WVM2009-12
Ccl NOTES May 11
AGENDA May 25
Calendar to June 7
by
Carolanne Reynolds, Editor
www.WestVan.org
Anyone remember that
the 24th of May is the Queen's Birthday (Queen Victoria, that
is)
and if we don't have a
holiday, we'll all run away?
IN THIS ISSUE:
= MAIN ITEMS Ccl Mtg May 25th: MetroV Draft Regional Growth
Strategy and Consultation; MetroV Draft Liquid Waste Mgmt Plan; Ccl
gives conditional support to both; Public Hearings on June 15 for
5775 Marine, 2330 Cypress Bowl Lane, 567/571 Craigmohr; 2451
Palmerston; addition of ccl mtg June 22; Correspondence:
Aboriginal Title, bikepath need, Whitby cmnty shuttle, Dundarave
Traffic letter from Aug 2008 and later, MFA dividends, answer re water
and sewer rate increases, Field A in Ambleside Park, cage-free eggs,
encroaching bears.
= Vive le Canada (Arthur Erickson); ANIMALWATCH (Some
in Day in Pictures; Week in Wildlife; Coral; Robofish); from the
EDITOR'S DESK (Voting); UPDATE (WV's Strategic Planning)
= CALENDAR to June 7th; CULTUREWATCH (Theatre;
Music; Art; Paleolithic pornography)
= Mtg NOTES May 11th (with link to videos of all
three):
+ 4pm -- Ccl Workshop on Strategic
Planning
+ 6:30pm -- Sp Ccl Mtg: Adoption of Tax Rates;
MetroV Delegation to Sweden re Waste (Mayor to go); MetroV's appeal
of expropriation of land by prov without consultation, negotiation, or
compensation
+ 7pm -- Youth Ccl Mtg: Presentations by
Rotary, WVPD; Transportation; Appreciation Awards
= Ccl Mtg AGENDA May 25th
= NEWSWATCH (around the world May Le Monde diplomatique;
West Bank); LANGUAGEWATCH (May 22 is sesquicentennial of Arthur Conan
Doyle); WORDWATCH (boborygmus); PEOPLEWATCH (portrait of the
famous, incredible to click on); PLACENAMEWATCH; QUOTATIONS
=== Vive le Canada
=== Arthur Erickson, architect of international
renown.....
Subscribers got the news the same day and one wrote back:
"A calm, quiet, monastic man in his private domain and in
the other a giant in his career. A super-star, a visionary, a
leader who is and will remain a cultural treasure of our city, country
and world."
My msg was: Sad to learn of the passing of Arthur Erickson.
His architecture, so sensitive to nature, forms a part of our
heritage. How amazing that within a matter of hours, it
was in Wikipedia!
Arthur
Erickson from
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Charles
Erickson,
CC (June 14,
1924 - May 20,
2009) was an
internationally celebrated Canadian architect and
urban planner. He
studied Asian languages at the University of British Columbia, and later earned a degree in
architecture from McGill
University.[1] ...from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Erickson
Then I wrote in an update to
subscribers:
Sorry to report the passing
of a national treasure (wd that we had that title as Japan does),
Arthur Erickson, aged 84 on May 20. CTV News May 21st had photos
of some of his works, including -- so sad to say -- the glowing Graham
house WV was not able to preserve though many tried; such
insensitivity and slap in the face not to honour Canada's/Vancouver's
own artistic genius (the house was built on a site considered
unbuildable, rocky waterfront).
Trevor Boddy on CBC TV News that Erickson said
concrete was the marble of the 20th century. For more quotations
see:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/arthur_erickson.html
=== ANIMALWATCH
===
Oh, it's addictive. Came across the Guardian Weekly's 'day
in pictures':
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/series/24hoursinpictures
and then got tempted by the Week in Wildlife (wild boars and
brown bears; mountain lions; startled pygmy owls; baby Chinese
leopards; surprised hippo; series from Feb 6; etc):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/series/weekinwildlife
Coral are animals. Here are some remarkable photos of
endangered coral reefs:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/may/13/marine-life-coral?picture=347327418
Now for something completely different:
ROBOFISH? The future of fresh and marine water habitat
monitoring? on this website:
=== from the EDITOR'S DESK
===
Everyone exercised the right to
vote!
Yes, as far as I'm concerned those who didn't take a trip to the
polls to actually put an X were voting "any of the
above". That's a choice.
Basically, if you don't vote and you're not involved and
promoting your views, your right to complain about the results lacks
some credibility.
There were about ten political parties and several independents
on display for us.
Many however are not hungry enough to come to the democratic
buffet.
Few can find a party or person with wch they agree entirely.
It's often not just the lesser of two evils, usually the least of all
the evils presented.
Again, if you can't find someone or a party to support, then your
only choice is to run yourself -- we are responsible for the govt, the
representatives, we choose.
Are you a single issue voter?
Not concerned some of the other aspects of govt will affect you
negatively?
The tradition, or some call it the stranglehold, of parties in
our system is one of the reasons lobbying has been the mode of
involvement to be effective -- just think what wd happen if all the
Greens joined the Conservatives, Libertarians, or the Liberals for
example. Wdn't that make it more likely to result in a candidate
promoting those measures and such policies hence the possibility of
coming about?
For some time I've been a proponent of adding a box "none
of the above" as easier than spoiling the ballot.
