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Metro Vancouver politicians soon face criti-cal choices on how they pursue waste-to-energy incineration now that the province has

approved the region’s solid waste plan.A key issue – to be tackled this fall – is whether any

new incinerator should be publicly owned and operated or outsourced to a private partner.

A Metro-built facility would mean taxpayers pay direct-ly for it – a price tag that could easily top $500 million – but the region would be able to sell the energy generated, offsetting much of the ongoing costs and maybe even turn a small profit.

If a private partner instead finances, builds and runs the plant, Metro would avoid up-front costs and the risks of ownership but sign a long-term garbage-supply contract. The region would pay per-tonne garbage disposal fees, which would cover not just the construction and oper-ating costs but also the partner’s profit margin and its potentially higher borrowing costs.

Directors will likely debate whether Metro should keep the energy revenue for itself, how much that power might be worth in the future and whether Metro could scale down incineration if residents recycle and compost more than expected.

“The business model is one thing we have to determine out of the gate,” said Port Coquitlam Mayor Greg Moore, who chairs the Metro waste management committee.

A hybrid option might be for Metro to finance the plant but contract out construction and operation, with an agreement on sharing both risks and revenues.

Metro’s waste committee and board is expected to soon begin to frame its request for proposals, although it won’t be finalized until early next year, after civic elections in November bring a new set of directors.

Moore said that call will leave the plant’s location wide open, allowing open competition between out-of-region bidders like Covanta Energy, which proposes an incin-erator at Gold River on Vancouver Island, and other proponents with in-region sites, such as a possible bid by Aquilini Renewable Energy on Tsawwassen First Nation land.

That may bring a tussle at the board over how to rate the bids.

Should more weight be given to avoiding local air emis-sions by barging trash to Gold River?

Or should efficiently located in-region sites with better potential to sell energy into a district heating network win out on dollar value because of lower transport costs and higher revenues?

Would locating the incinerator in Surrey help transform its emerging downtown with new development?

Or would it be less risky to place the plant in North Vancouver, where it could simply plug in to Lower

Lonsdale’s existing district heat system, now fired by nat-ural gas?

Metro estimates an in-region burner will cost taxpay-ers at least $1 billion less over the long term than out-of-region options – although critics hotly dispute the under-lying assumptions.

Another tough choice is whether to give some prefer-ence to emerging waste conversion technologies, such as gasification or pyrolysis, which promise ultra-low emis-sions but don’t have the track record of conventional mass-burn incineration.

“There was a lot of desire around the board to look at new and emerging waste-to-energy technology,” Moore said.

Some directors warn those alternatives won’t stand a chance if the bidding is wide open to a mass-burn incin-erator, which they expect to wield a big cost advantage.

Vancouver councillors, who tried a year ago to ban mass-burn combustion from the waste plan, are expected to mount a similar push again.

Moore said the board might opt to carve out part of the 500,000 tonnes of waste per year for proponents of alter-native technologies, who wouldn’t have to bid against a conventional incinerator.

That may lead to another choice – whether to go with a single plant or multiple ones.

Metro is also expected to hire a third-party independent expert for advice in the coming decisions.

A final decision on what will be built and where could be 18 months away, Metro officials say.

While the politicians decide the framework for what might be built, Metro will also start consulting the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) to address concerns that toxic emissions will worsen air quality in the already pol-luted airshed.

Environment Minister Terry Lake ordered the consulta-tions and establishment of a joint working group of the two regions, directing Metro to take steps to address “rea-sonable” concerns of the FVRD.

The two regions, at odds over the public health risks, have one year to agree on emission standards and envi-ronmental monitoring for any new incinerator. If they can’t agree, the dispute goes to arbitration.

What counts as a “reasonable” objection?No one knows.But the hammer of arbitration and subsequent provin-

cial approvals necessary for any plant could still allow Victoria to block in-region incineration, in response to the demands of valley residents.

Moore said he’s hopeful staff of both regional districts can look objectively at the issues.

“Frankly, I’d like to try to take some of the politics out of it.”

He said Metro is committed to using the best emissions control systems available.

Burnaby incinerator may wind down as recycling gains momentum.

