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The man who pulled the trigger and shot three people at the Squamish Nation pow-wow in 2009 has enjoyed freedom for long

enough, say police.Now it’s time for someone in the public to

come forward and help put the dangerous shoot-er behind bars.

“He’s no less of a threat to the public two years later,” said Cpl. Jag Johal, spokesman for the West Vancouver Police Department, in a phone call on the two-year anni-versary of the crime.

“It’s never too late to make an arrest of a dan-gerous person. This was a serious criminal act and there is no expiry date.”

The shooting took place July 11, 2009, just outside the powwow grounds at the Squamish Nation’s Capilano Reserve. Shortly after 11 p.m., as people were heading home for the night, police say at least four shots rang out into the night. Two men, who police believe were targeted, had to be rushed to hospital. A woman, who police believe was an innocent bystander, was also hit by a stray bullet. All three survived with no permanent injuries.

In the months following the shooting, police launched a major investigation. WVPD reas-signed a number of officers to the file, and uti-lized forensic investigators, a crime analyst, and assistance from other agencies.

Johal says the investigation continued “well into 2010” before it hit a brick wall due to lack of new information. Eventually, officers were reassigned back to other duties, and the file was transferred from active investigation to a cold case.

“Yes, it’s frustrating,” Johal told The Outlook on Monday. “The investigation continues until all leads are exhausted, and then other important files start to take over.”

When time allows, cold case files can be reopened, but it generally takes a new evidence to breathe life into an old investigation.

“The case can be opened at any time if infor-mation is provided,” Johal said.

Based on video camera footage and eye-wit-ness accounts, police say they are looking for a male suspect.

A few days after the shooting, police also told The Outlook that they believed the suspect and another male were ejected from the powwow grounds earlier that night for alcohol consump-tion. It’s not known if their removal prompted the shooting.

Johal said police are confident there are still people in the community who can help shed light on the investigation and identify the shooter, and they remain hopeful those people will speak up.

“We do believe that someone has information and there are people in the know about who did this,” he said. “We want them

to come forward so we can come to a successful conclusion.”

At the time, police said the 2009 shooting marked the first violent incident in the pow-wow’s 22-year history. Many in the Squamish

Nation community denounced the outburst, with many staying late into the night to participate in healing songs for the victims and shooter.

Johal says this year’s event, which took place this past weekend, went off without a hitch. Members of the WVPD, RCMP and Integrated First Nations Unit were present at the powwow — which is one of the largest in B.C. — but no incidents were reported.

Anyone with information about the 2009 shooting is asked to contact the West Vancouver Police at 604-925-7300.

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SEAN KOLENKOS T A F F R E P O R T E R

The overall numbers are promising, says Vancouver Coast Health’s Sandra Edelman, but the recent count of homeless people

provides only a 24-hour snapshot. The are a lot of hidden homeless people couch surfing or “liv-ing rough” in outdoor camps, she warns, and with summer weather finally having reached a more consistent level, there are likely more homeless people heading out to the woods and forested areas across the North Shore.

In late May, the preliminary figures of the Metro Vancouver Homeless Count, completed every three years, were released. Across the region, the number of homeless remained virtu-ally unchanged, dropping from 2,660 in 2008 to 2,623 this year. On the North Shore, 117 people were identified as homeless, compared with 123 in 2008.

“Our numbers aren’t big, but in the past they have been increasing,” says Edelman, VCH’s interim director for community health and chair of the North Shore Homelessness Task Force.

“So this levelling off is definitely good.”The number of unsheltered homeless also

declined from 63 in 2008 to 52 this year. This is another positive sign, adds Edelman, because those using shelters have a better chance of accessing outreach services such as nurses, foot specialists and optometrists.

Of greater concern, however, is the num-ber of homeless youth. Metro Vancouver saw a 29-per-cent increase in “unaccompanied youth,” while North Van recorded a 38-per-cent jump. This year was the first time the homeless sur-

vey attempted a youth-speciifc count, although Edleman says the task force asked schools and councillors to count homeless students in 2008. They reported 40 such youth.

Paul Butler, youth services coordinator for Hollyburn Family Services, commended the homeless count for including youth this year. He feels this will help illustrate the “changing face of homeless.” The stereotypical homeless picture, that of an addict in their 30s, 40s or 50s, isn’t reflective of the entire homeless community.

The problem in reaching a concrete number for North Shore homeless youth is overcoming the stigma many youth may feel when finding themselves in such a situation. Couch surfing, says Butler, is a form of homelessness but isn’t nearly as difficult to admit as not having any place to stay.