By the time a party has chosen a candidate, the amount of your
influence may be diminished. Voters who come to the festivities
too late have missed out on that fun and/or a seat at the dinner
table.
If ppl don't want to join a party, that's their prerogative.
Same with not voting. They are not, then, justified in grousing
about govt.
We have responsible govt.
Ppl voting when not well informed can do more damage/harm than
those who don't vote......
We are responsible for the govt we choose -- and so many
forget that.
We get the govt we deserve {see quotations at end for who said
that}
(the
one we've chosen by whatever system we have, directly or by
default)
If ppl prefer to spend the time and energy on their own world
and/or narrow interests they risk having the handle of the great
umbrella that covers and governs our society wrested from their grasp
leaving them vulnerable, exposed to exploitation even
dictatorship.
B/c of not bothering to find out about the candidates and
policies, a high number of ppl vote emotionally (quite apart from
those who vote selfishly, ie companies and unions) and are susceptible
to the appeal of a pied piper.
The Nazis were elected with little more than 30% of the
vote.
Who said the price of liberty is ever vigilance?
It's even more than constant vigilance, alas. It takes real
effort and time.
The media reported that from a poll, more knew about the
hockey games/standings than the prov election issues (and probably
also pop music).
As Shakespeare had Cassius say, "The fault, dear Brutus,
is not in our stars [systems], but in ourselves"
(even without the rest of the verse, "that we are
underlings")
Education is an answer, think of the madrassas; but it needs
tremendous organization even after deciding whose.
Can responsibility be taught? enforced??
Shd there be a qualified franchise? (only those who know
the basics of economics, how govt functions, the policies offered, the
ability and integrity of the candidates)
Whatever change you may want, start working on it today.
I may explore the 1-2-3 vote to get over 50% if most don't want
to have run-offs for the top two candidates if neither got more than
50%.
There is, however, no doubt in WV however, one MLA got over 50%
and the other, Ralph Sultan, got the highest vote of all elected
Liberals -- just shy of 70%. Whether we agree or not, they
deserve our congratulations. And I'm sure residents who go to
them for help will be listened to.
Votes do count -- look at Wally Oppal's two-vote win now awaiting
counting of the absentee votes.
In some cases, depends where you live.
Over to you -- one vote at a time.
....like a drop of water on a rock, numbers and over
time...........
=== UPDATE ===
Have a hand in shaping WV's future!
Strategic
Planning Update -- see
http://www.westvancouver.ca/Level3.aspx?id=17440
Under the guidance
of Brent Leigh, Deputy CAO, throughout 2009, the District will be
developing a community-based Strategic Plan, expecting to
achieve: a
long-term vision for the Community; clarity of mission for the
District; a set of long-term community goals; a financial plan that
enables those goals; and a measurement system to ensure the goals
reached
Public
Consultation - Next Steps
The questions or
topics arising out of April's public dialogues have been
presented to the community for discussion. The two World Cafés will
look at the main goals identified by the community and develop
specific action plans. These sessions are open to all. To participate,
please register by email.
Wednesday, June 3rd - 6 - 9 pm West Vancouver Community
Centre
Friday, June 5th - 6 - 9 pm Gleneagles Community
Centre
Brent wants to hear
from you. There will be a number of opportunities for the community to
contribute to and participate in the development of the Strategic Plan
including an online forum. For details, visit westvancouver.ca/strategicplan
=== CALENDAR to June 8th
=== Dundarave Farmers'
Market Saturdays 10 to 4pm
[Pls note a) that all mtgs are at M Hall
unless indicated otherwise and b) with such a long gap between ccl
mtgs and WVMs along with often no or v short notice of mtgs on the DWV
website, this section, while hoping to be, cannot possibly be
complete. Please check wrt cmtes and WGs that are of interest to
you.]
Last minute additions to the DWV Calendar were two Spirit Trail
WG mtgs, at 5:15pm 14th and 21st; the Measuring Up WG was
cancelled;
= Sun May 24th ~ 3pm ~ Thomas
Pandolfi, concert pianist [Last minute change; call for
info]
St
Francis in the Wood Anglican Church. 4773 South Piccadilly,
922-3531
$15 at
the door includes refreshments at reception following
= Tues May 26th ~ 5pm ~ NSh Adv Cmte on
Disability Issues, DNV cmte room
= Wed May 27th ~ 1:30pm ~ Arts and Cultural Facilities WG --
CANCELLED
~
5:15pm ~ Measuring Up WG
= Thurs May 28th
~ 4:30pm ~ Design Review Cmte
~
5:30pm ~ Spirit Trail WG
~
5:30pm ~ WVPB in Police Boardroom -- MOVED to 20th! (too late to
tell you!)
~
7pm ~ Horseshoe Bay Biz Assn Townhall Mtg, Gleneagles Cmnty
Ctr
Come
and discuss your vision for Horseshoe Bay!
= Sat May 30th ~ 9am to 1pm ~ Garage Sale at Gleneagles
Cmnty Ctr
= Sun May 31st
~ 9am
to noon ~ Westie Walk Dog Walk at Lighthouse Park
~ 10am
to 2pm ~ Motorcycle Ride for Dad in Ambleside Park
~ 10am
to 2pm ~ Eagle Harbour 5km Fun Run in Parc
Verdun
BUT EARLIER THERE'S:
~ 7:30 - 11am ~ WV Rotary Seawall Run at The Village at Park
Royal
This year the beneficiary will be Canuck Place Children's
Hospice, and they have donated two amazing prizes in addition to
the numerous other draw prizes that participants can win:
* The runner who raises the most money will receive a hockey
stick signed by the entire Canucks team
* The team that raises the most money will receive a flag
signed by the entire Canucks team
The course of the Rotary Sea Walk Run covers some of the most
beautiful scenery in British Columbia and I hope you can join us this
year. Please also pass this message on to your friends and encourage
them to support a worthy cause.
