity for residents tocome out and interact withone another in response tothe Vancouver Foundation’ssurvey on loneliness, whichhe believed was true in theWest End. He called boardgames a “social impetus”due to their universality.“It doesn’t matter who

you are,” said Balakshin, “oryour background, or yourorientation, or your race.”Balakshin applied for

a neighbourhood smallgrant from the VancouverFoundation andWest EndGames Night was born,with help from the WestEnd BIA and GordonNeighbourhood House.OnThursdays at 5 p.m.,

a bright yellow shelf packedwith $500 of new games isrolled out to the rainbowpicnic tables at Bute Plaza onDavie and Bute. Strangersare welcomed to come offthe streets, grab a game andadventure together or go headto head. Tables are alwaysfilled. A 15-minute warning is

given to ensure eager gamershave time to finish up.John Bishop stepped out

of a restaurant on Davieone Thursday evening andstumbled upon the sceneof gamers.“I think it’s a great place

to start coming togetherthan behind doors,” saidBishop. “It really broughtthe village to a village…[and] created a real, livesense of community.”Balakshin lives a block

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believes the West End’sapartments contribute tothe lack of meaningful inter-actions. Vancouver seems tocentre on commercial andprivate spaces, he said.Bishop, who also lives in

the area, agrees. “You canlive two blocks from some-one and never see them,”he said. “People who live inapartments don’t come outunless they need to.”Bishop is glad the evening

takes a normally privateactivity and welcomes any-

one who wants to join in.“When I grew up with myfamily, we did a lot of boardgames, card games, but it’sin our homes,” said Bishop.Balakshin is pleased with

the interactions the gameshave fostered. He saw fami-lies urging young couplesand singles to join them.Two friends beckoned ayoung woman over who

was shyly watching from theside. After two hours, theywalked off together.Local folk band Cold-

water Road played live at afew games nights. Bishopspotted a flautist one eve-ning as well. Last Thursday,a piano was found in thealley. Blenz lent a chair anda musician volunteered toplay. “It was kind of a neatvibe when all of that comestogether with the music andthe lights,” said Balakshin.The most popular games

are not traditional farelike Monopoly, but cultfavourites such as Settlers ofCatan, Ticket to Ride andCards Against Humanity.The collection is diverseenough to even include TheTwilight Saga: NewMoon’sboard game.While Cards Against Hu-

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Some of her more famouscustomers include actressDakota Fanning, AntonioBanderas, Montreal Canadienshockey legend Bob Gainey,Susan Sarandon. Tea Leoni,Uma Thurman, AnthonyLaPaglia, Sharon Stone,Mariel Hemingway, MargotKidder. rocker Steven Tylerof Aerosmith and even thelate ballet superstar RudolphNureyev.

Haliburton obtainedher Bachelor ofFine Arts at theChouinard ArtInstitute of LosAngeles in the 1960s,which later becameCal Arts. To give asense of the era, TheDoors played an artschool dance beforethey were famousand celebrated science fictionwriter Ray Bradbury gavethe convocation address toHaliburton’s grad class.

She also got her teachingdegree at the University of B.C.and taught high-school art forfour years before starting thefirst Angel store on West 4thAvenue. Angel later moved toBroadway, then Robson Streetfor 16 years and to Gastown in1998.

She paints with dye, right inthe store. Over the years, shedeveloped a unique processthat bonds the colour to thefabric, which resists fading.

One of the first shirts sheever painted still hangs in thestore. “I get people wantingto buy it almost every day,”she explains. “I tell people it’sthere to show how the colourwon’t fade. It was painted in1978 and looks like I painted ityesterday.”

Five years ago, on a trip toEurope, Haliburton walkedinto a store in Rome and saw adress by the Barcelona-basedDesigual clothing line. She feltan instant affinity to Desigual,which was started by ThomasMeyer, who began paintingT-shirts on the Spanish islandof Ibiza in 1984 and hastransformed his company intoan international juggernaut inrecent years.

“It was just thisburst of colour,pattern andgreat style,”Haliburtonsays of the firsttime she sawDesigual.“It was similarto what I hadbeen doingover the years.”