“Youth don’t always identify as themselves homeless, but they are,” says Butler.

“There are lots of challenges in the youth count. People perceive this as a family area, a place of big money. But there is this homeless-ness piece because of many factors. It can be hard to find them on count day. I think this is eye-opening for people.”

The lack of North Shore panhandling, adds Butler, is another challenging factor when attempting to quantify homeless. Many people choose to head downtown to work but return home to the North Shore to sleep.

The next hurdle, adds Butler, is providing housing. The North Shore youth safe house, which sleeps six, is full every night, he says. A two-bedroom transitional apartment, designed for longer stays, is available and eight more beds for those between the ages of 18 and 24 is

expected to open in August. Judy Yurkowsky and David Newberry, of

North Van’s Lookout shelter, echoed Butler’s call for housing. Last year, the Lookout operated at 104-per-cent capacity. The Lookout doesn’t allow youth to access its services, but as the homeless count revealed, many are coming in off the street and filling up all available beds.

“It’s great to provide linkages for people who wouldn’t get it out in the camps, which could be anything from looking at jobs to getting IDs,” said Yurkowsky.

“And word travels fast on the street about plac-es that treat people with dignity and support.”

But shelters aren’t housing, adds Newberry.“There is only so much affordable housing.

Someone has to move out for someone to move in. Moving indoors is an excellent first step. But if you can’t afford to live, how do you move out of the shelter system? Political will needs to exist on the North Shore to find a solution on the North Shore.”

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North Shore municipalities need to start thinking like bears, says the area’s conservation officer.

Last week, two black bears were shot in North Vancouver after being deemed habituated to people and feeding off garbage, says Simon Gravel, noting it’s not a job he likes to do.

“It’s a tough decision for a conservation officer,” he says. One bear was destroyed after encountering two people on a trail on

Mount Seymour. A conservation officer and two police officers were called in. When the “three big guys” tried to chase the bear away, it showed no signs of fear, Gravel says.

The other bear was eating from the trash in a North Vancouver neigh-bourhood near Mosquito Creek. It had remnants of plastic bags in its scat.

North Shore municipalities have bylaws in place regulating when people place their garbage outside for pick up and how it is stored, but local gov-ernments could take more proactive steps to prevent bears from being attracted to our neighbourhoods, Gravel says, adding we are building in their territory.

Squamish is one example of a community that’s done just that. Last year, it became the second municipality in B.C. to be awarded Bear Smart status from the Ministry of Environment. To achieve this, the district had to implement a bear management plan, which is now a section within its Official Community Plan. The municipality also incorporated bear deter-rent strategies into its bylaws and building permits. These regulations include zoning bylaws that prevent people from planting plants on their property which may attract bears. The rules also have a Bear Smart waste management checklist that developers must meet before acquiring a devel-opment permit and rezoning.

It’s been a bit of a long road, says Meg Toom, Squamish’s Bear Aware Community Coordinator, but it’s coming together. Although there is a lot of bear activity in the area, so far this summer no bears have been shot.

Many of Squamish’s policies would be easy for other municipalities to adopt, Toom notes.

“It’s not like we are reinventing the wheel,” she says.The idea of working Bear Smart intiatives into permits and zoning is

something the District of West Vancouver might consider, says Bob Sokol, director of planning, lands and permits.

“There are certainly issues of bears in West Van,” he says. Last month alone there were 150 reports of black bears on the North

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The beauty pageant reputation, at least the one the knee-jerk summons up, isn’t always the most positive. Scenes of over-lipsticked,

super-permed youngsters practising dance rou-tines — not in the heartbreakingly lovable fashion of Olive, the beauty queen hopeful of Little Miss Sunshine — while over-zealous mothers critique their every step have become fodder for docu-mentaries and talk shows.

And that tough-to-swallow stereotype isn’t lost on North Vancouver’s Cheryl Dietrich, the newly-crowned Miss BC. In fact, she didn’t even enter herself into the contest; her name landed on pageant director Darren Storsley’s desk via an anonymous fan.

“Once I met with the people involved in the pageant I was sold,” says Dietrich. “The passion was awesome. I just wanted in.”

After she committed, the hard work began. Throwing herself into the pageant made her feel “completely uncomfortable.” Having wrestled with self-esteem issues, says Dietrich, made being part of such an endeavour quite the undertaking. Sometimes you just don’t feel good enough. You don’t look the way you want to look, feel the way you want to feel or work the way you want to work.

