WVM2011-20
Ccl NOTES Sept 19
AGENDA Oct 3
Calendar to Oct 21
by
Carolanne Reynolds, Editor
www.WestVan.org
. . . rosh hashanah * happy new year * shana
tova . . .
MAIN ITEMS Monday Oct 3rd:
> PUBLIC HEARING: Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society
devt
> CCL MTG: Civic Assn of Iranian Cdns; WVHS re
Arts on Argyle; PSB; AmbNOW $$$; TransLink; (Wetmore) Pacific
Arbour Revisions; Rezoning, Redevt 1305 Marine (Esso gas
station); Park Royal at-grade intersection (taxpayers pay
$20K?); Kiwanis; DVP 1365 28th; Correspondence: AmbNow;
bus shelters; April (!!!) Fin Cmte minutes; Staff response re
GLH; cat-licensing; CNV early child care & milk container
deposits; RGS; LMTAC; Drinking Water Quality
= Vive le Canada (CBC at 75; AB follows BC with lady
premier; Creeping Control); from the EDITOR'S DESK (Proving a
Negative; Density Disguised; Bus shelters); UPDATES & INFO (Way
Out West; Cmnty Awards; LPPS; Spawner Salmon Surveys; Waterfront
Petition; Election Dates; Hollyburn Mews
clarification)
= Subscriber EMailed Updates:
- Update A Fri Sept 23 (Bard; Taste of Market; Rivers Day;
Autism Walk; Prop Tax Sale; VSO; Amira Hass; GWB Panel; Theatre; VCAC
65th Anniv Tea)
- Update B Tues Sept 27 (Cmnty Concert; Streamkeepers;
Library; CBC; KMC; Pi Theatre; Motorcycle Toy Run; Iraqi Christians;
Houses Vancouver E vs W)
- Update C Fri Sept 30 (Heritage Minister at HSBC; Ageing;
Cypress Hill Climb; Dreaming of Recession)
= CALENDAR to Oct 21st; CULTUREWATCH (Theatre; Art;
Music; Ballet; Photography; Festivals)
= Ccl Mtg NOTES Sept 19: Publication of WVHS's book
Cottages to Community; DP Applic (21 sgl-fam lots) for Area
3 East of the Rodgers Creek Area (N of Mulgrave Sch); Sport Field
Master Plan Final Report; Deposit Refund on Milk
Containers; Zoning Amendment Bylaw re Sunset Lane (prop from
BCR), PH Oct 17; AmbNOW Monthly Budget Report;
Correspondence (Westport Nbrhd Assn, Opposition to AmbNOW
proposals)
= COUNCIL MTG AGENDA Oct 3
= ANIMALWATCH (Sunbathing; Unusual animal shots; polar
bears w/ hard hats); INFObit (Rosh Hashanah); PEACEWATCH (FBI's own
terror plots; Peace March Hebron); PHOTOWATCH (Past/Present BC
Architecture; 40 most popular tourist attractions); MIDDLE EAST
(Authors speak); MONEYWATCH; HOUSEWATCH (E vs W; Most $$$ Houses in
World, $1B); FISHWATCH (herring); BEERWATCH (prayer); LANGUAGEWATCH
(OTT); HERITAGEWATCH (BC, Vancouver; TLC); WORDWATCH (opsimath);
MAIKU; QUOTATIONS/THOUGHTS/PUNS
=== Vive le CANADA
===
> On Oct 1st, the day after the death of her mother who
inspired her, Alison Redford became the new leader of the Alberta
Progressive Conservative Party, therefore becoming
Premier-Designate. {SK next for a
lady premier?}
> CBC is celebrating 75 years this year! See 75th
anniversary celebrations:
www.cbc.ca/75
> Creeping
Control
It is disappointing that with
Harper Canada has lost its reputation as an 'honest broker' and
objective wrt Israel/Palestine. More disappointing noting
some control over newspapers favouring Israel. Crushed to learn that
CTV removed an interview after B'Nai Brith objected. Delighted
today (Oct 2) therefore to learn it has been reversed!
Title of Piece: CTV posts Phyllis
Bennis interview to its website
Comments of the Media
Researcher: Please thank CTV News Executive Producer John
Buffone for reversing an earlier decision to remove an interview of
Phyllis Bennis, a spokesperson with the Institute for Policy Studies
and an expert on Middle Eastern affairs, from the CTV website.
Following many complaints, CTV rightfully decided to put the interview
back up on its site. The interview can be found by scrolling through
the CTV News Video window on the right side of the
page.
=== from the EDITOR'S DESK
===
o During the Hollyburn Mews PH (20th & Esq
devt), a resident made the statement, "you can't prove a
negative". Well. This was an irresistible challenge
to my geek husband. He said, of course you can! So I said,
if so, I'll put it in the newsletter. And that's why in Updates
& Info just below this section, there's the explanation (under
Hollyburn Mews) showing that you can prove a
negative.
o Chutzpah? certainly creative euphemism. To avoid
saying increased density, in the Rodgers Crk devt, the term is -- wait
for it -- intensive
residential !!
o The number of complaints about the bus shelters
has surprised me. I shdn't have been though. When it was
brought up at Ccl some years ago, it was rejected and one reason was
not wanting advertising, commercialization. Guess that's why
this time we only learned of it after the contract was signed -- a
fait accompli. The advertising is quite large, expansive.
Pattison [company] supplied the shelters and DWV gets paid for the
advertising. Sounds like a good deal but the lack of including
residents in decision-making, or even 'warning', continues to
disappoint me (and frustrate many). Do think it shd have a had
some notice and ppl's views sought. Apparently some shelters
appeared in front of some ppl's places as a surprise. What
next?
o Am fascinated by textspeak; almost like a
separate/new language, more than a dialect. So when a subscriber
wrote saying something Ccl had done was OTT. Curious, had to
google (answer in LANGUAGEWATCH).
o fyi, both aging and ageing are correct (I just happen to
prefer the latter).
o Who was that blonde songstress at the civic
reception?
=== UPDATES & INFO
===
+ WAY OUT
WEST
Interested in what's happening around Horseshoe Bay? See
their newsletter at
www.thewesterner.ca out now.
+ It's Time to
Recognize Community Contributors
West Vancouver is a special place where
people contribute their time and talents to build a cherished
community and quality of life. The District's Community Awards are
one way to recognize the efforts of a few, and the commitment of so
many. Awards this year are in the categories of Heritage and
Environment.
Call for Nominations
Recognize and celebrate personal
civic commitment, leadership, and engagement. If you know of an
incredible individual or organization who gives time, energy, and
commitment, consider nominating them for a community award. Please
visit westvancouver.ca/awards for more information. Act soon,
the deadline is October 4, 2011.
+ LIGHTHOUSE PARK
PRESERVATION SOCIETY
from the newsletter:
http://westvancouver.ca/uploadedFiles/Parks_and_Environment/Stewardship/September%202011%20LPPS%20Newsletter.pdf
Our past president, Marja de Jong Westman
was a founding member of our Society. She was honoured this spring by
Nature Vancouver with the Frank Sanford Award for extraordinary
achievement in community service.
David Cook, a former board member of our
Society, was also honoured by Nature Vancouver with the Davidson Award
for extraordinary achievement in conservation.
In June at our Annual General Meeting, our
Society presented its first LPPS Youth Stewardship Award to Elliot
Cowan for his remarkable commitment to removal of invasive plants and
restoration efforts in several of the parks in our Six-Park Network,
most notably in North Piccadilly Park.
To view videos of live herring larvae taken
in March, 2011 by John Buchanan go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?y=1uFtxbzMzfo and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjnGTzpEE6s
To view larval herring taken by Aquarium
staff go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwZTXWuf7A
9am - Noon Saturday October 15th --
Caulfeild Park - Planting/Restoration
Meet at the anchor on Pilot House Road.
Call Elspeth at 926 9390 for more information.
MONTHLY BIRD COUNTS
-- first Sunday of every month at
8:30am.
October 2nd, November 6th, December
4th, 2011; January 1st, February 5th, March 4th, 2012. Meet at the
upper kiosk in the parking lot in Lighthouse Park Call Suann at 926
9094 for more information.
+ Spawner Salmon
Surveys
Volunteer some of your time to count our returning salmon.
Learn the difference between a coho and a pink and a chum. Some
can already be seen in Brothers Creek from the viewing platform off
Keith Road!
www.westvancouverstreamkeepers.ca * 604 628 1123 *
info@westvancouverstreamkeepers.ca
+ WATERFRONT PETITION
A petition against building on the Ambleside
waterfront is being circulated and it has so far been signed by about
900 people. No one has said that they want an art gallery on our
waterfront.
They support an art gallery, just not in our
waterfront park which is for everyone's use. An art gallery
needs walls. It and art studios do not need a view and should
not take away a view.
West Vancouver bought the waterfront properties
as a park and that is how they should be used.
[ For information please
email joshuaws@shaw.ca ]
o
Important Dates - 2011 Election
http://www.westvancouver.ca/Level3.aspx?id=35628
October 4: at
9am the nomination period opens (nomination documents received by the
chief election officer will be available for public inspection and
will be posted on the District's website)
Oct 5: at
6pm an Election Information Meeting will be held at the MHall in
the Ccl Chamber
Oct 14: at 4pm
the nomination period closes and the declaration of candidates will be
made
Oct 14: after 4pm
the list of candidates will be posted on the District's
website
Oct 19: last
day to meet the 30-day residency/property ownership requirement
to be able to register on general voting day
Oct 21: at 4pm is
the deadline for a candidate to withdraw
Oct 21: after
4pm the final list of candidates will be posted on the
District's website
Oct 24: 4pm
declaration of election by voting will be made, and declaration of
candidates elected by acclamation (if any)
+ HOLLYBURN MEWS --
clarification/updated information
In WVM12 during the PH there were a couple of terms used that
deserve explanation. A resident used the term in
terrorem, and also said "you can't prove a
negative".
1 =
in terrorem [from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
In
terrorem,
Latin for "in
[order to] frighten", is a legal term used to describe a warning, usually one given in hope
of compelling someone to act without resorting to a lawsuit or criminal prosecution. For example, many intellectual property
attorneys send in
terrorem letters, which threaten litigation absent compliance with
the written request, to persons that are violating their
clients'
trademark rights before
resorting to court proceedings.
2 = Subject: You can prove a
negative!
A principle of folk logic is that one can't prove a
negative. Dr. Nelson L. Price, a Georgia minister, writes on his
website that 'one of the laws of logic is that you can't prove a
negative.' Julian Noble, a physicist at the University of Virginia,
agrees, writing in his 'Electric Blanket of Doom' talk that 'we
can't prove a negative proposition.' University of California at
Berkeley Professor of Epidemiology Patricia Buffler asserts that
'The reality is that we can never prove the negative, we can never
prove the lack of effect, we can never prove that something is safe.'
A quick search on Google or Lexis-Nexis will give a mountain of
similar examples.
But there is one big, fat problem with all this. Among
professional logicians, guess how many think that you can't prove a
negative? That's right: zero. Yes, Virginia, you can prove a
negative, and it's easy, too....
http://departments.bloomu.edu/philosophy/pages/content/hales/articlepdf/proveanegative.pdf
=== SUBSCRIBER eMAIL UPDATE A finalized
Friday Sept 23 ===
Have a great weekend!
Some recent info and some missed; fyi.
Amazing with a relatively recent WVM, more have come to
light.
but first -- BREAKING NEWS!
+ Scientists think Einstein
was wrong and E=mc2 is not true! Their experiment showed
neutrinos went faster than light (thought to be the fastest).
There'll be more tests.
+ Unverified Tweet says the rogue satellite has
landed in Canada. {Later: nope; in
Pacific}
Herewith (in chronological
order):
LPPS/Ivy Pulls (Sept); Bard Award &
Tour (Sept 24); Taste of the Market (Sept 24); Rivers Day (Sept 25);
Walk for Autism (Sept 25); Annual Property Tax Sale (Sept 26); VSO
Addns (Sept 26 +); Amira Hass (Sept 28); GWB Panel (Sept 29): Theatre
(Sept 29, etc); Musical Extravaganza (Oct 2nd); VCAC 65th Anniversary
Tea (Oct 2nd); BEARWATCH (Oct 3rd); Quotations/Thoughts/Puns
{moved to end of WVM20}
>
LIGHTHOUSE PARK PRESERVATION SOCIETY
ooo VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED for Ivy
Pulls
For all volunteer Saturday events,
please bring clippers if possible, and wear old clothes and work
gloves.
= Saturday Sept 17th, 9am - Noon ~~
Lighthouse Park - Ivy Pull
Meet at the upper kiosk in the parking lot.
Call Alexandra at 925 1485 for more information.
= Saturday Sept 24th, 10am - 2pm. North
Piccadilly Park - Open House & Ivy
Pull.
You are invited to meet our park steward,
Richard Beard, to view educational displays, to join us for
refreshments, and/or to help pull ivy. Meet at the junction of
Piccadilly North & Clovelly Walk, north of the railway crossing.
Call Dick at 922 8407 for more information.
= Saturday October 1st, 9am - Noon ~~
Lighthouse Park - Ivy Pull
Meet at the upper kiosk in the parking lot.
Call Alexandra at 604-922-1485 for more information
ooo LPPS
Newsletter
http://westvancouver.ca/uploadedFiles/Parks_and_Environment/Stewardship/September%202011%20LPPS%20Newsletter.pdf
> BARD
AWARD and TOUR
ooo Bard Wins Best of Vancouver!
Thank you Vancouver!
We're thrilled to share the news that Bard has been voted
the Best Local Performing Arts Festival by Georgia
Straight readers in the annual Best of Vancouver awards. We're also
the runner up in the Best Theatre Company or Production
category.
View all the winners here!
ooo Bard Mainstage Virtual Tour! ENDS SEPT 24
Check out the cool new 360 video of our new Mainstage Theatre
tent - and if you haven't seen the venue for yourself for real, this
weekend is your last chance to check it out this season.
Click the image to take the tour
> Taste of the
Market {more
info}
Enjoy a Journey Through Global Flavours, Saturday, September
24 from 2 to 4pm in The Market at Park Royal South. We'll be
sampling foods from the various shops including tasty organic
pepperoni from Black Forest Deli, maple salmon nuggets from Waggott
Seafood, lamb and mint sausages from Peter Black and Sons, and so much
more. Visit ten retailers for a signature and enter for your chance to
win a $150 Park Royal Gift Card!
>
Rivers Day -- Sunday Sept 25
= World Rivers Day
10am to 2pm Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve; 604 451
6506 www.metrovancouver.org
Int'l celebration of rivers and the benefits they provide.
Learn about the importance of rivers and how to protect our
waterways.
= BC Rivers Day
{additional information for an
event} This Sunday is Rivers Day, a day to celebrate the
return of life to Britannia creek. Location is Britannia
Beach; starts at 11am; ends at 3pm. At 11:15 dignitaries
will speak. We will have a table plus a fresh water aquarium we
hope filled with fish from Thistle and Britannia creeks. Grab
your Streamkeeper caps and pay us a visit.
Jack, Squamish Streamkeepers
> WALK
FOR AUTISM Sept 25
Fourth Annual BC Walk
Now for Autism Speaks; Autism resource fair; various locations
www.walknowforautismspeaks.ca
>
Annual Property Tax Sale
Monday,
September 26, 2011
The Local
Government Act requires the District to sell at tax sale all
properties whose taxes are in a delinquent balance. The delinquent
balance is comprised of outstanding property taxes of three
years.
Properties that
have current, arrears, and delinquent taxes as of the last Monday in
September will be offered for public auction with the starting bid
being the upset price. Three [years'] taxes must be outstanding
before the property is offered at tax sale. All properties subject to
the tax sale must be advertised in the newspaper before the public
auction occurs. You do not have to pay all three [years'] worth of
taxes to keep your property from being sold, but the delinquent taxes
(the oldest) must be cleared up before the Property Tax
Sale.
The 2011 Tax
Sale will be held in the Council Chambers of the District of West
Vancouver, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver, BC at 10am on Monday,
September 26, 2011. The following properties will be included in
the sale unless delinquent taxes, plus interest, are paid before that
time. List subject to change.
ADDRESS
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
1913 22nd
Street
LOT
A BL 4 EAST 1/2 OF DL 783 PL 22534
121 1363
Clyde Avenue SL 9 DL 237 STRATA PL VR.
627
640
Ballantree Road
LOT
15 BL 3 DLS 806 AND 866 PL 11621
Notice to Prospective
Purchasers:
Purchasers of tax sale properties should be aware that they will NOT
have the right to receive title or possession until after one year
following the date of the tax sale. During this period, the registered
owner of the property has the right to redeem the property from the
tax sale thus cancelling the sale. Properties sold at Tax Sale are
subject to the Property Purchase Tax.
Prevent Tax
Sale
/ Notice
of Tax Sale
/ Tax
Sale Process
/
Purchasing the Property / Redemption
For additional
information, please contact the Property Tax Department 925
7032.
Note: All
information in respect to Property Tax Sale is for general information
purposes only and is not all inclusive. Please refer to the Local
Government Act (Part 11) for the specific legislation.
> VSO
Update/additions
http://www.vancouversymphony.ca/ 604 876 3434
= The VSO's Opening Weekend with Jon
Kimura Parker!
The VSO's blockbuster Opening Weekend features Vancouver's own
Jon Kimura Parker, performing Rachmaninoff's beloved
Piano Concerto No. 3. Completing a magnificent performance,
Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts Tchaikovsky's mighty
Symphony No. 5.