To sign up on line for the
Run click on : http://www.eventsonline.ca/events/seawalkrun/Breakfast: A runner's breakfast will be waiting for
you at the finish line
Run Gear: An original design T-shirt is included in
your race package.
Awards: Awards will be presented from 8:45
onwards
For more information on the Run visit www.seawalkrun.com
JUNE
= Thurs June 4th ~ 6:30pm ~ Field Sports Forum Input mtg
at Cmnty Ctr, Cedar Room
= Sat June 6th ~ 8am ~ Masters Mile Race, WV Srs'
Ctr
* COMMUNITY DAY --
9:45am - 4pm -- PARADE/DISPLAYS *
AMBLESIDE PARK/CMNTY
CTR
Theme: Everything Old is New Again; info ph 925
7194
Details on the DWV website:
http://www.westvancouver.ca/residents/level3.aspx?id=13836
+++ WV CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
+++
NOMINATIONS FOR 2009/2011 BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Nominations close 5pm Friday May 29.
Info: 926 6436. Simply complete the form and mail,
fax, or deliver to:
WV Chamber of Commerce, 1846 Marine Dr., West Vancouver, BC, V7V
1P7; Fax 604-925-7220
To All Members; It is our pleasure to invite you to
nominate a local business person to serve on the Board of The West
Vancouver Chamber of Commerce . All nominees must be members, in
good standing, of the Chamber. You are welcome to submit your own
name. Each Director elected will begin a two-year term of office
on June 3rd, 2009.
+++ WV MEMORIAL LIBRARY
+++
- for Events and Programs:
http://www.westvanlibrary.ca/index.php?page=5
- for Event Calendar:
http://www.westvanlibrary.ca/event/calendar.php
=
Booktopia
Events/exhibition ongoing to May 31.
See http://www.booktopia.ca/index.html
= Thurs May 28th ~ 10:30am - 12:30pm
-- Philosophers' Café:
Cross-Cultural Wisdom
What wisdom could travel well and be
accepted by all world cultures? Admission: $5
+ Fridays: English Corner ~ 10 -
11:30am ~ practise English conversation [May 22, 29, June 5]
+++ FERRY BUILDING GALLERY
+++
= May 19 - June 7 = "From the Same
Earth"
Pottery by Ray and Bev Niebergall, Tim Niebergall, Carlie
Sanford; Paintings by Jane Armstrong and Lil Chrzan
Artists' Talk: Saturday, May 23rd at
2pm
+++ SILK PURSE +++
www.silkpurse.ca
= May 19 - 31,
2009 "Flower
Fusion"
Renowned Taiwan artist in
oils, Michelle
Lan developed her passion
for painting flowers living in Vancouver for the last 14 years. She
has always been moved by Canada's large variety of wildflowers in the
summer. This unique blend of colours and shapes is thus found in her
artistic vision, further lending a rare sense of poetry to her art.
Michelle describes her life and art, saying that her love for flowers
has pushed her to interpret them as a symbol of emotion and
character.
Opening
Reception: TUESDAY May 19th from 6 - 8pm
= June 2-14,
2009 "Grey
Matter"
Join us for the first solo exhibit of talented self-taught Vancouver
figurative artist
Charles Keillor. His
strengths include precise draftsmanship, a direct sense of design, and
the ability to capture both likeness and character within a portrait.
There is a quality of stillness found in many of his drawings, and
they are done in a monochromatic graphite medium.
Opening
Reception: TUESDAY June 2nd from 6 - 8pm
+++ KAY MEEK CENTRE
+++
o To see a list of events:
http://kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/events_calendar
o To see the electronic newsletter, the
address is http://kaymeekcentre.weebly.com.
o Getting onto the mail list: the simplest
method is to call the box office (604 913 3634) or email
tickets@kaymeekcentre.com
o Sunday May 24th ~ 7:30pm ~ 2009 Festival on the Lake
Concerto Gala with the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Ken
Hsieh, Conductor
o Theatre West Van Wins Four
Prizes
Following a
successful run at Kay Meek Centre, Theatre West Van went on to perform
Table Manners at Theatre BC's North Shore Zone competition for
community theatre. Adjudicator Stephen Drover was presented with many
high-calibre productions and fine performances during the competition.
However, one production stood out above all others and captured four
prizes. Table Manners by Alan Ayckbourn, presented by Theatre West
Van, will now go forward to represent the North Shore Zone at Theatre
BC's MAINSTAGE, the drama festival which encompasses winning groups
from throughout British Columbia, to be held this year in Maple Ridge,
July 3 - 11, 2009.