But it’s when you wade into unknown terri-tory that you learn a thing or two about yourself, she says. And that’s what Miss BC looks to pro-mote. Instead of the offering the pageant-staple swimsuit competition, Miss BC has a sportswear category. Each contestant also participates in six professional training workshops, ranging in theme from self-defence to interview skills to public speaking.

“About 15 of the 41 contestants told me they

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“They were there to get out of their shell. And when they leave after the weekend, the shyness is no more. It really isn’t about impressing the judges. It’s about having something inside to share, and learning to share it.”

The pageant’s 2010 winner, Storlsey notes, focused on educating people on the horrors of the international sex trade. Prime Minster Stephen Harper was so impressed he flew her to 24 Sussex Dr. to discuss her concerns before she went to Thailand to work with victims of the sex trade.

The platform Dietrich hopes to champion during her tenure as Miss BC is one of empowerment. She says she wants to use her position to talk to young girls about the impor-tance of being confident. She plans to approach camps, community groups and schools to spread her message, connecting with girls and women at all points along the way. She’ll also be a part of this month’s Vancouver Pride festivities and the second annual Outgames later this month.

It isn’t an opportunity to offer sermons, she stresses, because preaching doesn’t reach people. Her title gives her the chance to help and to con-tinue evolving alongside those she’ll be working with. “Anyone can struggle; it doesn’t matter who you are,” says Dietrich. “But I think we have to get them early.”

Dietrich plans to participate in the Miss Canada pageant in February. It’ll be another head-first dive into the land of the uncomfortable but, she says, it’ll be another learning experience. A larger platform with more eyes focused on her, to be sure, but with that much more potential to help.

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David Atkinson, Pattison Sign Group has applied for a Development Variance Permit with respect to properties legally described as Lot 1, Block 136, District Lot 271, Plan 13998, located at 351 West 3rd Street, as indicated on the sketch.

The intent of this variance is to permit the replacement of the existing freestanding Husky sign and relocate it to the northwest corner of the site. The following variances to Sign Bylaw, 1992, No. 6363, are required –

- to permit one freestanding sign to be located within 30 metres of a residential zone.

- to permit one freestanding sign to be installed within the Special Setback area.

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J. RALPH has applied for a Development Variance Permit with respect to the property legally described as Amended Lot 10 (Explanatory Plan 4387), Block 13 District Lot 616, Plan 3804, located at 633 East 22nd Street, as indicated on the sketch, to permit the provisions of the “Zoning Bylaw, 1995, No. 6700” to be varied, to permit a Level-B Accessory Coach House at the rear of this property. The Coach House will be 985 square feet, 1.6 storeys and within a 20 ft. height envelope

NOTICE is hereby given, under the provisions of the Local Government Act, that a Public Meeting will be held on MONDAY, JULY 18, 2011 AT 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, B.C.

DEVELOPMENT VARIANCE PERMIT NO. 2011-00003

NOTICE is hereby given, under the provisions of the Local Government Act, that a Public Meeting will be held on MONDAY, JULY 18, 2011 AT 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, B.C.

As part of the same application, J. RALPH has applied for a Development Permit with respect to the property legally described above, located at 633 East 22nd Street. This Development Permit ensures the Level-B Accessory Coach House, described above, is constructed in compliance with the Level-B Accessory Coach House Development Permit Guidelines and all other applicable bylaws and guidelines of the City. Buildings and Structures will be developed in accordance with the plans stamped received June, 2011.

of the City Clerk between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except Statutory Holidays, from July 8, 2011 to July 18, 2011. If you wish to view the material online please go to www.cnv.org/publichearings. Please direct inquiries to Courtney Miller, Community Development, at 604-990-4219 or [email protected]. Written or electronic (email) submissions should be sent to the attention of the City Clerk at [email protected] or by mail to City Clerk, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 1H9. Electronic submissions must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 18, 2011.

DEVELOPMENT VARIANCE PERMIT NO. DVP-2011-00002

the City Clerk between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, except Statutory Holidays, from July 8, 2011 to July 18, 2011. If you wish to view the material online please go to www.cnv.org/publichearings. Please direct inquiries to Jocelyne Piercey , Planner, Community Development, at 604-990-4236 or [email protected]. Written or electronic (email) submissions should be sent to the attention of the City Clerk at [email protected] or by mail to City Clerk, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 1H9. Electronic submissions must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 18, 2011.

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APPLICANT: J. RALPH

APPLICANT: DAVID ATKINSON, PATTISON SIGN GROUP

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NOTICE is hereby given by the City of North Vancouver that a Public Hearing will be held on MONDAY, JULY 18, 2011 AT 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, B.C. to receive representations in connection with the following proposed amendment to “Zoning Bylaw, 1995, No. 6700”.