Don't miss the VSO's Opening Weekend - Saturday night is sold
out, but there are still seats available for Monday evening! And don't
forget - subscribing to a series package makes sense. You
save up to 25% over single concert tickets, get discounts on Special
concerts, free and flexible ticket exchanges, lost ticket
insurance, and more. Click here to browse all available
subscription packages online. >
8pm Monday September 26th Orpheum <
= Lalo, Berlioz, &
Ravel
Orpheum Theatre: 8pm Saturday Oct 1
and 2pm Sunday Oct 2
Bramwell Tovey, conductor; Chad Hoopes,
violin
Berlioz ~ Hungarian March; Lalo ~
Symphonie Espagnole for Violin and Orchestra;
Liszt ~ Mesphisto Waltz No. 1;
Enesco ~ Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1; Ravel ~
Boléro
Chad Hoopes has taken the classical world by storm,
drawing comparisons to a young Joshua Bell and even Itzhak Perlman for
his technical mastery and sweet, fluid tone. Come hear what all the
fuss is about, as this prodigy makes his VSO debut performing
Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. You'll also hear one of the
most famous pieces ever written - Ravel's
Boléro.
> Amira
Hass, Israeli living in Palestine
Amira Hass: "Palestine / Israel: Fear of the
Future"
7:30pm Wednesday September 28
UBC - The Hebb Theatre, 2045 East Mall, Vancouver,
BC V6T 1Z1
Come out to hear Ms. Hass, an award-winning writer and the only
Israeli journalist living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories;
bring an open mind and your questions.
Please note that space may be limited and you are encouraged to
purchase in advance online if possible. The ticket price covers the
expenses of the tour and is not a fundraiser.
Tickets are $15 for non-students and $10 for students (with ID).
If you cannot pay, do not hesitate to tell the organisers at the
door.
Tix:
http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3919385
For more information, please contact Julie Graham, Education and
Campaigns Coordinator (Dignity and Rights) at KAIROS: 1 877 403 8933
x233 or jgraham@kairoscanada.org
> G W
BUSH Panel Discussion Sept 29
From: Matt
Eisenbrandt Subject: Accountability for
Torture: George W. Bush Visits B.C.
In his memoir, former U.S. president George W. Bush admits that
when he was asked if men in U.S. custody should be waterboarded, he
replied "Damn, right." Despite admitting that he authorized
torture, Bush has not been investigated or held accountable for his
actions in the United States -- or by any judicial body elsewhere.
Bush has enjoyed global impunity for his role in the torture of
detainees held in Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and secret
"black sites".
Bush is scheduled to speak in Surrey, B.C. on October 20th. Is
there a case against Bush for torture? Should Canada investigate him?
Will Canada prosecute Bush for torture?
Please join us for an expert panel to discuss Bush's
responsibility for torture in the "war on terror" and the options
for accountability in Canada.
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Place:
UBC Robson Square Room C180 (enter by
the ice rink)
Panellists:
Matt Eisenbrandt, Legal Director,
Canadian Centre for International
Justice
Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff
Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
Gail Davidson, Lawyers Against the
War
>
THEATRE
+ Studio 58 --
604 684 2787 Arthur Miller's The Crucible; Sept 29 - Oct
16
+ Deep Cove Shaw
Theatre 929 3200
Book of Days; dark comic mystery; 8pm from Sept 30 to
Oct 15 www.deepcovestage.com
> MUSIC
for BARD on the BEACH
Dare to Dream:
A George Ryan Musical Retrospective
Holy Trinity Cathedral will host a musical extravaganza on
October 2nd, celebrating fifty years of music written and
composed by George Ryan, local composer extraordinaire and Holy
Trinity's musical director. George will celebrate his seventieth
birthday by conducting an augmented Holy Trinity Cathedral Choir,
along with special guest soloists and instrumentalists in a
performance guaranteed to surprise and delight audiences.
This exciting musical evening will include works written for Bard
on the Beach over the course of George's long tenure here (1990-2001),
excerpts from his Ovation Award-nominated musical Stump City
Stories (written for New Westminster's 150th), several songs from
the CBC's Timmy Telethon, stylistically diverse musical numbers
that range from toe-tapping ragtime to New Zealand Maori-influenced
chorales, and glorious paeans written for a Vancouver Symphony
Fundraiser -- including Beautiful B.C, We Believe
in Music, and Dare to Dream, the inspirational
anthem that gives the evening its title and theme.
Sunday October 2nd @ 7pm Holy Trinity
Cathedral
514 Carnarvon Street, New
Westminster (1/2 block from Columbia Skytrain station)
Tix: $20 Reservations
email: hori41@yahoo.ca or call Holy Trinity Cathedral's
office: 604 521 2511
> VCAC
65th Anniversary TEA Oct 2nd
We wish to invite you to the 65th anniversary celebration of
the Community Arts Council of Vancouver. It will be held at the Vancouver Museum in the Joyce Walley Learning
Centre from 3 to 5:30 pm on Sunday, October 2nd. A short
program begins at 3:15 pm.
Vancouver's Arts Council was the first in North
America. As such we have been closely connected to the development
of arts organizations and public facilities including the Vancouver
Centennial Museum, the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and Playhouse, the Bard
on the Beach, the design of "Block 61" (the Erickson-Massey design
for the Courthouse Building), the Vancouver Academy of Music, Roedde
House Museum, Vancouver Civic Archives, and others.
Like the formation of the Arts Council itself, these have been
pioneering initiatives. In the intervening years the Council has
continued to provide leadership in the arts in this city. This is
reflected in our current priorities -- the community arts and
community environmental arts. The former coincides with the launch of
our new Community Arts Fund whose first priority is to provide support
to organizations engaged in community arts activities in the Downtown
Eastside, our home base.
Kindly click here to RSVP or send an email to
anniversary@cacv.ca if
you are able to attend. We look forward to your
participation.
Michael Clague
>
BEARWATCH redux
The bear habitat walk on Thursday Sept 22* was a roaring success
in spite of the rain (we hardly noticed it). There were 13
participants (2 others did not make it because of hold-ups in
traffic). There were also many cancellations because of perceptions
about rain. To satisfy the fair weather hikers and a number of
requests for another date I am going to test the reliability of
the 14-day forecast and schedule one more identical field
trip on a "no rain" day (October 3rd). I would have
liked to do yet another trip on a week-end (which was also requested)
but there would be a conflict with pre-arranged non-birding hikes on
"no rain" days. Because of horrendous traffic even
after 9:00 am these days, the meeting time will be advanced to
11:00 am so bring a snack. See below for more details.
David 924 0147
* full description/details were in WVM19
=== SUBSCRIBER eMAIL UPDATE B finalized
Tuesday Sept 27 ===
Things keep popping up, not in WVM19
or more info. In chronological order:
Sept 27 (and 30): concert at
cmnty ctr
Sept 29: WV Streamkeeper
Society mtg
Sept 30: Library (English
practice and author visit)
Oct 1: CBC 75th and Tour;
KMC Culture Days; Pi Theatre Visit
Oct 2: Motorcycle Toy
Run
then:
Christians in Iraq; House Prices in Vancouver East and West;
Quotations & Pun {see end}
This week municipal politicians are
busy voting on resolutions at UBCM. To RCMP or not to RCMP.
The Municipal Auditor General on the agenda too; feeling is it will
pass.
Update -- the satellite landed in the Pacific near
Samoa.
Sep 27 - Community Concert
Series
Location: West Vancouver Community Centre
The West Vancouver Community Centre and Pacific Arbour Retirement
Communities presents the Community Concert Series in the Atrium of the
West Vancouver Community Centre. The monthly performances feature
musicians from around Metro Vancouver.
September's Concert: Friday, September 30 featuring
Capilano University Jazz Program.
Learn More
https://www.westvanchamber.com/page/calendar/ezlist_event_443ae5b8-2f9c-4503-8ee2-fa975c150dbd.aspx
WV Streamkeepers -- Sept
29
7:30pm at St Stephen's (855 22nd)
On the agenda: Nelson Crk Hatchery; Student Outreach; 2011 Stream
Temperature Report; Work Plan (update on projects); Spawner Salmon
Surveys
Come and find out about volunteering and participating.
Each creek has a creek coordinator. Surveys start early Oct and
go to mid-Dec. A large District map will be on display
identifying all the creeks in the community. It can be fun just
looking for and perhaps spotting salmon in our small urban streams.
Learn more about salmon, stream habitat and help us to locate and
enumerate these wonderful fish.
LIBRARY -- Sept 30
English
Corner
Come practise English conversation! Free! 10 - 11:30am.
No registration required.
Tales of a
Persian Angeleno -- 2 to 3:30pm
Hear author
Porochista Khakpour. Her Sons and Other Flammable
Objects is a masterful tale of immigrant identity. This New
York Times "Editor's Choice" and the winner of the 2007
California Book Award is a comedic and tragic modern coming-of-age
story with a timeless resonance.
CBC -- Oct
1
www.cbc.ca/75
CBC/Radio-Canada is
celebrating its 75th Anniversary as Canada's public broadcaster and
the art of broadcasting! You are invited to join the celebration
at CBC Prince
George, CBC Victoria, and CBC Kelowna
for CBC/Radio-Canada's 75th Anniversary Open House on Saturday Oct
1st. This is your chance to meet your favourite on-air hosts
and personalities, tour the studio, win prizes and learn about your
local CBC station.
CBC Vancouver
Broadcast Centre Newsroom Tours
The CBC Vancouver Broadcast
Centre is now open for tours. Our state-of-the-art integrated
newsroom, home of CBC News Vancouver and CBC Radio, forms the
cornerstone of a major redevelopment.
We are centrally located in
the entertainment district of downtown Vancouver at 700 Hamilton
Street (corner of Georgia).
CBC Vancouver has been a
vibrant part of the Vancouver community since 1936 and now our
beautifully redeveloped Broadcast Centre and Plaza have brought new
life to the neighbourhood.
Book a tour
Tours are available Thursdays
and Fridays at 10am and 11:30am and Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 9:30am
and 1:30pm. Tours last approximately one hour. Tour reservations
are required. No food, drinks or video cameras are allowed in the
newsroom.
http://www.cbc.ca/bc/communityspaces/newsroom-tours.html
KMC -- Oct 1
noon to 5pm Saturday October 1 ~~ Culture Days At Kay Meek
Centre
Culture Days at Kay Meek Centre -- our fun and exciting
celebration of the performing arts on Vancouver's North Shore.
With various youth and adult performers, representing different groups
and offering multiple performances, this is a true showcase of our
vibrant community performing arts scene. Come join in on the
family-friendly activities as Kay meek Centre is turned into a live
site of performances taking place in the two theatres and throughout
the lobbies.
Included on the program are local youth bands and
singer/songwriters, Sinfonia, Pandora's Vox, and the always energetic
Burstin' With Broadway.
It's all fun and free, and it's on Saturday October 1st.
Join in the celebration!
Schedule (subject to change)
12pm - doors open
1pm - local high school bands and singer/songwriters showcase
their talents in the Studio Theatre
3pm - Sinfonia and Pandora's Vox, 16 singers and 34 orchestra
perform together in the Main Theatre and end with a sing-a-long, so
come prepared to sing!
4pm - grand finish with Burstin' with Broadway
Call
the box office for more information: 604 913 3634
Pi Theatre -- Oct 1
Share Your Vision of Vancouver
Pi would like you to share your
Vision of
Vancouver with us. What is your favourite (or least favourite)
thing about the city? Do you have a Vancouver moment you would like to
share? As the city celebrates its 125th anniversary, what does it mean
to be a Vancouverite today? Send us your photos, artwork, songs,
stories, poems, videos and we'll share them with our audiences. Email
your Visions to
visionsofvancouver@pitheatre.com.
You can also come visit us during Culture Days on October
1st to share your Vision in person. We'll be
opening up our
rehearsal space at 1411 Cartwright Street from 9am - noon. Come by
and tell us what Vancouver means to you. Everyone who participates
will be entered in a draw for two tickets to opening night of
Visions of Vancouver.
Oct 2 - Motorcycle Riding Santa Volunteers
Needed For Toy Run
Ambleside Park
The Harley Davidson Baggers & Hawgs Den (the safety Santas)
is looking for volunteers and Santa suits (by donation) for the
traffic control volunteers for the 33rd Annual Toy Run on Oct 2nd
2011. The Toy Run ride will be from Coquitlam Centre to the PNE.
Learn Morehttps://www.westvanchamber.com/page/calendar/ezlist_event_7d6182b7-be99-4558-b83c-6cb3b371f923.aspx
33rd Annual Children's
Motorcycle Toy Run is happening on October 2nd 2011. We need
Motorcycle Riding Santa volunteers and Santa Suits (by donation). If
you ride and have a Santa suit of your own and would like to volunteer
for traffic control (Barnet highway only), then join us in at the tail
end for the ride from Coquitlam Centre to the PNE (anyone with a
trailer decorated up is welcome too). Please sign up on the site for
more details please contact:
Kat 604 466 2838, 604 465
3348 Email:
kkkcarter@yahoo.ca www.hawgsden.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
IRAQ
Saddam was secular; now Christians not safe,
churches guarded
A = IRAQ: No place for Christian families, Part I
CPTnet 20 September
2011 To view the on-line
version click here.
http://www.cpt.org/cptnet/2011/09/20/iraq-no-place-christian-families-part-i
B = IRAQ: No place for Christian families, Part
II
CPTnet 26 September 2011 by David
Hovde
To view the on-line
version click here. http://www.cpt.org/cptnet/2011/09/26/iraq-no-place-christian-families-part-ii
In April 2011, Bassam William and his
family lived in a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad. Some of their
neighbours, who in the past had visited with them, eaten with them,
and spent time with them in their house, later told William and his
family that there was no place for Christians in that neighbourhood
and that he and his family would have to leave the neighbourhood and
the country. On 17 April 2011, William found a note on his car
from Kataa'ib Saraya Al Haq (Righteousness Brigade), a militia that
broke away from the Mahdi Army. Kataa'ib Saraya Al Haq receives
training in Iran and targets Americans and Christians. In the
letter, they used profanity to threaten William's family. The
letter said that they had to leave this Muslim country immediately or
they would kill all his family members, and that there was no place
for Christians Baghdad.
After two days, William and his family
left Baghdad, leaving their house and furniture behind. They
heard that people could go to Syria and stay there for up to three
years while applying for asylum in another country. William went
to Syria to try to apply for asylum. He heard of people who had
been there for three years, spent up all their money and had not been
given asylum in another country. He decided to move with his
family to Suleimaniya in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
William and his family now live in
Suleimaniya in a crowded apartment and sleep on the floor. He
does not have a job. His wife, Maha Mashalla, sometimes travels
all the way back to Baghdad to work. Though his family receives
some financial assistance, it is not enough to cover the rent.
They desperately want to find asylum in another country.
William says there used to be 1,500,000
Christians in Iraq. Now there are about 300,000. The
churches in Baghdad are guarded by troops or behind walls now.
William says that someday there may really be no more Christians in
Iraq.
CPT's MISSION: What would happen if
Christians devoted the same discipline and sacrifice to nonviolent
peacemaking that armies devote to war? Christian Peacemaker Teams
(CPT) seeks to enlist the whole church in organized, nonviolent
alternatives to war and places teams of trained peacemakers in regions
of lethal conflict.
COMMENTS: To ask questions or express
concerns, criticisms and affirmations send messages to
peacemakers@cpt.org.
NEWSLETTER: To receive CPT's quarterly
newsletter by email or in print, go to http://cpt.org/participate/subscribe
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
HOUSEWATCH
Vancouver real
estate prices, East vs. West: September edition
(photos)
Vancouver's home prices
continue to differ greatly on either side of the Eastside-Westside
boundary, as the September for-sale prices show.
-- SEPTEMBER 27,
2011 3:02 PM
http://www.househunting.ca/vancouversun/Children+should+involved+home+buying+process/5465493/story.html
=== SUBSCRIBER eMAIL UPDATE C finalized
Sept 30 ===
Bits and pieces (numbered)
before the agenda. Thought I'd let you know asap what was coming
Monday since the full newsletter is not yet finished and you may want
to read about some topics in case you have questions since next ccl
mtg isn't until Oct 17.
> First, the
main items:
MAIN ITEMs Ccl Oct 3rd: PUBLIC HEARING re Kiwanis Seniors
Housing Society devt; Civic Assn of Iranian Cdns; WV Historical
Society re Arts Facilities on Argyle; PSB; AmbNOW Expenditures;
TransLink; (Wetmore) Pacific Arbour Revisions; Rezoning,
Redevt Permit Applic 1305 Marine (Esso gas station); Park Royal
at-grade intersection; Kiwanis (second/third reading); DVP
1365 28th; Correspondence: AmbNow; bus shelters; April (!!!)
Fin Cmte mtg minutes; Staff response re GLH; cat-licensing; CNV
early child care and milk container deposits; amendments to
RGS; LMTAC; Drinking Water Quality
> TOPICS
(details follow)
Presumably Ccl will report on the
UBCM 2011 Convention Sept 26 to 30 some
attended.
At the Heritage of Society of BC annual conference Sept 30
in Bby (wch I attended), there was an informative talk by
[Heritage] Minister Steve Thomson [1] and then it was announced
that a resolution in support of heritage had been passed at the UBCM.
The Heritage Society of BC turned 30 earlier this year.
UBCM also discussed ageing [2].
[3] Cypress Mountain Hill
Climb! -- Rotary {apologies;
this was to go out Friday but with the heritage conference and the
civic reception last night, delayed. Here fyi.}
[4] MONEYWATCH (dreaming of recession) -- I put this
in my draft WVM20 on Tuesday when the news came out b/c it seemed so
quirky. Since then have heard of it in many places -- gone
viral, v controversial.
> THEN
AGENDA Oct 3rd, BEERWATCH, and Qtn/Thought/Pun {moved to WVM,
along with [4]}
[1]
Heritage Minister
Speaks
The Honourable Steve
Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations,
spoke at the Heritage BC Annual Conference at 1pm on Friday, September
30. Mr. Thomson's ministry includes archaeology and heritage
conservation. First elected to the legislature in 2009, Mr. Thomson
has been responsible for heritage since March of this year. He
has served as a director of the Kelowna Museum, and his family has
owned a heritage farm in Kelowna since 1896.