Main Awards
presented to Theatre West Van by Adjudicator Stephen
Drover:
-- Best Overall
Production (and Zone Festival Winner)
-- Best Performance
by an Actor (male) to Kevin Scott, Table Manners (Theatre West
Van)
People's Choice
Awards presented to Theatre West Van by Martin Millerchip of the North
Shore News:
-- Outstanding
Production: Table Manners (Theatre West Van)
-- Outstanding
Performance: Kevin Scott, Table Manner
+++ ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 60, West
Vancouver +++
The newsletter is available to any non-member who
is interested. Please
contact Legion for info 922 3587
+++ WV MUSEUM
+++ Visit:
http://www.westvanmuseum.blogspot.com/
North Star: The Art
of Lyle Wilson [March 4 to
May 30]
May 23, 10am - 11:30am --
Caulfeild Walk - Natural History
Course Code 630171, $7, Guide:
K.Wade
Discover some of the interesting and
beautiful native plants typical of sunny, more open coastal habitats
and learn how this now relatively rare and threatened habitat relates
to our overall coastal forest ecosystems.
KEITH WADE has recently retired from
teaching thirty-nine years in the Biology Department at Capilano
University. As an Ecologist and Bio-geographer, Keith has travelled
and conducted research over vast expanses of the globe. He is a board
member of the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society and a well-known
tour leader both for local and international natural
history.
=== CULTUREWATCH
===
+ MUSIC/THEATRE
Lots of good plays and music this weekend -- VSO always great and
they'll be doing Carmina Burana June 13 and 15! See
http://www.vancouversymphony.ca/index.php
And don't forget that it's now Bard on the Beach season
-- previews start Thurs May 28 (Othello) and opening night is Thurs
June 4 -- see www.bardonthebeach.org and/or phone 739 0559.
MUST SEES (from the reviews): Antigone Undone by
Leaky Heaven Circus is at the Russian Hall (600 Campbell) reconstructs
the Greek tragedy by Sophocles (tix 687 2787 or
leakyheaven.com); Top Girls at the Playhouse by Caryl
Churchill about a career woman (tix 873 3311 or
vancouverplayhouse.co).
Another of interest: Palace of the End --
Touchstone Theatre, Felix Culpa and Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
present the Western Canadian premiere of Judith Thompson's searing
trio of monologues based around the war in Iraq. Directed by David
Bloom, Katrina Dunn, and Mindy Parfitt, and starring Alexa Devine,
Russell Roberts and Laara Sadiq. May 21-June 6, Tuesday to
Saturday at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm and Sundays at 4pm. PAL Theatre
(581 Cardero). Tix: $16-26, Tickets Tonight: 684 2787 or
www.ticketstonight.ca. Info: www.touchstonetheatre.com.
+ ART
o
Mme Recamier
Ahead of an exhibition at the
Musée des Beaux Arts in Lyon, Le Monde's Philippe Dagen explores
how Madame
Récamier became an icon
of European neoclassicism
Literary buffs will
remember her relationship with Chateaubriand. Some may recall she was
also close to Madame de Sta=EBl. Historians know she was on very poor
terms with Bonaparte, but there was much more to the life of Juliette
Récamier (1777-1849), however remarkable these episodes may
seem.
The prime merit of
this exhibition at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Lyon is to conjure up
the woman who set a new trend in society. It also ?explains how she
achieved this, playing on her beauty, clothes, relationships,
friendships and influence to develop her image. Here, in short, is the
story of a woman who became a star before either photographs or films
existed.
Even her early life
was extraordinary. She was born in Lyon, the daughter of a local
notary, Jean Bernard, and his spouse Marie-Julie Matton. In 1793, aged
15, she married a 42-year-old banker Jacques Récamier. Her husband
was a longstanding lover of her mother and was very probably her real
father. He married his daughter at the height of the revolutionary
terror to ensure that she would inherit his fortune if he was
guillotined. In fact, he survived and was put in charge of the Bank of
France in 1800, opening the way for his wife to become a figure of
fashion.... continued at
http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1068&catID=17
o Palaeolithic pornography
Unveiled May 14th 2009 From The
Economist print
edition
Smut carved from a
mammoth tusk
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13643965&fsrc=nwlehfree
=== Ccl Mtg NOTES May
11th ===
= VIDEOS of the three
mtgs
+ STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP
Here's the video of the Strategic Planning workshop held May 11th
from 4 to 6pm:
rtsp://206.108.31.11/council_videos/2009/5/11/sp/entire.smil
Cclr Evison was absent; apparently only about five mbrs of the
public and twice as many staff.
+ SPECIAL CCL MTG
Video at:
rtsp://206.108.31.11/council_videos/2009/5/11/SM/entire.smil
+ YOUTH COUNCIL
Video at
rtsp://206.108.31.11/council_videos/2009/5/11/YC/entire.smil
= NOTES
-- SPECIAL CCL MTG
NOTES [Cclr Evison absent]
1. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
[6:30pm]
BYLAWS for Adoption [rec'd three
readings May 4]
In response to Sop's question, some of these have a year or
two yet to run.
REPORTS
Report dated May 5, 2009 from the Mayor received
for information. MetroV decision, one 15 from across
Canada (six days, $6500); Sweden is far ahead; Mayor said although she
can read about it wants to look forward, not use old technology or
make mistakes; "stuck at every turn by prov govt"; local
govts do it and in Sweden heavily taxed (another
challenge). {The Mayor will be away on this
trip (studying waste), paid for by MetroV, May 21 to June
1}
CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS
5. Consent Agenda Items -
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
6. Correspondence List (File:
0120-24)
No Action Required (Receipt Only)
Mayor explained that it was MetroV's decision
to appeal expropriation out at UBC by prov govt without consultation,
negotiation, or compensation; prov govt has written legislation to
allow them to do that. Sop wondered then about our [over]
600 hectares of 'green canopy' with possibility of having terms
dictated. The Mayor said dilemma, she did not want to overstate the
concern but the prov govt has provided several examples of
giving themselves the power to override local govt, with new
relationship the need to consult, negotiate, and compensate is
fundamental.