To rezone lot amended 21, Block 21, District Lot 548, Plan 1435, as indicated on the sketch, located at 318 West 18th Street. The amendment to “Zoning Bylaw, 1995, No. 6700” will have the effect of reclassifying the said property

FROM: RS-1 (One Unit Residential 1 Zone)

TO: CD-611 (Comprehensive Development 611 Zone)

to change the zoning of this property to allow for the subdivision of this 60 ft. wide lot to create two 30 ft. lots. The proposal includes the construction of a new single family dwelling with secondary suite on each lot and a detached two car garage at the rear. Access to the garage would be from the open lane at the rear of the property

This Public Hearing is held under the provisions of the Local Government Act. All persons who believe they may be affected by the above proposal will be afforded an opportunity to be heard in person and/or by written submission. Written or electronic (email) submissions should be sent to the attention of the City Clerk at [email protected] or by mail to City Clerk, City Hall, 141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 1H9. Electronic submissions must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 18, 2011, to ensure their availability to Council at the Public Hearing. Once the Public Hearing has concluded, no further information or submissions can be considered by Council.

Statutory Holidays, from July 8, 2011 to July 18, 2011. If you wish to view the material online please go to www.cnv.org/publichearings. Please direct inquiries to Barbara Westmacott, Planning Technician II, at 604-990-4216 or [email protected].

APPLICANT: MARIO DRUFOVKA

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contributions and fundraising efforts. Congrats to all involved.

B Philanthropist and former provincial political leader Grace McCarthy, left, attends the event with husband Ray and friend Gail Honey, wife of former radio star Rick Honey. C Among the evening’s award recipients is the always dashing Howard Blank, who is a vice president of both the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation and of the Variety board of directors.D North Vancouver’s Brett Manlove, seen here with wife Brenda, knows all about the Variety Children’s Charity. As former Global TV VP, he has spent many hours tuned in with the cause. E Helping out with MC duties this night are media publisher/personality Peter

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been the end of the line for the Canadian Pacific Railway. With such a distinction came business interests and Vancouver quickly emerged as a bustling port.

North Vancouver, while having experienced some significant change in the Lower Lonsdale neighbourhood since the turn of the century, remained much more quiet. About 1,000 people and 250 homes dotted the North Van landscape. A ferry service had long connected the two towns — the ferry terminal served, even then, as the city’s hub — but North Van didn’t yet have electricty, a boon Vancouver was already benefitting from.

Electricity offered obvi-ous advantages such as street lighting, but it also brought with it the potential for streetcar service. By 1906, power arrived and so did the streetcars. Within a year, lines ran along Lonsdale Avenue to 19th Street, from First Street to 19th Street via Third Street and Grand Boulevard, and west from First Street to Keith Road, ending at what is now Mackay Road. In 1911, a new Grand Boulevard route to Lynn Valley was added, as was a new westerly line that ended in the area of the current Capilano Road.

“The investment in transit versus the number of people was substantial,” says Gary Penway, the city’s deputy director of community development.

“People absolutely rode it. It was fundamental to the city’s growth.”

The pivotal transportation system would, how-ever, suffer a quick demise. In 1937, the Lions Gate bridge was built. In spring 1943, the Mackay Creek trestle was abandoned and 1946 marked the end of the Lonsdale line. The extensive track system was quickly ripped up, helping make room for bur-

geoning bus services. By the spring of 1947, street-car services in North Vancouver were no more.

Marine Drive“’Wouldn’t it be nice to hop on a streetcar at the

bottom of Lonsdale and go to Ambleside?’” asks Coun Bob Fearnley.

“Obviously the city would benefit from the cross-town transit, but I believe this benefits all the municipalities on the North Shore. It could help revitalize Marine Drive, support the Squamish Nation in their moves to revitalize the area around Park Royal. This could really tie com-munities together.”

Fearnley’s interest in re-establishing a street-car system has been discussed, off and on, in North Vancouver for years. Barb Sharpe pro-posed a return of a Lonsdale line when she was

mayor, while Dragana Mitic, the city’s transportation plan-ner, wrote a report last sum-mer outlining the possibility of a free shuttle system on Lonsdale, owned and oper-ated by the city.

But the service Fearnley is discussing is more akin to the light rail systems used in Seattle and Portland. The immediate reaction to any discussion about streetcars often paints a nostalgic pic-

ture of the cars of yesteryear. But the reality of modern transit, and the never-ending interest in rapid transit for the North Shore, means high-speed light rail, Fearnley says.

