WVM2010-22
Ccl Mtg AGENDA Oct 4
Calendar to Oct 21st
by
Carolanne Reynolds, Editor
www.WestVan.org
heading into fabulous
fall...... and enjoy Thanksgiving, so much to be grateful
for.........
IN THIS ISSUE:
MAIN ITEMS Ccl Mtg Oct 4th: Delegation/100th Anniversary
of the Girl Guides; Adoption of 2200blk MDr Road Closure; Endorsement
of MetroV integrated Liquid Waste Mgmt Plan; 2011 Tax Exemptions; DVP
App 1119 Keith; Correspondence close but still no cigar...........(see
Item 13)
= Vive le Canada (GG); from the EDITOR'S DESK
(Correspondence comments; Tea) ; UPDATES & INFO (Sport
Field 'A')
= CALENDAR to Oct 21st; CULTUREWATCH (Theatre; Art;
Music, Opera, Film)
= Ccl Mtg NOTES? Nope -- ccl mtgs Mon Sept 20, Wed
22nd were CLOSED
= Ccl Mtg AGENDA Oct 4th (ABSENT: Mayor at a
conference in Montreal, Cclr Lewis in Italy)
= ANIMALWATCH (kitten; dolphins); INFObits (GG);
BEERWATCH (Breakfast); NEWSWATCH (Sustainable City); GAZAWATCH (Jewish
and Cdn Boats); WEBWATCH (Settlement Construction); CPTWATCH
(Non-violence a good thing); WOMANWATCH; SENIORWATCH (Baby Boomers);
HERITAGEWATCH (& Harvest at SAC); SALMONWATCH; What does LOVE
mean? :-); LANGUAGEWATCH (Paraprosdokian); WORDWATCH (GG);
MAIKU (Bard-ku); QUOTATIONS/THOUGHTS/PUNS
=== Vive le CANADA
=== (see INFObits and WORDWATCH for
more)
Best wishes and thanks to former Governor-General
Michaelle Jean; welcome and all the best to our new Governor General
David Johnston as of October 1st.
=== from the EDITOR'S DESK
===
> PUBLIC
CORRESPONDENCE: see comments with Item 13 where it shd
appear. It has cmte minutes , a petition, letters about parking
in HBay, UBCM, etc.
> UBCM was at Whistler this past week so hope to hear
what Ccl reports as decisions and effects on WV.
> TEA ALERT: recently the tea on special at Murchie's
was 'stone fruit' tea -- I found it particularly yummy. Of
course, I misheard G when he gave it to me and thought it was stoned
fruit but soon discovered the difference.
> Explosion of mtgs, events, theatre, etc -- guess
ppl back for an autumn in full swing. Note ruefully no time to
do everything tempting.
=== UPDATES & INFO
===
+ TAX
EXEMPTIONS for 2011, in NSNews Wed Sept 29, p8.
+ Ambleside "A"
Artificial Turf Sport Field Officially Renamed Rutledge
Field
Latest
News: West
Vancouver District Council unanimously endorsed West Vancouver Field
Hockey Club's proposal to name the new artificial turf field at
Ambleside Park "Rutledge Field", in tribute to Ross Rutledge, a
dedicated community sport leader on the North Shore. See http://www.westvancouver.ca/Level3.aspx?id=25808
Cheque Presentation Kicks Off Phase Two of
Fundraising Efforts at 3pm on Monday Oct 4th (see
Calendar).
Media Release Sept 28 -- In
2009, West Vancouver received a $3 million Building Canada Grant from
the Federal and Provincial governments to build an artificial turf
playing field on the former Ambleside "A" - now Rutledge Field -
gravel field near the corner of 13th Street and Marine
Drive.
Two major sport clubs in West
Vancouver, the Soccer and Field Hockey Clubs, committed to raise the
$1,500,000, of which $470,000 has already been contributed. On October
4th, the clubs will present a cheque for the next instalment
Backgrounder -- In June 2010, construction of new turf field facilities at
Ambleside began. The project includes an artificial turf playing
surface designed for field hockey and useable by soccer, with improved
lighting, a renovated field house and warm-up areas for soccer and
field hockey. Plans are underway to build on this project -- 2011
will bring significant upgrades and improvements to the existing field
house facilities.
Financial support from the District
of West Vancouver, and the federal and provincial governments enabled
construction to begin. North Shore field sports supporters have
contributed $740,000 to the project, and have $760,000 left to raise.
The sports groups are counting on continuing financial support from
the community in order to complete the project....
Donations are tax deductible, and
there are several opportunities for donor recognition. To find out how
you can support the Ambleside Sports Vision, visit www.amblesidesportsvision.com.
=== CALENDAR to Oct 21st
===
All mtgs are at M Hall
unless indicated otherwise. NOTE: shown are mtgs known at
this date; often there are additions, changes, cancellations after WVM
goes out. Check the DWV Calendar: http://www.westvancouver.ca/Calendar.aspx .
Notices/mtgs/changes too late for the last WVM or too early for the
next one are sent to subscribers as updates. They then,
unfortunately later, appear in the newsletter.
UPDATE:
Social
Services & Community Services Subcommittee Mtg.
~ 9:15am ~ Friday Oct 1st at Community Centre - 3rd Floor Vista Room
{Sorry, still don't know the name of the main cmte/body;
running out of time}
...
== Sunday Oct 3 {Details were in
the last issue of WVM}
"The only force
between us and the complete loss of our natural resources are the
people themselves."
- Rex Weyler,
Co-founder Greenpeace: Part 1 - PEOPLE POWER
YOU ARE INVITED TO
THE FILM PREMIERE OF "PEOPLE POWER"
Greetings Friends, Colleagues, and
Allies,
BC Citizens for Public
Power (BCCPP) proudly invites you to the film premiere
for
PEOPLE POWER:
Building Social Movements to Protect Public Power in
Canada.
PEOPLE POWER: Building Social
Movements to Protect Public Power in Canada is the one-hour
(six-part) film inspiring citizens to fight the privatization of our
rivers and BC Hydro.
The official launch event takes
place Sunday, October 3rd at 6pm at the SFU
Harbour Centre.
== Monday Oct 4
~ 3pm ~ Cheque Presentation Kicks Off Phase Two of
Fundraising Efforts
Join the WV Soccer Club, WV Field Hockey Club,
and the District as they celebrate another landmark in Ambleside's
sports revitalization. [More info in Updates & Info
above.]
Place: Ambleside Park north, in
front of the old field house
== Wednesday Oct 6 ~ 6pm ~ TAYLORWOOD
DEVT
A Community
Consultation Meeting has been scheduled to give the public
opportunity to learn about the development proposal and to provide
comments.
6 to 8pm (doors
open at 5:30 pm) at Christ the Redeemer Church, 595 Keith
Road
At
this Meeting, you will have an opportunity to:
Learn about the proposed OCP amendment, rezoning, and
development permit application;
Hear
a presentation about the proposed redevelopment of 803-889 Taylorwood
Place;
Ask
questions about the project; and
Provide comments to help evaluate the proposal
A summary of the
meeting proceedings will be prepared, distributed to the
neighbourhood, and placed on this webpage.
The Proposal:
DWV has received
a major development application from Polygon Homes for lands located
at the northwest corner of Taylor Way and Keith Road. Polygon
has assembled this
6.6 acre site, which currently has 21 single-family homes and wish to
build 160 multi-family units.