She saysrenownedParis fashiondesigner

Christian Lacroix, who designsfor Desigual, summed it upbest when he recalled the firsttime he saw a woman wearingDesigual:

““I was awestruck,” MonsieurL said. “It was fantastic,truly love at first sight, a

breath of fresh air,all multicoloured,scorching, revitalizing,radiating Mediterraneancolours and flavoursand creeping into this

global and colourless magmainhabited by zombies andclones.”

Angel carries a wide selectionof Desigual clothes for kids,as well as for men and women-- the store’s collection isconsidered the best on theWest Coast.

“Desigual is fun, wildlycolourful and radiates positiveenergy,” Haliburton says.

Find out more fromAngel’s website:angelvancouver.com

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Kimberly Voll walksthrough the exhibit ofdecades-old computers andvideo game consoles, andpauses at a grey-and-blackTexas Instruments TI-99/4A personal computer.“This wasmy very first

computer,” says Voll, aninstructor at the Centre forDigitalMedia and co-curatorof the exhibit. “We got oneof these around 1979.Mydad had one and I used to siton his lap and play games.”Amodern projector casts,

onto the wall, a colour-ful image of the game thecomputer is running: Parsec,a space shooter game.Whenthe game ends— the player’sspaceship exploding into co-lourful pixels— the displayreturns to themenu. Thefirst option is to replay Par-sec. The second, to launchthe computer programminglanguage BASIC.“I wondered what this

game BASIC was,” laughsVoll, explaining the fortu-itous misinterpretation thatled to a career in program-ming. “I wanted to play it.”The TI computer,

together with nearly twodozen other early gamingmachines, is part of Evolu-tion of Gaming, an exhibitthat examines the historyof video games. It’s at theCentre for Digital Mediauntil Aug. 10.On display are original

arcade game cabinets likeDefender, Space Invadersand Pac-Man, as well as asleekly molded, bright green

cabinet housing ComputerSpace, the first commercial-ly produced video arcadegame, released in 1971 bytwo entrepreneurs whowould go on to found Atari.Computers and consoles

that were household names— the Commodore 64, theApple IIe, the Nintendo En-tertainment System— sharethe exhibition hall with con-soles that were lesser known,but equally important in thedevelopment of video games.Chief among these is aMagnavoxOdyssey, the veryfirst home gaming console,released in 1972.The Odyssey’s gameplay

is primitive: two large whitesquares, projected onto anotherwise dark TV screen,can be moved aroundby turning dials on boxycontrollers. The “graph-ics” consist of a sheet ofclear plastic film, printedwith colourful designs, thatplayers stuck onto the TVscreen. To keep score, play-ers used paper score sheetsand poker chips that wereincluded with the game.Players in the 1970s,

weren’t “encumbered” byexpectations of gorgeousgraphics and 3D gameplay,said Voll. “These things thatwere just pixels on a screenweren’t just pixels — theywere dragons, and foreignlands, and space ships,these incredible worlds withabsolutely endless potential.And that’s why I fell in lovewith video games.”Voll, who teaches a

course on the history ofvideo games, came up withthe idea for the exhibit a

year ago, and has beencollecting vintage consoles,computers and games forthe past five months. Theexhibit includes odditieslike R.O.B., a robot-shapedcontroller for the NES, aZapper light pistol used toplay Duck Hunt, and theVectrex, a 1982 home gam-ing console whose crisp vec-tor graphics rivalled those ofarcade games.Best of all, absolutely

everything is playable, giv-ing visitors the chance toexperience landmark videogames on the original equip-ment — everything fromPong to the very first FinalFantasy game.“My own personal take...

is that video games exist tobe played,” said Voll. “Ifwe’re not giving them thatchance one more time Ithink that’s a fundamentaldisservice... Once we canno longer interact with thistechnology, once it’s bro-ken, we can put it behindglass and [just] look at it.”There’s even a nod to the

future of gaming: a game,made by Voll’s students,that utilizes the cutting edgeOculus Rift goggles that im-merse the player in a virtualreality 3D landscape.Evolution of Gaming is

at the Centre for DigitalMedia campus, 577 GreatNorthern Way, until Aug.10. Admission is free, butonly 100 people will beallowed inside per session.There are three sessionsdaily: 9 a.m. to noon; 1to 4 p.m.; and 5 to 8 p.m.Schedule your visit at evolu-tionofgaming.ca.