In 2006, the IBI Group, a international consult-ing firm specializing in urban issues, completed an extensive report on the feasibility of a downtown light rail system in Vancouver.

A light rail car, priced between $3 and $3.5 mil-lion, is more expensive than both a 40-foot bus at $400,000 to $500,000 and an articulated bus, which ranges between $600,000 and $900,000. Light rail cars, however, carry more passengers than buses and on busy transit corridors, that greater capacity can help offset the more expen-sive capital costs.

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City of North Vancouver Coun. Bob Fearnley wants to see light rail on the North Shore. This historic streetcar, currently housed at Fen Burdett Stadium, once travelled along Lonsdale Avenue. Rob Newell photo

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The service life, reads the report, of a streetcar is longer than that of bus, at about 25 years and 17 years respectively.

But greater costs exist in the construction of the lines. Approximate cost for a downtown streetcar service was $270 million in 2006. This included a line from Granville Island to Waterfront Station, an extension between Chinatown and Gastown, a line into Stanley Park and a Pacific Boulevard branch.

A North Shore pricetag would be significantly cheaper, as lines would likely exist only along Marine Drive initially and, says Fearnley, Lonsdale Avenue to Lynn Valley in “the fullness of time.”

Logistics

“Any kind of rail system has high capacity needs. Light rail is interesting, but it depends on the corridor,” says Ken Hardie, TransLink spokesperson.

“We looked at it for the Evergreen Line and thought it could work. There are lots of stops along that corridor at ground level, in the line of sight for businesses.”

But SkyTrain — a more expensive option than light rail — was chosen. Hardie says people polled on the topic perceived light rail to be an inferior option and the potential for loss of traffic and parking lanes is a difficult pill to swallow. The elevated Skytrain, on the other hand, doesn’t pres-ent those problems.

Buses, adds Hardie, are more flexible creatures than light rail systems. Situations arise when buses need to be taken off certain routes and used on others and having that flexibility is an advantage to service providers.

“Light rail can help communities. The Broadway, King George Highway and Marine Drive corri-dors are all good candidates, but you need to have good discussions with businesses and residents,” adds Hardie.

“When you’re pouring concrete and laying tracks, you’re committed.”

A renaissance?

The help a light rail or streetcar system can bring to a community, albeit more anecdotal than scientific, centres around its ability to create a more attractive and comfortable neighbourhood.

Patrick Condon, University of British Columbia James Taylor chair of landscape and livable envi-ronments, says light rail tends to attract “easier-to-

swallow” low-rise development forms, not the towers that often spring up around SkyTrain sta-tions.

In an area like the North Shore, particularly in the dis-trict, where increasing heights, potentially affected views and added density are routinely met with opposition, the regular-ity of four-or-five storey devel-opments may prove a more palatable option for residents.

With density comes the option of rapid transit, which would only exist on the North Shore along Fearnley’s preferred route for light rail service — Marine Drive.

“I would argue we need more models for high density than just towers. They aren’t a bad thing per se, but in terms of fostering a neighbourhood feeling, they’re different,” says Condon.

“It’s a much different experience.”And because the region grew up around street-

car systems, adds Condon, it remains suitable for the streetcar’s revival. Echoing Hardie’s com-ments, Condon says such a renaissance would require extensive construction, but once realized could create a region-wide synergy between devel-opment and transportation.

“I believe this could mark a substantial shift away from SkyTrain and buses,” says Condon.

“And it’s already in the fabric of our region, particularly the parts built before 1950. It will be a fundamental lynchpin to sustainable community building in the future.”

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Elena Grant, owner of Sofiabella – an

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“As a mother and aunt to tween-aged girls, I feel very strongly that clothing should empower not exploit them,” says Grant.

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“Padding swimwear for preteen girls is not something we carry or will carry,” states Vicki Sather, product development and design man-ager, Swimwear Etc.

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You could call it a fusion, a crossroads, or even a musical masala.

When Ranj Singh plucks on his six-string guitar, Eastern melodies blend with Western rhythms, in what the Surrey singer-song-writer likes to call “Indo folk” music.

“I often tell people that if world-famous ghazal singer Jagjit Singh shared a hookah pipe with Neil Young, this is the music they’d come up with,” laughs Singh, during a recent telephone interview with The Outlook.

“But the truth is, this is just how music sounds in my head. I love acoustic guitars, I love Indian music, and I love rock ’n’ roll. For me, this is a really natural fit.”