[2]
Rethink,
Replace & Rejuvenate: The New 3 [Rs]
There is
absolutely nothing to be said in favour of growing old. There ought to
be legislation against it.
--
Patrick Moore
Whether or not we
embrace it, this is one of life's truths -- we are getting older. And
as the workforce tips the scale toward retirement, local governments
must adjust to accommodate this shift.
Local governments
currently face increasing challenges with respect to aging
populations, workforces and infrastructure. Emerging trends are
presenting new challenges, and our ability to anticipate these
challenges may determine our capacity to grow and adapt our
communities, long-term.
The dynamics of
our communities are changing.
more:
http://ubcm.ca/EN/main/convention/2011_Convention/theme.html
[3]
Cypress
Mountain Hill Climb!
http://www.gifttool.com/athon/AthonDetails?ID=1713&AID=1667
Join the Rotary
Club of West Vancouver Sunrise and Innovative Fitness on Saturday, October 1st
at 10am for a
15km bike ride up Cypress Bowl Road to raise funds for the North Shore
Rescue and other Rotary projects. Ride starts at Mulgrave School
entrance and finishes at Cypress Mountain Parking
lot. Be there early for complimentry Coffee from Bean
Around the World and fresh muffins. Sign-in opens at
8:30am.
Riders must be 13
or older. The registration fee is $25, and participants are
asked to raise a minimum of $100 in pledges. Registrations will be
taken on the day. A Bicycle mechanic will be on hand to help
with any last minute tune-ups, traffic will be stopped for a safe
start at 10am and 3 rest stops will be on offer on your climb up the
mountain.
Great prizes will
be given to the top fundraisers, Including a two-night luxury hotel
stay in Vancouver, Cypress Mountain day Ski Passes and be there at the
top for your chance to win a Helicopter ride for four arranged by
North Shore Rescue! Tax receipts are available for pledges of
$30 or more.
And bring the
whole family to festivities at the Cypress Mountain Parking
Area from 11 am until 2 pm for kids bike races and decorating,
Bouncy castle, BBQ, entertainment, and prizes. Coffee is
provided by Bean Around the World, Waffles will kindly
be served up afterwards by Patisserie Lebeau and Massages are on offer
for riders by North Shore Orthopaedic & Sports
Clinic.
Sign up today
with your team or as an individual! Click on "Register Now".
Once registered, you can login to your account to customize your
Personal & Team donation pages; send emails; manage offline
pledges; and view the status of your Personal & Team fundraising
efforts.
Fundraising
Proceeds:
100% of the funds raised through pledges will support the North Shore
Rescue and other Rotary projects. North Shore
Rescue offers a
variety of search and rescue services at no charge including mountain
search and rescue; helicopter rescue; and public education. Funds from
this event will be used to finance communications equipment. Learn
more at
www.northshorerescue.com. Rotary International is a global network of 1.2 million
dedicated business and professional people who provide community and
international service and help to build goodwill and peace in the
world. Learn more at www.rotary.org or www.rcwvs.org.
======= CALENDAR to
October 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 an issue or too early for the next
are sent to subscribers as updates (see above). They then appear
in the next newsletter.
== Monday Oct 3/4
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY CITY
PROGRAM
Creating Places for People - The Melbourne
Experience
Speaker: Rob Adams, architect and urban
designer, Director of City Design at the City of
Melbourne
October 3, 7 pm, SFU Surrey, Suite 250,
13450 102 Avenue, Surrey
October 4, 7 pm, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings
Street, Vancouver
Note: The same presentation will be delivered each evening.
The Metro Vancouver region has been noted for its ability to
accommodate growth while maintaining good quality of life for
residents. Still, Metro Vancouver faces challenges in advancing the
goals of the recently approved Regional Growth Strategy to ensure
regional land use patterns support transit, walking and cycling
throughout the region.
Melbourne is considered one of the most livable cities in the
world. It has garnered considerable recognition for its success in
transforming over the last 25 years the centre of Melbourne from a
car-oriented office core to a dynamic mixed-use community with a
vibrant public realm. Come hear Rob Adams, the Director of City
Design for Melbourne, share some of his experiences in leading this
transformation and how Melbourne's success could be applied to
development in Metro Vancouver's key centres.
Rob Adams is an architect and urban designer, Director of
City Design at the City of Melbourne, Australia. He won multiple
awards as the leader of the revitalization of the Melbourne City
Centre and surrounds, helping to create a vibrant city streetscape
with innovative design features. Since the mid1980s he has worked at
the City of Melbourne. He is a regular lecturer at RMIT and at the
University of Melbourne, where he has been a Professorial Fellow since
2004.
Frank Pacella, BA, LEED AP, Coordinator, SFU City Program
T. 778 782 5079 / Fax: 778 782 5098
E. citymgr@sfu.ca www.sfu.ca/city
Pls join our email list: http://www.sfu.ca/city/email.htm
Twitter: www.twitter.com/CS_SFU
== Monday Oct 3 - 5
EVENTS IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
The NewCity Design Awards
will recognize Surrey's most
significant accomplishments in city-building: architecture,
landscape, urban design and infrastructure. The awards will
be decided by an independent jury, who will assign at least one
"Award of Excellence" and optional "Awards of Merit" in each of
the NewCity's eight categories. Anyone can suggest a worthy
project. Actual submission packages will be submitted by the
design/development team for each project.
Walk 21 Metro Vancouver Conference 2011: The
International Conference on Walking and Liveable
Communities
"Transforming the automobile city:
walking steps up!"
October 3 - 5
Conference Location: SFU Goldcorps Centre for the
Arts, 149 W. Hastings Street, Vancouver
In 2011 the International Walk21 Conference is
being hosted by Metro Vancouver. The conference's metropolitan focus
involves municipalities in the region, health authorities, Translink,
the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, as
well as the regional government. Metro Vancouver has teamed together
to create an innovative conference focusing on the best practices for
urban design, transportation mobility, and health promotion to provide
the best places to walk to and through. We invite you to join us in
Metro Vancouver, Canada for the 2011 Walk21 Conference, Oct 3-5. Come
and walk with us!
*** Enjoy
Thanksgiving Monday October 10 ***
== Saturday October 15
GLENEAGLES GOLF COURSE
-- Family Golf
TOURNAMENT
Mark your calendars and
join the fun at the Pumpkin Fest Family Golf Tournament! Bring the
whole crew to the family-friendly nine-hole Gleneagles Golf Course.
The afternoon starts with lunch at the clubhouse at 11:30 am, shotgun
start at 1pm and finishes with prizes and awards at
4pm. Cost,
including lunch, is $45 per adult and $30 for kids 14 years and
under.
To register visit us
online: webreg.westvancouver.net (barcode 799424); or phone 925 7475;
or in person at the West Vancouver Community Centre or Gleneagles
Community Centre. For more information, e-mail
pumpkinfest@westvancouver.ca
== Sat/Sun October
15/16
>> Pumpkin
Fest -- Join
the West Vancouver Community Centres
Society (WVCCS) on October 15 - 16 for an old-fashioned
community harvest festival at Pumpkin Fest 2011!
Whether you love to
dance, golf, garden, bake, knit, or craft, or simply enjoy hanging out
with your family and neighbours taking in the entertainment and
activities, there is truly something for everyone at West
Vancouver's newest community festival.
For more info, to
register in workshops or the Fares and Wares competition, and to
purchase tickets for the Family Golf Tournament at Gleneagles Golf
Course and the Community Family Dance, please
visit pumpkinfest2011.org.
>> Pumpkin Bowl 2011
Pumpkin Bowl
Regatta October 15 and 16. Fee includes a regatta T-shirt, lunch
both days of racing and a buffet dinner. Extra dinner tickets
are available for $17.50 per person and extra T-shirts are available
for $20 each.
For more information please click on the links below
*
Notice of Race
*
Online Registration (Due October 13th
17:00)
*
Alpha Course Results (Laser, Radial, 29er, 420)
*
Bravo Course Results (Optimist Blue, Red, White, Laser
4.7)
* Optimist
Green Results
*
Pumpkin Bowl Pictures
*
Pumpkin Bowl Launching Video
* Billet
Contact (Due before October 8): Susan Harney (604) 921-6343
or
harnco@shaw.ca
For
more information contact our Graeme Clendenan, Sailing
Director.
OCTOBER 15th
and 16th -- Presenting Sponsor: PARK ROYAL
SATURDAY:
Family-friendly Golf
Tournament at Gleneagles Golf Club, 11:30am - 4pm
Girl Guide Campfire
Singalong, 6pm; Family
Dance, 7pm - 11:30pm
SUNDAY:
All day activities, 10am -
5pm
Join us in celebrating Fall
with an old-fashioned community harvest festival at Pumpkin
Fest! There are many family-friendly features and activities to
enjoy including:
=B7 Community Dance
featuring the Adam Woodall Band & Taste of
Block 22 Restaurants
=B7 All Ages Golf
Tournament at Gleneagles Golf Course
=B7 Peter Jones Memorial
Pie Baking Contest
=B7 Pumpkin
carving/scarecrow/vegetable growing competitions
=B7 Organic gardening and
sustainability workshops
=B7 Family Activity Zone
with crafts and games
=B7 Afternoon Tea with
Symphonia
=B7 Pumpkin Patch and
Pumpkin Path
=B7 Evening Campfire with
the Girl Guides and Scouts
=B7 Pumpkin Swim and
Pumpkin Skate
=B7 Variety of exhibitions
and entertainment at the Community Centre Civic
Site
There is truly something for
everyone at Pumpkin Fest. Whether you love to dance, golf,
garden, bake or simply enjoy hanging out with your family and
neighbours and taking in the entertainment and activities, we have
something for you!
Don't leave home, mark the
dates, and join us as we say good-bye to summer and hello to fall in
style!
Pumpkin Fest is the
inaugural, signature fundraising event for the West Vancouver
Community Centres Services Society.
Link to
Pumpkin Fest documents: WVCCS_PUMPKIN_FEST_PROMOTION
== Tuesday October 18
~ 7pm ~ WRA-sponsored all-candidates mtg; Gleneagles Golf Course
Club House (MC David Thomas)
== Wednesday October 19
~ 7pm ~ Library Bd at Library; and Bd of Variance at Ccl
Chamber
== Thursday October 20
~ 4:30pm ~ Design Review Cmte Mtg
The Library will be closed Sunday Oct. 9 and
Monday Oct. 10. Happy Thanksgiving!
=
ENGLISH CORNER
Come practise
English conversation -- develop skills, learn vocabulary, participate
in interesting discussions, and make new friends. Fridays, through
December 16 (there will be no English Corner November
11).
Topics for
October will be Poetry (Oct 7), Manners (Oct 14), Health: Body, Mind,
and Spirit (Oct 21), and Superstition, Old Wives' Tales, and
Sayings (Oct. 28).
Meet in the Welsh
Hall West (Oct 14 meeting location is the Computer Training
Room).
For more information
please call Nadia Vargha Majzub at 604 922 5152.
English
Corner is facilitated by the Bahai Community of West Vancouver in
partnership with the Library.
= Tuesdays September 27, October 4
and 11
~ 10:30 to 12:30pm
~ Today's Broadway
Spend three weeks with jazz
specialist Neil Ritchie meeting some of the most successful Broadway
songwriters: Kander & Ebb, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd
Webber.
= Saturday
October 1
~ 1 - 2pm
~ BRAIN FITNESS
Dr. Justin Davis
from
Nognz will discuss
brain fitness, with tips, games, and memory boosters to keep your
brain healthy at any age.
Music Talks
Today's Broadway with Neil Ritchie (Former CBC
Radio producer of Hot Air)
Tuesday Oct 4 - Stephen
Sondheim, 10:30am - 12:30pm, Welsh Hall
Tuesday Oct 11 - Andrew Lloyd
Webber, 10:30am - 12:30pm, Welsh Hall
Friends of the Library Booksale!
Find books, CDs, DVDs, and more in the Welsh Hall.
Friends Presale - Oct 13 Thursday 6 - 8pm. Memberships
available at the door.
Main
Booksale - Oct 14 and 15 Friday & Saturday 10am -
4pm.
Interested in becoming a Friend of the Library? See our
web page for details.
Philosophers' Café ~ 10:30am - noon ~
Friday Oct 21
The Canadian Charter of Rights &
Freedoms with guest James LymBruner. Admission $5.
Friday Night Concert Series presents
~ 7:30pm Oct 21 -- Don Alder -- Guitar
Player Magazine's 2010 "Guitar Superstar". Discover the
original deeply textured music of this local talent, who also works
with the Rick Hansen Man in Motion Foundation. Come early for
best seats. Doors open at 7pm. See you there!
In the Gallery -- Woven
Inspiration
A selection of recent tapestries by members of The Tapestry
Weavers Interest Group: Virginia Baldwin, Nina Chrzanowski, Traude
Doelker, Vladimira Fillion, May Keller, Myrna Lindstrom, Robert
Schinnour, and Linda Wiles. This exhibition displays a wide
variety of moods, images, and techniques available to the modern
designer/weaver of tapestries.
Showing Oct 3 - Nov 3. For exhibition details visit our
Gallery
web page.
West Vancouver Library Foundation
The West Vancouver Memorial Library Foundation is celebrating its
25th Anniversary this year!
Learn more about the Foundation on our
website.
+++ WV MUSEUM +++ http://westvancouvermuseum.ca/exhibitions/current_exhibition
Sonny Assu - Longing
~~ September 14 to November 5
Longing
is an installation of innovative, new work by Vancouver-based
artist Sonny Assu composed of sculptures and photographs. The
sculptures are found objects now displayed conceptually as
"masks". As found objects they provide the core focus of the
investigation undertaken by the artist. Within this context, found is
juxtaposed to lost, or an art and culture altered or displaced by
conditions of colonialism and European settlement. The artist uses
longing to suggest a history reexamined and reclaimed.
The photographs show the "masks" in situ
within three sites, which characterize the collecting and marketing of
Northwest Coast art: as artifacts in the visible storage area of an
ethnographic museum, as fine art in an exhibition of aesthetic objects
in a commercial gallery, and the tourist shop emphasizing curiosities,
souvenirs, or keepsakes to take home.
Vancouver-based artist Sonny Assu is Laich-kwil-tach
(Kwakwaka'wakw) of the Weka'yi First Nation of Cape Mudge,
Vancouver Island. Assu's work has been featured in several notable
group exhibits over the past years, How Soon is Now?, Vancouver
Art Gallery; Comic Relief, National Gallery of Canada;
Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the
Northwest Coast; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and
Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation Part 2, Museum of Arts and
Design in New York City. A recent solo exhibit, Sonny Assu: As
Defined Within the Indian Act, was held at the Belkin Satellite
Gallery, Vancouver. Assu's work is in the collection of the National
Gallery, the Seattle Art Museum, the Museum of Anthropology at UBC,
and in public and private collections across Canada and the United
States. The artist is represented by the Equinox Gallery in
Vancouver.
This exhibition is guest-curated
by Petra Watson and made possible with financial support from the
Audain Foundation.
Artist's Talk: Wednesday
October 19 at 7pm
+++ FERRY BUILDING GALLERY
+++ http://ferrybuildinggallery.com ~ 925 7290
~~ Objective
Reality: mixed media ~~ September 27 -
October 16
Richard Alm, lan D. Blair, Melanie
Cossey, Lynn Pocklington, Julie Rudd
Opening Reception: Tuesday
Sept 27 from 6 to 8pm
Artists in Attendance:
Saturday Oct 1 from 2 to 3pm
Upcoming EXHIBITION -- Oct 18 - 30 -- Susanna Blunt,
Sculpture & Paintings
+++ SILK PURSE +++
http://www.silkpurse.ca/gallery2.html
~~ September 20 -
October 2 ~~ "In Search of Colour"
Mother &
daughter Krystyna &
Elizabeth May explore
individual expression & communication through art. Krystyna is an
art therapist and Elizabeth lives with autism, which affects
communication and interaction. Together they have discovered that a
painting speaks louder than words.
~~ October 4 -
16 ~~ "Critters"
West Vancouver
resident, Patricia
Vaughan captures the
iconography & imagery of a variety of animals; from barnyard
chickens to noble zebras. Her spirited watercolour & mixed media
paintings depict the essence of these creatures as well as the very
human-like personalities of our feathered and furred
friends.
Opening
reception is Tuesday October 4th from 6 - 8pm
~~ October 18 -
30
~~
"Intercontinental Inspirations"
Artist Shashi Kapoor's multimedia paintings depicting people
and places of inspiration from India to Africa and beyond. Each work
of art invites you into a conversation of reflection and celebration
of those who encourage and motivate us in our lives.
Opening
reception: Tuesday October 18th from 6 - 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 (also for tix) or email
tickets@kaymeekcentre.com
Early Music Vancouver, Mozart & Beethoven Quintets For
Fortepiano and Winds -- 3pm Sunday Oct 2
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Arts Club at KMC -- 8pm Mon
Oct 3, and Tues Oct 4
John Hammond -- 8pm Tuesday October 11
Premiere screening of a new documentary on up and coming
Vancouver comic Reza Peyk. There will be a Q & A following
the screening with Reza and others involved with the project.
Purchase tickets online
+++ ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 60, West
Vancouver +++
"Where Volunteers make the difference."
Chartered November 17th, 1926
MEMBERSITE
westvan60.com/membersite
For those of you who use Twitter, you can follow us, Tweet us and
keep up to date with our events.
Follow us: @westvan60 -- Reid Anderson, Branch Secretary
October
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:October Calendar of
Events2.pdf (PDF /=ABIC=BB) (0017E155)
Saturday, October
1st MEAT
DRAW
Turkeys &
Hams for Thanksgiving; No Duplicate Winners Bonus draw - gift
basket
SIGN UP NOW FOR POPPY
TAGGING 7pm
Saturday October 15th In The Lounge
+++ WV CHAMBER of COMMERCE + 926
6614 + http://www.westvanchamber.com
o Oct 4 Tues ~ The Power Hour ~
8 - 9am
Delany's Coffee House | Dundarave Village; 8 - 9am
o Oct 11 Tues ~ Chamber Breakfast Club ~
7:45 - 8:45am
Cafe
TrafiQ -- New members are encouraged -- a great opportunity to
establish new contacts.
o Oct 13 Thurs ~ All Candidates Meeting
KMC 7pm
Come meet your future potential Mayor and
Councillors. Hear what they have
to say about business in West Vancouver. The event is
free for public to attend.