Sop mused about flying over and prov seeing trees
to log but Mayor urged staying on topic. She continued saying
the [metro] Board grappled about how to take this on. Decided
compensation is basic to any kind of agreement; just b/c M lower
[level of govt] with less legislative authority, there's moral
obligation to work together.
TP asked if any more we cd do and Mayor said
that's why release there but at this stage just let it run its
course.
7. PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
[none] 8. ADJOURNMENT
(after eight minutes and 22 seconds!)
-- YOUTH COUNCIL
Impressive as the Mayor said that there was
standing room only -- and on a hockey night!
7pm INTRODUCTIONS
Youth Mayor: Tracey Hinder, Grade 12 WV Sec
Cclrs: Kelly Trach, Grade 10 Rockridge; Yeji An, Grade 10
WVSec; Conny Yang, Grade 11 Rockridge; Jenna Hassan, Grade 11
Mulgrave; Dae Won Kim, Grade 11 WV Sec; Irene Kim, Grade 11 WV
Sec.
3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
4. PRESENTATIONS:
ROTARY CLUB OF WEST VANCOUVER; ROTARY
CLUB OF WEST VANCOUVER SUNRISE;
WEST VANCOUVER POLICE DEPARTMENT and
STUDENT WORK & ADVISORY TEAM
$7K to Youth
Initiative
Student Work Adv Grp; percentage of
proceeds come back to Police wch we give back to
Youth
{Mayor gave thanks}
5. DEBATE TOPIC: YOUTH AND
TRANSPORTATION IN WEST VANCOUVER
Ray Fung, Director made presentation
slides
many years ago the Guinness family funded a
bridge to access their land; many years ago we had passenger ferries,
disappeared, ... UL Hwy went through 70s to access Sea to Sky
Hwy
250 km of paved roadways; sidewalks, bridges,
etc
unique in that we operate the Blue Bus system,
oldest continuously operated bus service in NAm
Min of Trans $40M for MDr, includes the
replacement of the Blue Bridge
re TransLink, looking at a revenue
shortfall...
re 2010, how WV is going to keep ppl moving
through the region while having Olympic Games
2009 Project Examples slide:work on Spirit Trail
behind Pk Royal starts tomorrow; new Almondel bridge; Annual Road
Capital Rehab prg; school traffic safety prog; sp projects: traffic
calming -- Gordon, 21st and Queens, etc
2004 OCP; 2005 Envmtal Strategy; 2007 Cycling and
Greenway; 2009 Strategic Transportation plan
SLIDE of Spirit Trail/Greenway/Cycling Plan
Route
Opportunities for Youth Involvement: sch traffic
safety, sch crossing guard prog, Spirit Trail WG, Strategic Trans
Plan, etc.
{Then debate: shortage of buses, stops; buses
can only take two bikes; free or subsidization of tix; carpooling;
etc}
MOTION passed: to encourage youth to participate in WGs,
etc.
6. REPORTS FROM YOUTH MAYOR AND YOUTH
COUNCILLORS
-- on activities and events of Youth Week; Youth Week from
1995.
7. PUBLIC QUESTIONS AND
COMMENTS -- NONE
{Closing remarks by Mayor G-Jones; dedicated mtg
to Peter Chisholm now in GF Strong, helped a senior wrongfully
convicted get back in, etc.; congratulated Youth Ccl on tenor of
debate; ...work on further initiatives and events...have a number of
ideas and resources going forward.}
8.
ADJOURNMENT
YOUTH APPRECIATION AWARDS
PRESENTATION
Mayor Goldsmith-Jones and Youth Mayor Hinder will
present the annual Youth Appreciation Awards
This is a very long list -- really impressive but
much too long to reproduce here. If it's put on the DWV website,
I'll put it in a future issue of WVM. There's a wide range of
activities they've been involved in -- from streams to Darfur,
mosquito nets to the Cinderella project, from garbage to raising funds
for juvenile diabetes ($115K by Rockridge), cancer to
Liberia,......
The Mayor concluded with congratulations, support
for the strategic planning process, and the need for energy to keep WV
the wonderful place it is.
RECEPTION FOLLOWED
=== Ccl Mtg AGENDA May
25th ===
1. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
2. ADOPTION OF MINUTES
PRESENTATIONS
3. J. Carline, Chief Administrative Officer, Metro Vancouver,
regarding Metro Vancouver Draft Regional Growth Strategy and
Consultation Program (File: 0185-01)
PowerPoint to be provided.
4. F. Nenninger, Metro Vancouver, regarding Metro Vancouver
Draft Liquid Waste Management Plan (File: 0185-08-07)
PowerPoint to be provided.
REPORTS
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. Council affirm that the
District supports the foundation and the policy directions of the
February 2009 Metro Draft Regional Growth Strategy, but does not
support adoption of the Strategy at this time, unless the key issues
identified by the District can be satisfactorily
addressed.