Growing up on a farm in rural Cloverdale, Singh says he was raised on a steady diet of clas-sic riff rock, such as Neil Young and Boston.

From an early age, music played an instrumen-tal role in his life. As kids he and his four broth-ers, all born one year apart, would spend hours playing music on little more than “flipped over buckets and rubber band guitars.” As they transi-tioned into high school, the siblings started rent-ing gear and jamming together in a more serious way.

But in hindsight, Singh admits he lived a bit of a sheltered life back in those days. At the time, he knew very little about his East Indian background and culture and spoke hardly any Punjabi.

“I grew up in a very Western environment. I had no East Indian friends; they were all Caucasians. My brothers and I were definitely the minority,” says Singh.

While attending college, however, he was introduced to others who shared his Indo-Canadian ancestry. It was one of these friends who eventually invited him along to see an icon-ic Indian ghazal singer perform during a visit to the Lower Mainland — a pivotal moment in both Singh’s life and career.

“Right away I just fell in love with the melo-dies. I wanted to hear more and see more,” he recalls. “One thing led to another and I ended up playing guitar in a local Punjabi band. I quickly picked up the language and continued to learn more and more about the culture.”

In the early 90s, Singh and his brothers formed Dal Dil Vog, a grunge-era Vancouver rock band that mixed hard rock with dance-oriented Bhangra music.

The band’s unique fusion of sounds was a hit, and for several years they enjoyed moderate fame, landing videos on Much Music and MTV Asia, touring North America and India, headlin-ing the Vancouver Folk Festival, and even per-forming for Prince Charles.

“We lived the rock star lifestyle,” says Singh. “But eventually, it became too much. In 1999 or 2000 I quit the whole band scene. It was taking too much of a toll on my family life, so I put my guitar away and started working full-time.”

Years would pass before Singh finally picked up his guitar again and, when he did, he found things had changed. He was no longer interested in playing rock tunes. Instead, he started strum-ming his guitar in a more mellow way, while penning intimate lyrics. The result, he says, was the birth of Indo folk.

“It just seems like the right mix. I think it’s what I’ve always envisioned in my head,” says the self-taught guitarist. “A lot of what I play now are old songs that I had in my back pocket and didn’t know what to do with. Some of them are 25 years old, others were written just recently.

“I like to think my music is genuine. It’s always about experiences or people in my life,” he adds. “If you were there first-hand, it’s easy to write about. If you’re in love with somebody, it’s easy to write a song for them.”

Backed by his band The Discriminators, Singh released his first album, “Simple Man,” a few years ago. On June 25, the band followed-up with its sophomore release “Found a Way Home,” including the single “East West Masala.”

This summer, the group is taking its act on the road across the Lower Mainland, beginning with a stop at North Vancouver’s annual Party at the Pier celebration Sunday, July 17, at 11 a.m.

For more on the band or to hear samples from the new album visit www.ranjsingh.com. For more info on Party at the Pier check out www.lowerlonsdalebusinessassociation.com.

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Ranj Singh (centre) and his band The Discriminators will bring their unique “Indo folk” sound to North Vancouver’s annual Party at the Pier this weekend. Submitted photo

In the 1990s, Ranj Singh played with with his four brothers in the popular hard rock band Dal Dil Vog. These days, the singer-songwriter is exploring mellower musical avenues.


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Forget cutting through red tape; the Marine Life Sanctuaries Society of B.C.

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Mulder, says he’s tired of see-ing government studies on what marine habitats should be pro-tected collect dust. Of the embar-rassingly few marine life sanctu-aries in B.C., many of them have levels of protection but few fall under full “no take zones,” says the North Vancouver resident.

Mulder has been diving for 22 years. He says he’s seen how ineffective these levels of pro-tections are. He’s found fishing lures that are stuck in, or have torn through, corals and spong-es and hauled out abandoned crab traps that turn into “killing machines.” Mulder has also seen people catch rockfish and release them back into the water not realizing that by bringing the fish to the sea’s surface, the creatures’

swim bladders expand resulting in death.

Recently divers and scientists have noticed signs of life return-ing to Howe Sound. But without help and protection the marine environment has little to no chance of full recovery, Mulder says.

“We can’t wait for govern-ment,” he adds.

And so the society has taken matters into its own hands. Its members took a pledge to vol-untarily refrain from extracting marine organisms out of marine conservation areas and other marine reserves. Now it’s chal-lenging North Shore residents to follow suit.

“Fish aren’t cute and cuddly,” Mulder says. “If they had fur they would be easier to protect.”