Registration not necessary.
For more info, please call 926
6614 or email us at
info@westvanchamber.com
=== CULTUREWATCH
===
*
THEATRE
+ BARD ON THE
BEACH
http://www.bardonthebeach.org/
ended Sept 24; the 2012 season starts May 31st
TAMING OF THE SHREW
* MACBETH * MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR * KING
JOHN
+ VANCOUVER PLAYHOUSE
THEATRE 604 873 3311
vancouverplayhouse.com
Tosca Cafe --
Movement-theatre piece, starring Peter Anderson (Overcoat fame) and
prima ballerina Sabina Allemann plus Dean Paul Gibson; Oct 8 -
29
+ ARTS
CLUB 687 1644
http://www.artsclub.com
~ Stanley Industrial Alliance
Stage
o Next to
Normal -- feel-everything musical from Broadway, to Oct
9
o Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad with Meg
Roe. Oct 20 - Nov 20
The untold story of the
original desperate housewife
A husband absent for twenty
years, a sullen teenage son giving lip, tiffs with the
mother-in-law-who wouldn't be desperate? From one of Canada's most
acclaimed writers comes this fresh and witty retelling of The
Odyssey myth. In Margaret Atwood's contemporary
interpretation, Penelope, the long-suffering wife of the hero
Odysseus, finally gets to tell her side of the story. TIX FROM
$29
~ Granville Island
Stage
o Circle
Mirror Transformation Sept 22 - Oct 22
Bill Millerd, the Arts
Club's Artistic Managing Director, says, "Nicola Cavendish,
because of her many years as one of Canada's most inspired and
empathetic performers, was the first person I thought of to direct the
Canadian premiere of a piece that centres on the connections between
individuals."
o ReACT: New Plays in Progress ~~
7pm Sunday Oct 2
+ Roedde House
Museum 778 888
2435 itsazoo.org
Debts, written
and directed by Mack Gordon; inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, blend of
live theatre, haunted house, and radio play; eight actors, 15 seats --
book in advance! $19, $15 srs/students. Oct 19 to
31
+ Jericho Arts
Centre 604 224
8007
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,
starts Oct 4 (to 23rd)
+ Metro Theatre 604 266
7191 metrotheatre.org
Making a Killing by John Nassivera Oct 1 -
29
Broadway playwright and actress wife fake his suicide to make
sure his play succeeds
+ The
Cultch (in VanCity Culture
Lab) 604 251 1363 thecultch.com
Wicked Shorts, from Fringe; Sept 21 - Oct
9
+ Hendry Hall
983 2633 The Woman in Black starts Oct 21
+ Deep Cove Stage
604 929 3200 deepcovestage.com
Book of
Days, a mystery Sept 30 - Oct 15
+ Presentation
House 604 990 3474
phtheatre.org
KISMET one to one hundred
-- interviews across Canada of 100 ppl aged 1 to 100 re fate
and destiny; here from Magnetic North Theatre Festival in
Ottawa.
+ Capilano Performing Arts
Theatre 604 990
7810
7 Stories by
Morris Panych; fast-paced, sophisticated, and hilarious play,
endlessly inventive
Oct 19 - 22
www.capilanou.ca/news-events/performingarts.html
+ Studio 58
604 684 2787 www.langara.bc.ca/studio58
The
Crucible by Arthur Miller Sept 29 to Oct 16
+ Pi
Theatre
Visions of
Vancouver:
The Dead Line by
Dennis Foon; The Thin Veneer by Kevin
Loring
The Bridge by Michele
Riml and Michael St. John Smith; Elevate by
Adrienne Wong
Directed by Richard Wolfe featuring
Carmen Aguirre, Patrick Keating, Jennifer Mawhinny, Shaker
Paleja
Show Times: 8pm Oct 5 Preview; 2pm
Oct 6 Preview; Oct 6 - 8, 11 - 15 - 8pm; 4pm Oct 9,
15
Stay and chat with our artistic team
at the free talkbacks after the shows on the 9th, 11th, and
13th.
+ Norman Rothstein
Theatre
Sept 15 to Oct 9
http://www.patrickstreetproductions.com/
The Light in the Piazza,
Patrick Street Productions presents the Tony Award-winning Broadway
musical
* ART
+ VANCOUVER ART
GALLERY
http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/events_and_programs/calendar_of_events.html
~ VAG PUBLIC PROGRAMS -- All Programs free for
Members.
~
Current exhibition: "The Colour of my Dreams"
~ Out for Lunch -- Eine Kleine Lunch Musik -- Select
Fridays, 12:10 - 1pm
new 80th?
+ Equinox Gallery --
Gordon Smith
Sept 16 to Oct 29 ~~ During the
past couple of decades, the esteemed West Vancouver-based painter --
who turned 92 in June -- has produced some of his finest work.
The master of colour and paint continues to explore and express new
visions in a fresh, aggressive style. This show of all new
paintings features marvellous winter forest scenes, and dense,
nocturnal abstractions. 604 736 2405
* MUSIC
+ Vancouver Opera
http://www.vancouveropera.ca/
http://www.vancouveropera.blogspot.com/
Tickets to all VO performances for the
2011/12 season are now available for purchase: West Side Story, Romeo
et Juliette, Barber of Seville, and Aida.
Persian poetry gets the blues. Iranian
jazz singer Rana Farhan has combined the verses of mystical poets like
Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam to the rhythms of American blues, jazz
and soul. Read about it here.
Opera in the
Community
http://www.vancouveropera.ca/opera-in-the-community.html
VO brings
opera into the community through free public forums,film screenings,
behind-the-scenes events and other educational
opportunities.
Join Doug
Tuck, Director of Marketing and Community Events, for a free Pre-Show
Talk at the theatre before each opera performance. Pre-Show talks
begin at 6:30pm in the Mezzanine at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on
performance nights.
Opera Speaks
in Your Community
In
partnership with the Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver Opera
presents its award-winning series of free public forums on themes and
issues arising from the season's operas.
more...
On The North
Shore
Preview
lectures of upcoming operas through Capilano University's Eldercollege
at the West Vancouver Seniors' Centre.
Film
Screening - West Side Story (Sept 22)
In
partnership with the Vancity Theatre, Vancouver Opera presents a
series of films that explore themes and issues related to the season's
operas. more...
OPERA SPEAKS ~~ 7 - 9pm Wed Oct 5th @
VPL!
All About Bernstein: The Life and Influence of
Leonard Bernstein
Join us on October 5th as we explore the life, music, and
wide-reaching legacy of one of the 20th century's great composers and
communicators. Speakers include conductor Leslie Dala, educator, and
Vancouver Sun music critic David Gordon Duke, and West Side Story
stage director Ken Cazan.
FREE Admission -- For more info on our Community
Events, click
here!
2pm Sunday Oct 2 -- VSO performs Ravel's Bolero
(Orpheum)
2pm Thurs Oct 6 -- Tea and Trumpets with Christopher
Gaze (Orpheum)
A beautiful concert of some of the
most beloved Overtures and Intermezzi in the Operatic and Orchestral
worlds, including Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana,
Von Suppe's Light Cavalry Overture, Offenbach's
Orpheus in the Underworld, and more.
Bach, Mozart, &
Haydn
8pm Friday Oct 14
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, at UBC
8pm Saturday Oct
15 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, at
UBC
8pm Monday Oct
17 Centennial Theatre, North
Vancouver
Bramwell Tovey, conductor; Tracy Dahl,
soprano
Good Etudes for Chamber Ensemble; Emily
Doolittle Four Pieces About Water;
Dorothy Chang Chamber Variations; Tim
Brady We're Hardcore
Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 4; Bach Cantata
No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Mozart
Exultate Jubilate ; Haydn Symphony No.
47
Johannes Sebastian Bach's set
of four orchestral suites were written around 1725, and all are
festive, fun, brilliant examples of the genre; and none are more
lovely than Orchestral Suite No. 4. Bach wrote an enormous
number of extraordinary cantatas, and was a master of the genre.
Mozart's Exultate Jubilate is jubilant and glorious - and
both it and the Bach cantata are perfect vehicles for the sweet,
lyrical tone of soprano Tracy Dahl.
Kids' Koncerts: Inspector
Tovey Investigates Rhythm
2pm Sunday Oct 16
Orpheum Theatre
Bramwell Tovey, conductor; Granville
Street Irregulars
Inspector Tovey investigates the
musical concept of rhythm, with young musicians from the cmnty forming
his version of Sherlock Holmes's Baker Street
Irregulars.
+ UBC Symphony
Orchestra 604 822
9197
Beethoven's Emperor Concerto; Jane Coop, pianist; Chan Centre,
Oct 6 -- FREE
+ Friends of
Chamber Music at Vancouver
Playhouse 604 437 5747
Tokyo Quartet, 8pm Tues Oct 18
+ Early Music
Vancouver
Early Music Vancouver offers a
remarkable performance: sophisticated and satisfying, the perfect
introduction to our 2011-2012 season.
Mozart &
Beethoven: Quintets for Fortepiano &
Winds
Friday 30 Sept at
8pm; Pre-concert introduction by Andrew Clark at
7:15pm
Christ Church
Cathedral 890 Burrard at West Georgia
Sunday matinée, 2
October at 3pm; Pre-concert introduction by Andrew Clark at
2:15
Kay Meek
Centre - Studio Theatre
Michael Jarvis, fortepiano;
Washington McClain, classical oboe; Colin Savage, classical clarinet;
Katrina Russell, classical bassoon; Andrew Clark, natural
horn
When Mozart tells you "I myself
consider it to be the best thing I have written in my life", you
know you want to hear it. We have assembled five of today's leading
players to bring you an unforgettable performance. Don't miss our
season opening, when Mozart's effervescent Quintet for Piano &
Winds is paired with Beethoven's Quintet for the same forces (itself
a joyous homage to the genius of Mozart!) and his youthful Horn
Sonata.
Tix for these performances are $35
(students & seniors $3 discount). These prices include 12%
HST.
Rush Seats for
Students with valid ID on sale
for $10, at the door only, from an hour before the start of each
performance. These concerts
are included in our "Bring a Youth for
Free" programme.
~ Early Music Vancouver, 1254 West 7th
Avenue
* BALLET
+ Queen Elizabeth
Theatre Oct 13 - 15
Love Lies
Bleeding, inspired by and featuring the music of Elton John;
balletbc.com
*
PHOTOGRAPHY
Call for Painters &
Photographers
The deadline was extended to the end of September 2011, because
of the strike of Canada Post.
Each artist could send two works, 20" x 30" max size.
Subject is OPEN.
Caroun Photo Club:
Meetings are held the third Wednesday of every month, 7 - 9pm at the
Silk Purse Arts Ctr. Visitors are welcome. Info:
www.carounphotoclub.com.
*
FESTIVALS
o VIFF: Vancouver
International Film Festival Sept 29 to Oct 14
www.viff.org
o Vancouver Int'l Writers
Festival Granville Island Oct 18 to 23, 604 629 8849
writersfest.bc.ca
=== NATURE WALKS ===
contact David Cook 924-0147 <cookeco2@yahoo.com>
=== COUNCIL MTG NOTES
Monday Sept 19 ===
6pm in M HALL MAIN FLOOR CONFERENCE
ROOM; 7pm in M HALL COUNCIL CHAMBER
Note: At 6pm the regular Ccl Mtg will commence in
open session (in the main floor conference room), and will be
immediately followed by a motion to exclude the public in order to
hold a closed session,... At 7pm the open session will
reconvene...
6:00 PM
1. CALL TO ORDER OPEN SESSION
EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC
2. RECOMMENDED: THAT in the public interest,
members of the public be excluded from part of the September 19, 2011
regular Council Meeting 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:
(e) 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
(k) 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 council, could
reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if
they were held in public.
3. ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION
7:00 PM
Following conclusion of the closed session, the following
items will be considered:
{NB:
Obviously this is 'best efforts' since I type while ppl speak.
If unfamiliar with the abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms, pls
refer to www.westvan.org/glossary and if you want to check
something or listen to the whole comment/speech/remarks being made,
use the timestamp to find that place on the video of the ccl mtg (wch
is on the DWV website).}
4. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION
5. APPROVAL OF AGENDA (Sept 19)
amended by adding to Item 8 (a written submission dated Sept 14),
by adding recommendation to 12.1 re AmbNOW monthly budget report, and
by adding new item, 12.3 re appointment of Chief Election
Officer
{This is exceedingly strange.
Maybe someone can explain.
Sheila Scholes has been the
Chief Election Officer for several preceding elections. Did no
one anticipate when the appointment wd hv to be made that it was not
on an agenda and had to be added as an
amendment???}
6. ADOPTION OF MINUTES -- No items
DELEGATIONS
7. West Vancouver Historical Society,
regarding Published Book "Cottages to Community"
(File: 0055-20- WVMH1)
Mayor: pleasure to welcome the WVHS fresh after the opening
Friday night
Jim Carter (former prez): four years of hard work; finally paid
off, feel will become a best seller
sponsored by ....
with signif numbers to sell, must publicize
story to tell, string of cottages to modern cmnty today
Currently the book is available {gave list; in previous WVM and
on www.wvhs.ca}
switch to images -- with apologies to the Mayor who saw this at
the real estate session, earlier this year.
Mayor: really good; I don't mind
JC: I've only got ten minutes so this will be a lot
shorter. [SLIDES]
These are some of the ppl who have really had an influence on our
cmnty. I start with Fred Taylor (the person that put together
the deal with Guinnesses and Ccl, built the bridge, ended up leaving
BPP), here's Reeve Leyland (1934, signing the agreement that bailed WV
out of near bankruptcy....).
Here's the bridge being built in 1938. Great story on the
bridge. Guinnesses built the bridge for $6M in a year and a half
-- incredible when you think about it. Charged tolls right up
until the time WAC Bennett purchased it, so WAC bought it, reimposed
the [tolls] we paid another $6M and Guinnesses made double duty on
that bargain.
Park Royal in the 1960s beginning to devt; cmnty up the hill
really growing.
This is an interesting picture of waiting for the King and Queen
to go up over the bridge, open the bridge, and go up to the British
Properties, and Taylor over a dispute over the sizes of the pieces of
land, ended up standing at the back of these crowds b/c everybody was
mad at him for, some say, his stubbornness.
Here's Muriel May, killer salesperson for BPP -- renowned in her
day. 1953 picture.
The West Coast Modern, many of you know have re-emerged, was
popular in 1960s but felt out of favour to more eclectic designs, but
it's returned in favour as a v interesting type of design and one was
featured in the Museum's home show this year. This is the
interior, sparse.
This is a great story. This is the story of what Fred
Taylor had planned for the seven and a half acres he had reserved on
the top of Sentinel Hill....
Here's the first Ccl -- and it gives me a great idea of where you
can save money.
LAUGHTER {at picture of Ccl in front of tent}
Reeve Charles Nelson, hat on his knee.
The first M Hall, three months later it was opened. Same
site where we are today.
This is Gertrude Lawson. John Lawson with the hat passed
away in 1954; Gertrude in 1989.
This is the way we used to do biz in WV: a real estate ofc, a
bank, and a notary all in a bldg at the corner of 22nd and Marine --
different, smaller, and less grand.
Wonderful story surrounding the Clachan, today's Beach House
-- this was built by the brother of two Scottish sisters, the
Stevenson sisters who ran the Clachan for a number of years.
They were dour but had great fun at the parties apparently....
This is the way you took your summer holidays in 1915. Camp
Minnehaha. Ppl wd come over, right across the waterfront wd
erect tents on a platform sometimes with sidewalls and they'd spend
the full summer commuting back and forth to Vancouver, enjoying the
amenities of WV.
In fact, many ppl actually squatted in tents on the waterfront in
those years; standard practice.
Dundarave regatta in 1920 -- huge crowds, swimming competitions
(ppl from across the Pacific Northwest). This is the same
regatta in 1950, leading the way was Maurice Gibbons who taught in WV,
then SFU. All rugby players and more injuries from these dives
than rugby.
Great Northern Fish Cannery, 1941, thriving; now the Fisheries
Research Station.
Here's the way ppl got to Caulfeild Cove before there was a rail
line or a road, and before there was a ferry.
They came by the steamship Britannia in 1910...
Great shot of the Pt Atkinson Lighthouse with B T Rogers of sugar
fame with his steam yacht cruising by. That was our original
lighthouse replaced by the one we know today.
Finally the Grafton family; story of the tragic death of the
father of that family; fishing with dynamite and it went off in his
hand and it killed him.
His son wrote in the journal: Father killed. Fishing with
dynamite. Light westerly wind.
(routine report of weather conditions at site)
Going to turn over to our President, Ann.
Ann Brousson: Thx, Jim. ... Some of you have seen this {holding book}, a must-buy.
I've got the first copy that came off the press wch goes to Pam,
to thank her for all of her support.
Mayor: thank you
AB: and we're donating two boxes plus two more, b/c only nine in
a box, to the District on behalf of the Society so they can use it to
give to dignitaries or whatever
{the list can be
found on page 2 of WVM19 as well as wvhs.ca}
... a poster wch maybe you cd put up in the Hall, ... where book
available....
Thank you again on behalf of the Historical Society for all the
support you have given.
APPLAUSE
Mayor: this is a v v fitting kickoff to WV's 100th birthday in
2012 wch I know is your intent, and I think we will do our v best to
support your marketing efforts and consider on our website ways where
you can buy this book and celebrate the tremendous history and legacy
of 100 years of pl before us, and our responsibility into the
future.