2. Council direct staff to
submit the letter to Metro on key issues affecting WV from the
February 2009 Metro Draft Regional Growth Strategy as outlined in
the May 13, 2009 report from the Director of Planning, Lands and
Permits entitled, "Comments on Metro Draft Regional Growth
Strategy".
PowerPoint presentation to be provided.
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. The draft Liquid Waste
Management Plan for Metro Vancouver and member municipalities, dated
March 2009 be supported; and
2. Further
that:
the District [support] advancement of the
Lions' Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant secondary upgrade by 2020,
only on the condition that Metro Vancouver [receive] senior government
cost-sharing grants;
Metro Vancouver [undertake] an
Integrated Resource Management Study on the North Shore as soon as
possible, in cooperation with the three North Shore
municipalities;
the District continue to complete
Integrated Stormwater Management Plans for remaining watersheds
within the municipality; and
Metro Vancouver be encouraged to work
with the Province to obtain legislative authority for municipalities
to address infiltration from aging, private property sanitary sewer
service connections.
7. Strategic Planning Update
(File: 0270-07)
Verbal report to be provided.
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. Council approve the request from
the Canadian Snowboard Federation who are leasing Fulton House at 1538
Fulton Ave for an Order of Non-Enforcement of ... Sign Bylaw until
June 1, 2010 to permit a maximum 2 square foot free-standing sign at
1538 Fulton advertising their office location.
2. Council authorize staff to waive
the required $250.00 fee under the Fees and Charges Bylaw ... for
processing Orders of Non-Enforcement of regulatory bylaws with
work/project time frames of more than two weeks.
9. Zoning Bylaw No. 2200, 1968, Amendment Bylaw No. 4602, 2009
(5775 Marine Dr) (File: 1610-20-2200)
Information to be provided.
RECOMMENDED: THAT "Zoning Bylaw
... be read a first time.
RECOMMENDED: THAT the M Clerk be
directed to give notice of a Public Hearing on Monday, June
15.
10. Changes to the 2009 Council Meeting Schedule (File:
0120-01)
RECOMMENDED: THAT an additional
Meeting of Council be scheduled for Monday, June 22
CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS
11. Consent Agenda Items - Reports and
Correspondence
RECOMMENDED: THAT the Consent Agenda items as
follows be approved:
Item 12 - Devt Permit Application, 2330
Cypress Bowl Lane (Mulgrave School) (to set consideration date for
June 15, 2009)
Item 13 - DPA for 567 and 571 Craigmohr
Dr (to allow subdivision of difficult terrain and provide for
watercourse protection) (to set consideration date for June 15,
2009)
Item 14 - DPA for 2451 Palmerston Ave
(to set consideration date for June 15,
2009)
Item 15 - Correspondence List.
REPORTS FOR CONSENT AGENDA
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. The M Clerk give notice that the
Devt Permit Application, which provides for an Early Learning
Centre at the Mulgrave School Site will be considered on Monday, June
15; and
2. The notice of the DPA be
expanded, beyond the 100 m set out in the Devt Procedures Bylaw, to
include all owners and occupiers within the area shown on the map
attached as Appendix B to the May 15 report from the Senior Planner,
Urban Design.
RECOMMENDED: THAT the report dated May 15 from
the Manager, Community Planning ... be received for consideration
on Monday June 15.
14. Development Permit Application No. 08-002 for 2451
Palmerston Ave (File: 1010-20-08-002)
Information to be provided.
CORRESPONDENCE LIST FOR CONSENT AGENDA
15. Correspondence List
(File: 0120 24)
Correspondence received up to May 1,
2009
Requests for Delegation -- No items
presented.
Action Required -- No items presented.
No Action Required (receipt only)
Responses to Correspondence
Responses to Questions in Question Period --
No items presented.
Correspondence received up to May 8,
2009
Requests for Delegation -- No items
presented.
Action Required
Referred to Director of Parks and Community Services for
consideration and response.
Referred to Director of Planning, Lands and Permits for
consideration and response.
Referred to Director of Engineering and Transportation for
consideration and response.
No Action Required (receipt only)
Responses to Correspondence
Responses to Questions in Question Period --
No items presented.
Correspondence received up to May 15,
2009
Requests for Delegation -- No items
presented.
Action Required
Referred to Fire Chief for consideration
and response.
Referred to Mayor and Council for
consideration and response.
Referred to Director of Engineering and
Transportation for consideration and response.
No Action Required (receipt only) -- No items
presented.
Responses to Correspondence
Responses to Questions in Question
Period -- No items presented.
16. REPORTS FROM MAYOR/CCLRS 17. PUBLIC
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS 18. ADJOURNMENT
=== NEWSWATCH ===
* Stories
from the current issue of Le Monde diplomatique: May 2009
...Israel, new threat to Palestinian
citizens; Afghanistan, questions for Obama; Ukraine in the
world downturn; focus on Africa, concerns in Kenya and Zambia ...
on Revolution, the May dossier... Wikifying expertise and more...
at http://mondediplo.com/
* FIGHTING OPPRESSION IN THE WEST BANK
from the Guardian Weekly {peacefully!}
For Israeli
national and Anarchists Against the Wall activist Ronnie Barkan,
32, joining the nonviolent Palestinian struggle against the occupation
is the obvious choice of humanity over nationalism. He describes his
experiences of peaceful demonstrations that have turned ugly, and how
Israelis and Palestinians are standing side by side to fight
oppression
A lot of my friends
tell me it's dangerous to come to the West Bank, and that the vast
majority of Israelis are brainwashed and think all Palestinians are
terrorists. I keep responding that it is dangerous because there are
Israeli soldiers here. When I cross over into the West Bank - and
sometimes I come here on my scooter, so I'm totally exposed - the
only people I'm afraid of are the Israeli soldiers, who are armed
and dangerous. Very dangerous actually.