One concern of recycling advocates – that building an incinerator will lock Metro into using it rather than con-tinuing to improve recycling rates – is inaccurate, accord-ing to Metro waste committee chair Greg Moore.

If Metro gets beyond its new 2020 target of 80 per cent diversion and doesn’t require as much disposal capac-ity, he said, the Burnaby waste-to-energy plant would be gradually decommissioned.

It has three burners and streams feeding them that each process about 90,000 tonnes of waste per year.

“We would slowly take those offline,” Moore said.He cautioned Metro’s estimates of 1.3 million tonnes

still requiring disposal in the future is based on the region hitting all its diversion targets, including the short-term commitment of recycling 70 per cent by 2015, up from 55 per cent now.

That will depend on aggressive new recycling efforts, tightened disposal bans and region-wide composting of food waste.

The new waste-to-energy plant would take the 500,000 tonnes per year Metro now sends to the Cache Creek landfill.

Another 500,000 tonnes goes to the Vancouver land-fill in Delta, while close to 280,000 tonnes goes to the Burnaby incinerator.

Metro previously committed to stop trucking its garbage to Cache Creek, although continued landfilling remains a backup option in the new plan.

Moore said there are plans to decrease use of the Vancouver landfill over the long term, but noted some landfill capacity is needed as a contingency and to take ash from incinerated garbage.

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A load of garbage is hoisted at the Burnaby waste-to-energy plant. Planning work gets underway soon for a possible new Metro Vancouver garbage incinerator.Evan Seal / The Leader

The Low Level Road project has caught the ire of residents living in the area of the South Slope. To help quell some of the resentment, Port Metro Vancouver invited those in the potentially affected area to a series of meetings at the Café for Contemporary Art. Peter Taylor photo

Consultation concernsPort Metro Vancouver begins Low Level Road meetings

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As a group of residents watched in near horror as City of North Vancouver

council gave Port Metro Vancouver $1 million to help pay for design work on the troubled Low Level Road project last month, the mes-sage from Mayor Darrell Mussatto to port staff was clear: engage with the community.

And last Friday, with a series of meetings held in the gallery space in Lower Lonsdale’s Café for Contemporary Art, that’s what the port attempted to do. Residents were invited to sit down, in hour-long ses-sions, and discuss how the design process for the recently-reborn, large-scale project is best handled. Tony Barber, the city’s manager of engineering, planning and design, and PMV representatives Laura Strand and Cindy McCarthy were present at the meetings.

The three major ideas discussed were the potential opening of a PMV-staffed Low Level Road office, the creation of an online forum devoted to project-related discus-sions and a committee comprised of residents as well as port and city staff. The office, if it gets the green light, would not be open through-out the week. McCarthy, the port’s communications advisor for project development, discussed a one-day-a-week scenario, likely Fridays, when such an office would be open to the public.

The possible committee, loosely dubbed a “community liaison group” at the meetings, would be comprised of 14-16 members from the afore-mentioned camps. Strand, the port’s manager of community and aborigi-nal affairs, said the difficulty with establishing such groups is the “high level of commitment” members must have because of the potentially large number of meetings scheduled in a “relatively short period of time.” PMV will return to council cham-bers with detailed designs of the Low Level Road in the spring, so resident input will be required soon.

The decision on which commu-nity members sit on the committee, added Strand, may also prove a dif-ficult arrangement as not everyone interested will be able to join.

Amanda Nichol, a resident of the 400-block of East First Street and an attendee of one of last week’s ses-

sions, told The Outlook she remains skeptical of the port’s interest in community engagement regardless of the recent sit-downs. Nichol said she received an email from PMV about the scheduled meetings on July 5 at 3:47 p.m., one week before the dis-cussions were to take place.

Because of the time of year, and the long weekend that followed the email, Nichol said she doubts many residents may have seen the invitation because of holiday plans. For those who did, attendance may have been difficult because of work or family commitments. A series of afternoon meetings, even with the last hour-long appointment sched-uled for 6 p.m., can be a challenge to make. At the meeting Nichol attend-ed at 2 p.m., two other residents showed up. At 3 p.m., two other people arrived.

“I think they’re only doing this because they [PMV] have to. That’s why you send out an email with three days notice,” said Nichol.