With the book, A View Through the Trees -- my [pile's just run]
out -- you shd know I tend to save those for ppl in the cmnty turning
90 or 100. You'd be surprised how many there are. They're
always absolutely thrilled with this kind of memory for them, of
course.
That's what I consider the Office of the Mayor to do with those
books.
Thank you very much.
ML: I picked up my copy of the book on Saturday; that took of
Sunday and most of this morning.
TYVM, it's absolutely magnificent and encourage every resident of
WV to avail themselves of the opp to pick up a copy. Tyvm to the
Historical Society b/c I appreciate how much work and effort it was
for you.
Ev: I wd certainly echo that. What I found particularly
interesting, it's not just simply a history of WV in the accepted
sense, [one appendix] at the back gave the explanations and
derivations of the roads of WV. I live on Rose Crescent;
interesting to find out where that name came from, and likewise many
others we drive up and down.... there's a story and a history
behind it and a very nice little add'l part to the book and I wd
commend you for it.
Sop: Mr Carter, how long do you think I'll have to stay on Ccl so
my name and my picture will appear in those books?
LAUGHTER
{Don't feel bad, Bill.
Many residents mention/listed, but not
me, alas, even though I was the first Ccl liaison for heritage and
made the motion for heritage designation for Gertrude Lawson house to
be the museum and provide offices for the WV Historical Society.
Although my recommendation was for the house to be moved so that the
hi-rise prop cd be leased and the money used to start a heritage fund
(to purchase, restore, maintain other heritage properties to prevent
loss through neglect), most wanted it to stay in place. All right for
a first step -- at least it preserved the house and gave the WVHS an
office, it was obviously too small for a museum, but these were our
initial steps.
I also was one of those who
proofread/copyedited/reviewed the manuscript of the book. Oh
well, maybe in the second printing or second edition.
In any case, it's a great book and
bound to be a thumping success.
Francis was kind enough to autograph my copy with "thanks
for your editing help".}
JC: since 1934; Reeve Leyland made it.
LAUGHTER
Sop: well, you've done an excellent job and we're so thankful
that we have dedicated folks like you that keep putting this before
us. Great keepsakes. Haven't got my copy yet but I will;
thank you v much.
TP: I'm wondering if I cd have my copy signed; it was so busy at
the opening that I cdn't get near anyone. I didn't ever know the
history of the naming of the Silk Purse. I feel somewhat
delinquent on that. There's so many charming stories in there
and thank you for that. If it's not something that's been passed
down through your generation in WV, and I haven't always lived here,
but it's just so incredible to read it and go: Oh, now I understand.
So thank you for all of that incredible effort. It is just
captivating. Thank you again.
JC: one last comment
there were three ppl who made it so effective: the author,
Francis Mansbridge, who really spent hours and hours beyond
expectations; the photographer who took the {unintelligible word}
pictures, and spent time gathering the archival photographs from all
over BC; and the designer, Colleen Wood, who was superb (designed A
View Through the Trees) -- that impressed us and we retained her to
design this one. Those were the co-workers, we were the
supporters and the Board were v v supportive throughout, taking some
risks -- we were afraid we might go broke at one stage, but help from
many {cdn't make out word}
Mayor: may I say at my book club in Lower Caulfeild on Wednesday
night, everyone's coming to buy their copy
SW: move thanks...
Mayor: seconded by Cclr Smith. Motion carries with
gratitude.
[7:20] REPORTS
At the July 25, 2011 regular meeting Council received the report
dated July 15, 2011 re this DPA and set the date for consideration for
Sept 19.
Reports received up to September 15, 2011:
NAME:
/
DATE:
FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION:
Development Permit Application
/ July 15, 2011 / July 25, 2011/ September 19, 2011
Written Submissions received up to September 15,
2011: None to
date. September 19,
2011
G Boyle of Planning gave background: Map on screen, just
shy of ten hectares
[SLIDE, points] diff ownership groups
Areas 1 and 2 already approved
One of the issues, attached, a delivery of a truck route b/c
nbrhds had to suffe through 1000s of trucks delivering supplies,
etc
Once Area 2 devpd, Chippendale roughed in -- way in for trucks
only
Key features of Rodgers Crk 3 East
45 lots; 21 standard WV lots, 21 are smaller lots and will be
subject to Devt Permits before they are built out; two cluster-housing
sites and they will also be subject to a DP; and one apt site, again
subject to a further DP for the form and character of the actual
bldgs.
Five watercourses, all protected. [7:23]
approx 33% will become publicly owned green space and with the
five watercourses it's really about the protection of envmtally
sensitive lands in this area.
will see continued extension of the mtn path, and the est of a
trail-head
move from a mtn path by road to the forested section -- towards
Area 5 and take on different characteristics
two new secondary trails and these will be called "connect
nbrhds", connecting Areas 2 and 3 for example...
great group walking systems will be established here
finally, we have a narrow road cross-section, has become the norm
in WV; approp response to terrain conditions; have less cut and fill
to happen
a number of proposed zoning bylaw variances; going to highlight
them
to create lots a number of retaining walls.....
retaining walls overheight and create forest in front to
mask
starts with natural grade...
18 site-specific; beauty of variances, have clarity
21/42 standard 7.62 to 9.1m height increase
good driveway grades
Sop: how many?
GB: about Area 3 East; change in land use; standard and smaller
lots
site for first apt bldg in Rodgers
Sop: in keeping with plan from outset, looking at mix
GB: correct
Sop: public owns the creeks
GB: yes
Sop: are they going to be groomed; foot and natural from
there
GB: not going to be groomed; left in natural state; will be
introducing a trail across
tributary L, a cross-section
Sop: type 2 wall, guess there are reasons; looking at
5m?
GB: think 4m in height
ANS: between 2 and 4m
Sop: 12 ft high
GB: yes and have to be constructed under engineering
requirements
Sop: 4ft walls
GB: had a whole series, met the bylaw but cdn't plan
taller wall more area for planting; recreating the forest
edge; replanting
Sop: done by devpr rather than the owner; drainage?
ANS: engineered walls; constructed on owner's land, by
them
Sop: water pressure gone down in last six years, is he doing
something wrong or?
GB: Cclr Sop is referring to a letter dated Sept 14
our engg crews hv gone out and tested water pressure
They confirmed that the water pressure is fine
plan is to contact the owner and do more explanation
water pressure doesn't see to be a problem, not just good, v
good
TP: will ask some questions
there was a nbrhd mtg -- who was the staff leader? was
Streamkeepers there?
[7:31] xxx of that, that's to do
b/c pockets up there so can maintain integrity of areas
what kind of covenants?
my concern is that as you go up mtn, trees, views; how dealt
with
Mayor: five, got that?
GB: sorta got lost xxx
TP: xxx
GB: best attended, 16 residents; came from Stonecliffe and Deer
Ridge; only two responses
likes how vision being carried out; mtg last weeek
Streamkeepers were part, from the beginning, with
vision
Streamkeepers were up there today
John Barker, WVSk Prez: Sandi, Bill McA, Nora, ... up
there
on behalf of proponent; BPP gave overview
narrow, streams, setbacks, xxx
as was mentioned already
[7:34] to make sure; March 2008 honoured
found out, followed and actually followed; Streamkeepers quite
satisfied
Mayor: who's xxx
GB: ev dept invited to come forward; eg Steve Jenkins was invited
to come forward
document; re creek protection, probably the most detailed work
done
land on lead planner's desk, in this, my desk
talking with Steve or Envmtal Protection ofcr [7:36]
make sure we carry out the vision of the overview
doc
insist the top of the bank is shown easily on the drawing so
it doesn't get lost
Mayor: two questions left from Cclr Panz
GB: the half million dollars is for creek enhancement, separate
from xxx
boxed culvert; all work devpr has to do, nothing to do with the
$500M
enhancing -- proper functioning conditions
restoration opportunities identified and that what the half
mil dedicated to
xxxx that might inform where the half M; Jenkins get
this.....
re covenanting re views, that issue has been raised by our
Parks Dept; haven't got it all wrestled to ground
{why come before
that's been wrestled and concluded, ie solved so can
answer???}
don't want to be faced with walls in ten years of losing
views
looking for comfort with that approach
Ev: two subjects: one concerns parks and open spaces
east; not looking gift horse in mouth
M getting bequeathed eight acres; had asked didn't get
satisfactory ans
inheriting a lot of park land and trails, wonderful, enhances,
makes more attractive proposal for devt, but there is a cost; will be
considerable
how are these costs going to be addressed and whose
responsibility?
GB: complex question -- can't simply say District's resp
{it's a GOOD
question; can't expect cclrs to ask only simple questions..... or is
it complex b/c there's either no simple answer like the devpr is
responsible and pay the costs, or we haven't negotiated/finalized that
so I'm not going to answer now. Clearly, this shd hv bn decided
before coming to Ccl or the public b/c it is a factor affecting
approval.}
implementation to the Rodgers Plan
trying minimizing costs, have devt perform and achieve the
vision
by performance I'm looking at....uh first large areas here have
trails in them
first have trails built to satisfaction of District
neg with BPP so standards accepted by the District
Area 3 West, long road, Chippendale and most of frontage
parks
first it's a restoration of the cut that was made
our Parks Dept is insisting on certain type of planting, low
mntnance
we're in the midst of neg with BPP
{do before coming
to Ccl or allowing!!!!! }
trying to look at how to minimize cost on Dist
impact study looked at revenue and cost
Rodgers, the simple came out a net to the District
Ev: wildlife corridors?
you've referenced Sartori report; referenced frogs
has it been seriously considered we have approp and correct
wildlife corridors
GB: a bit beyond my expertise
we have a lot of xxx [7:44]
over half of 250 acres will be preserved as habitat; did depend
on Jenkins and Sartori and experts he brought in; so many tributaries
so opp extensive for wildlife
Mayor: may I invite Richard Cook and Brent Murdoch to
present
PRESENTATION BY APPLICANT
RC: v much alive
happy to be here and part of that application Area 3 East
will focus on our initial presentation, and as go forward
in 2007 here with essentially the same plan as tonight
context xxx
25 acres, half devpd, one third as open space, and rest as
road dedication
owners BPP nine acres, three 5-ac parcels
here also with a team
Brent Murdoch site planning and landscaping; Alex Sartori, xxxx;
Bill Chapman, expert in xxx; Webster Engg, specialists in
hillside
working v hard last three years; Area devt plan the driving
force
secondly at the point in the plan where the picture will come
into reality
actually going into forest, forest envmt
through Area 1 to Area 3 to forested area; built on lessons from
Areas 1 and 2
disregarded the ownership lines; reaffirmed District's open
space
preserved, enhanced, and linked creek corridors; minimizing creek
crossings; minimized road widths
enhancement of Travell?????
committed to dark sky principle; introduced to Rodgers Creek
Area
vary between two and four m
xxx shotcrete type?
random granite stone face
met reqmt for ISWM
overall devt -- housing is not in place in other areas
21 standard lots up to 32Ksf generally 9 to 12, smaller [7:51]
apt; cluster housing
future: devt permit areas; will be a building scheme also
applied
in summary: public information held Sept 13 -- Andrew
Pottinger running that and he can comment if you like
evmtal sustainable, riparian, wildlife [7:52]
first albino tailed frog in
this area
Summary SLIDE [7:53]
secondary trail, to Mulgrave School
Sop: you wdn't be building 4, 6, and 12ft walls to back and
make level lots, will you?
RC: this where we've done a lot of work 16 iterations coming
up to Chippendale Rd
one of the areas, need for retaining walls, lots 2, 3, and
4
have there a series of terraced retaining walls
What determination in this xxx -- lots larger than what the
white is
game being played
denotes the lot but doesn't denote the house
we want to make sure this devt doesn't make a massive
devt
v serious about the enclaves we cd create, green
but looking at 12ft walls, going to create horizons
significant as a visual
?RC: looked at it in a number of ways. Brent Murdoch
BrentM: whole idea from beginning letting land determine the
xxx
retaining walls are a natural evolution; past examples, Area 1
and 2
shotcrete walls
plant with significant material rather than small scale
multiple small walls we didn't feel we cd achieve
larger landscape areas; multiple walls best way we felt to
meet
v few of 4m walls, mostly 2 and 3m
intimate one -- walking by wd enjoy; not overwhelming
Sop: when BPP came to us didn't ask for many variances
the av natural grade, series of lines [?] -- not ouija bd
notching into terrain, on stilts?
BrentM: done in detail with staff; determination of grade proved
out for ev sgl lot
able to est a reasonable ht; balance of cut and fill; strategy
throughout
won't have xxx flying in the air
Sop: how high apt?
BrentM: 5 to 6 storeys
ML: looks like a lot 45; v large piece of prop; sp
purpose?
BrentM: yes, that is a larger lot, twice the size of any of
the others
ML: no intention of cluster
BrentM: think BPP means as a show home for the area
Ev: come back to my original two questions; not entirely
satisfied with the answer
BP has to come back maybe and these two questions, ans more
thoroughly
there's no low-cost maintenance landscaping
[8:01]
{rightly
concerned!}
will come back to haunt us; have to take on add'l
cost/staff
feel more correctly addressed when back to Ccl
coming back, Alex Sartori knows full well what is meant by
wildlife corridors so no need to explain now
but wd encourage proponents when you do come back, address
those questions more thoroughly
BrM: taking that as direction wrt going forward
Mayor: well, Cclr Ev has to check in with the whole of Ccl on
that one
{hm. why can't he ask
whatever question he wants and/or make any suggestions he
wants???
Even a yes, no, or maybe wd be
helpful information for us plebes in the
gallery.}
but he'd like an answer to the question and then we'll debate
that
BrM: re tonight, partly take that as take back and report as to
form and character [8:02]
re open space what Ms Boyle talked to, the fiscal analysis;
Police/Fire, comprehensive study re net cost and revenue from entire
devt; net conclusion net benefit to District
{taxes sep from maintenance???
better be a net benefit!}
wrt the area; was part of that discussion in working group
decision not to have playfields that wd be costly
55% park area of 210 acres, fairly modest, not a lot of play
areas
secondary gravel-surface trails going through the
forest
once devpd, that maintenance wd be fairly modest for the
District but happy to bring that back, more detailed
re wildlife, if you want an answer tonight, can bring Alex
Sartori
Mayor to Ev: do you have a question for Mr Sartori?
Ev: I'd just repeat the same question
Mayor: well, perhaps that's the best person to answer it then
thank you
to be clear Ccl is being asked for further report or to
approve
{great!}
Sop: point of information--
Mayor: --Sartori to answer Ev first
Sop: doesn't matter whether he answers or not b/c--
Mayor: --just to be polite
Sop: well, what I'm trying to get at tonight is that it says that
this recommendation is for 21 of the 42 sgl-fam lots
Mayor: let's have the question then let's put motion on floor and
then see where we get; hard to tell. Mr Sartori.
AS: just quickly--
{Sop unhappy squawk}: lots
AS: wildlife corridor retained both in NS and EW
culverts bisects, were supersized to allow both small mammals
even large mammals to pass over Chippendale Rd without going over
top
this devt achieves that
Ccl shd be commended for planning process, 55% allowing for green
space
Mayor: tyvm; conclude your presentation?
AS: does
Mayor: and our questions for now
Sop: may I ask Ms Boyle a question?
Mayor: yes
Sop: rec says 21 of the 42 lots -- are we not passing the
entire area that's being presented?
GB: staff's recommendation is that DP for entire area be
approved
if approved tonight, can do subdivision, prep; 21 can go
straight to Bldg Permit; remainder wd require a further DP, that's
what this is trying to convey
Sop: have we done that before?
GB: first time since Taylor's Lookout where Devt Permits
for smaller lots
Marr Crk Court required Devt Permit for...
Sokol: [8:08] Area 1 included a DP, smaller lots then came
back for cluster housing; this is a similar process
Mayor: need to clarify what's coming back
Sop: this wd make sense to me; 21 south of Chippendale
.... Mulgrave so is upper area coming back later?
GB: upper area wd not be coming back
sites coming back -- [points], these two cluster sites
and this apt site wd be coming back
all these small lots on the lower road wd be coming back b/c
they are smaller and in the legislation referred to as "intensive
residential"
{IMPRESSIVE linguistic creativity -- is this the
new/euphemistic term for increased density???}
Sop: so why not 21 of 42, why in there?
GB: to allow site preparation, subdiv; just house construction
over and above
these DPs about creek protection; absolutely defines the
boundaries for creek protection
all of this area protected
first it allows you to clear the land and prepare the lot
then cluster/apt come back for form and character permits
ML: think what's confusing is the 21 of 42
19 and 20 cluster, 1 is the apt; being told all the smaller
lots below Chippendale.... plus 2 through 18 above Chippendale we're
approving tonight to go onto bldg permit
21 through 41 going to come back later, is that
right?
GB: yes
Mayor: form, character, xxx right
but tonight, the main features of the Rodgers Plan
Sop: xxx
CALL FOR PUBLIC INPUT
Sop moved: THAT all written and verbal submissions be
received for information.
MClk quite rightly interjected b/c there had been no call for
public input: no one has signed up for this
Mayor: okay
Sop moved, ML seconded: THAT the DPA which would allow for
site development, subdivision and single family house construction (on
21 of the 42 single-family lots), be approved.
I expect to see same excellence; proud building within a
forest
will appreciate for next 200 years, will be long
gone
up to us/we on Ccl; precious, pay attention to your surroundings
and if you do that
ML to chuckles: in fact I expect Cclr Sop will be
around
[8:14] good... xxx
Mayor: wd like to thank ...
last Ccl; creating this vision; think it's only going to get
better
expect pressure from the cmnty re xxx, stormwater,
aesthetic
housing diversity we're beginning to see
BPP and prop owners are xxxx
CARRIED [8:15]
PowerPoint presentation to be provided.