My friends don't
believe me when I say this, but when such a horrible incident like
31-year-old
Bassem Ibrahim Abu Rahma's death here in Bil'in [on 17 April], or when my
good American friend Tristan Anderson was critically injured; when you show them video
footage of all this, some still try to deny it and come up with all
kinds of excuses, but some people are genuinely shocked by what they
see.
Bassem embodies the
spirit of the non-violent struggle. Up until the very last minute of
his life, he was engaging with the soldiers near the segregation wall
and talking to them about what we are doing here. He tried to tell
them: 'Calm down, don't shoot, this is a nonviolent
demonstration'. The very last thing he told the commander who is in
charge of his murder was that there was an Israeli woman - she was
actually French but he believed her to be Israeli - who was hit. And
as he was telling them this he suffered a fatal blow in the chest from
a teargas canister.
I held him in my
hands as he was dying. I will remember him as a really great person,
always smiling, with a lot of energy and charisma, and who would never
let go of this spirit of struggling for his land and engaging with
people. He would approach every single person and say hello, shake
their hands, ask if they need anything. Upon hearing of his murder,
everyone in Bil'in reacted emotionally and everyone said he never
picked up a stone. He was such a non-violent person.
...
continued:
http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1070&catID=1
* Ronnie Barkan
was talking to Karl Schembri in Bil'in, West Bank. Anarchists
Against the Wall is an Israeli group that supports Palestinian
resistance to the Israeli separation wall.
* ANNEXATION
Israeli administration
taking another 12,000 dunams of Palestinian land for illegal
settlements -- 05.05.09 - 11:09
Jerusalem / PNN -
Settlement expansion is rapidly on the rise in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem prompting President Abbas to ask Jordan's King Abdullah
II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to help him pressure the
Israeli administration into stopping.
The US has
complained to the Israelis about the illegal practice. Hundreds of
thousands of people have participated, and continue to do so, in the
nonviolent Palestinian resistance movement in protest of Israeli
settlement policy.
The occupying
Israeli authority is confiscating another 12,000 dunams of Palestinian
land for settlement expansion. Illegal under international law as all
Israeli settlements are, Ma'ale Adumim and Qedar will now be
linked.
The settlements
are built on Palestinian land blocking the West Bank from East
Jerusalem. This latest affront is drawing the ire of millions, yet
Israeli settlement policy pushes forward unabated.
Today the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued a "strong condemnation"
of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior's plan. Dr. Mustafa
Barghouthi said that Interior Minister Eli Yishai's comments were
"racist".
The Israeli
administration is consolidating its annexation, also illegal under
international law, of the holy city. The aim of the policy is to
establish a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem, as has been
stated by Israeli officials who express concern that Palestinians
would be the majority.
Israeli Interior
Minister Eli Yishai issued a decision this week to adopt the
recommendations of a committee established by his office to study the
issue of linking the Qedar Settlement with Ma'ale Adumim, which is
among the largest of all Israeli settlements.
Ma'ale Adumim is
on East Jerusalem land with Qedar three kilometers east of that where
the PCHR reports that the "Israeli media unveiled another plan to
construct 6,000 new housing units in 'Qedar' settlement."
The human rights organization continued to comment, "The
implementation of these plans will disrupt geographical contiguity
between the north and south West Bank, and will isolate Jerusalem from
the West Bank as a whole. These decisions fundamentally undermine the
viability of any future Palestinian State."
Another settlement
is being imposed in southeast Jerusalem's Al Sawahra
neighborhood. Home demolitions and distribution of evacuation
notices are both on the rise with some 20,000 houses under threat
according to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood coalition. The latest
orders were levied against the top two floors of the Armenian Church,
built 150 years ago, in the Old City.
PHCR writes:
International law explicitly prohibits the annexation of land
consequent to the use of force (Article 47, Fourth Geneva Convention),
a principle confirmed in Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter.
International humanitarian law is unambiguous in this regard:
occupation does not imply any right whatsoever to dispose of
territory. Annexation is straightforwardly illegal.
Article 49
of the Fourth Geneva Convention also explicitly prohibits the transfer
and settlement of parts of the Occupying Power's population in
occupied territory. PCHR wish to highlight the underlying purpose of
this provision, as noted in the authoritative commentary to the Geneva
Conventions: "It is intended to prevent a practice adopted by during
the Second World War by certain Powers, which transferred portions of
their own population for political or racial reasons or in order ...
to colonize those territories. Such transfers worsened the economic
situation of the native population and endangered their separate
existence as a race."
The United
Nations estimate that there are currently between 480,000 and 550,000
illegal settlers living in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem.
PCHR strongly
condemns all Israeli policies and measures aimed at consolidating the
annexation of occupied East Jerusalem, and:
...
to see the list, this continues at
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5222&Itemid=
{Pls note that among the conditions
establishing the State of Israel by the UN was shared Jerusalem, and
the division of the British Mandate of Palestine was 55% for Israel
and 45% Palestine. This changed to 78% Israel and 22% Palestine
as of 1967, after that 100% Israeli control. The Arab League of
22 countries since 2002 have stated they will recognize Israel in the
pre-1967 borders, already an enormous compromise. Since 1978
Israel has promised not to expand the illegal settlements -- at that
time there were 20,000 and the promise was made to Prez Carter.