“But regardless of intention, I don’t want to be the one to close the door on this. That’s why I attended.”

Julie Anderson, a resident of the 100-block of St. David’s Avenue, said she felt cautiously optimistic about the process because it no longer feels “like things are being thrown at us” but, like Nichol, ques-tioned the port’s ability to reach out to the entire community in a truly effective way.

“The attendance at these meet-ings shows once again the lack of engagement,” said Anderson.

“No one’s here. I’m on vacation, that’s why I could come. But my neighbours work and have small children.”

Preliminary concepts for the Low Level Road project were to elevate the road, construct overpasses at St. Patrick’s Avenue and the Neptune/Cargill terminals, just north of the intersection at Third Street and Cotton Road. Due to a lack of infor-mation and community engagement, council approved only the Neptune/Cargill overpass in June.

In July, PMV returned to coun-cil and received $1 million from the city to help pay for a stability analysis on the South Slope, an area that would be affected by a raised road. In addition to the slope report, PMV will also provide council with detailed design work for the other elements of the potential Low Level Road redesign.

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Late last month, West Vancouver Police were contacted by a woman who had been duped out of $109 by an over-seas caller in what was later determined to be a scam.

Cpl. Jag Johal, spokesman for the WVPD, said the fraudster contacted the victim and convinced her that her com-puter was in need of software updates.

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Around the same time, North Vancouver RCMP received a report from a resident who had been the recipient of three suspicious phone calls asking him to turn on his computer and provide the I.P. address.

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“The consequence of having your personal information used in an illegal manner can be life changing,” he said. “Always err on the side of caution.”

Johal echoed those concerns, and said that West Vancouver Police are “against giving out personal information by email or over the phone” unless you’re sure you are dealing with a reputable company.”

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Lynn Valley’s Adam Sky is so much in demand as a tattoo artist that if you want one of his designs, you must submit your concept on his website first, and wait for a reply.Doug Shanks photo

Legendary tattoo artist Adam Sky pushes the boundaries of ink on skin

The dude looked like Lemmy, the badass frontman of the heavy-metal band Motörhead, and he was flaunting a cobra

tattoo on his bare chest, its scaly tail disappear-ing under his belt. Adam Sky, maybe six at the time, stood mesmerized as the swashbuckling outlaw ambled past him on a city sidewalk. It was an indelible encounter.

“I always knew I wanted to [be a tattooist],” says Sky, now 41.

Today, if you want to get inked by Sky, there’s a wait-list of up to eight months — that is, if he decides to tattoo you. To get an appointment with the acclaimed Vancouver tattooist (from Lynn Valley) you must first submit your concept through his website, AdamSky.com.

Sky’s not trying to be difficult — he’s flattered by the interest in his needlework — but, as he explains on his site, “It is impossible to accom-modate all of the tattoo requests I receive, so instead I choose to only accept pieces that I feel best suited for and that inspire me. I am only one person and quality is my main concern, not quantity.”

On this day, Sky is finishing a detailed, vibrantly coloured shoulder-to-elbow phoenix that is 20-plus hours in the making. “I think we’ll do one last session to tighten it up,” he tells his customer as he bandages up the fresh ink.

Sky works out of a private studio at an undis-closed location. The modern space, which has a Zen-like vibe (Buddha figures and bonsai plants) and also pays homage to the more traditional tattoo parlor esthetic with plenty of skulls and framed flash art, allows Sky to focus on his craft. A tattooist for more than two decades, he’s paid his dues in busy street shops from Miami Beach to New Orleans to LA, where he did his share of “pork chops” — little tatties that take 15 minutes and “mean you get to eat pork chops that night,” he grins — while honing his skills.

It’s all been part of his tattoo apprenticeship, which began at a young age. Sky’s parents — his mother is a documentary film maker and his father a landscape photographer — recognized their son had artistic ability early on and enrolled him in a prestigious art school when he was nine. Soon, he was drawing nude figure models but his real fixation was always tattoos — which kept him up late under the covers with a flash-light doodling skulls and daggers.

Sky dropped out of school at 17 and got his first tattoo in the 1980s (a punk rock skull) in the back of a head shop. He remembers the tat-tooist, a guy named Patty, had a hand-poked blu-ish prison-style tatty on his arm that read ‘F*** the Warden.’