TP: thank xxx; introduced WG (named stand); Mary-Jo
Campbell
M-JC: SLIDES
16 mtgs since Jan 2010
sport fields, health and fitness
have a number of challenges: shortage; 5 to 8pm evenings and
weekends
being used 2.5 times their capacity; sometimes three teams
practising during any one hour; safety and playability
a higher amt of 'playnow' requires more xxx [8:20]
each sport seems to have a longer season
not just about chn
Overview of SFMP Recommendation slide [8:21]
recommended improvements with flexibility in how and when;
readiness and adaptable
back to Ccl for approval before proceeding
retain all fields; some felt reduce fields and make some better;
we reviewed this, limited land base, shd keep all in inventory
collaboration hs bn successful, ea of sports groups plus bd of
education -- recommend continue
devp an implementation strategy
REAL ACHIEVEMENT
all sports groups support the plan; benefits of collaboration
recognized; fuller understanding around the table of the needs of
other... [8:23]
Three-year implementation strategy; provide priority with
costs, timing, and funding; facilitate continued input
Thank Ccl; want to personally thank the group; all the field
sport groups
Mayor: Ms Ambor
CA: said it all!
Sop: thank you; quite a comprehensive report; glad you brought up
future wrt costs
can have great plans for next 20, 25 years, but wd be our
doc
some happen in year 1, 2, 6, -- money, and pay-as-you-go
ah -- I'd better wait till the question's on the floor
long
Mayor: public to speak
Keith Purchase (sp?): senior 16-year; prez of WV field hockey
club; about 2K mbrs, 1K in WV
better relationship than ever before; played for 60 years
Coastal and Fraser Health; biggest, child obesity
v cheap to build; from cost per participant, invaluable
believe this plan, will start to reduce some of these
issues
this generation first ever lower life expectancy than
ourselves
xxx no timetable
if opp, grab it, sports groups will raise extra funds
v supportive of this process; continuing dialogue, ev six
months
hopefully not new Ccl but if.....
Mayor: thank you for your work on Rutledge Field
TP moved: THAT
1. The Field Sport Forum Working Group continue in its role as
liaison with field sport groups;
2. The Field Sport Forum Working Group develop a prioritized
[three-year] implementation plan based on the recommendations of the
Sports Field Master Plan as set out the report dated September
9
3. The prioritized [three-year] implementation plan be brought
forward for Council consideration in 2012.
TP: can't emphasize three years not talking and now they do
MS: [8:30] get xxx
everybody pulling on the same oar; congratulate
Ev: the three-year task huge; have one question
imagine WG will be faced with xxx
all v well to consider the plan, enthusiasm, all things intend
to do
is staff's intention to give guidelines re capital budgets cd
be?
certainly not precise
{another good
question; in fact, all recommendations shd come with price
tags}
Andrew Banks; intent to work v closely
xxx and priority list; recognize a lot of work to be done
collaborative: with staff, sch good; what's feasible and what's
not within budget.
ML: my xxx
process going forward
see an ongoing role being articulated, makes sense, but a WG
or a cmte of Ccl or a forum?
consideration
embarking now on 2012 budget; miss a year?
an awful lot of info in this report
think the forum wd benefit receiving this, reflect on, xxx,
.... then some guidance
example in 6.6 re funding, biz re naming and sign opps; not
sure done deal
wd hate to see devping a budget based on naming
{to date, the official policy
has been that nothing can be named after someone still living. A
notable exception is the field in the BPP devt -- Deer Ridge ? --
named after Gerald McGavin even though not competition size and was
originally missing changerooms and parking expecting District to
provide/build/pay for.}
Rutledge, ... let's rename John Richardson Park the Esso Centre,
or something
don't want ppl to spin their wheels without direction from
Ccl
Mayor: not sure a question
ML: perhaps we shd be receiving this as opposed to all three
appropriate or perhaps add a fourth
Mayor: seems to me WG is asking for an expanded mandate then a
different xxx [8:35], but that will be up to a future CCl
am I correct, want to do one more piece of work?
ANS: yes
Mayor: Is there a timeframe?
Banks: asap but a lot of work to be done; report
comprehensive
staff, stakeholder, cost and funding models
approval before ???
Sop: I knew I shdn't have given up my mike xxx !
Mayor: every once in a while someone else has to go
first
Sop: no doubt out away from computers xxx
consideration of priorities but if one with a large amt of
money; we on Ccl shd know in advance, Ms Leemhuis; need to know where
money coming from
when I went through this; tremendous amt, staggers the
mind
cd prioritize some major projects and maybe some
small
Mayor: is that everything?
SW: want to commend ev
was at the first, wondered how; to Panz's credit, xxx
look forward to next iteration
TP: when looking at an implementation plan; looking at
budgets
presently ... Ccl has encouraged this group to continue on
been successful with this model, a hybrid between WG/Cmte
[8:39]
been respectful of the limited funds they have in front of
them
diff creative methods from moving forward
way forward addressed throughout this doc
mntnce, particularly around grass fields, just let
go
rental fees, artif for replacement [8:40]
List for 2012 may be a bit ambitious; wd be interested in
looking at extending it a bit longer
wd be reluctant to have that conversation too
quickly
Mayor: so imp as to how local govt, how we do
est standards and be ready to xxx
90s, anticipatory govt; this work does that for us; going to
require the cmnty to meet with us
quite a fundamental and precedent-setting work -- will be
quite a lot of attention in country and already are
ML: recommendation section, 6, is staff confident without
adding add'l resources?
can we be assured we can action these in approp time with
resources?
my concern I don't want to approve everything and not be able
to deliver
Banks: intention is
comprehensive doc, lot of recommendations; distance recogn we
need to look at diff funding models and always seek Ccl
approval
our attention was always to come back to ccl before proceeding
with any recommendations
priorities can't be funded
we will proceed that way
Mayor: xxx, and that will come back to Ccl
[8:44]
Sop: if report not here cd we defer?
CAO: Mr Lynch is here
Mayor: from another ccl mtg?
AL: CNV dealt with it in camera
{and just how did they justify
that???}
Mayor: why our Ccl being asked to support this
AL: no cost to local govt
{read?}
no ... reasons been given
80% by 2020; av across Canada 41%
BC 79% for glass 93% for milk; voluntary return prog -- less than
10%
Alberta added in 2009 and now 62% for xxx
We're following up with the xxx
Mayor: UBCM been recommending since 2004
Sop: you mentioned only 10 to 11%
the litre and two-litre the most valuable and now as high as 70%
by volunteer pickup
talking to the Dairy Ccl today
they made statement today, that milk carton. ..... will be
covered in the packaging -- will provide much xxx
recovery rate of jugs show ... excellent ... curbside; milk
cartons b/c not included
adding milk containers, with all disruption; inconvenience for
the consumer
is there really a true justification when you're going to
xxx
diff way of going to deliver their goods?
Mayor: let him answer?
AL: it is true that in 2014, packaging and papers will xxx
will be coming back in October
don't see it as a disruption[???]
mis... xxxxxx right now cost to M
revenue $2M from newsprint
cost to process; don't know if any Ms get any revenue from xxx in
bluebox system
they're buying milk now
ev retail store that sells beverage containers is resp
fam buys whether x or 711
milk: av fam purchases about six per month
$1.20 per milk jug over month; $150 per wk on groceries
goes back flat; inconvenience red herring
Sop: these milk jugs are fetching $5-600 ton
ev gets a piece of the action
what comes back, what's the reduction? from Metro or
prov?
how we're saving dollars by doing this? xxx
AL: milk cartons $97ton, $109 in 2012
plastic milk jugs we pay $49 ton fee
if we had a revenue-sharing, the net processing wd be
higher
contractors want to make revenue
whether cartons or milk jugs a cost to M; can't tell you what
it is
put it into system, that cost wd be removed
ML: pls clarify for us; most ppl don't take back for the nickel
or dime; what happens?
AL: scavengers get; they're out there before the
collector
ML: get there before; do they get $?
AL: yes; sep area they can get into; won't get into bin
company -- take a share
not a lot of money; we have a bit of a theft problem; hv to be
careful about that
ML: we pay for xxx
AL: xxx
ML: v surprised 10% recovery rate for the milk; find it
interesting they don't put in recycling garbage
AL: most put into garbage b/c ppl not aware
all three depots in the CNV; understand from Bay [sp?] not
going into
MS: I'm a little confused -- what happens to milk cartons that
go in blue box now?
AL: they don't
MS: do at our house
AL: xxx
MS: talking about plastic?
AL: yes; blue, yellow
MS: what happens when it gets to xxx ?
AL: xxx gets sold
MS: what happens if goes back to Safeway; same process?
advantage?
AL: b/c it costs us ... xxx$ ... if back to Safeway,
nothing
Safeway takes it back as a service to their customers but it
is a cost to them
a ton of plastic, a lot of milk jugs
cost bigger than [8:58]
MS: what about Harry's Mkt -- cost? storage?
AL: they do it now for xxx
SW: is the blue box a loss leader for you?
AL: we're not a biz, we're govt
SW: yellow bag and blue bag; you pay?
AL: we pay for xxx as well
this year our total processing
$600K, rev $1.2M
other places paying more in processing xxx, other Ms not
we're in net gain, others not
bidders will look at what is in it for me
milk jugs, xxxx; glass; cost but not sold
getting to 70% diversionable
if saying tomorrow, blue box; destroy credibility
suddenly newspapers... went down
Ev: I can't understand why we're spending so much time on milk
cartons; xxx
Mayor: if not in blue box wd you expect go up?
AL: yes
Mayor: ppl feel doing good
whereas if a deposit system; producer, seller, not a M issue any
more
waste stream; big issue with solid waste
takes a little bit of burden off xxx, so why wdn't we shrink
xxxx
SW moved: THAT
1. Council supports [sic] the inclusion of milk and milk
substitute beverage containers in the provincial deposit-refund
system.
2. A copy of this report and resolution be sent to the Minister
of Environment, and to Metro Vancouver.
Sop: I think it's inflationary to the consumer and the biz
the new coming down will even it out; skimming process
someone's got their hand in there and I think it's Metro
not producing more, xxx; packaging; xxx
this is a quick fix; I'm not supporting it
Mayor: xxx definitely; partly from being on the Waste Cmte for
six years
[9:03] CARRIED with Sop opposed
Sokol: happy to be presenting this
when I first started overlapped with Mr Nicholls; drove around
and one place was Sunset Lane; thought how cd this be difficult,
thought I'd xxx {ie quickly}
here's 3 1/2 years later and still xxx
complicated; diff owners, diff issues, diff thoughts how
addressed
some want to devp right away
BC rail properties
{Sager arrived}
residents unhappy with roadway
M somehow in the middle; residents want to devp and some
don't; some maintaining lane
gets quite complicated and stayed on my to-do list for quite
some time
working with Ccl [9:06], xxx, yyy, zzz
ended where I think District wanted to end up; course of action
identified sev different steps
Zoning bylaw required; topography in area unique otherwise ev
owner coming to Ccl re DVP
If Ccl approves, can be devpd
only can sell to adjacent prop owner
BCR pay $100K can make av; 2010 appraisal, increase
value of props reduced by 40%
BCR went a far way
also agreed to reduce purchase price by 10% if buying within
three months
BCR lease $500yr plus taxes for 20 yrs; originally said lease
to current owner only and now agreed owner can transfer the lease;
come a long way, been reasonable.
will give more detailed Oct 17 if Ccl goes further
Ev: cost of road improvements $450K and BCR will contribute
$150K, leaves $300K -- part of 2012 budget --is that a yes, no, or
maybe?
approve that cost incurred in 2012
Sokol: cd be in 2012 or 2013, up to Ccl when to apply
funds
Mark Sager: honour to be here this evening; to represent the
14 owners; thank Sokol
a problem since I've been alive, used to deliver
newspapers
this will result in small lots in front of all the
owners
BCR willing to lease and that will xxx
hope something more than a letter, go on lot so shd BCR
change, owners wd be protected
still our hope at PH, to come forward, owners to buy one (?)
of the lots
have a letter but BCR not willing to accept; maybe they will
by the time of the PH
hope xxx
[9:13] Mayor: John Eaves again
John Eaves: not the first time, actually only once before
Grateful to xxx; read zoning regs
my own POV as a prop owner
question and concerns in that regard
arduous four and a half years; applic for subdivision; been long
, stressful, hope coming to an end
have a request
if I don't always seem on side; am appreciative of where we've
come to today
hope this Ccl come to end resolved before election
Mayor: thank you for keeping your whole cmnty together, that made
a big diff.
MS moved: THAT
1. Zoning Amendment Bylaw as attached to the report from the
Director of Planning, Lands, and Permits dated Sept 13 be introduced
and read a first time in short form;
CARRIED
2. Zoning Amendment Bylaw be presented at a PH on Mon Oct 17
at 7pm
CARRIED
3. The Municipal Clerk be directed to give Statutory Notice
CARRIED
[9:17] Mayor: and thx to Mr Sokol for incredible work
CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS
ML: wd like to comment on 12.1, and 12.2 and 12.3
12. Consent Agenda Items
The following Consent Agenda items may be considered
separately or in one recommendation.
RECOMMENDED: THAT the Consent Agenda items as follows be
approved:
Item 12.1 - AmblesideNow Monthly Budget Report; and Item
12.2 - Correspondence List.
12.3
Appointment of Chief Election Officer.
RECOMMENDED:
THAT the report as presented to the AmblNOW
Revit Comm on Sept 6 be received for information.
ML: didn't want this to fly under the radar
Ccl did ask for a monthly report; want to flag, has been done,
been produced
will be for agenda package for this evening; want to thank our
DFO [sic?] for her prep of this doc
{NB; instead of Dir/Finance title
has sometimes been said as CFO, Chief Financial
Officer}
Sop: I concur with Cclr Smith
Mayor: Cclr Lewis
Sop: Cclr Lewis? who wd I direct this to?
Mayor: DFO [?]
Sop: been xxx of wch none has been spent
price of PSB, understand still way down the road
when we get xxx of the price of it
when we don't have a fixed price on the bldg
don't mean in a derogatory way but when will we see a price,
concrete?
DFO [?]: wd like to pass this off to our CAO for a broader
response
CAO: on Oct 3rd there'll be a complete ... on the
PSB
xxx review of ARC and these costs
Cclr Sop asking about this budget; anticipation that we wd hv
moved faster
engage xxx in 2011 that has not happened; budget will be
amended
2012 budget, only after xxx and complete remove
[9:21]
Mayor: so not getting ahead of ourselves ... 2012
full will come on Oct 3
Sop: but if you don't have logistics, at least ground work and
engineer
how do you actually know? .. not know ... ?
CAO: in any estimate you look at diff xxx; look at
concept
start defining project more and more then Ccl feel
comfortable
at that time you bring in an architect and quantity
supervisor
we're confident what we've xxx will be within
as move forward, Ccl can bring in an architect
.....
Ccl will be clear not exceed; then Ccl can take ....
we'll be able to identify to last dollar; that will be taking
place in January
Sop: ... public?
Mayor: Oct 3rd
will ask... Ccl to begin the public consultation;
believe begin Jan 2012
RECOMMENDED: THAT the correspondence list be received for
information.
{full list in last issue}
Council Correspondence Update to September
9, 2011 (up to 12:00 Noon)
Referred for Action
...
7. P. and F. Hall, Sept 8, re Opposition to Recent
Proposals by AmblesideNow and Related Advisory Groups
Council Correspondence Update to September
13, 2011 (4:30 PM)
...
Responses to Correspondence
(6) J. A. McMahon, Acting Mgr, Roads and Transportation, Sept 8,
re Concerns Related to Water Main Break.
> AGENDA WAS AMENDED TO ADD THIS:
12.3
Appointment of Chief Election Officer (File: 1645-01)
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. S.
Scholes, Municipal Clerk, be appointed Chief Election Officer for the
2011 General Local Election pursuant to the Local Government
Act section 41(1); and
2. C.
Amundsen, Election Coordinator be appointed as the primary Deputy
Chief Election Officer and M. Connelly, Deputy Municipal Clerk be
appointed as the Alternate Deputy Chief Election Officer;
and
3. the
Chief Election Officer be authorized to enter into service agreements
as may be necessary in respect of the 2011 General Local Election,
with School District #45, Bowen Island Municipality, Village of Lions
Bay, and Metro Vancouver (GVRD).
{This is
done before every election; how can this be so unforeseen as to
require it to be an item added to the agenda at the last minute so
that it has to be an amendment???}
13. OTHER ITEMS -- No items.
14. REPORTS from Mayor/Cclrs [9:24]
MS: stood for you for the Terry Fox Run raise over $550M
and over $20M xxx
turnout disappointing; hope next year staff and xxx can get
xxx
Pt Coq had 2000 out and we had 200; you can walk, you can
wheel
Sop: did you?
MS: walked my 5km
Ev: shd mention [in your place] attended official opening of
Montizambert; provides water for north of HBay
Mayor: thank Ccl for leadership
Surrey only one; discussions going much better; imp topic at UBCM
next week
Cclr Sop xxx
15. PUBLIC QUESTIONS/COMMENTS -- none
16. ADJOURNMENT [9:27]
=== COUNCIL MTG AGENDA
Monday Oct 3rd ===
5pm in M HALL MAIN FLOOR CONFERENCE
ROOM; 7pm in M HALL COUNCIL CHAMBER
(PUBLIC HEARING/PUBLIC MEETING
AT 7:00 PM IN COUNCIL CHAMBER
followed by regular CCL MTG TO
RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION IN COUNCIL CHAMBER)
Note: At 5:00 pm the regular Council Meeting will
commence in open session (in the main floor conference room), and will
be immediately followed by a motion to exclude the public.... At 7:00
pm in the Council Chamber the Public Hearing/Public Meeting regarding
OCP Amendment Bylaw, Zoning Amendment Bylaw, Devt Cost Charge Waiver
Bylaw, AND Devt Permit Applic for the 900 Block of 21st Street
(Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society) will be held. The Council Meeting
will reconvene in open session in the Council Chamber immediately
following the PH/Public Meeting.