Ever since, at the Oslo Accords etc and at Annapolis 2007, that same
commitment has been made, yet now the illegal settlers number half a
million. It is remarkable some ppl are still trying for peace
and have not given up. We must encourage the moderates and try
to go forward instead of closing more doors. There are almost
700 checkpoints on the West Bank making it difficult for Palestinians
to travel in 'their' territory, quite apart from not being able to
drive on Jews-only highways. Gaza is still stifled with food,
fuel, and medical supplies restricted.}
=== LANGUAGEWATCH
=== from The Vocabula Review:
Arthur Conan
Doyle and Sherlock Holmes by Richard
Lederer
This month we
celebrate the sesquicentennial of Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born
May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh. Doyle created the most universally
famous of all literary characters -- Sherlock Holmes, the world's
first consulting detective. The intrepid sleuth's deerstalker hat,
Inverness cape, calabash pipe, and magnifying glass are recognized by
readers everywhere, and the stories have been translated into more
than sixty languages, from Arabic to Yiddish.
Like the heroes of
so many popular stories and myths, Sherlock Holmes was born in poverty
and nearly died at birth from neglect. Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle was a
novice medical practitioner with a dearth of patients. To while away
his time and to help pay a few bills, Doyle took pen in hand and
created one of the first detectives to base his work squarely on
scientific methods. More ...
http://www.vocabula.com/
=== WORDWATCH
=== borborygmus
from AWAD Apr 24
MEANING: noun: A rumbling noise caused by the movement of
gas through the intestines.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek borborygmos (intestinal rumbling), an
onomatopoeic word to describe the sound.
NOTES: Borborygmi are usually harmless, they are simply a
result of gas movement around the stomach. And the rumbling sound
doesn't mean one is hungry either. We can't really do anything about
the sound of a stomach growling, but we can take comfort in the fact
that at least we know a fancy word to describe it.
USAGE:
"And the piece de resistance: 'He was woken early by
borborygmus as his insides fermented and his intestines ballooned with
gas beyond their capacity.'"
Ruth Dudley Edwards; Book Review / Straying Into
A Dark, Ugly And Sick World; The Independent (London, UK); Sep 21,
1994.
=== PEOPLEWATCH
=== This is simply
incredible!
Of course I haven't had time to click on each person but you'll
find it amazing that you can click on a figure you know and get the
person's background/history. From an email friend:
The painting itself is great but as you run
your curser over the people it tells you who they are
and provides a link (if you click on
it) to get more information on each person. This could
keep you occupied for hours. Move the task bar to the right to
see the entire picture.
http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm
=== PLACENAMEWATCH
=== Obituary
Margaret
Gelling
May 14th 2009 From The Economist print edition
Margaret Gelling, an
expert on English place names, died on April 24th, aged
84
AT WIVENHOE, in Essex, the
low line of the hills has the shape of the heels of a person lying
face-down. The name contains the shape: a hoh is a ridge that rises to a point and has a concave
end. At Wooller in Northumberland, however, the hilltop is level, with
a convex sloping shoulder. The hidden word here is ofer, "a flat-topped ridge". Early
Anglo-Saxon settlers in England, observing, walking and working the
landscape, defined its ups and downs with a subtlety largely missing
from modern, motorised English. Dozens of words, none of them
synonymous, described the look of a hill, the angle of slope and the
way trees grew upon it. And after the Anglo-Saxons, no one looked at
the landscape in quite that way until Margaret Gelling.
http://www.economist.com/obituary/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13642362&fsrc=nwlehfree
=== QUOTATIONS
===
~~~ Arthur Erickson quotations:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/arthur_erickson.html
~~~
Elector: one who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the
man of another man's choice.
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the
world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and
steel because they cannot face public opinion.
--
Edwin Hubbel Chapin, American minister and orator (1814 - 1880)
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better
than we deserve.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is
simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
--
Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist (1879 - 1955)
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning
is perilous.
--
Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's
faces as unfinished as their minds.
--
Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author (1902-1983)
[1976] Thanks to television, for the first
time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their
elders. We women are doing pretty
well. We're almost back to where we were in the twenties.
--
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose
to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was
I less by dying?
--
Jalaluddin Rumi, Persian poet and mystic (1207-1273)
A man with outward courage dares to die, one with inward courage
dares to live.
--
Lao-tzu
To fail to experience gratitude when walking through the
corridors of the Metropolitan Museum, when listening to the music of
Bach or Beethoven, when exercising our freedom to speak, to give, or
withhold, our assent, is to fail to recognize how much we have
received from the great wellsprings of human talent and concern that
gave us Shakespeare, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, our parents, our
friends. We need a rebirth of gratitude for those who have cared for
us, living and, mostly, dead. The high moments of our way of life are
their gifts to us. We must remember them in our thoughts and in our
prayers and in our deeds.
-- WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. (writer
and founder of National Review, 1925-2008), speech, quoted by
Richard Lowry, panel discussion, The Reagan I Knew, Manhattan
Institute, New York City, 27 January 2009, television broadcast,
C-SPAN2, 8 March 2009.