Sky later moved to Vancouver where he would play an instrumental part in the tattoo renais-sance that took place in the city in the early

1990s. At 23, he opened up Sacred Heart on W. 10th Avenue. That was the first time a new tat-too shop had opened up in the city in 15 years, he figures. He started his business with $5,000 and bartered tattoos for the rest. The new shop focused on custom tattooing and regularly dis-played paintings by local artists. It was a rogue’s gallery of young tattooists, many of whom had fine arts backgrounds and also brought with them a punk rock ethos that helped redefine tat-too culture which had, in the 1970s and ‘80s, been heavily influenced by the biker scene.

Sky is quick to pay respect to Vancouver’s rich tattoo history, which began in the early 1930s with Doc Foster and even included a stint by the legendary Ed Hardy in Gastown in the late 1960s. As a port city, Vancouver, like LA and San Fran, was a hub for ink-collecting sailors back in the day, he says. And that tradi-tion has continued. Sky rattles off the names of

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“A lot of the original guys are still with us. That makes the city full of high-quality tat-toos and customers get turned

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All along, the artistry has been evolving. “These days artists are pushing the boundaries artistically,” he says. “Tattooing is extremely tech-nical. It’s as much a technical craft as art. [There are] limiting boundaries [of] what you can do successfully. It takes years of experience.”

Sky isn’t satisfied to flip through the pages of his book and admire his work, though. “You have to push yourself to get better or you just languish — and you should not be tattooing.”

To stay sharp, Sky regularly participates in an online tattoo discussion forum on Tattoodles.com (a site he started) that allows artists to post work and have it deconstructed by their peers. “It removes ego from your work. The tattooists tell each other what they could have done better. I never pay attention [to compliments]. My drive [is to] get better.”

And that explains why Sky’s work is so cov-eted.

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Khymsar’s musical tipping point came in the form of a bootleg cassette with the Def Leppard tune “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” The syrupy ‘80s anthem quickly steered Khymsar down a path of musical adventure, as he began gobbling up tunes from the Pet Shop Boys and Duran Duran and harder-edge bands such as Metallica and Slayer.

“We were very much influenced by Western music, but it was a different kind of thing because genres didn’t really matter to us. Not like it does here,” recalls Khymsar.

“And I think it made us into open-minded musicians. You didn’t need to be a Rastafarian to like reggae music or an anarchist to like punk. We just played for ourselves.”

The musicianHaving bid farewell to the shirt-and-tie thing,

Khymsar quickly got a band together and started playing shows. He paid the bills doing this and that, mainly waiting tables, but the stage was where his heart lay. Music, like it is for count-less others, was his outlet. Girl troubles, family issues — you name it, he says — all solved on six strings. But music also provided Khymsar with another tool, the platform to raise awareness for his people’s struggle.

By this point in his life, Khymsar had been liv-ing away from Darjeeling for about 15 years. He split as a teenager after obtaining a tourist visa for the United States, seeing no future for himself in the Himalayan town. He landed in the New York borough of Queens, which houses the larg-est population of Tibetan refugees in America. But when his application for asylum was rejected four years after he arrived, Khymsar faced depor-tation.

Determined not to be sent back to Darjeeling, Khymsar instead looked north and crossed into Canada as a refugee. He was eventually granted permanent residency.

“Now, I had my identity and music helped give me that,” he says. “But I wanted to revisit my roots. And I could do that at that point.”

The filmmakerAnd so the film Journey of a Dream was born.

About three years ago, Khymsar packed his bags, his guitar and a video camera and went back to India. He says he wanted to make a film, through his eyes, that told of the larger Tibetan immigrant experience. Yes, the film is full of riveting scenes of a teary-eyed Khymsar returning to his child-hood home, remembering how his large family

made do with so little. And yes, he gets plenty of screen time jamming with local musicians upon his return. But he also meets with Tibetan student associations, scholars and politicians to discuss the views, initiatives and perspectives of those working for change.

Khymsar says he is but the “common denomi-nator” in a project that shines a spotlight on the power of heavy metal, the Darjeeling music scene and the plight of all exiled Tibetans.