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2.What do superheroes wear underneaththe costumes they wear underneath theirstreet clothes? All (well, most) will berevealed and more when theGeekendersget their freak on and their geek on at FullFrontal Nerdity: A Nerdlesque Revueat the Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway).Cosplay cuties including Trixie Hobbitses,Androsia Wilde, Lottie Libido andMissBacon n’ Legs dork things up all sexy likeon Aug. 6. starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are$12/9. Check out riotheatre.ca for more.

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If I were Irish I wouldeither hate The Cripple ofInishmaan because it feedsinto so many clichés or Iwould love it because itfeeds into so many clichés.There’s the long-suffering,slightly dotty old aunties;the town gossipmongeralmost salivating over thefeud between a couple offarmers over a goose and acat; the feisty, red-pigtailedtomboy driving all the boysin the village mad withdesire; the village idiot; andthe village unfortunate —in this case, poor, or-phaned Cripple Billy raisedby spinster “pretend” aun-

ties Kate and Eileen.Playwright Martin

McDonagh, born to Irishparents living in London,was raised in London andlives there but has madea career of these veryIrish plays (including theLeenane Trilogy and theAran Islands Trilogy). He’ssaid to be the one of themost important living Irishplaywrights. Obviously,holidaying in Galway asa child made a huge andlasting impression.There’s a delicious irony

in The Cripple of Inishmaan;when Hollywood comesknocking in 1934 and wantsto shootMan of Aran, a “fill-um” on the nearby island ofInishimore, the Inishmaanlocals scoff at the filmmak-ers’ stereotypical view of Ire-land. Yet McDonagh deals

in the same trade: quirkyIrish charm.But under the direction

of Matthew Bissett it’s agreat vehicle for actors.With the help of EnsembleTheatre Company voicecoach Erin Ormond, dia-lect coach Brian Parkinsonand taped music by thePogues, it’s as close topaddy’s pig as it can bewithout actually beingwritten or performed in theEmerald Isle.John Bessette’s rustic

set situates us in Kateand Eileen’s store where,inexplicably, there are onlycanned peas on the shelvesand once in a while a bas-ket of eggs. Alison Raine,looking prim with her hairyanked back into a tightlittle bun, is Auntie Kate.Rebecca Walters, with a

permanent frown of disap-proval, is Auntie Eileen.Together they have raisedBilly — always called Crip-ple Billy — after the deathof his parents who mayhave “fallen overboard”in rough seas or, as nastilyintimated by villagers, putstones in their pockets andjumped overboard “tryingto get away from you.”Sean Allan is Johnnyypa-

teenmike, who earns a tinof peas and, if the gossip isjuicy enough, an egg fromKate and Eileen when hecomes spreading bad news.It’s a good, blustery rolefor Allan although, like thedrunk that chews your earoff, Johnnypateenmike’sstories wear a bit thin aftera while. And while we’reamused at his efforts tokill his old Mammy (Rosy

Frier-Dryden) with poteen,you have to questionwhether it’s funny at all.Stephanie Elgersma’s

Helen is rough and tumblein a frock, sad cardiganand short boots. Elgersmais able to deliver a punch inthe gut, spit out a wickedinsult or smash an egg ortwo yet reveals the absolutefrustration in this youngwoman who, without amiracle, will marry somethick-headed farmer, havea pack of kids and dieyoung.Max Wallace is Cripple

Billy and you have towonder how hard it is onthe body to perform everyfew nights such a limping,crooked character. Onefoot is turned in causingWallace to lurch awk-wardly. Of all the char-

acters, Crippled Billy isthe least stereotypical andtherefore the most interest-ing. Without a chance ofever being kissed by a girl— “except a blind one” —claims one of the aunties,and not being physicallycapable of going to seaor making himself use-ful in Inishmaan, CrippleBilly’s future is grim untilthe filmmakers arrive andthings start looking up.And then down.Two and a half hours of

Irish charm is a “biteen”too much, however, andfor me it ran out about halfan hour before the curtainfell.The Cripple of Inishmaan

runs until Aug. 13 at the Jeri-cho Arts Centre. Tickets are$25, $20 for students. Morereviews at joledingham.ca.

