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years working in rehab and recovery houses for Vancouver Coastal Health, said she’s seen ﬁrsthand that many addicts have “some sort of mental disorder.” Nikbin stopped working in 2004 due to posttraumatic stress disorder, an ailment she said would be aggravated by the recovery house. The District of North Vancouver has scheduled a community information meeting about the recovery house at Parkgate Community Centre on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. So far, the municipality has been derelict in keeping the community informed about the project, according

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A group of North Vancouver neighbours says they’re unhappy about plans to put a two-storey, nine-bed, alcohol recovery centre on a lot adjacent to 2414Windridge Dr. Paddi Nikbin, who lives near the site, said the men-only house would bring mentally unstable, potentially violent addicts to the family-oriented community. Nikbin, who spent 10

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students, which they gradually internalized and passed on to their own children. “They were not just robbed of their childhood but they were also taught to self hate their own identity, their own people, their own culture, their own skin colour – that it was something inferior or worthless,” Khelsilem said. As a result, few of the elders who retained the language passed it on to their children and the numbers of ﬂuent speakers plummeted over time. Today, Squamish children have access to an immersion class at Capilano Little Ones school on Squamish Nation lands and high school students can take classes in their traditional language while attending North Vancouver secondary schools, but outside the classroom, they are inundated with media and culture dominated by English, Khelsilem said. “This all leads to today in 2015 where we have seven ﬂuent speakers out of 4,000 people,” he said.

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It started with a dream in his teen years. Khelsilem, the Squamish Nation activist, was visited by his elders, speaking to him in their traditional language. As a child growing up on the Xwmelch’sten (Capilano 5) Reserve and Eslhá7an (Mission) Reserve, he had some exposure to the language — mainly words that had ceremonial or cultural significance — but no sustained study or conversation.Yet in the dream, he understood everything the elders said to him. “I woke up and I was in tears,” he said. “It was a beautiful thing that I never knew that I would experience.” The vision set him on a path to first study and then teach the language that only has seven fluent speakers remaining. Today, at 25, he is the founder of the Language Immersion House, where he and other Squamish language learners don’t just study the language, they live it.

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The language The Squamish language is one of 11 in the Coast Salish language group spoken by First Nations in the area between the Fraser Valley, Central Coast, Vancouver Island and Puget Sound — though they sound little alike. “They’re so distinct that a fluent speaker from Squamish and a fluent speaker from Musqueum wouldn’t be able to talk to each other,” Khelsilem said. What they have in common though is their grammatical structure, which goes beyond the subject-verb-object pattern in English. “The affixes, like prefixes and suffixes, are the bread and butter of our language,” Khelsilem said. “If you can speak those, that’s when you’re really flowing with the language.” Verbs chosen for a sentence also vary by whether the subject has control over them or not. The language also has a complex system of determiners (words like some, a few or that in English) that differentiate proximity, visibility, time and gender, but only when referring to a person or animal that is female. The broad array of determiners was well-suited for a large family group living in a longhouse where one idea or phrase would be communicated for several people at once, Khelsilem said. Anyone who has driven Highway 1 since the 2010 Olympics will have noticed the road signs that use the preferred Squamish system of writing, most notably the spelling Skwxwú7mesh. “Why is there a seven?” is one of the most common questions Khelsilem says he gets.

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The system was developed by Randy Bouchard, an anthropologist and linguist, and Louie Miranda, a Squamish elder who helped create the ﬁrst Squamish language dictionary, including phonetic pronunciations not used in English. At the time, in the late 1970s and early ’80s, typewriters were limited to the commonlyused Latin alphabet and a few punctuation and style notations. In proper Squamish pronunciation, there is a glottal stop or brief pause before the last syllable of the word and the phonetic symbol was replaced with a “7.”

The decline At the population’s peak before European contact, it’s estimated there were between 36,000 and 90,000 Squamish people, based on archeological evidence, oral history and studies into the environment’s capacity. After 150 years of colonization and epidemics of inﬂuenza,

smallpox and measles, the population had shrunk to as few as 300 members in the 1930s, one of them Khelsilem’s grandmother. Then came the harshest time of the residential school era when children were seized from their homes as part of an explicit federal policy to assimilate First Nations. “The perception was that our backwardness and our savage ways were from a bygone era that needed to be educated out of us and language was particularly targeted through the residential schools,” Khelsilem said. “For a lot of the older generation, they got whipped and strapped and beat for speaking the language. ...They were pretty vicious about language when (my grandmother) was there.” Forcing English onto the students in the residential schools was only a part of the blow to the language. A farther reaching damage was being done with the overt and subtle racism drilled into the