“This took three years to make, and I did it all myself. I directed, narrated, produced and I was the publicist. But, to be honest, finishing this project isn’t about monetary success. Breaking even would be great,” Khymsar says, with a smile.

“This is really another way of getting the big Tibetan issue out there. I would love to see younger Tibetans follow their hearts as well. Take some risks.”

And if attention to the cause is what Khymsar desires, it appears he’s on the right track. Last month, he was in Washington D.C. attending teachings of the Dalai Lama at a Buddhist cer-emony, the Kalachakra. In the evenings, he met with high-profile Buddhists Richard Gere and Jessica Biel.

The five-star hotel scene is a bit of a rush, admits Khymsar, but it isn’t the barometer by which anyone should judge achievement. You can get pats on the back until your shoulders turn blue, but having influence and telling the stories that need to be told is what amounts to success in his book. And, he says, he’s got more to tell.

“I’d love to make another documentary and maybe a dark, twisted type of film. You need to have a good sense of imagination and I can imagine forever,” he says.

“But now imagine if all the famous, rich, suc-cessful people in society spent even five per cent of their time helping the world. To me, that’s what it’s all about. Life is not a vertical thing, it’s horizontal. It’s about touching people.”

The Vancouver premiere of Journey of a Dream is scheduled for Sept. 16 and 17 at the Denman Cinemas. Showtime is 7 p.m. There will be live music, a wine bar and a Q&A with Khymsar at the event. The Denman Cinemas are located at 1779 Comox St. in Vancouver’s West End. For more information on Journey of a Dream, visit www.journeyofadreammovie.com.

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Martin Crilly suggested area mayors insist on a better understanding of how money will be spent if the province fails to enact some of the revenue sources.

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If Victoria fails to pass the gas tax hike, he said, the supplement would effectively collapse and TransLink wouldn’t deliver its $400-million share of the$1.2-billion Evergreen Line linking Burnaby, Port Moody and Coquitlam.

TransLink spokesperson Erin McConnell said the proposed supplement will be revised in light of Crilly’s comments to show the order in which future transit upgrades would proceed if the extra sources don’t materialize.

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survey. The Party kicked off with Lions Gate Sinfonia and the North

Shore Celtic Ensemble offering a free outdoor concert

to approximately 3,000 music lovers. On Sunday, approximately 10,000 people came out to enjoy various local musicians, dancers,

strolling performers, mascots, interpretive harbour tours, Navy ship tours, the Seaspan tug boat

ballet and much more.

Photos show the Lions Gate Sinfonia, Maestro Clyde Mitchell

conducting the North Shore Celtic Ensemble, Captain George North

Vancouver & First Mate John Lonsdale Quay, children’s face painting, a Lions Gate Sinfonia

performer, the Edge Climbing Wall, Shiamak’s Bollywood Jazz

Dance performers, Port Metro Vancouver’s mascot Salty,

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North Shore Life Boat Society and mascot Putka and Seaspan’s

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Lynn Valley’s Roger Shaw has been called up to the big leagues of baseball.

The long-serving District Five umpire is going to don his mask at the coveted Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, Pa., in one week.

“My big experience is coming up,” says a giddy Shaw. “Just the idea of walking out in front of 10,000 people.”

The long road to the World Series has not been without some bumps and bruises.

“You get hit quite often,” says Shaw, of the hazards of the umpir-ing gig. “I took a line drive off the forearm.”

Then there is the verbal abuse, which Shaw takes in stride. “You need an umpire to have a game,” he explains. “If you keep abusing them,

they ain’t coming back.”Some 20 years ago, Shaw started

out umpiring at the league level on the North Shore. His two sons were going through the District Five pro-gram at the time.

These days, Shaw holds the pres-tigious title of provincial umpire-in-chief.

“I guess the nice thing is watch-ing these kids start young with very little knowledge of what they are doing,” he says.

When asked to describe the deci-bel level of his calls at the plate, Shaw says he’s middle of the road amongst other umpires.

“The closer the call, the louder you have to call it — but you don’t want to scare some poor little nine-year-old,” he explains.

Shaw will join 15 other umpires — some from as far away as Saudi Arabia and Mexico — at the Little League World Series from August 18 to 28.