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Cheryl [email protected]

What Satomi Hirano sawin a report about the arts inVancouver seven years agostuck with her.“All the amenities for the

arts were in the East Side,”the advocate for the artssaid. “There was hardlyanything on the West Sideand here I am living in theWest End.”Hirano asked what was

being done to support artsand culture in the WestEnd when she attendedopen houses to developa 30-year vision for herneighbourhood. StephenRegan, executive directorof the West End BusinessImprovement Association,offered to help Hirano starttalking to businesses andresidents about what couldbe done to support the artsin the area.Hirano then contacted

West End resident JohnHewson, who served foreight years on the WhistlerArts Council, and the pairco-founded WEArts, theoperating name for thebrand newWest End ArtsSociety.With money from Gor-

don Neighbourhood Houseand the Vancouver Foun-dation, WEArts led artsprojects, predominantly foryouth, last year and hostedan open house whereparticipants prioritized theywanted:• an arts centre and arts

venues in the West End,• arts festivals,• a website, registry or

magazine to connect artists,• pop-up galleries in

businesses, vacant spaces,community spaces in oroutdoors, and• affordable studios, re-

hearsal and artist live/workspaces.The city has granted the

society $10,000 to hire aconsultant to devise a com-munity arts plan.“What we do know in the

community, though, is thatthere seems to be an ap-petite for murals,” Hewsonsaid.WEArts officially un-

veiled its first commissionedmural at the entrance tothe West End CommunityCentre on Denman Streetlast Saturday (July 26).CurbApp, a new mural

tracking app for smart-phones that was createdlocally, paid Vancouverartist Steve “The CreativeIndividual” Hornung topaint a vibrant tree/swingscene meant to celebratethe 100-year anniversary ofKing George secondary andmark the birth of WEArts.Hirano’s artist sister-in-

law Barbara Hirano is topaint an outline for an-other mural alongside artistTheresa Mura, and thenmembers of the communitywill colour it in.A third mural will be

either a sponsored call forentry or a contest open toan artist from the WestEnd.Murals may not sound

like the beginning of a morehappening arts scene in theWest End but Hewson,whose nickname is “Johnny

Whistler,” believes other-wise.“[The Whistler Arts

Council] went from a strug-gling not-for-profit organi-zation with one volunteer,part-time staff member tohaving an agency that’sfunded by the city, a multi-million-dollar budget, con-ducting events and activitiesin the community that areseen as valuable both to thelocals, but also tourists,” hesaid.Statistics Canada’s 2011

census reports 44,500

residents in the West Endand Hewson notes the 2006census reported 10 per centof West End residents workin art and culture.WEArts expects to soon

see locally made art dis-played in pop-up galleriesin vacant and underusedcommercial spaces.Hirano believes busi-

nesses should be doingmore to support area artistsand she and Hewson saybusiness people have beensupportive of the society’swork so far.

Hewson envisionseventually seeing projec-tion artists transforming talltowers such as the EmpireLandmark Hotel into visualart.On the ground, resi-

dents hope if the WestEnd Community Centre isrefurbished, art and culturefacilities would be added.Ultimately, Hewson

would like to see annualarts events draw visitors tohis scenic neighbourhoodthat already sees an influxof visitors for two decades-

old events, the Celebrationof Lights fireworks and thePride Parade.“The East Side Cul-

ture Crawl is one of thosecelebrated events in thecity every year,” he said.“It would be nice to have acouple of signature eventsin the West End that arerecognized equally.”Hewson advises those

who want to learn moreabout WEArts to visitwearts.ca and sign up forthe newsletter.