5:00 PM
1. CALL TO ORDER OPEN SESSION
EXCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC
2. RECOMMENDED:
THAT in the public interest, members of the
public be excluded...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:
a. personal information about an
identifiable individual who holds or is being considered for a
position as an officer, employee or agent of the municipality or
another position appointed by the municipality;
e. 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;
g. litigation
or potential litigation affecting the municipality;
and
k.
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 council, could reasonably be expected to harm the
interests of the municipality if they were held in
public.
ADJOURN TO CLOSED SESSION
3. Council will then proceed with the closed session.
PUBLIC HEARING/PUBLIC MEETING AGENDA
MUNICIPAL HALL COUNCIL CHAMBER
Note: At 7pm the PH/Public
Mtg will commence in the Ccl Chamber. The Ccl Mtg will reconvene
immediately following the PH for consideration of the scheduled agenda
items.
7:00 PM
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. PUBLIC HEARING/PUBLIC MEETING
The Director of Planning, Lands and Permits will describe the
subject application.
Applicant: Kiwanis Seniors Housing
Society of West Vancouver
Subject Lands: 900 Block 21st Street
(Kiwanis Site)
Purpose: Kiwanis has applied to
redevelop one of its three properties to provide seniors' low-cost
housing. The proposal involves building two new apartment buildings
that will include resident amenity space and gardens, new landscaping,
and underground parking. The proposal requires an amendment to the
Official Community Plan (OCP) and the Zoning Bylaw, which are
described below.
Proposed OCP Bylaw Amendment: If
adopted, Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 4360, 2004, Amendment Bylaw
No. 4694, 2011 would amend Policy BF-B7 to allow for a care
facility or seniors' low-cost housing to be developed at a maximum
Floor Area Ratio of 1.5. The existing BF-B7 policy allows for a
maximum Floor Area Ratio of 1.5 for a care facility and 1.15 for
seniors' low-cost housing.
Proposed Zoning Bylaw Amendment: If
adopted, Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010, Amendment Bylaw No. 4689, 2011
would amend the 'CD5-Comprehensive Development Zone 5' to divide
the existing "Area 2" into "Area 2" and "Area
3".
The amendment would allow for the following within "Area
3":
* apartment buildings for seniors'
low-cost housing;
* maximum Floor Area Ratio of
1.5;
* maximum Lot (site) Coverage of
45%; and
* maximum Building Height of 16.2
metres and up to five storeys.
Proposed Development Cost Charge Waiver
Bylaw: If adopted, Development Cost Charge Waiver Bylaw No. 4695,
2011 would waive 100% of the District of West Vancouver Development
Cost Charges (DCCs) payable pursuant to Development Cost Charge Bylaw
No. 3801, 1993, for not-for-profit rental housing in the 900 Block of
21st Street by the Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society of West
Vancouver.
Proposed Development Permit
Application: If the Official Community Plan Amendment and Zoning
Amendment bylaws described above are approved, the applicant will be
required to construct the development in accordance with a Development
Permit approved by Council. Proposed Development Permit No. 11-005
imposes requirements and conditions for the development of the subject
lands, including:
* Two apartment buildings comprising of
a four-storey building on the east side of the property and a
five-storey building on the west side;
* Maximum Floor Area Ratio of 1.5 and
maximum site coverage of 45%;
* 49 underground parking spaces and 8
surface parking spaces;
* Resident amenity spaces and gardens;
and
* New landscaping.
3. PUBLIC HEARING/PUBLIC MEETING PROCEDURE
Mayor Goldsmith-Jones will describe the
procedure for the PH and Public Meeting as follows.......
4. REPORTS/WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS
1) Reports received up to and including
September 29, 2011:
TITLE
/
DATE / DATE FOR CONSIDERATION
/ NO.
2) Written submissions received up to and including September 29, 2011:
To view all written submissions (including On-Table items) click
here.http://www.westvancouver.ca/uploadedFiles/Your_Government/Agendas_and_Minutes/2011/October/11oct03-C1-C18.pdf
AUTHOR
/ DATE
/ DATE FOR CONSIDERATION
/ NO.
North Shore Volunteers for Seniors
/ September 14, 2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-1
H. Gaffney / September 12,
2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-2
J. and S. Bishop / September
18, 2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-3
A. Wood / September 20, 2011
/ October 3, 2011 / C-4
E. Tischler and K. Masada /
September 19, 2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-5
M. Brough / September 19,
2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-6
Homecare West / September 20,
2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-7
A. Morgan-Dann / September 19,
2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-8
R. Sultan, MLA West Vancouver-Capilano
/ September 21, 2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-9
A. Wong / September 24, 2011
/ October 3, 2011 / C-10
B. Hanna / September 16, 2011
/ October 3, 2011 / C-11
R. Ryan / September 26, 2011
/ October 3, 2011 / C-12
E. Minish / September 26,
2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-13
The Rotary Club of West Vancouver /
September 28, 2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-14
L. Anderson / September 23,
2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-15
G. Lynum / September 27, 2011
/ October 3, 2011 / C-16
P. Doherty / September 22,
2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-17
D. Gilbert / September 28,
2011 / October 3, 2011 /
C-18
On September 12, 2011, Council set the date for
the Public Hearing/Public Meeting. On September
16, 2011 notices were mailed to owners/occupiers within the
notification area. The statutory notice of Public Hearing/Public
Meeting was published in the North Shore News on
September 25 and September 28, 2011. The Municipal Clerk will note
written submissions received for the October 3, 2011 Public
Hearing/Public Meeting.
5. APPLICANT'S PRESENTATION
6. PUBLIC INPUT
7. CLOSURE OR ADJOURNMENT OF PUBLIC HEARING/PUBLIC MEETING
If there is no further public input and Council does not
request a further staff report:
RECOMMENDED: ... be closed.
OR
If Council requests a further staff
report:
RECOMMENDED: ... be adjourned to
____________________. (date, time, and location)
Members of Council are not permitted to
receive further submissions once the Public Hearing is
closed.
Following conclusion of
the PH/Public Mtg, the following items will be
considered:
4. RECONVENE OPEN SESSION of the
October 3, 2011 regular Council Meeting
5. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
6. ADOPTION OF MINUTES,
September 12 and 19 Regular Council Meeting
Minutes
Minutes to be provided on September 30, 2011.
RECOMMENDED: ... be adopted as circulated
{you
mean still not ready??? They used to be done
weekly!}
Minutes provided on September 30,
2011.
RECOMMENDED: THAT the following Minutes be adopted as
circulated:
=85 September 12, 2011 Regular Council
Meeting;
and
=85
September 19, 2011 Regular Council Meeting.
DELEGATIONS
7. M. Rahbar, regarding Civic
Association of Iranian Canadians
(File: 0055-01)
8. R. Day, West Vancouver Historical
Society, regarding Arts Facilities on Argyle (File:
0055-20-WVMH1)
REPORTS
Appeal to be presented.
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. The letter dated August 31, 2011 regarding "Notice to Comply
- number 1605-12 letter dated August 24, 2011 - Notice of Appeal "
from the registered owners of 3810 Marine Drive, being Michael John
Moody and Carole Constance Xenia Moody, appealing an Order to Comply
with the Good Neighbour Bylaw No. 4380, 2004 with respect to their
property, be received;
2. Council considers that the derelict and uninsured vehicles
located on the property at 3810 Marine Drive, legally described as Lot
10, except part in plan 11748, Block A west part of District Lot 558,
Plan 6171 (the "Property"), as described in the report dated
September 8, 2011 from the Manager, Bylaw and Licensing Services
regarding "Good Neighbour Bylaw Enforcement Appeal - 3810 Marine
Drive" contravene the Good Neighbour Bylaw No. 4380, 2004 and
creates a nuisance; and
3. Council resolves that within 15 days of receiving a copy of
this resolution, the owner of the property is required to remove the
unlicensed vehicles and any vehicles that are not capable of movement
under their own power from the Property.
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. The report titled "Public Safety Building" be
received for information; and
2. Staff bring back a public consultation process to
Council in early 2012, including a Public Open House regarding the
Public Safety Building project with questions for the community to
consider including: size; scope; design; location; cost; funding
sources; and time line.
(File: 1010-20-11-025)
At the September 12, 2011 regular
meeting Council received the report dated
August 31, 2011 regarding
Development Variance Permit Application No. 11-025 for 1148 20th
Street and set the date for consideration for October 3,
2011.
Reports received up to and including September 29, 2011:
NAME:
DATE: FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION:
Devt Variance Permit #11-025
(1148 20th St) August 31,
2011 September 12,
2011/October 3, 2011
Written Submissions received up to and including September 29,
2011: None to date.
PRESENTATION BY APPLICANT
CALL FOR PUBLIC INPUT
RECOMMENDED:
THAT all written and verbal submissions
... be received for information.
If Council wishes a further staff report:
RECOMMENDED: THAT staff report back to
Council ...
OR
RECOMMENDED: THAT DVP Application for
1148 20th St, which would allow for a new two-storey dwelling with
basement to be constructed, be approved.
13. [TransLink] Presentation
(File: 0185-39-06)
Presentation to be
provided.
RECOMMENDED: be received for information.
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. The proposed revisions to the May 16, 2011 approved
design development package for the Pacific Arbour Residential
Communities development, at the northwest corner of 22nd Street and
Marine Drive, described in the September 19, 2011 report from the
Manager of Community Planning, be approved;
2. The request from Ventana Construction Corporation for an
Order of Non-Enforcement of the Noise Control Bylaw No. 4404, 2005
Section 6.1.2 for certain work related to curing and finishing
concrete construction of the Pacific Arbour Residence, as described in
the September 19, 2011 report from the Manager of Community Planning,
be approved as follows:
1. on 4 occasions for saw cutting the P2 on-grade
slab; and
2. for finishing via power troweling until midnight
from March 1, 2012 to May 31, 2012; and
3. for finishing via power troweling until 10 pm
from June 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012.
3. Ventana Construction Corporation to notify the local
area residents, 7 to 14 days prior to commencing the concrete pour
phase of construction, that this phase is starting and that limited
work outside normal working hours will take place.
RECOMMENDED: THAT
1. Zoning Bylaw No. 4662, 2010, Amendment Bylaw No. 4680,
2011, for property located at 1305 Marine Drive (Shell Gas Station)
attached to the report from the Senior Community Planner and
the Manager of Community Planning dated Sept 22, be introduced
and read a first time in short form;
2. The M Clerk be directed to give statutory notice that a
Public Hearing... is scheduled for Nov 7...;
3. Proposed Devt Permit No. 10-035 attached to the report
from the Sr Cmnty Planner and the Mgr of Cmnty Planning dated Sept 2
be considered concurrently with the Zoning Amendment Bylaw; and
4. The public be given an opportunity to provide comment on
the proposed Devt Permit attached to the report from the Sr Cmnty
Planner and the Mgr of Cmnty Planning dated Sept 22 at a Public
Meeting held concurrently with the PH on the Zoning Amendment
Bylaw.
RECOMMENDED: THAT
-1. Council support a [District-led] process to review the
proposal through a Multiple Accounts Evaluation (MAE);
-2. The creation of a Park Royal At-Grade Intersection Working
Group be referred to the Cmnty Engagement Cmte; and
-3. A budget of $20,000 for this study be provided from 2011
surplus funds.
{surplus
funds? surplus funds? how much is in that fund??? initially and now
left?
Moreover,
it's something PkR wants presumably to their benefit so why shd
taxpayers pay?}
BYLAWS
No. 4694, 2011 (Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society development
application) (File:
1610-20-4694)
The proposed bylaw received first reading at
the Sept 12 Ccl Mtg and was the subject of a Public Hearing/Public
Meeting held on October 3. If the PH/PMtg was closed, Ccl may
consider the following recommendations.
Note: Each reading of an Official Community Plan bylaw or bylaw
amendment must receive an affirmative vote of a majority of all
Council members (4 members) in order for the bylaw to proceed
(Local Government Act, s.882).
RECOMMENDED: THAT proposed OCP Bylaw Amendment
Bylaw be revised as follows:
That in the title of the bylaw
"4630" be replaced with "4360" (so that the
title reads "Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 4360, 2004,
Amendment Bylaw No. 4694, 2011").
RECOMMENDED MOTION: be read a second
time as revised.
RECOMMENDED MOTION: be read a third
time.
The proposed bylaw received first reading at
the Sept 12 Ccl Mtg and was the subject of a Public Hearing/Public
Meeting held on October 3. If the PH/PMtg was closed, Ccl may
consider the following recommendations.
RECOMMENDED: be read a second
time.
RECOMMENDED: be read a third time.
The proposed bylaw received first reading at
the Sept 12 Ccl Mtg and was the subject of a Public Hearing/Public
Meeting held on October 3. If the PH/PMtg was closed, Ccl may
consider the following recommendations.
RECOMMENDED: be read a second time.
RECOMMENDED: be read a third time.
CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS
20. Consent Agenda Items
The following Consent Agenda items may be considered
separately or in one recommendation.
RECOMMENDED: THAT the Consent Agenda items
as follows be approved:
Item 20.1 - Development Variance
Permit No. 11-038 (1365 28th Street); and
Item 20.2 - Correspondence
List.
RECOMMENDED: THAT
the M Clerk give notice that DVP No.
11-038 for 1365 28th St to allow a new two-storey dwelling to be
constructed, will be considered on Monday, Nov
7.
RECOMMENDED: THAT the correspondence list be received for
information.
Council Correspondence
Update to Sept 16 (up to 12:00 Noon)
Referred for Action
(1) T. M. Zimmerman, September 9, regarding Ambleside
Sidewalks (and bus shelters)
(Referred to Director of Engineering and Transportation for
consideration and response)
(2) N. Cabot, September 9, 2011, regarding Emergency
Preparedness
(Referred to Mayor and Council for consideration and
response)
(3) E. Lyman, September 12, 2011, regarding Smart Meters
(Referred to Director of Engineering and Transportation for
consideration and response)
Received for Information
(4) Committee and Board Meeting Minutes - Finance Committee -
April 11, 2011
{the minutes appearing only now about five months
later???}
(5) E. Claridge, September 7 and 11, 2011, regarding Proposed
Building Plans for 2372 Bellevue Ave
(6) September 12, re Requesting to have Demolition Permits at
the Site of Haywood and 21 Street, (Kiwanis) REVOKED until this matter
is settled properly
(7) B. Meddings, Sept 13, re Recent Proposals by AmblesideNow
and Related Advisory Groups
(8) North Shore Volunteers for Seniors, September 14, 2011,
regarding Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society (Development Proposal 900
Block 21st Street) (Referred to October 3, 2011 Public Hearing/Public
Meeting)
(9) C. Walker, September 14, 2011, regarding Ambleside
Waterfront
(10) Recycling Council of British Columbia, September 15, 2011,
regarding Extended Producer Responsibility for Post-Consumer Packaging
and Printed Paper in BC
(11) K. Komatsu, September 14, 2011, regarding Proposed
Development Permit No. 09-025 (Rodgers Creek Area 3 East) (Referred to
September 19, 2011, Council Consideration)
Response to Correspondence
(12) B. Sokol, Director of Planning, Lands and Permits,
September 14, 2011, response to West Vancouver Historical Society,
regarding Gertrude Lawson House
Council Correspondence
Update to September 23, 2011 (up to 12:00 Noon)
Referred for Action
1. M. Gold, September 15, 2011, regarding Installation of
Wireless Smart Meters
(Referred to Director of Engineering and Transportation for
consideration and response)
2. G. Madden, September 17, 2011, regarding West
Vancouver Animal Bylaw Enforcement Action Violates Section 8 of the
Canadian Charter of Rights
(Referred to Director of Planning, Lands and Permits for
consideration and response)
3. T. M. Zimmerman, September 19, regarding Ambleside
Sidewalks and Safe Public Passage
(Referred to Director of Engineering and Transportation for
consideration and response)
Received for Information
4. Committee and Board Meeting Minutes - Board of
Variance - July 20, 2011
5. Lionsview Seniors' Planning Society, August 25,
regarding Appreciation for Community Grant
6. 8 Submissions dated Sept 13-22, re Recent Proposals
by AmblesideNow and Related Advisory Groups
7. C. and K. Morton, August 31, 2011, regarding Brian's
Fruit Stand
8. Pacific Animal Foundation, Sept 12, re Information on
Trap-Neuter-Return Program and Cat Licensing
9. North Shore Volunteers for Seniors, September 13, 2011,
regarding Appreciation for Social Services and Community Services
Grants 2011
10. City of North Vancouver, September 15 and 22,
regarding Community Plan for a Public System of Integrated Early
Care and Learning, and Support for Deposit-Refund on Milk and Milk
Substitute Containers
11. 7 Submissions dated September 18-21, 2011, regarding
Kiwanis Seniors Housing Society (Development Proposal 900 Block 21st
Street) (Referred to October 3, 2011 Public Hearing/Public
Meeting)
12. BCR Properties, September 19, 2011, regarding Sunset
Lane Subdivision (Previously received at September 19, 2011 Council
Meeting and referred to October 17, 2011 Public Hearing)
13. K. Komatsu, September 14, 2011, regarding Proposed
Development Permit No. 09-025 (Rodgers Creek Area 3 East) (Previously
received at September 19, 2011 Council Meeting)
14. United Way of the Lower Mainland, September 22, 2011,
regarding Invitation to 18th Annual Labour Appreciation Night
(December 8, 2011)
Council Correspondence
Update to September 27, 2011 (up to 4:30 PM)
Referred for Action
(1) Metro Vancouver, Sept 23, re Notification of Proposed
Amendments to the MetroV Regional Growth Strategy
(Referred to Director of Planning, Lands and Permits for
consideration and response)
(2) City of North Vancouver, September 22, 2011, regarding Living
Wage
(Referred to Deputy Chief Administration Officer for
consideration and response)
Received for Information
(3) Committee and Board Meeting Minutes - Finance Committee -
July 11, 2011
(4) Lower Mainland Treaty Advisory Committee (LMTAC), September
16, 2011, regarding LMTAC Discussion Paper - Local Government
Service Agreements with First Nations: Recommendations and
Considerations - 2011 Updated Edition
(5) North Shore Volunteers for Seniors, August 10, 2011,
regarding Appreciation for Attendance at the North Shore Volunteers
for Seniors 50th Anniversary
(6) City of North Vancouver, September 22, 2011, regarding
Request for Support - Kiwanis Park and Tilford Gardens' Christmas
Lights for Kids
(7) 3 submissions dated September 16-24, regarding Kiwanis
Seniors Housing Society (Development Proposal 900 Block 21st Street)
(Referred to October 3, 2011 Public Hearing/Public Meeting)
(8) Vancouver Coastal Health, Sept 20, re Report of the Medical
Health Office - DWV- 2010 Annual Drinking Water Quality
Report.