North Van umpire gets nod for world series

Mt. Seymour’s Desi Burgart slides into third base under the watchful eye of Langley’s Cole Cantelon. As of Wed. Aug. 10, Ontario is undefeated in the tournament with 4 wins; meanwhile the B.C. representative, Langley, is a close second with only one loss.Peter Taylor photo

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North Vancouver is welcoming the coun-try’s up and coming baseball talent this week.

The Canadian Little League Championship officially kicked off on Saturday, Aug. 6, at the newly renovated Chris Zuehlke Park.

North Vancouver City Mayor Darrell Mussatto thanked financial sponsors, District Five little league administration, city staff and volunteers for their contributions to the tourna-ment.

“This has been a project for the past couple of years and I’m very proud of what we have been able to achieve here because it’s a result of teamwork,” said Mussatto.

The namesake of the park – late Jaycee (now North Van Central) ball player Chris Zuehlke – was remembered on Saturday by his parents and siblings who were also acknowledged dur-ing the opening ceremonies.

Fred Zuehlke, Chris’ dad, recalled the sum-mer of broken windows at the Zuehlke home.

“I got home one night and there was a win-dow broken in the heating room, and I put it

in and it was broken again the next night,” says Fred. “And by the time the summer was over there was one window left, the rest was all ply-wood.”

Chris’ brother Buzz smiles mischievously and nods his head in agreement. He talks about how Sunday afternoons were family affairs at the then-Jaycee Park in the ‘60s.

“If you didn’t get here early you didn’t get a seat,” he recalls.

Members of the Mt. Seymour Little League team huddle together on the bleachers behind the outfield fence and watch the first game of the tournament: Prairies vs. Ontario.

Mt. Seymour coach Peter Matthews explains how the 11 and 12-year-olds didn’t understand the magnitude of their big win two years ago that secured them a spot in this year’s national championship.

After District Five won the hosting rights, Mt. Seymour Little League clinched the regional championship that year. “They are kids - they live in the moment. They don’t think two years in advance,” says Matthews.

The national championship runs all week until August 13.

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Chris Zuehlke Park showcases elite little leaguers

Zuehlke’s family fondly remembers the late North Vancouver baseball player during the opening ceremonies.

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After a shaky start, Mount Seymour is creeping up the rankings after back-to-back

wins at the Canadian Little League Championship at Chris Zuehlke Park this week.

In the host team’s game against Elites de Valleyfield from Quebec on Monday night, Mount Seymour’s Desi Burgart created a memory to last a lifetime: he hit his first home run.

That shot drove home two play-ers and helped secure the team’s 6-1 win.

Mount Seymour chucker Cameron Filippone can also take some credit for the victory. No runs

were scored during his four-inning post on the mound.

Filippone currently holds the title of most strikeouts in the tourna-ment - as of yesterday (Aug. 10) morning.

In Tuesday (Aug. 9) evening’s play, Mount Seymour faced the Prairies-Rocky Mountain team who came out of the gate early, scoring three runs in the first two innings. Mount Seymour managed to shut them down and secured some late runs for a 5-3 win.

As of Wed. Aug. 10, Ontario is undefeated in the tournament with 4 wins; meanwhile the B.C. repre-sentative, Langley, is a close second with only one loss.

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A North Vancouver teen took his love of geography to the world stage last week, win-

ning a silver medal at the National Geographic World Championships in San Francisco.

Alejandro Torres-Lopez, 16, was one of three teens asked to repre-sent Team Canada at the prestigious biannual competition, held July 23 to 28 at Google Headquarters and moderated by Jeopardy game show host Alex Trebek.

The West Vancouver Secondary student earned a spot on the team after finishing first in the Canadian competition in 2010. The geography whiz kid has been competing for five years for a chance to head to the world finals.

In an email to The Outlook, Torres-Lopez said the mood was “intense” at last week’s question-and-answer tourney. “It was crazy because everyone there was the top in their country, and representing their own country. They were the top in the world and there was a really competitive and nerve-wrack-ing atmosphere,” he said.

“Although once we settled into the hotel and began to get to know each other, everyone was really friendly and we got along great because we all had a common inter-est [geography].”