There are three parts to the society’s grassroots movement — education, stewardship and pro-tection. Last month the organiza-tion met with students on Bowen Island. The pupils gathered on a beach while divers brought up species for viewing. The society has also created videos of marine life in Howe Sound to take to West and North Vancouver schools.

The stewardship part of the initiative involves residents becoming aware of locally pro-tected marine areas and report-ing and recording any violations in those zones.

And the final component is the “no take” pledge. Simply put, the plan is to encourage the com-munity to feel ownership of its marine habitat.

“I think it is the only way we will be successful at saving it,” Mulder says.

Twelve years ago the society’s members used to help conduct an annual fish count. The surveys stopped when the counts got so small; it wasn’t worth the divers’ time, Mulder says. He’s excited for the day when the fish num-bers are up again.

“I am passionate about this because of what I have seen in a very short period of time,” Mulder says. “We can make a change.”

For more information on the Marine Life Sanctuaries Society of B.C. and its pro-grams, visit www.mlssbc.com or check it out on Facebook.

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Shore to become stewards of our marine environment

Roy Mulder has been diving for 22 years. He hopes the society’s pledge will give marine life time to re-establish itself. Submitted photo


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Sean Foley’s job is to straighten out Tiger Woods.

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No – yet, while Foley’s task as Tiger’s coach is strictly to get the best golfer in the world to actually be the world’s best golfer out there on the golf course, if you talk with the former North Vancouverite who went to Windsor Secondary in Grades 8 and 9, you’ll soon find that Foley believes in working with the complete person.

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“Sean always had a passion for teaching golf, even when he was in Grade 8. He always wanted to copy the best players’ swings. He was very technical.”

Sean and Steve, three years older, met when the two played golf for Windsor and as junior members at Seymour Golf and Country Club, and while trekking to Shaughnessy for lessons. You get to know someone really well during four hours walking and talking on the golf course.

“Even back then,” notes Steve, “he was very intelligent. He was always trying to figure out how things worked; why people swung a certain way and what caused a certain shot to happen.”

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Sean was born in Scarborough, Ont. Because his dad moved a lot while working for DuPont, the chemical company, the family lived in Delaware, San Francisco and Los Angeles before

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Sean Foley (at left giving pointers to client Tiger Woods) has been figuring out the intricate technicalities of the perfect golf swing ever since he and Steve Roberts (shown on the right and left at Foley’s wedding) were going to Windsor Secondary more than 20 years ago. John Bievers photo/ Kevin Foley photo from Steve Roberts collection

moving to North Van and then back to Toronto.

But Sean and Steve kept in close contact and, amazingly, have had very similar lives. Steve earned a full-ride golf scholarship to Jackson State University in Mississippi after graduating from Windsor in 1989, while Sean took a scholarship to Tennessee State after finishing high school in Ontario.

Both became teaching pros. Steve was at several courses including Eaglecrest Coyote Creek in Surrey before managing Perfect Lies, a golf retail store. (He’s now a sales rep for Chubb Edwards, the security company.) Sean taught at famed Glen Abbey in Oakville, Ont.

They even got married within months of each other in 2004 (Sean and wife Kate in July right at Glen Abbey where they met when she showed up for golf lessons; and Steve and Amy in October). And they were groomsmen in each other’s wedding party. Steve has

two sons, Noah, almost five, and Matteo, two. Sean has Quinn, three and a half, with Kate expecting their second son in August.

Sean hasn’t been back to Vancouver since Steve’s wedding. That will all change when Sean arrives for the Canadian Open next week at Shaughnessy.

Texting and talking on the phone as they do is one thing, but meeting up at Shaughnessy will be so much better, bringing back memories of when they were carefree kids.

“Steve had this Oldsmobile Classic,” Sean recalls. “It was such a lemon, such a beater. It was so big. He would pick me up early and my golf spikes would already be on. We’d go play Point Grey or Shaughnessy or Seymour. We walked a thousand miles together. He remembers sitting in the car with me telling him about angles in a downswing that could lead to more speed. He must have thought, ‘Where is this kid coming from?’”

Dale Schienbein, who became head pro at Seymour when Mel White retired, was at Shaughnessy then and coached Sean. Jack McLaughlin worked with Steve.

Over at Seymour, there are memories too. That’s where they sometimes played gratis by hopping the fence in Steve’s backyard at 951 Fairway Drive, an appropriately named street for sure. That put them on the 13th hole.