== Friday Oct 8
~
8:30am ~ Cmnty Grants Cmte at Cmnty Ctr, Cedar Room
== Tuesday Oct 12
~
9am ~ Finance Cmte
~
7pm ~ Parks Master Plan WG
== Wednesday Oct 13
~ 7:15pm ~ Field Sport WG; Cmnty Ctr, Cedar Room
~ 6:30pm ~ KMC -- UBC
Dialogues
Aboriginal Land Development: Empowered or Too Much
Power?
Urban reserve land
has become incredibly valuable and many First Nations' leaders have
realized the potential financial and economic benefit that this land
presents. Will real estate become the financial engine of the First
Nations economy? Should First Nations land development have to play by
city development rules or should they have complete authority to do
business on their own land? Join us on October 13, for UBC Dialogues:
North Shore. Engage with leading experts from UBC and the community
and learn more about Aboriginal land development.
Light refreshments
will be served after the program. Admission is free and guests are
welcome, but advance registration is required. See Details and RSVP
Online
== Saturday Oct 16
Oktoberfest ~ 6
- 11pm ~ Gleneagles Cmnty Ctr
Join us for an evening of fun and
festivities as we celebrate one of Germany's most famous events:
Okoberfest. Dress up in your favourite German outfit, enjoy a hearty
helping of traditional German grub including schnitzel, bratwurst,
German potato salad, braised cabbage, and apple strudel, and dance the
night away to BC's best Bavarian band: "Al Pichler and the
Alpines". This evening is not to be missed. Cost $30/person.
For more info, pls call 921 2100.
== Sunday Oct 17
HERITAGE AND HARVEST at Srs' Ctr 11am to 5pm; details below in
HERITAGEWATCH
== Tuesday Oct 19
~
7pm ~ WRA at Gleneagles Golf Clubhouse
== Wednesday Oct 20 ~ 7pm ~
Bd of
Variance at M Hall; Library Bd at Library
== Thursday Oct 21 ~ 7pm ~
~ 4:30
~ Design Review Cmte
~ 6pm ~
NSh Family Court/Youth Justice Cmte at DNV M Hall
OCTOBER IS
SENIORS' MONTH
Take part in our
month-long series of programs on aging well for families, caregivers,
and seniors. From a concert and cupcakes on Grandparents Day to
lectures on the dilemmas faced by mid-life sons and daughters coping
with aging parents, we cover it all. Author visits, travel tips, a
movie night, family workshops and programs that explore hearing loss,
dementia, and depression through lectures and discussions, every week
holds something new. For more information call 925 7403.
= ONGOING Fridays, Oct 1,
8 -- English
Corner -- 10 -
11:30am
Come practise English Conversation! Free, no registration
required.
= 7:30pm
Wednesday Sept 29
IT NEVER
STAYS IN VEGAS: BOOK TALK BY LINDY HUGHES
Join author Lindy
Hughes as she discusses her book. Welsh Hall.
Lucy is a happily
married mother of teenagers, but in a fit of midlife rebellion she
impulsively agrees to a rendezvous with Matthew, her first love. A
humorous & poignant portrait of one woman's quest for
happiness.
= 3pm Saturday Oct 2 -- Grandparents Day with
Rick Scott
Bring your
grandchildren to the Library for Grandparents Day. We have a wonderful
concert planned with award winning singer, songwriter, actor, AND
grandfather, Rick Scott. Rick is "Canada's leading proponent of
the Appalachian mountain dulcimer, known by kids around the world as
'The Electric Snowshoe'," and he will give an amazing performance
- don't miss out! Stay after the performance for cupcakes and fruit,
prizes, stories, balloons, and more! Welsh Hall. For more info pls call the
Youth Dept. at 925 7408.
= 7pm Tuesday Oct 5
-- CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: THE DILEMMAS OF MID-LIFE SONS &
DAUGHTERS
How can I pay
attention to my children, marriage, work, self, and old parents at the
same time? This presentation explores how the lives of mid-life
children and their families are transformed, and how contemporary
families are wrestling with these dilemmas. Clarissa P.
Green is a
Registered Clinical Counsellor focusing on the middle and older
generations. A professor emerita from UBC, Clarissa is an
award-winning teacher and writer. Her presentations on family response
to aging, illness, crisis, and death are designed to open important
conversations in families. Welsh Hall.
= Thursday Oct 7 -- Hearing Loss: Signs, Symptoms, and Coping
Strategies
Mandy Fisch,
MSc.Aud.C & Jessica Slater BA.Aud.C, will present coping
strategies for people with hearing loss, as well as friends and family
members. 2 - 3:30pm, Welsh Hall.
= Thursday Oct 14 -- Friends of the Library
booksale!
Get in early with the "Friends Only" pre-sale on
Thursday, October 14 from 6 - 8:30pm (Memberships available at the
door for $10)
Regular sale begins Friday Oct 15 at 10am (until
6pm) and continues on Saturday, Oct 16 (10am - 4pm).
There will be many hard cover and paperback books, CDs, DVDs,
puzzles, and children's books. Please bring your own bags. If
you're interested in learning more about the Friends, visit the
Friends of the Library webpage.
= Friday Oct 15
--
Philosophers' Cafe: Fences and Neighbours
If fences make
good neighbours, what happens to seniors' good neighbours when they
transition into lodges and nursing homes? 10:30am - noon, Elizabeth
Musto Room. No registration is required.
= Tuesday Oct
19
o DO
YOU HAVE A BUCKET LIST? -- 2 - 3:30 pm, Welsh
Hall.
Join baby
boomers David
and Anna Smith as
they share their world travel tales and budget tips from their
excellent world travel and photo adventures. As frequent world
travellers they will show you their bucket list on six continents and
how they budget, travel, plan, and pack as seniors. David Smith is a
professional photographer, travel writer, and guest lecturer. Anna is
a fabric artist and lecturer. Both are "dream travellers capturing
the world one smiling face at a time". They always have their
bags and cameras packed for their next travel adventure.
o MOVIE
NIGHT: THE BUCKET LIST -- 7 - 9 pm, Welsh
Hall.
Jack Nicholson
and Morgan Freeman
are two terminally ill men on a road trip with a wish list of things
to do before they "kick the bucket." A funny and inspiring film
that reminds us all that life is precious.
o For more
information please call 604 925-7403.
= Wednesday
20
Family
Meeting: Planning Care for Family Elders
North Shore
Caregiver Support Program & the Library present an informative
movie & discussion. 1 - 3 pm, Welsh Hall. To register or for more
information, call or email Karyn at 604 982-3320;
Karyn.davies@nscr.bc.ca.
WEST VANCOUVER MEMORIAL
LIBRARY & NORTH SHORE FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT PROGRAM PRESENTS A
FAMILY WORKSHOP: PLANNING CARE FOR FAMILY ELDERS
Join North Shore
Caregiver Support Program for an informative movie & discussion on
effective care planning, including topics such as communicating with
family members, collaborating with healthcare professionals,
step-by-step decision making, respecting elders' wishes and putting
plans into action.
Wednesday,
October 20, 1:30 - 3:30 pm, Welsh Hall.
For
more information please phone Karyn at 604 982-3320, or email
karyn.davies@nscr.bc.ca
> Stewart Brand and "Whole Earth
Discipline"
- the Eco-pragmatist's Manifesto
~ 7pm Monday Oct 4
Venue: Milton and Fei Wong Experimental Theatre,
SFU Woodwards, 149 West Hastings Street
Whether you realize it or not, your awareness of
the world has been influenced by Stewart Brand. He thought the image
of our planet might be a powerful symbol, so in 1966 he campaigned to
have NASA release the then-rumoured satellite image of the entire
Earth as seen from space. He distributed buttons - for 25 cents each
- asking, "Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth
yet?" In 1968, a NASA astronaut made the photo public, and in
1970, not coincidentally, Earth Day began to be celebrated. Brand
explained that the image "gave the sense that Earth's an
island, surrounded by a lot of inhospitable space."