Joining Torres-Lopez at the com-petition were Alexander Cohen, 15, of Ottawa and Aoife O’Leary, 15, of Surrey. The team finished second, behind their Russian counterparts, but above the third-place finalists from Taiwan and 14 other teams from around the world.

“When they announced the final-ists, we definitely thought the U.S. team was ahead of us as they were quite confident and had histori-cally been the top country in the competition,” he said. But when the announcer read the name “Canada” over the loud speaker, the team was “ecstatic” that they had made it to the final three.

“The questions were so hard, but we managed to get silver and were very proud,” he said.

Torres-Lopez said what he loves about studying geography is that he gets to broaden his understanding of the world around him.

“I think it’s really interesting learning about the world we all live in and it’s fascinating to find out about all the different people, how and where they live and all their differences,” he said. “And it’s really cool to know about all the variations in physical geography this planet has.”

Although he doesn’t plan to con-tinue studying geography in univer-sity, Torres-Lopez said he thinks his knowledge of different cultures, arts, and landscapes will come in handy as he pursues a degree in design and architecture.

“I definitely will incorporate cul-tural and geographical elements I have experienced or learned into my works,” he said.

Last week’s win marks the eighth time Canada has won a medal at the world championships since the country began competing in 1995. The team was chosen from the top three winners of the 2010 and 2011 Great Canadian Geography Challenge.

For more information on the tourney, visit www.geochallenge.ca.

On top of the worldNV teen helps Canadian squad earn a silver medal at

the National Geographic World Championships

The world’s best geography students compete at the National Geographic World Championship. Last week, Canada won a medal for the eighth time since the country began competing in 1995. A North Vancouver student helped make this year’s event a success for the three Canadian teens (pictured left).Submitted photo.

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This special soccer story is just in from The News of the World. I kid you not. And here you thought that scan-dal-riddled newspaper had disappeared forever.

I even wrote the story in its original form, a story that never got published. Until now... with a twist added.

It’s a tale involving soccer teams from three cities: Moscow, Manchester and Vancouver. And it all started exactly 55 years ago on August 11, 1956, when the Moscow Lokomotiv from Russia came to play the B.C. All-stars at old Empire Stadium.

“This was the first Soviet Union sports team to play in Canada,” notes soccer historian Dave Fryatt in his informative jottings about Canadian soccer history on the Pacific Coast Soccer League’s website, “and like most things Russian at that time, there was an air of mystery about the team and its players.”

Moscow won the game 5-2, but that’s not the story at all. In attendance were 20,054+ fans (with the emphasis on the + as you’ll see). The real story happened right before the game.

I was 14 when my friend Stu Gibbs – son of the then-North Vancouver city clerk Ron Gibbs – and I decided to take in the game. We got there early and stood in the lineup at the cheap-seat ($1.50) ticket window ready to make our purchase for end zone seats.

The line was long. We waited and waited. But no one was in the booth selling tickets, though similar booths selling higher-priced tickets were open.

Eventually, with game time approaching, those at the front of our line grew restless and began chanting, in Old Country accents, “We want in for a dollah-fifty and we won’t pay a penny more... We want in for a dollah-fifty and we won’t pay a penny more... We want...”

From where Stu and I were standing on the grassy slope at the southeast corner of the stadium near the Hastings-Cassiar intersection, we could see that the $1.50 seats in the south end zone were completely empty.

The chanting got louder and louder.It seems laughable now that these fans were so adamant

that they would only pay the $1.50 cheap-seat price when the top tickets were just $3.00. But, then, that would be like today being able to afford only upper bowl seats for Canucks tickets instead of much more expensive ones.

Suddenly, with the ticket booth still shut and the game about to begin, those in line ahead of us began marching quickly toward the turnstile gates at the southeast corner. Stu and I ran after them to see what was going to happen. The mob of 100 or more pushed the ticket takers away, knocked over at least three turnstiles and ran into the sta-dium. Stu and I followed them right in. The $1.50 seats had now been instantly reduced to $0.00.

In a story in The Province the next day the stadium man-ager claimed – despite the empty end zone sections – that

all the $1.50 seats had been sold and only the $3.00 tickets remained.