Steve and Sean would play at Seymour in a threesome with someone else whose name you might know, and they’d poke fun when this other kid had to leave before their round was even over. Despite being summertime, it seems this other boy always had to go to hockey camp or power skating. When Paul Kariya made it to the NHL, they realized why he’d left early so often.

Sean, with his sports psychologist’s hat on, says, “I’m always trying to look at cause and effect, whether it’s a golf swing or human emo-tions or whatever. If someone is not typically happy and they’re not good to other people, rather than judge or condemn them – that’s the effect – I’m trying to understand what is the cause. Typically, when people like that tell you about their life, there are so many red lights as to why they would be that way. I was always the kid pointing to things saying, ‘What? Why?’

“There are 50 guys on the PGA Tour not play-ing well because their mom or dad passed away or they’re having issues with their wife. As much as it affects anyone else, it affects them, too. And golf is the beautiful test because you get to go out on the course for five hours, where it’s really quiet, and think about it the whole time. So it’s getting them to understand self-apathy and shame and guilt and all that stuff which is conflicting the clarity that’s needed to perform. Anything outside your control might as well be dead to you.”

As you can see, Sean understands more than just the golf swing.

When Sean was here, he lived at 2150 Hill Drive in Blueridge which, he points out, “was about as high up as you could go on Mount Seymour.”

That street name and location, much like Steve’s Fairway Drive, is uncannily fitting for Sean because coaching Tiger Woods is about as high up as you can go in the world as a teaching pro. But it will also be an uphill struggle to get Woods back to where he once was. You can be sure, however, that Sean has the drive to do it.

This is episode 425 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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As fast-tempo circus music echoes off the concrete walls at the Harry Jerome centre’s gymna-

sium, a group of barefooted children dashes toward the centre of the room.

Most of the kids are clad in bright blues, florescent pinks, or neon purples, making the single-file line look more like a colourful blur.

Some don scarves, bows, or face paint. A few girls have their hair in pig-tails. At least one boy has a red feather in his cap like Peter Pan.

Today is the final day of circus camp and the kids are preparing to perform for a group of excited parents and care-givers.

For the past week, the camp’s 33 participants have learned the ropes — both literally and figuratively — from a group of professional performers from Vancouver Circus School.

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“It’s athletic yet everyone can par-ticipate,” he says, noting the camp also teaches less physical acts, such as jug-gling, trampoline and unicycling.

“You don’t have to be a top athlete to succeed at circus,” he notes. “It’s also about performance, which helps stu-dents improve their confidence levels.”

Parent Julia Balkwill signed her daughters up because she thought it would be a fun and creative way for them to stay active.

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“You feel like you’re flying when you’re on them,” says the 10-year-old. “Like nothing can hold you back.”

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There are times when it seems like men and women speak a different language. Meanings

get misinterpreted, words don’t have the same connotation and dis-agreements ensue because of simple misunderstandings.

In his role as an Anglican priest who does a lot of work with cou-ples whose marriage is in trouble, Ed Hird sometimes acts as their translator.

For him, what’s key in any rela-tionship is that we feel understood. To be understood, and to be accept-ed, go deep into the core of our humanity.

Several years ago, he wrote in an online column that “Inside the heart of each and every one of us, there is a longing to be understood by someone who really cares. When a person is understood, he or she can put up with almost anything in the world.”

Little did he know how much these words would resonate with people, especially with those who like to think a lot about love.

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cover that there were nearly 19,000 links. Those two sentences have been posted on thousands of blogs, social networking pages and romance-oriented websites.

He writes about the impact those words have had in an essay in a new anthology called A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider: Words to stimulate the mind and delight the spirit. The book is a bit like Chicken Soup for the Religious Soul. Published by That’s Life! Communications, the book explores different perspective of the role faith plays in our everyday lives.

In his essay, Rev. Hird touches on what he’s learned in his own mar-riage to Janice, a professional musi-cian with whom he has three chil-dren. He talks about what works in his marriage, and what differences they’ve had to overcome. “A healthy marriage,” he writes, “celebrates the ordinary, not just the extra-ordinary. Janice and I are learning afresh the joy of ordinary plea-sures: taking regular time together for peaceful walks, chatting over a cup of tea, listening to each other’s daily experiences... and even read-ing together. When I’m excited about the insights I’m learning from a new book, I love to interrupt my

wife and tell her about my new dis-coveries. Because she’s very kind, she puts up with this, before going back to her own mystery novel.”

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The key to a successful marriage, says Rev. Ed Hird, is to “celebrate the ordinary, not just the extraordinary.” Hird shares this and other insights in a recently published essay. Martha Perkins photo

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