He is on the board of the Santa Fe Institute, and
maintains connections with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Wired
magazine and MIT's Media Lab, while occasionally consulting for
Ecotrust. He is the original editor of The Whole Earth Catalog (winner
of the National Book Award); author of The Media Lab: Inventing the
Future at MIT; How Buildings Learn; and The Clock of the Long Now:
Time and Responsibility (MasterMinds Series); and Two Cybernetic
Frontiers, on Gregory Bateson and cutting-edge computer science. It
had the first use of the term "personal computer" in print
and was the first book to report on computer hackers. Most recently,
he is author of "Whole Earth Discipline" - a provocative
book that is likely to make one question the entire range of thinking
on the state of the earth and how we should respond. Whether you agree
with Stewart Brand or not, you have to hear what he has to say
-something you've been doing all your life, whether you know it or
not.
> COMMUNITY EVENTS (not sponsored by SFU City Prog; see links below for
more info)
o Walking the
Talk - The Footprint for Active
Transportation: A Workshop and Learning Lab
(Part of the Gaining Ground Conference)
MONDAY October 4 --
Segal Graduate School of Business, SFU, 500 Granville
Street
Join local leaders, decision-makers, and leading
global experts on walking environments and walkability in a full day
workshop exploring this foundation of Active Transportation. This
exciting day consists of a working breakfast session with professional
training on walking environments, followed by an on street hands-on
walking audit, analysis, and in-depth discussion. Learn innovative
best practices that can be used by you to make communities more
walkable. This session will be led by Dr. Rodney Tolley from
Walk21, Jacky Kennedy from Green Communities Canada, and Paul Young,
with Public Space Workshop.
o Local Food Plans: Lessons from Other
Communities
Plus Dialogue on the Regional Food System Strategy
in Metro Vancouver
(Part of the Gaining Ground
Conference) October 5 -
6
Concerns about food - its impacts on our
health; its inaccessibility to many low income people; its
vulnerability to climate change, soil erosion, water shortages, and
rising fuel prices; demand for local food; its role in creating new
jobs; and the need for farmers to be able to make a decent living -
have vaulted food strategies up the public policy priority list. Find
out how Toronto, Portland, and California are planning to transform
local food production, distribution and land use, and how to help
shape Metro Vancouver's Regional Food System Strategy.
These events are free, however pre-registration
is required. To register and for more details:
September 14 to
October 16
Fragmented History: Objects and
Meaning features a
selection of artworks and historical artifacts from the museum's own
collection, and presents in a series of thought-provoking displays
that explore critical themes pertaining to collecting
institutions.
The act of
collecting is rooted in a desire to endow value and meaning to our
lives through the gathering and ordering of the material world around
us. Motives that drive this accumulation of 'things' are complex
and varied, ranging from the psychological desire to possess, the
emotional need to preserve and remember, to the political and economic
drive for power, status, knowledge, and validation. The history
of the Museum as an institution is inextricably linked to this
practice, and the collections that it houses embody the assumptions
about knowledge and value of the societies and culture that create
them.
Fragmented History explores the acquisition, organization, and
display of objects, addressing some key topics in collecting discourse
-authenticity, fragmentation, classification, possession, and the
imbuing of value. This exhibition includes artworks by
well-known B.C. artists including Emily Carr and Jack Shadbolt, as
well as personal possessions from the estates of B.C. Binning and
architect Hugh Hodgson in juxtaposition with other historical items
from the Museum's diverse collections. The exhibition
re-evaluates the relationships between institutions, visitors,
objects, and collections.
For
more information about the exhibition, please call 925
7295.
+ September 28 - October 17
Desire: The Magnificent Obsession -- Paintings
by Elizabeth Topham
Opening Reception:Tuesday Sept 28 from 6 - 8
pm
Artist in Attendance: Saturday Oct 2 from 2 -
3pm
* September 21 -
October 3 -- "Contemplation"
Art is contemplation. It is
the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and there defines
the spirit in which Nature herself is animated. North Shore
artists, Gordon
Oliver and Ollie Pritchard's acrylics and oils depict this sense of
spirit and self-awareness. Join us as we increase our own sense of
reality by the contemplation of their beautiful works.
* October 5 -
17
-- "A
Little Abstraction"
Well-respected watercolour,
acrylic, and mixed media artist and teacher Teressa Bernard, displays her current collection. Past
works have been predominantly representational and in watercolour,
inspired by the way light fell on objects. Her approach to painting
has evolved over the years, from being a watercolour purist to
layering watercolour with gouache or acrylic and other mediums to
achieve the desired results. She now works primarily in acrylic and
enjoys experimenting, inviting an intriguing examination at close
range.
Opening
Reception: TUESDAY October 5th from 6 to 8pm
+++ KAY MEEK CENTRE
+++
Complete list of events: http://kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/events_calendar
Electronic newsletter: http://kaymeekcentre.weebly.com
Simplest way to get on email list, call
913 3634 or email tickets@kaymeekcentre.com
The Season Brochure is in the mail! If you do not
receive yours, pls call the box office.
+ Wednesday October 6
at 1pm ~ Kay Meek Centre Offstage
Unique Relationships: in conversation
with the Borealis String Quartet
This FREE 50-minute
presentation takes place at West Vancouver's Seniors Activity
Centre {don't know if this applies
to event above or below or both}
+ Friday October 8 at
1:30pm ~ Musically
Speaking: A Musical Potpourri with the Borealis String Quartet and
bassoonist George Zukerman
A lovely afternoon of musical
gems followed with complementary tea and treats. Buy tickets online.
Musically Speaking and OffStage are sponsored by
Pacific Arbour Retirement Residencies.
+ Thursday October 6
at 7:30pm
Author and Globe and
Mail correspondent, Doug Saunders, tells a story unfolding before our
eyes in cities around the world. In Arrival City, Saunders writes about
how the movement of populations from rural to urban areas is reshaping
our world. These transitional spaces are where the next great economic
and cultural boom will be born, or where the great explosion of
violence will occur. It has profound implications for the success of
local, national, and international economies. Learn more and purchase tickets online.
Doug Saunders is
co-presented with Capilano Performing Arts Theatre as part of the
Pacific Arbour Speaker Series.
++ MOVIES AT THE MEEK
+++ ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 60, West
Vancouver +++
"Where Volunteers make the difference."
Chartered November 17th, 1926
The Summer-Autumn
Issue of "The Torch" is now available
Thank you for your interest. / Best
regards, Janice Mackay-Smith, The Torch
Saturday, October 2nd, our weekly
meat draw will feature five turkeys and five hams in lieu of the usual
ten meat draw prizes. The
draw will begin at 4:30pm, and the cost will remain at $5 for a strip
of ten tickets.
As well, at 7:30pm on the
same evening, a Jam Session will take place in the
Lounge.
Come on in and enjoy the festivities
this Saturday!
POPPIES!
September 15,
2010
To all members of Branch
60, their families and our Community friends:
{full letter in last
issue of WVM}
Veterans Week, November
5 - 11 is a time to reflect on all Veterans, past, present, and
those currently serving in our Canadian Armed Forces.