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For the first time, twoCanadian teams will beplaying at the Little LeagueWorld Series.The South Vancouver all-

stars are at Canadian nation-als this week, competing torepresent the country at thehistoric tournament and playteams from Japan, Australia,Mexico, the U.S. and fourother regional champions.Whether or not they suc-

ceed, there will be at leastone Vancouver team atWilliamsport, Pa. later thismonth.Little Mountain Chal-

lenger Baseball will field ateam at Volunteer Stadiumfor an exhibition gameagainst Michigan’s ClintonValley Little League onAug. 23. It is the first timein 25 years that a team out-side the U.S. was invited.“It will be so cool — I

have a new uniform andmy name is on the back,”said Gianluca Pitacco, 15,who started playing baseballnearly 10 years ago andconsistently hits well beyondthe infield, making him oneof the strongest batters on

the challenger team.Being treated to travel,

uniforms, interviews, and atelevised game on the inter-national stage like a profes-sional athlete is an excitingfeeling, he said. Pitacco hascerebral palsy, which limitshis movement and motorcontrol, specifically on the

left side of his body whichcan hinder the right-handerin using a glove. But thatdoesn’t limit socializing,exercising and wanting toplay his best for Canada.“Baseball helps him

understand certain thingsin life, too,” said Pitacco’smom, Corrina.

Challenger baseball isadapted for child, teenageand young adult partici-pants with physical or cog-nitive limitations, said KrisGustavson, Little Moun-tain’s coordinator for thechallenger division as well asthe team’s coach.“Ensuring and increasing

physical activity for thesechildren is important, as iseducating the communitythat children with specialneeds can play organizedbaseball, just like theirpeers,” she said.An essential feature of

challenger baseball is thevolunteers who support

players during a game bypushing wheelchairs alongthe base paths, helping a bathit its mark and provid-ing protection, mentorshipand encouragement. Thesevolunteers, known as bud-dies, are an important partof the team and will travelwith Little Mountain to theWorld Series. Ten chal-lenger players will travel.“It’s huge,” said Corrina

Pitacco. “It’s broadcaston ESPN. This is the bigleagues. Knowing that we’reflying there as a team…DidI say it was huge?”The team is continuing

its fundraising efforts and isroughly $8,000 shy of meet-ing a goal of $43,000 to payfor the basic costs of the trip.

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EvanMarch hit a homerun and Rod Betonio wasdangerous at the plate, but theSouth Vancouver All-Stars fellto 3-1 in the round-robin stageof the Little League CanadianChampionship after a 5-2 lossto Ontario’s High Park Bravesin Valleyfield, Que. on Aug. 4.High Park and South

Vancouver, which repre-sents B.C. at the nationaltournament from Aug. 1 to10, were both undefeatedbefore their meeting at theRoland-Boyer Stadium at

Parc Delpha-Sauvé. It’shighly likely the two teamswill meet again in theknock-out stage, and thechampion will have to bebetter than Ontario or B.C.on the day.The All-Stars held the lead

twice, once in the second in-ning afterMarch’s solo shotover the fence, and again inthe bottom of the fourth af-ter High Park tied the game1-1. Joseph Sinclair hit anRBI single to bring EmmaMarch in for the go-aheadrun.With the bases loaded,High Park made its secondpitching substitution of theinning to bring in TomEdward-Gireau who wenton to strike out six batters in

2.1 innings for the win.“Once we looked threat-

ening again, they brought inan ace pitcher, a big boy,”said South Vancouver man-

ager Brian Perry. “We gota hit or two off him, but hekept us from scoring.”Ontario moves to the top

of the standings with a 4-0 re-

cord while Alberta and B.C.are 3-1 andQuebec is 2-1.“Ontario is very strong,

Alberta, too, andQuebechas a very strong team,” saidPerry. “Between those threeand us, I feel one of those isgoing to be the winner.”B.C. started its tourna-

ment with an extra-inningswin over Alberta. The teamfrom Lethbridge led 6-2after four innings (LittleLeague games top out at sixinnings) but South Vancou-ver answered with four runsin the bottom of the fifth.The next two innings werescoreless but Alberta scoredtwice in the eighth inningon one hit. Trailing 8-6,South Vancouver scored an

unearned run and then hittwo home runs to win thegame. Sinclair started therally and then Betonio, theAll-Stars’ lead-off hitter whomissed numerous games atthe provincial championshipbecause of a knee injury,cranked the walk-off homerto win the game 9-8.On Aug. 2, B.C. shut

out the Prairies 5-0 andthe next day decimated theAtlantic 18-0. On Tuesdayafternoon, B.C. played thehosts from Valleyfield andonWednesday it has a bye.The semi-finals begin Aug.9 and the championshipgame begins Aug. 10 at 4p.m. Vancouver time.

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