Khelsilem’s motivation to start the immersion house was born out of his frustration with a plateau in his own learning. “Although I had learned the grammatical structures and some of the vocabulary …I just didn’t have enough people to talk to,” he said. “Fluency only comes through immersion.” His housemates, Josh Watts and Jaymyn La Valle (also his sister), agreed to move into the language immersion house in Lower Lonsdale last fall and make time to study the language and converse. Khelsilem still consults with two of his early teachers, Vanessa Campbell and Peter Jacobs, who has a PhD in linguistics and teaches in the University of Victoria’s Aboriginal Language Revitalization Program. It’s a model that’s been used effectively, in the Okanagan, the eastern provinces and among the Maori in New Zealand. Jacobs welcomes the language immersion house as a step beyond the Squamish Nation’s efforts to teach the language. “We had hoped people would take those tools and use them independently on their own to increase their language abilities. I see the house as one of those steps in our community,” Jacobs said. And there are others learning the language in school or at home. They will be the pool to draw from when it comes to the next critical step, Jacobs said. “We probably have quite a few hundred, if not a thousand or more, Squamish people who are taking language class. Some of them have taken them from K-12,” he said. “I think those people are just primed and ready for getting that immersion experience.” But the house is more of a pilot project than the solution to saving a language from the brink. The next step in Khelsilem’s plan is a crowdfunded, twoyear full-time adult immersion academy that will churn out 15 ﬂuent speakers per year. See Language page 9

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to Windridge Drive resident Krista McGrath. “They’ve fallen short on who they’ve told,” she said, adding that many of her neighbours hadn’t heard anything about the plans for the recovery centre. The need for the recovery house is acute, according to District of North Vancouver Coun. Doug MacKayDunn. “I believe that we shouldn’t be sending our folks over to the Downtown Eastside to go through a process of rehabilitation. It’s best done at home,” he said. Brenda Plant, executive director of the Turning Point Recovery Society, agreed. “We don’t think (people with addictions) should be segregated or isolated any more than we would do that to people with cancer or asthma or diabetes,” she said. The house — which is proposed for a districtowned vacant lot — needs to go through community consultation and to pass muster with council before it is approved. Plant said some of the neighbours’ concerns are rooted in fear and others are incorrect. The abstinence-based recovery society does not accept patients with violent criminal records, she said. “There’s a misunderstanding, or not enough of an understanding,

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The house would treat patients at risk of homelessness, something Nikbin sees as a contradiction to the notion of a treatment centre for North Vancouver residents. “A homeless person is not a resident of North Vancouver,” she said. “Homeless people can’t be residents of anywhere.” Born into a comfortable life in Iran, Nikbin said her father made the decision to move the family to Canada so his children could grow up and have a voice. “What I see here is you can have a voice but nobody listens to you. . . . So what’s the difference between Iran and here?” she asked.

If approved, the district would lease the land to BC Housing for $1 a year, and in turn BC Housing would contract Turning Point to operate the facility. Council approved the Lloyd Avenue facility unanimously, despite some misgivings in the neighbourhood about the site’s value as parkland. Council granted the Lloyd Avenue project’s detractors 45 days to garner 6,000 signatures — 10 per cent of the municipality’s electors — to halt the project, but the petition fell well short. Nikbin’s petition opposing the house had garnered 20 signatures at press time.

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here are two North Vancouvers. We know you knew that — we just weren’t sure they did. Not since the hazy days when the CFL had two teams called the Roughriders has there been the kind of artfully designed confusion orchestrated by the City and District of North Vancouver. The City/District boasts two ofﬁcial community plans, two municipal halls and, more recently, two parallel periods of unprecedented development. For months and months, District of North Vancouver Coun. Lisa Muri called for a respite from that development but her cries mainly fell on deaf ears, possibly due to incessant jackhammering and other construction noise. This Monday night, Muri gets the chance to tilt at skyscrapers in a debate about the pace of development in the

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Hikers, bikers not equal lobbyists Dear Editor: Regarding recent events on the trails of Fromme Mountain between hikers, dog walkers and mountain bikers: I have been a mountain biker for 20 years and a hiker for even longer so I like to think I see both sides of the fence on this conﬂicting issue. Two experiences I have had that are the exception not the rule come to mind. One day I was mistakenly identiﬁed by two hikers at Rice Lake for poaching the trail there. Rice Lake is designated hiking only. I had walked my bike in from the main road on return from the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve to enjoy a quiet moment on a lakeside bench. The hikers confronted me and proceeded to

scold and blame me for riding past them on the trail and not heeding the trail designation. I was innocent, but they didn’t believe me. It became a very uncomfortable moment so I left quite upset. On the ﬂip side, I have heard from other fellow mountain bikers that poaching trails can be an acceptable practice. I was shocked once to see a mountain biker try to elbow a passing hiker and conversely, I have seen hikers wielding walking sticks at oncoming cyclists. I wish I could say I hadn’t seen any of these mishaps. While all these events and behaviours are distasteful I maintain that the mountain bike side has a much stronger voice and lobby on the