Please show your respect
for our Veterans, by signing up for a tagging shift. For those unable
to tag,
any and all donations to
our Poppy Trust fund will be gratefully accepted.
I thank you in advance,
for your support of our Poppy Campaign and our Veterans.
Sincerely,
Rosemarie Block, Branch
President/Poppy Campaign Chair.
ONLY A FEW TICKETS REMAIN
FOR OCTOBER BREAKFAST...
At 7:30am Wednesday,
October 13th, MLA
Joan McIntyre, MLA Ralph Sultan, and MP John Weston
will
speak on the latest Government
issues and projects that are currently underway. As there
will also be
time for a Q&A, this
is a great opportunity to ask your local government
representatives a question that
affects your business or
community.
Gleneagles Golf and Country
Club; $25 members and $35 future members
Please RSVP by
paying on our secure website or by phone 926
6614
=== CULTUREWATCH
===
THE BARD ON THE BEACH
REPORT:
Once again Bard played to mostly full
houses in 2010. Total attendance was more than 79,000 filling
96% of the available seats. {There have been higher numbers
but this season b/c of problems with the tent, three weeks were
lost.} Total attendance passed 1M last year. Donate
for the new bigger tent. See www.bardonthebeach.org
from Bard ENews: The Mainstage
tent seats 520 patrons and offers two
productions staged in repertory from end of May through September. The
240-seat Douglas Campbell Studio
Stage was added in 1999 as a venue for the
lesser-known plays in Shakespeare's canon or innovative stagings of
his greater works. In addition to its Shakespeare productions, Bard
offers many ancillary activities including opera concerts and
specialty workshops and forums. The tented 'Bard Village' offers a
range of patron services including concessions, bar, and
boutique.
Over the years Bard on the Beach attendance
has grown significantly from 6,000 patrons in 1990 to more than 90,000 patrons in 2009. Its budget has increased from $35,000 that first
season to $3.5 million in 2009.
*
THEATRE
~ The Musical The
Fantasticks (Oct 2 - 23) has Christopher Gaze and Jeff Hyslop;
the longest running production of any kind in American
theatre.
+ Arts Club (tel 687
1644)
~ Tear the
Curtain! at the Stanley; to
Oct 10; multimedia thriller inspired by the "reel" history
of the Stanley; rave review from Trevor Lautens
~ Don Quixote,
Granville Island Stage -- September 23 - October
23
An Epic Comedy of Love and Delusion --
PREMIERE
This immortal quest has captivated
readers for over four centuries. Don Quixote's tale of courage and
madness is re-imagined with masks, magic, and mayhem. Physical comedy
at its finest; brought to you in collaboration with Axis Theatre
Company, creators of the smash hit The Number 14.
Co-production with Centaur Theatre,
Montreal, in association with Axis Theatre Company
Adapted by Peter Anderson and Colin Heath; Director Roy
Surette
+ Studio 58 at
Langara 684 2787
~ The Park -- musical about saving Stanley Park; written
and performed by Studio 58 students; praised by VSun reviewer Peter
Birnie.
+ The
Cultch
~ after the
quake -- October
13 - 23 at the Cultch
by Haruki Murakami adapted for the stage by Frank
Galati
Last season's hit returns to the
stage! Don't miss the show that wowed critics and audiences
alike.
In 1995, a disastrous earthquake
devastated Kobe, Japan and the Tokyo subway was hit by deadly poison
gas attacks. after the quake is based on bestselling author
Haruki Murakami's stories about life in the wake of
disaster.
Directed by Craig Hall and Richard
Wolfe. Performed by Leina Dueck, Manami Hara, Alessandro Juliani, Hiro
Kanagawa, and Tetsuro Shigematsu.
~
Gutenberg! The Musical!
No Bells and Whistles
presents a Wide Eyed Production in Association with Presentation House
Theatre
September
22-October 9 @ 8pm Tues - Sat and 2pm on Sun
The hit of the 2008
Fringe Festival is back! This award-winning musical spoof follows Bud
and Doug, two hapless composers who have created the greatest
mega-musical of all time, all about the life of Johann Gutenberg,
inventor of the printing press. Through the course of the
show the two portray Gutenberg, his love interest (Helvetica), his
nemesis (an evil Monk) and over 20 other characters as they pitch
their opus to a band of ruthless Broadway producers.
~ 9
Parts of Desire
Presentation House Theatre is pleased to present the Western Canadian
Premiere of 9 Parts of Desire by American/Iraqi playwright
Heather Raffo. A one-woman tour-de-force starring Valerie Buhagiar
(from last year's The Veil), 9 Parts of Desire gives a voice to
the modern Iraqi woman living in the world of Saddam Hussein pre- and
post-9/11.
In 9 Parts of Desire, we meet a whole cross-section of Iraqi
women: a sexy painter, a radical Communist, a doctor, an exile, wives,
lovers, a crone trying to make money by selling anything she can, and
a young girl who dreams simply of leaving the house. This work delves
into the many conflicting aspects of what it means to be a woman in
the age-old war zone that is Iraq. It is an unusually timely
meditation on the ancient, the modern, and the feminine in a country
overshadowed by war.
Winner of the 2005 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation,
Heather Raffo was inspired to write 9 Parts of Desire while
visiting the Saddam Art Centre in Baghdad. "I wandered up
some stairs into a back room and saw a haunting painting of a nude
woman clinging to a barren tree," says Raffo. "Her
head was hanging, bowed, and there was a golden light behind her like
a sun. I stood motionless in front of the painting. I felt she
had captured something within me." This image becomes the central
icon in the play, and the painter, a woman named Leilah Al Attar, who
was killed by an American bomb, is the inspiration for one of the
play's strongest voices.
"Although I am not
Muslim, nor Iraqi, I feel a strange compulsion to tell the story of
these women as if they are my sisters," says Brenda Leadlay, who
directs. "I feel passionately about this play because I
believe there is an urgent need for people in the West to gain a
greater understanding of the Muslim culture, which is misrepresented
in the media and is one of the fastest growing populations on
Earth. 9 Parts of Desire offers a window into the lives
of the Iraqi people that is not seen on the TV
news."
9 Parts of Desire
features an original musical score composed by Serwan Yamolky, an
Iraqi Oud Player, Set Design by Pam Johnson, Lighting Design by Jergus
Oprsal, Costumes by Sabrina Evertt, Sound Effects by Kevin McLardy,
and Stage Management by Heidi Quicke.
9 Parts of
Desire previews on Thursday, October 14, at 8 pm, and opens Friday,
October 15. It then runs nightly through until October 30. There will
be Saturday matinees at 4pm and Sunday matinees at 2pm. Tickets
are $24 - 30, except the preview, where all seats are $12 and the
pay-what-you-can matinee on Saturday, Oct 16th at 4 pm. Tickets are
available by calling 604 990 3474, or online at www.phtheatre.org. Call 604-990-3474 or click here.
* ART
+ VANCOUVER ART
GALLERY
- VAG PUBLIC PROGRAMS
-- All Programs free for Members.
NOW SHOWING: July 1, 2010 - January
3, 2011
IN DIALOGUE WITH CARR: Douglas
Coupland, Evan Lee, Liz Magor, Marianne Nicolson
This exhibition strategically pairs
the work of Emily Carr with key contemporary BC artists to draw out a
dialogue between Carr's legacy and the myriad ways in which artists
respond to it.