Some years later, while penning the Corben’s Corner sports column in the now-long-gone North Shore Citizen, I wrote my recollections of that incident and how the soccer promoters of the day had tried to force people to buy the higher-priced tickets. The column was never published – the only time this happened in the nine years (1962-71) of writ-ing Corben’s Corner – and I think I know why. Hal Straight was the newspaper’s publisher. He was a big soccer fan and was in with the big poohbahs of the game locally. I think

editor Ralph Hall thought I’d be in trou-ble with Straight, maybe even fired, if the story was printed, though Hall never said as much. Straight and Hall have passed away, so we’ll never know.

Touring soccer teams have a mys-tique about them. This summer’s visit from Manchester City on July 18 to play the Vancouver Whitecaps at revital-ized Empire Field was no exception, so I arranged for press credentials and off

I went. I’d been told by the Whitecaps media department that due to the number of media wishing to attend and the limited size of the press box, I would be seated elsewhere, which was fine.

However, when I arrived at the media gate, my name was not on the list. A phone call from the media assistant to the head of the department inside the grounds got things straightened away and I climbed the stairs to the media sec-tion to find out where I was supposed to sit. No one knew.

Bob Mackin (who lives on the North Shore, writes for 24 Hours and appears regularly on Tom Mayenknecht’s The Sports Market radio program Saturday mornings on The Team 1040) and I scoured the media box’s seating chart for my name, though I knew it wouldn’t be there since I had already been told my seat would be somewhere else.

Then Bob came up with a brilliant idea. He noticed that The News of the World had been assigned seat 8B, the mid-dle seat in the second of three rows in the media section in amongst a group of sportswriting blokes from England.

“The News of the World has just gone kaput,” Bob offered, or words to that effect. “Why don’t you just sit in 8B?”

So I did. Manchester City won 2-1 with a sun-soaked 24,074 enjoying the treat of seeing an overseas soccer side. Most importantly, I noticed the end zones were completely full of spectators. No one to my knowledge had been out-side shouting, “We want in for twenty dollars and we won’t pay a penny more.”

Mind you, I still hadn’t paid to get in, though I’m not sure posing as a News of the World journalist – due to a bizarre twist of fate – ranks any higher than a gate crasher.

This is episode 428 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.

Soccer programs from the Moscow Lokomotiv vs B.C. All-stars game in 1956 (left) and Manchester City vs Vancouver Whitecaps last month (right) provide the backdrop for our columnist’s tale this week. Len Corben photo

Manchester City’s visit brings back memoriesof a game 55 years ago today

Soccer’s News of the World

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The B.C. Ministry of Health is sponsoring a six week program designed to get you and your family up and moving about to enjoy

your community’s outdoors. An extra incentive is that you might win prizes while you improve you and your family’s health.

The Healthy Families BC Walking Challenge started August 8 and will be going until September 19. It’s an online experience with a website — www.HealthyFamiliesBCWalkingChallenge.ca — where families are encouraged to share their walking experiences and map walks for others.

A recent press release from healthy families says the more often you share your stories and maps, the better your chances are to win prizes such as pedometers and family packs.

The big prize is a family trip within British Columbia — there are six such prizes — and when families share stories, photos and videos of walks, they also help their community win prizes.

Healthy families has delineated five categories of B.C. communities based on size.

The community in each size range that has the most submissions from families will win $10,000 to support the development of local walking trails. In addition, one of those five communi-ties will win a random draw and receive an extra $50,000 in funding.

Some of the North Shore’s more adventure-some walking expeditions include mountain walks up the likes of Black, Fromme, Grouse, Hollyburn, Seymour and Strachan mountains. There are dozens of less-challenging trails in West and North Vancouver.

The program has the involvement of some special outdoor enthusiasts, including West Vancouver’s Maëlle Ricker, snowboard cross gold medal winner at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

“I love being outside with my family and friends, hiking in Garibaldi Park or cruising with my dog along the ocean,” Ricker said, in com-menting about the challenge.

“There are so many great places to walk in B.C. and I look forward to hearing about them all during this Healthy Families BC Walking Challenge.”

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The popular walking trail on Bowen Island leads to Dorman Point, a view point overlooking Howe Sound. Marcus Hondro photo

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