21. OTHER ITEMS -- No
items.
22. REPORTS from MAYOR/CCLRS 23. PUBLIC
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS 24. ADJOURNMENT
=== ANIMALWATCH
===
+ Sunbathing in Saanich:
http://www.cbc.ca/bcalmanac/photogallery/#igImgId_15975
+ Unusual animal shots:
http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/Galleries/Animal-Photos-8-Things-to-Be-Happy-About.aspx?source=NEWSLETTER&nlsource=10&ppc=&utm_campaign=Inspiration&utm_source=NL&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=faximum.com
+ Gifts
meet polar bear Walker's demand for hard hats
23 September 2011
Last updated at 08:44
ET
... Staff said Walker "lights up"
when he sees someone bringing him a hard hat.
Walker shared an enclosure at
the Kincraig park with aged bear Mercedes until she was put to sleep
in April.
Head keeper Una Richardson
said: "Polar bears are naturally very playful animals and Walker
is no exception.
{This photo is cute
especially his feet: Walker relaxes in his pond with a hard
hat}
"While he has many toys,
including traffic cones and plastic barrels, he loves hard hats which
he can pounce on and get a hold of with his jaw."
The head keeper first
discovered Walker's affinity for the head gear when volunteers from
the Royal Monmouthsire Regiment Territorial Army and the 73 Engineer
Squadron Territorial Army visited the park to assist with construction
projects.
Ms Richardson said:
"Walker showed a huge interest in the volunteers' hard
hats.
"He totally fixated on a
hard hat one of the volunteers was holding, so we thought we would
offer him one and see what he did with it."
She added: "Hard hats
don't last very long once Walker's got a hold of them. After two days
they are ruined so we are delighted to receive donations to keep up
the supply."
The park is owned by the Royal
Zoological Society of Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14805683
=== INFObits
===
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosh
Hashanah
Also
called Jewish New Year Observed
by
Judaism
and
Jews; Messianic Jews and Samaritans;
Observances
--
Praying
in
synagogue,
hearing the
shofar.
Rosh Hashana people celebrate and share the same calendar because they
celebrate the same thing.
Rosh Hashanah
(Hebrew: ???
?????), (literally "head of the
year"), is the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim ("Days of Awe"),
celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah is observed on the first two days
of Tishrei, the seventh month of
the Hebrew
calendar.[1] It is described in the Torah
as ??? ?????
(Yom Teru'ah, a day of sounding [the
Shofar]).[2]
Rosh Hashanah marks the
start of a new year in the Hebrew calendar (one of four "new
year" observances that define various legal "years" for
different purposes as explained in the Mishnah and Talmud). It is the new year for people, animals, and legal
contracts. The
Mishnah also sets this
day aside as the new year for calculating calendar years and
sabbatical (shmita) and
jubilee (yovel)
years. Jews believe Rosh Hashanah represents
either figuratively or literally the creation of the World, or
Universe. However, according to one view in the Talmud, that of R.
Eleazar, Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of man, which entails
that five days earlier, the 25 of Elul,
was the first day of creation of the Universe.[3]
The Mishnah, the core text of
Judaism's oral
Torah, contains the
first known reference to Rosh Hashanah as the "day of
judgment". In the Talmud tractate on Rosh Hashanah it states that three books of
account are opened on Rosh Hashanah, wherein the fate of the wicked,
the righteous, and those of an intermediate class are recorded. The
names of the righteous are immediately inscribed in the book of life,
and they are sealed "to live". The middle class are
allowed a respite of ten days, until Yom Kippur, to repent and become
righteous; the wicked are "blotted out of the book of the living
forever".[4]
In Jewish liturgy Rosh Hashanah is described as
"the day of judgment" (Yom ha-Din) and "the day
of remembrance" (Yom ha-Zikkaron). Some midrashic descriptions depict God as sitting upon a throne,
while books containing the deeds of all humanity are opened for
review, and each person passing in front of Him for evaluation of his
or her deeds. The Talmud provides three central ideas behind the
day:
"The Holy One said,
'on Rosh Hashanah recite before Me [verses of] Sovereignty,
Remembrance, and Shofar blasts (malchuyot, zichronot, shofrot):
Sovereignty so that you should make Me your King; Remembrance so that
your remembrance should rise up before Me. And through what? Through
the Shofar.' (Rosh Hashanah 16a, 34b)"[5] This is reflected in the prayers
composed by the classical rabbinic sages for Rosh Hashanah found in
all
machzorim where the
theme of the prayers is the strongest theme is the "coronation"
of God as King of the universe in preparation for the acceptance of
judgments that will follow on that day, symbolized as "written"
into a Divine book of judgments, that then hang in the balance for ten
days waiting for all to repent, then they will be "sealed"
on Yom
Kippur. The assumption
is that everyone was sealed for life and therefore the next festival
is Sukkot (Tabernacles) that is referred to as
"the time of our joy" (z'man
simchateinu).
Rosh Hashanah will occur
on the following days of the Gregorian calendar:
?
Jewish Year 5772: sunset September 28, 2011 - nightfall
September 30, 2011
?
Jewish Year 5773: sunset September 16, 2012 - nightfall
September 18, 2012
Although the Jewish
calendar is based on the lunar cycle, so that the first day of each
month originally began with the first sighting of a new moon, since
the fourth century it has been arranged so that Rosh Hashanah never
falls on a Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday.[12
=== PEACEWATCH
===
= A = Subject: The FBI Again Thwarts Its Own Terror Plot
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29267.htm
= B =
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:55:49 +0300
Subject: [cpthebron] SOUTH HEBRON HILLS RELEASE: Communities
march to celebrate solidarity and nonviolence's power
South Hebron Hills, West Bank. - On the 25th of September, more
than one hundred people from different communities of the South Hebron
Hills walked on a peace march to celebrate the power of nonviolence
and the resilient spirit of the people of the South Hebron Hills.
They were renewing their commitment to a popular struggle to end the
occupation and affirming a life of dignity and equal
opportunity.
Schoolchildren, elders, students, farmers, shepherds, teachers,
men, and women chanted and marched from At-Tuwani to Um Faggarah and
then further south to the dwelling of Khallet At-Taba which in the
past years, have endured the demolition of homes, outhouses, and other
structures by the Israeli army but is still inhabited by six
families.
In Khallet At-Taba, on a high lookout over the surrounding area,
the Coordinator for Popular Struggle and other local leaders named
communities that share the struggle: Jinba, Al Fakheit, Al Majaz, At
Tabban, Magahaer Al Abeed, Tuba, and reaffirmed their commitment to
mutual solidarity in the popular nonviolent struggle.
The march ended back in Tuwani with live Palestinian traditional
music and several speeches. The governor's representative Farid Amar,
Doctor Othman Abu Sabha of the Mubadara National Initiative, and Eyad
Masri of Fatah underlined the importance of United Nation's
acknowledgement of the Palestinian State and reiterated their support
for the popular nonviolent resistant of the South Hebron Hills
communities.
The Popular Struggle Committee for the South Hebron Hills
organized the At-Tuwani peace march to coincide with the historical
Perugia-Assisi peace march in Italy. The Popular Struggle Coordinator,
Hafez Hereini, delivered a brief phone message to the 300 thousand
people gathered in Assisi for the event.
Operation Dove and Christian Peacemaker Teams have
maintained an international presence in At-Tuwani and South Hebron
Hills since 2004.
{NOTE:
o Operation Dove is
an Italian peace group.
o The State of
Israel became mbr of UN about 1948. Don't know why Palestine
didn't at the same time -- probably no agreed borders, wch is the same
case today. A bit belated. Southern Sudan got its mbrship
v recently in 72 hours!
=== PHOTOWATCH
===
+ past and
present architecture is like in B.C. Share with us your B.C.
architectural photos.
http://www.cbc.ca/bc/photogallery/architecture-bc.html
+ The 40 most
popular tourist attractions in the world
According to
Travel+Leisure, the two most visited tourist attraction in the world
in 2010 can be found in the same city. (Total 2010 number of visitors
per attraction included)
Read
more:
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/most+popular+tourist+attractions+world/5464498/story.html#ixzz1ZCN7dFJS
=== MIDDLE
EAST === Sunday Oct 2nd
Prominent ex-Israelis to speak in
Vancouver
Authors Zalman Amit and Daphna Levit will read
from and discuss their new book, Israeli Rejectionism: A Hidden
Agenda in the Middle East Peace Process (Pluto Press,
2011).
Sunday October 2nd at 6:30pm.
Suggested donation - $10. (No one who will be turned away for
inability to pay.)
The importance of their book:
The Palestine-Israel conflict is one of the
longest running and intractable crises in the modern world. This book
examines the 'peace process' to find out why so little progress has
been made on the key issues. As Amit and Levit explain, the dominant
perspective on what has gone wrong has been fundamentally
flawed.
Israel had a partner for peace, but the
Palestinians did not. The mainstream media's narrative of the failing
peace process, 'Arab Rejection' has it all backwards: Israeli
Rejectionism was the main enemy of the peace process.
Amit and Levit argue that regardless of the
enormity of concessions made by Palestinian leaders, Israel's standard
response has been that these offers were inadequate. The authors
provide overwhelming evidence that, contrary to the prevailing view,
it has been Israeli rejectionism that is the main cause for the
parties' inability to achieve peace. They demonstrate that the Israeli
leadership has always been against a fairly negotiated peace and that
it has deliberately stalled negotiations. According to these two
ex-Israelis, the motivations behind this rejectionist position have
changed, as have the circumstances of the conflict, but the leadership
of Israel's conclusion has remained consistent: that peace is not in
its interest.
About the authors:
Zalman Amit was born in Palestine and grew up in
a newly created Israel. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at
Concordia University in Canada and is the author of four books and
more than 300 articles.
Daphna Levit taught finance and economics at the
Universities of Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion. She has edited and
contributed to numerous books on Middle Eastern Politics.
Sponsored
by Independent Jewish
Voices
www.independentjewishvoices.ca
Contact: Martha Roth 604 733
2237
=== MONEYWATCH
===
BBC probes
credentials of trader 'dreaming' of recession
CTVNews.ca
Staff
Date: Tuesday Sep.
27, 2011 8:51 PM ET
A purported
financial trader's claims that he has been dreaming of another
worldwide recession have apparently spurred the BBC to investigate his
personal credentials.
In an interview on
Monday, Alessio Rastani suggested to a BBC interviewer that he had
been eagerly awaiting the onset of another major
recession.
"Personally, I
have been dreaming of this moment for three years," Rastani told
the BBC.
"I have a
confession, which is, I go to bed every night, I dream of another
recession. I dream of another moment like this."
Rastani went on to
say that he believed this type of event held great potential for
making money, provided that an individual was aware of the tactics
necessary to cash in when the markets fall as he
predicts.
rest with video:
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20110927/bbc-recession-claims-trader-110927/
Goldman Sachs rules the
world?
=== HOUSEWATCH
===
> Vancouver real
estate prices, East vs. West: September edition
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
3:02 PM Vancouver's home
prices continue to differ greatly on either side of the
Eastside-Westside boundary, as the September for-sale prices
show.
http://www.househunting.ca/vancouversun/Children+should+involved+home+buying+process/5465493/story.html
> Photos: Most expensive houses in the
world
Subject: HOUSEWATCH: And you thought WV homes were
expensive
The world's most expensive home is the first $1 billion home
the planet has seen. The 27-story towering mansion in Mumbai is the
home of the world's fifth richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
http://www.househunting.ca/vancouversun/homes/5484781/story.html
=== FISHWATCH ===
herring {copy
and pasted; only EE6s links; trying to get the
others}
HOWE SOUND HERRING REBOUND
by Dr. Jeff Marliave & John Buchanan
To view videos of live
herring larvae taken in March, 2011 by John Buchanan go
to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?y=1uFtxbzMzfo and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjnGTzpEE6s
To view larval herring
taken by Aquarium staff go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwZTXWuf7A
=== BEERWATCH ===
Email received:
At last - a Canadian post. I'm so proud.
Almost brought a tear to my little eye. LOL
The Beer
Prayer
Our lager, wch art in barrels,
Hallowed by thy drink.
Thy will be drunk (I will be drunk),
At home as in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against
us.
And lead us not into incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers,
For thine is the beer, the bitter, and the
lager.
Forever and ever, Barmen.
=== LANGUAGEWATCH === OTT -
Over The Top
=== HERITAGEWATCH ==
HSBC, HCF, HV, VHF, HWV; and TLC
+ HERITAGE CANADA
FOUNDATION
http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/conference.html
14th INTO International
Conference of National Trusts
Co-hosted by Heritage Canada
Foundation (HCF) and The Land Conservancy of British Columbia
(TLC)
Connecting People, Places
and Stories: New Strategies for Conservation in a Changing
World.
October 12 - 15 --- The Fairmont Empress and Victoria
Conference Centre
+ HERITAGE VANCOUVER
* Bulletins: Sign-up to receive, or view all previous
bulletins at:
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* All upcoming events at www.heritagevancouver.org
+ VANCOUVER
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
Fall
Walking Tours:
2nd & 4th Fridays, Sept 9th - Nov 25th, noon - 1:30pm, $10 includes
HST.
Explore the entire
length of
Historic Hastings Street in this two part tour with guide Maurice Guibord. 2nd
Friday meet across from the Marine Building at NE Corner of Burrard &
Hastings - 4th Friday meet at Victory Square at SW corner of Hastings
& Cambie.
Register for Fall walking tours >>
The Vancouver
Heritage Foundation is a not-for-profit working to promote the
preservation of the built environment in Vancouver and beyond. We
depend on your support. Please make a tax-deductible donation by
calling the Foundation or clicking here to go online to
become a Friend of the Foundation. Thank
you.
Visit us at:
www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org 604.264.9642
Get Out
of Town to the Fraser Valley Sun Oct 16th, 8am - 5pm, $125 + HST.
This year we will visit
the historic Fraser Valley - read more and buy tickets
>>
+ The Land
Conservancy
http://blog.conservancy.bc.ca/
>> Highlights from TLC's Annual General
Meeting
> Spend an Evening with Dame Fiona
Reynolds
Come learn about the National Trust movement, the beauty of its
Special Places and the importance of the Trust's role in public
engagement through this exclusive visual presentation.
> Writer-in-Residence at Kogawa
House
Susan Crean is a lifelong non-fiction author and journalist who
will live at Historic Joy Kogawa House while working on a major new
book of literary non-fiction that combines memoir, history, and social
comment to tell the story, in part, of head-tax payer, Wong Dong Wong,
who came to Canada in 1911.
Read more...
=== WORDWATCH ===
opsimath from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An opsimath can refer
to a person who begins, or continues, to study or learn late in life.
The word is derived from
the Greek ??? (opse), meaning 'late'
and ??????? (manthano), meaning 'learn'.
Opsimathy was once
frowned upon, used as a put down with implications of laziness, and
considered less effective by educators than early learning. The emergence of "opsimath
clubs" has demonstrated that opsimathy has shed much of this
negative connotation,[6] and
that this approach may, in fact, be desirable.
Notable opsimaths
include Sir Henry
Rawlinson, the
fictitious character Sir
Henry Rawlinson,
Grandma Moses,
and Cato the
Elder who
learned
Greek only at the age of
80.
=== MAIKU ===
September 3 -- cd be your lucky day!
sad
caterpillar
ruing grubby life
then, suddenly -- butterfly !
~~~
QUOTATIONS/THOUGHTS/PUNS ~~~
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving
that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the
proof.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian
economist (1908 - 2006)
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we
look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has
been opened for us.
-- Helen Keller, American author and
lecturer (1880 - 1968)
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects
it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
-- William Arthur Ward, American
writer (1921 - 1994)
If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you:
I came to live out loud.
-- Emile Zola, French writer (1840 - 1902)
Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to
recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-- Franklin
P. Jones, American reporter and humorist (1908 - 1980)
Not learning from a mistake compounds the original error.
-- Mardy
Grothe, American psychologist and writer (b 1942)
Wit is educated insolence. --
Aristotle
The great merit of society is that it makes us
appreciate solitude. -- Charles
Chincholles
Beware the barrenness of a busy
life. -- Socrates
Every path has its puddle. --
English Proverb
Success is going from failure to failure without
loss of enthusiasm. -- Winston Churchill
I have had more trouble with myself than with any
other man. -- Dwight L. Moody
There's more than one way to look at a problem,
and they all may be right. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Be the master of your will and the slave of your
conscience. -- Hasidic saying
The limits of my language are the limits of my world. --
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (1889
- 1951)
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is
the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley, English writer (1894 -
1963)
It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it
mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
--
Martin Mull, American actor and painter (b 1943)
The closing night performance at Bard
on the Beach was As You Like it, and this line always gets a
laugh: Do
you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.
I was
studying in an apiary class. This resulted in my receiving a bee on my
exam.
I had
such a bad cold, I thought I was coffin to death.
I work
in a sweater factory. It's a very clothes-knit community.
I've
been called a rare commodity. I wonder if that makes me silver or
gold? I guess I could be either ore.
A
cardboard belt would be a waist of paper.
The
raisin wined about how he couldn't achieve grapeness.
When
the plums dry on your tree, it's time to prune.