+ MUSIC at the
VAG
The 26th season of
the Friday noonhour concerts starts this Friday, October 1st
with the Eine Kleine Lunch Musik sub series. I am looking
forward to the upcoming 672nd concert in the 26th Season of
Friday noonhour concerts at the Vancouver Art Gallery. I will be
presenting some of the Out For Lunch series concerts in 4-East, the
newest gallery space for larger events. ~~ Gene
Ramsbottom
* MUSIC
+ VSO
There are just so many great things,
pls go to the Vancouver Symphony Orchstra's website: http://www.vancouversymphony.ca/ and choose from all those magic
musical offerings.
+ EARLY MUSIC
VANCOUVER
Friday evening, October 15,
2010 | Unity Church
Brisk: "Orpheus and the Domestication of the
Animals"
Series
subscriptions are still available! If you're interested in seeing several of
our concerts, we have a number of series options available this
season! There are series subscriptions available for concerts at the
KMC, for our concerts at the Chan Centre, for our brand new Marc
Destrubé and Friends series -- and more! For more info, pls
visit: http://www.earlymusic.bc.ca/CA-AllSeriesOverview0910.html
Early Music Vancouver --
1254 West 7th Avenue Vancouver BC V6H
1B6
T: 604 732-1610 F: 604
732-1602 E: staff@earlymusic.bc.ca W: www.earlymusic.b
* VANCOUVER
OPERA -- 683
0222
VO-commissioned
opera: Lillian Ailing, the true story of a young
woman's quest into the wilds of BC
Queen
Elizabeth Theatre: OCTOBER 16, 19, 21, 23
EVENTS BEFOREHAND:
+ 7pm Thursday Sept
30 -- "Creating
Lillian"
Discover how a large-scale opera is
created from scratch. Composer John Estacio, librettist John
Murrell, director Kelly Robinson, and set & costume
designer Sue LePage will share their three-year process of
writing and producing VO's new commissioned opera.
Baritone Aaron St. Clair
Nicholson will perform an excerpt from the opera.
Don't miss this rare opportunity
to get inside the creative process with an extraordinary team of opera
artists.
Hosted by VO's general director,
James W. Wright.
Alice Mackay Room, Vancouver Public
Library Central Branch. Free
admission. Seating is limited; arrive early!
+ Lillian's World - A
historical Stanley Park Walking Tour
1 -
3pm Sunday, October 3rd & 10am - noon Saturday, October
9th
Stand where Lillian Alling might
have stood when she fell in love with telegrapher linesman Scotty
Macdonald. Enter Lillian's world through this historical walking
tour of Stanley Park led by historical interpreter Jolene
Cumming.
+ 7pm Wednesday Oct 6th "Alone in a New Land: The Immigrant Experience
in Canada"
Alice Mackay Room, VPL; Free admission. Seating is limited; arrive
early!
+ Thursday Oct 14th
-- The Vancouver Board of Trade - Lunch & Presentation by James
Wright
"Beyond the Scenes: The business of marketing the arts in
turbulent times"
James Wright, General Director of
Vancouver Opera shares proven strategies behind VO's marketing
initiatives, reveals the motivation behind mounting high-risk
productions in recessionary times, and previews Lillian
Alling.
~ 11:45 - 2pm ~ Renaissance
Vancouver Hotel Harbourside
Tix for Mbrs: $59+HST or Table of 8
- $560+HST; Tix for Future Mbrs: $82+HST or Table of 8 - $848+HST;
Register
* FILM
~ Vancouver International
Film Festival www.viff.org to Oct 15 various
venues
~ Jews for a Just Peace is proud
to serve as community sponsor for "Gaza Hospital" at the
VIFF:
Friday Oct 1st, 4:30pm, Pacific
Cinematheque; Thursday Oct 7th, 6:45pm, Pacific
Cinematheque
Gaza Hospital; [GAZAH]
(Feature); Nonfiction Features of 2010; (Italy, 2009, 84 mins,
DVCAM)
In Arabic, English with English
subtitles; North American Premiere
* POETRY READING at
Centennial Theatre 2pm Sunday Oct 3
Shane Koyczan, spoken-word artist (remember him from the
Olmmpics?)
=== CCL MTG AGENDA Oct
4th === Mayor and Cclr Lewis
will be absent
6pm in MHall Main Floor
Conference Room; 7pm ccl mtg in chamber
Note: At 6pm the reg
Cci Mtg will commence in open session and will be immediately followed
by a motion to exclude the public in order to hold a closed session,
pursuant to section 90 of the Cmnty Charter.
6:00 PM
1. CALL TO ORDER OPEN SESSION
2.
EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC
RECOMMENDED:
THAT in the public interest, members of the
public be excluded from part of the October 4 reg Ccl Mtg on the basis
of matters to be considered under the following section of the
Community Charter:
90. (1) A part of a council meeting may be closed
to the public if the subject matter being considered relates to or is
one or more of the following:
4. the security of the
property of the municipality;
5. the acquisition,
disposition or expropriation of land or improvements, if the council
considers that disclosure could reasonably be expected to harm the
interests of the municipality; and
(g) litigation or potential litigation affecting the
municipality;
11. negotiations and related
discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service
that are at their preliminary stages and that, in the view of the Ccl,
could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality
if they were held in public.
90. (2) A part of a council meeting must be
closed to the public if the subject matter being considered relates to
one or more of the following:
2. the consideration of
information received and held in confidence relating to negotiations
between the municipality and a provincial government or the federal
government or both, or between a provincial government or the federal
government or both and a third party.
ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION
3. Council will then proceed with the closed
session.
7:00 PM
Following conclusion of the closed session, the following items
will be considered:
4. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION
5. APPROVAL OF AGENDA for October 4 Regular Council
Meeting Agenda
6. ADOPTION OF MINUTES
RECOMMENDED: THAT the following Minutes be adopted as
circulated:
Sept 13 Regular Council Mtg; Sept
20 Regular Council Mtg; and Sept 22 Special Council Mtg.
DELEGATIONS
7. D. Hales, Girl Guides, 100th Anniversary of Girl Guides of
Canada (File: 0150-01)
8. Cedardale Elementary School, Climate Change Champions
(File: 0195-01)
REPORTS
RECOMMENDED: THAT "Road Closure... Bylaw No. 4659, 2010"
be adopted.
1. The report be received;
2. The municipal commitments included in the proposed
"Plan" be endorsed subject to an equitable distribution of funding
from municipal and senior governments for the waste water treatment
facilities, such as replacement of the Lions Gate Waste Water
Treatment Plant;
3. Metro Vancouver be requested to review past
cost-sharing practices for large municipal infrastructure projects to
ensure equitable cost allocation amongst member municipalities;
4. The Federal and Provincial governments be
requested to provide 1/3 funding each for the new Lions Gate
Wastewater Treatment Plant; and
5. A copy of this resolution and report be
forwarded to MetroV, DNV, CNV, and to the Squamish Nation.
RECOMMENDED: ... be introduced and read a first, second, and
third time.
CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS
12. Consent Agenda Items
RECOMMENDED: THAT the Consent Agenda items as follows be
approved:
Item 12.1 - DVP Application No. 10-046 (1119 Keith Rd)
(to set date for consideration); and
Item 12.2 - Appointment of Council Representative to WV
Chamber of Commerce.
REPORTS FOR CONSENT AGENDA
RECOMMENDED:
THAT The MClerk give notice that DVP Application No.10-046 for
1119 Keith Rd, to vary the Zoning Bylaw to allow construction of a
new main floor deck, will be considered on Monday, November 1,
2010.
12.2. Appointment of Council Representative to West Vancouver
Chamber of Commerce (File: 0055-20-WVCC1)
RECOMMENDED: THAT Cclr Walker be appointed as the Council
Representative for the WV Chamber of Commerce effective September
2010.
OTHER ITEMS
13. No items.
CORRESPONDENCE IS STILL UNDER DISCUSSION;
DISAPPOINTING TO SEE IT STILL IS NOT ON THE AGENDA. FYI, IT IS
NOT MY PLACE TO INFORM THE PUBLIC. MOREOVER, AS
YOU KNOW I COPY AND PASTE THE AGENDA TO PUT IN MY NEWSLETTER SO YOU
KNOW WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED ON MONDAY NIGHT AND WHAT'S UP FOR
DECISIONS --
HOWEVER
THE CORRESPONDENCE APPEARS ON THE
DISTRICT WEBSITE IN A WAY THAT I CANNOT COPY AND PASTE AS I CAN THE
AGENDA,
YET ANOTHER INSTANCE OF MAKING IT
DIFFICULT. WHERE/WHEN WILL IT END???
= Sept 6 to 10
Ten letters; interesting that the part, Answers to Public
Questions, is missing.
= Sept 20 to 24 -- 14 items
14. REPORTS from MAYOR/CCLRS 15. PUBLIC
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS 16. ADJOURNMENT
=== ANIMALWATCH
===
o Dolphins have learned to make and play with bubbles.
If you haven't seen this, watch and marvel -- they are so intelligent
and playful:
http://wimp.com/dolphinbubbles
=== INFObits ===
Governor
General of Canada
from
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Style: Her Excellency The Right
Honourable
The Governor General of
Canada (French
[masculine]: Gouverneur général du Canada, or
[feminine]: Gouverneure générale du Canada) is the
federal
viceregal representative
of the Canadian
monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared
with 15 other sovereign
nations in a form
of personal
union, as well as with
the ten other
jurisdictions of Canada,
and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom. On the advice of her
Canadian prime minister
only, the Queen appoints the governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and
ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time-known as
serving At Her
Majesty's pleasure-though five years is the normal convention, as is a
rotation between
anglophone
and francophone
incumbents. Once in
office, these individuals maintain direct contact with the Queen,
wherever she may be at the time.
The office has its
roots in the
16th
and
17th century
colonial governors of New France and British North America, and thus is the oldest
continuous institution in Canada. The present incarnation of the
position emerged with Canadian Confederation and the British North America
Act in 1867,
which defined the viceregal office as the "Governor General
acting by and with the Advice of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada." However, the post still
ultimately represented the government of the United Kingdom (that is, the monarch in his British council) until, after continually decreasing
involvement by the British government, the passage in 1931 of
the Statute of
Westminster,[5][6] whereafter the governor general became the direct,
personal representative of the uniquely Canadian sovereign (the
monarch in his Canadian council). This was the culmination of a
process of gradual independence that saw the governor general take on
an ever expanding role: in 1904, the Militia Act granted permission
for the governor general to use the title of
Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian militia,[9] in
the name of the sovereign and actual Commander-in-Chief, and in 1927
the first official international visit by a governor general was made.
In 1949, King George
VI issued letters patent allowing the viceroy to carry out
almost all of the monarch's powers in his or her stead. Per
the Constitution
Act, 1982, any
constitutional amendment that affects the Crown, including the Office of the
Governor General, requires the unanimous consent of each provincial
legislature as well as the federal parliament.
The current governor
general is Micha=EBlle
Jean, who has served
since 27 September 2005;
Liberal Prime
Minister Paul
Martin recommended her
to replace Adrienne
Clarkson. Jean's
husband-who is thus the viceregal consort-is
Jean-Daniel Lafond.
Jean's successor will be current University of Waterloo president David Johnston, who will be installed on 1 October
2010.
...
A new approach was used in
2010 for the selection of David Lloyd Johnston as governor general-designate. For the task, Prime
Minister Stephen
Harper convened a
special search group - the Governor General Consultation Committee[38] - which consisted of
Sheila-Marie Cook,
secretary to the Governor General (the chairperson); Canadian Secretary to the Queen and Usher of the Black Rod Kevin MacLeod; Christopher Manfredi, dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill
University; Rainer
Knopff, a political
scientist at the University of Calgary; Father Jacques Monet, of the
Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies; and Christopher McCreery, historian and private secretary to
the Lieutenant Governor
of Nova Scotia. The
group, which was described as a "tight circle of
monarchists", was instructed to find a non-partisan candidate who
would respect the monarchical aspects of the viceregal office and
conducted extensive consultations with more than 200 people across the
country, including academics, provincial premiers, current and former
political party leaders, former prime ministers, and others, in order
to develop a short list of candidates for the
position....
=== BEERWATCH ===
Danish breakfast?
...Meanwhile, beer obsessives are celebrating the debut of
Mikkeller, a small, semi-subterranean bar in Vesterbro opened four
months ago by cult Danish brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergso. He has 15 taps,
ten of them dedicated to a revolving roster of nearly 100 of
Mikkeller's wild beers. Some are available only here or released here
first, such as Beer Geek Bacon, an elegantly smoky followup to
Bjergso's Beer Geek Breakfast (an oatmeal stout made with coffee and
his bestselling beer in the U.S.).
Mikkeller's has so much hygge (the Danish concept of
hospitality -- pronounced hooga, I'm told) that bar manager Jannick
Sahlholdt is here at the six-seat bar drinking a beer -- on his day
off.
Bjergso is sitting outside on the chairs that face this pretty
crook of Viktoriagade, around the corner from a part of Vesterbrogade
occasioned by a hooker or two.
His foray into extreme beer-making might parallel the rise of
Nordic cuisine.
"I started brewing 20 gallons at a time," he says,
"and figured if nobody liked it I'd drink it myself. I wasn't
willing to compromise. For too long we put up with cheap
product."
Mikkeller bar is an extension of his vision: "I wanted a
place to present beer in the way I wanted it to be
presented."
Along with his beers he serves Danish cheeses, such as one
from a small dairy in Jutland.
The dried sausages are made for him by a local butcher, using
porter, hops, or malt extract.
But the chips are English. "Our potato-chip culture,"
Bjergso says with a shrug, "is bad."
=== NEWSWATCH ===
Critic's Notebook - In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City
Rises - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/arts/design/26masdar.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
=== GAZAWATCH === Ships to Gaza;
Jewish, Cdn
+ ONE -- hopeful sign:
Read:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/09/26/gaza.aid.ship/index.html
Later I learned that the Israeli Navy intercepted/boarded the
ship:
As usual, not well reported however there was a tidbit today.
At the bottom left of pB5 in the Vancouver Sun Sept 29, there's a
small paragraph reporting the Irish Navy boarded the catamaran
Irene, dubbed the Jewish Boat for Peace and flying the British
flag, without incident off Gaza.
+ TWO
Real Aid True Solidarity, an anti-war benefit evening for
Afghanistan and Palestine
featuring Afghan MP Malalai Joya, MC - author and comedian
Charles Demers, Music by Joaquin Ernesto; Special guest speakers on
Palestine and Pakistan
7pm Tuesday October
12, W2 Storyeum - 151 W. Cordova
followed by a special W2 After Party with DJs, live Afghan music
and songs by Majid Qiyam, cash bar and food until 9pm until late
Sponsored by W2 Storyeum (creativetechnology.org); Media sponsor
rabble.ca and organized by StopWar.ca, contact
stopwar@resist.caTickets: $10-$20 sliding scale available at People's Co-op Books,
1391 Commercial Drive
-- Here are a couple of press releases
that CBG has put out dealing with recent events re: Gaza siege:
http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/post-news/view/10-09-28/Canadian_Boat_to_Gaza_applauds_Jewish_Boat_s_effort_to_break_Gaza_siege.aspx
Canadian Boat to Gaza applauds UN report that Israel flotilla
attack was illegal
http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/en/post-news/view/10-09-24/Canadian_Boat_to_Gaza_applauds_UN_report_that_Israel_flotilla_attack_was_illegal.aspx
=== WEBWATCH === Contrary to some
reports...........
Israeli Settlement Construction Booms Despite Ban
September 04, 2010 "Spiegel" -- In Washington,
the Israelis and Palestinians are discussing peace, but in the Jewish
settlements in the West Bank, construction is proceeding at full
speed. A legal ban is being ignored and the government is looking
away.
Robert Grenier replies re Martin Indyk's statements, etc
=== CPTWATCH ===
At-Tuwani Reflection: A Good Thing: Festival of Nonviolent
Resistance
August 9, 2010
The 3rd Annual At-Tuwani Festival of Nonviolent
Resistance took place on Saturday, 7 August. That's a good thing. The
festival was a celebration. A celebration of the successful
completion of the 9th annual summer camp, a celebration of the
forthcoming availability to electricity and water for the village, and
a celebration of the general success of defeating ethnic cleansing as
the people of the South Hebron Hills have remained on their land for
yet another year.
Representatives from nearly all of the villages in
the South Hebron Hills were present and were recognized for their
continued presence in the area and their ongoing resistance to
occupation forces and policies. Certain individuals were also
recognized for their exceptional courage and perseverance in the face
of settler violence. Several hajjis (a respectful name given to older
women) in their 70s and 80s were recognized for their lifelong support
of their families and their sweat and tears which have nourished this
arid land for decades. Others were recognized for the physical signs
of settler violence and racist hatred that their bodies bear, but all
who came forward undoubtedly carried emotional scars and painful
memories that are both invisible, yet unmistakably present.
Various NGOs and individuals who have been involved
in At-Tuwani and the South Hebron Hills were recognized. The awards
and recognition went on for quite some time which showed the level of
support that these communities have in Israeli, Palestinian, and
international networks. The number of people involved in the South
Hebron Hills also demonstrates the level of support that is needed for
the South Hebron Hills to not be wiped off the map through a slow
process of ethnic cleansing which seeks an entirely Judaized Judean
desert.
But despite all of these recognitions and
formalities, the children were in the limelight and were the highlight
of this festival. Children from the area performed skits and
informally entertained by running around with balloons while being
generally cute. The At-Tuwani dance troupe performed a couple of short
dabke routines (a traditional form of Arabic dance). A group of clowns
from Italy, who had been in At-Tuwani as part of the summer camp, also
assisted with skits and entertainment.
The 3rd Annual At-Tuwani Festival of Nonviolent
Resistance was a good thing. People didn't have to send lookouts up on
the hillside to watch for approaching soldiers or settlers, people
didn't have to worry about the months they might serve in jail if
arrested, people didn't have to call CPT to come videotape their
cisterns or fields of wheat that soldiers or settlers demolished.
Rather, people attended a festival where their lives, traditions, and
courage were celebrated and where their kids smiled.
That's what a good thing is.
=== WOMANWATCH
===
+ See description of the play Nine Steps of Desire
in CULTUREWATCH.
+ Emmeline Pankhurst
Mardy Grothe writes:
On June 14, 1928, Emmeline Pankhurst died at age 69 in London.
Happily, she lived to see her dream come true: women in England
finally winning full and complete voting rights. Pankhurst was
England's most famous suffragette, fighting tirelessly for forty years
to give women the right to vote. She was imprisoned numerous
times for her protest activities, once saying, "The way to reform
has always led through prison." A fiery orator, she also
had a quick wit. During a 1909 speech, a heckler shouted out,
"If you were my wife, I'd poison you." Pankhurst
immediately shot
back: "No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself."
A few years later, Winston Churchill would hear a similar insult
(from Lady Astor) and make a similar reply. Pankhurst also
offered many other memorable observations in her lifetime, some of
which you will find below:
"Trust in God--she will provide."
"Men make the moral code and they expect women
to accept it."
"How different the reasoning is that men adopt
when they are discussing the cases of men and those of
women."
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers;
we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
"What is the use of fighting for a vote if we
have not got a country to vote in?" (said in support of a
war effort in WWI)
Emmeline
Pankhurst
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
Emmeline Pankhurst
(née Goulden;14 July 1858 - 14 June 1928) was
an English political
activist and leader of
the British
suffragette movement,
which helped women win the right to vote. In 1999, Time named Pankhurst as one of the 100 Most Important People of the
20th Century, stating:
"she shaped an idea of women for our time; she shook society into
a new pattern from which there could be no going
back".[1]
=== SENIORWATCH === Battle Hymn of the
Baby Boomers
=== HERITAGEWATCH
=== Sunday Oct 17
Heritage and
Harvest
The Seniors'
Activity Centre and the WV Community Centres Services Society invite
you to celebrate the season and West Vancouver heritage!
There
are celebrations and activities for everyone:
o Watch the
official opening of the covered walkway connecting the Community
Centre to the SAC
o Celebrate
Peter Jones's contribution to the community
o Honour 100
years of service for the Girl Guides of Canada and open the 25-year
time capsule with the Lions Area Girl Guides
o Wear your
1960s' skating gear to a free public skate to celebrate the 45-year
anniversary of the West Vancouver Arena
o Preview the
development of a new book by the WV Historical Society that celebrates
the 100-year history in West Vancouver
o Drink tea
in the Gladwys Davies Tea Room - Former Commissioner of Girl Guides
and first female District Councillor for WV
o Play
traditional games and activities for ALL ages on the great
lawn
o Participate
in the blue ribbon pie-baking contest
o Purchase
homemade apple pies and eat a harvest lunch at the Garden Café in
the SAC
o View
vintage cars, play table tennis, quilt, and learn to knit at the
SAC
o Pick a
pumpkin from the pumpkin patch on the great lawn (tickets available
for purchase)
Schedule of
Events:
~ 11am
- 3:30pm ~ Pumpkin patch, games, and activities open for
fun
~
noon ~ Gladwys Davies Tea Room opens with musical
entertainment
~ 1pm
~ Peter Jones dedication
~
1:30pm ~ Opening of Girl Guide 25-year time
capsule
~
3:30pm - 5pm ~ 1960s' FREE skate at the WV
Arena
=== SALMONWATCH
===
Join Alexandra Morton, Rex Weyler, Chief Marilyn
Baptiste, Chief Joe Alphonse, along with filmmakers Damien
Gillis, Franklin Lopez, Susan Smitten, and many others for a weekend
about salmon, "Communities in Action" , and much
more!
"COMMUNITIES IN ACTION"
Hope is not what we find in
evidence. It is what we become in
action.
Mission World Community Film Festival
-- OCTOBER 1, 2, 3
On October
1st, Alexandra Morton will be speaking at an evening to
celebrate the legendary salmon return of 2010, and to recognize
the need to ensure the future survival of wild salmon....
On October
2nd, Rex Weyler will be speaking after Land of Oil and
Water... About two oil tankers per week already pass through
Vancouver harbour, with plans for ten tankers per
week.
Professor Trevor Carolan will be
speaking after "The Practice of the Wild" to remind us
of why we need to recognize our connection to ecology in literature
and in our lives.
Franklin Lopez will be
present to speak after "Sweet Crude" and the sneak
preview of "END:CIV". ...
On October 3rd, it will be an
honour to have Chief Marilyn Baptiste
and Chief Joe Alphonse present to speak after 'Blue
Gold: the Tsilhqot'in Fight for Fish Lake'. ...
What else links Alexandra, Rex, and
Chief Marilyn together? Come find out when they announce their
upcoming plans for October.
=== What does 'love' mean?
=== ...forwarded to me
ah, young love......... so many interpretations and
expressions......
pls
send me your definition/thoughts on what love means..........
What love means to 4- to
8-year-olds
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of
4- to 8-year-olds, 'What does 'love' mean?' The answers they got
were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined.
See what you think:
'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and
paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her
all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too.
That's love.'
Rebecca, age 8
'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is
different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'
Billy, age 4
'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving
cologne and they go out and smell each other.'
Karl, age 5
'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your
French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'
Chrissie, age 6
'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'
Terri, age 4
'Love is when my mummy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a
sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'
Danny, age 7
'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of
kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mummy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they
kiss.'
Emily, age 8
'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop
opening presents and listen.'
Bobby, age 7 (Wow!)
'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a
friend who you hate,'
Nikka, age 6 (we need a few million more Nikkas on this
planet)
'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it
everyday.'
Noelle, age 7
'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are
still friends even after they know each other so well.'
Tommy, age 6
'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I
looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and
smiling.
He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'
Cindy, age 8
'My mummy loves me more than anybody.
You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'
Clare, age 6
'Love is when Mummy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'
Elaine, age 5
'Love is when Mummy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says
he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'
Chris, age 7
'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him
alone all day.'
Mary
Ann, age 4
'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old
clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'
Lauren, age 4
'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little
stars come out of you.'
Karen - age 7 (what an image)
'Love is when Mummy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't
think it's gross.'
Mark, age 6
'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if
you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'
Jessica, age 8
And the final one:
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he
was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the
most caring child.
The winner was a four-year-old child whose next-door neighbour
was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old
gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbour, the
little boy said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry.'
When there is nothing left, that is when you find out that
love is all you need.
=== LANGUAGEWATCH ===
Paraprosdokian
Paraprosdokian - noun
Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or
phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous
situation.
PARAPROSDOKIAN
SENTENCES
=D8 I asked God
for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike
and asked for forgiveness.
=D8 Do not argue
with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with
experience.
=D8 I want to die
peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling
like the passengers in his car.
=D8 Going to
church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage
makes you a car.
=D8 The last thing
I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.
=D8 Light travels
faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you
hear them speak.
=D8 If I agreed
with you we'd both be wrong.
=D8 We never
really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
=D8 War does not
determine who is right -- only who is left.
=D8 Knowledge is
knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit
salad.
=D8 The early bird
might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
=D8 Evening news
is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you
why it isn't.
=D8 To steal ideas
from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is
research.
=D8 A bus station
is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my
desk, I have a work station.
=D8 How is it one
careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to
start a campfire?
=D8 Some people
are like Slinkies ... not really good for anything, but you can't help
smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.
=D8 Dolphins are
so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people
to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them
fish.
=D8 I thought I
wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paycheques.
=D8 A bank is a
place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don't need
it.
=D8 Whenever I
fill out an application, in the part that says "If an
emergency,notify:", I put "DOCTOR".
=D8 I didn't say
it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
=D8 I saw a woman
wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it...so I said
"Implants?".
=D8 Why does
someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but
check when you say the paint is wet?
=D8 Women will
never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald
head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
=D8 Why do
Americans choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for
Miss America?
=D8 Behind every
successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is
usually another woman.
=D8 A clear
conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
=D8 You do not
need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive
twice.
=D8 The voices in
my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
=D8 Always borrow
money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
=D8 A diplomat is
someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will
look forward to the trip.
=D8 Hospitality:
making your guests feel like they're at home, even if you wish they
were.
=D8 Money can't
buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live
with.
=D8 I discovered I
scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white
shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
=D8 Some cause
happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
=D8 There's a fine
line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get
away.
=D8 I used to be
indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
=D8 I always take
life with a grain of salt, plus a slice of lemon, and a shot of
tequila.
=D8 When tempted
to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually
uses water.
=D8 You're never
too old to learn something stupid.
=D8 To be sure of
hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the
target.
=D8 Nostalgia
isn't what it used to be.
=D8 Some people
hear voices. Some see invisible people. Others have no imagination
whatsoever.
=D8 A bus is a
vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are
in it.
=D8 If you are
supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more
than one child?
=D8 Change is
inevitable, except from a vending machine.
Paraprosdokian From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
A paraprosdokian
(from Greek "=BC???-", meaning "beyond" and
"=BC????????", meaning "expectation") is
a figure of
speech in which the
latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a
way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the
first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect,
sometimes producing an
anticlimax. For this
reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and
satirists.
Some paraprosdokians not
only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play on
the double
meaning of a particular
word, creating a
syllepsis.
More
examples follow with attribution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraprosdokian
=== WORDWATCH === Governor
General
According to
the Canadian
government, the title
Governor General is not hyphenated, even though a hyphen is used for the same title in
other Commonwealth realms. Many other media organizations in Canada
ignore this rule, however, and use the governor-general
spelling. As
governor is the
main noun in the title, it is the term that
is
pluralized; thus, it
is governors general, rather than governor generals.
Moreover, both terms are often capitalized, particularly when preceding an incumbent's name, but
sometimes they are not (e.g. Canadian governors
general).
=== MAIKU ===
bard-ku 2010 September 25 (closing night of Bard on the Beach)
Gaze at the
glorious fruit
of twenty-one
years
glow memorable
downpour drowns
summer
applause reverberates, fades --
rain, tent disappear
=== QUOTATIONS / THOUGHTS / PUNS
=== {See WOMANWATCH also}
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of
truth which it contains.
-- Henri-Frederic Amiel, Swiss poet and philosopher (1821 -
1881)
Facts do not cease to exist because they are
ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley, English writer, "A Note on Dogma:
Paradox", Proper Studies, 1927
No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in
the right place.
--
Isaac Babel, Soviet author (1894 - 1940)
When you betray somebody else, you also betray
yourself.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born Jewish
American author (1902 - 1991)
Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and
only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an
ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go
on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.
-- Mark Twain, American author and humorist (1835 - 1910)
The fundamental conflicts in human life are not between competing
ideas one "true" and the other "false" but rather
between those who hold power and use it to oppress others, and those
who are oppressed by power and seek to free themselves from it.
THOMAS S. SZASZ (Hungarian-American philosopher and
psychiatrist), The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of
the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, ch. 4,
1970.
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Poole
Old lawyers never die,
they just lose their appeal.
Old hardware engineers
never die, they just cache in their chips.
Old journalists never die,
they just get de-pressed.
Old programmers never die,
they just branch to a new address.
Old bankers never die,
they just lose interest.
Old pilots never die, they
just go to a higher plane.
Old architects never die,
they just lose their structures.
Old cashiers never die,
they just check out.
Old farmers
never die, they just go to seed.
o The killer followed the psychopath into the forest where
he was surrounded by the copse.
o A guy walks into
the psychiatrist's office wearing only Glad Wrap shorts. The shrink
says, "Well, I can clearly see you're nuts."
o What would you get if you crossed a
pigeon and a general? A military coo.