North Shore than the hiking set. Both need to be heard equally. Both have their perspectives as to the use of the trails in our natural areas. The North Shore Mountain Bike Association is very well organized, funded, and lobbies its interests very well.There is no such countering body for the hiking/dog walking set on Fromme Mountain with the exception of a very few random, frustrated voices in the community sticking up for what they believe in. The trails belong to all of us, but until we have equal voices on both sides of the fence, a sense of imbalance and conﬂict will likely continue. John Sharpe North Vancouver

District density equation is a matter of simple physics Dear Editor: I read with great pleasure the article DNV Halts Growth. I have lived in the district since 1965 and have seen many changes, most of them positive, yet lately I have noticed trafﬁc congestion that rivals what we endured at Hastings and Cassiar in the ’80s.There is

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not the case. I applaud Coun. Jim Hanson for his stance.This is exactly what he promised when he campaigned, and is the reason I, and thousands of others, voted for him.Very refreshing to see a politician keep his election promises. Gord Lees North Vancouver

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“This smells of all sorts of rotten things.” Environmentalist Eoin Finn blasts MLA Jordan Sturdy for partaking in a B.C. Liberal fundraiser sponsored byWoodﬁbre LNG, which has applied to open an LNG facility in his riding (from a Feb. 11 news story). “Some people would say they’re ghosts. I would say they’re spirits of the happy form.” Hollyburn Heritage Society chairman Don Grant reﬂects on Hollyburn Lodge’s 88 years (from a Feb. 8 Focus story). “Throne speeches are always bad.They are usually boring.This one did not break the mould.” NorthVan pundit David Schreck critiques B.C.’s throne speech (from a Feb. 11 news story).

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Balancing security, individual rights Dear editor: The editorial Feeling Insecure (Jan. 28) touched on a prevailing theme in democracy: the tension between security and individual rights, speciﬁcally, freedom of expression. The new law, which is criticized by the editorial, would bring about at least three changes designed to increase the security of Canadians in a world which has just seen the attacks in France, Australia, Belgium, and, of course, here at home, in St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Ottawa.

A government’s most important duty is to ensure its people’s security. That is the paramount intention of Bill C-51. The bill speciﬁcally attempts to prevent terrorist travel, disrupt planned attacks on Canadian soil, and criminalize the incitement of terrorism. The bill also expands the powers of Canadian Security Intelligence Service to allow it to “disrupt” suspected terrorist threats. The proposed legislation includes checks and balances to ensure it respects the rights of Canadians. Some have

criticized the bill as “not enough;” others, like the North Shore News editorial, say it goes too far. Like most Canadians, I believe in the protection of our freedoms and liberties, a belief that ties in to our common-law protections going back to the Magna Carta, and what motivated Canadians to ﬁght in two world wars. This belief motivated me with others to create the Canadian Constitution Foundation, to stand up for individuals whose rights are menaced by overreaching governments. But one would be hard-

pressed to ﬁnd someone who stands for the right of anyone to promote terrorism. Meanwhile, the charter, our courts, and organizations like the Canadian Constitution Foundation are all there to prevent governments from using anti-sedition laws merely as tools to put down political opposition. Surely, knowing what we know about the metastasizing of terrorism, we have to take measures to stop the violence before it starts. In a world in which violent enemies are constantly changing, our

government needs to be nimble, to adapt our laws in response to evolving challenges. Bill C-51 tries to arrive at a correct balance. Meanwhile, the healthy debate will always pit security against individual liberties to a certain extent. But, in a sense, there is no conﬂict; the two objectives — security and freedom — are not really in conﬂict; rather, they are codependent. Without one, we cannot have the other. John Weston MP West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country

Chorus of four is now a familiar song Dear Editor: I could do no more than shake my head in quiet resignation upon reading the latest tale of (over-) development in the City of North Vancouver (Victoria Park to Get New Condo Rentals, Jan. 23 news story). Here we go again, and it’s a familiar and now seemingly

endless song. According to the story, concerned citizens speaking out were 100 per cent unanimous in condemning the application for this redevelopment, for a variety of valid reasons. Yet it passed with a 4-3 vote — the same chorus of four (councillors) in favour one can now expect with

clockwork accuracy in these matters.This means that the only concerns taken heed of were not those of area residents (ie. taxpayers), but once again those of the applicant, or developer. In the last municipal election, there was great opportunity to slow this ever-rising tide of somewhat

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“The invitation to my people is if you really care about the language, here’s an opportunity for you to do something about it,” he said. “Nobody is going to come parachute into our community and save our language for us.” It’s an ambitious task but Khelsilem only shows conﬁdence and excitement to see it executed. Still, he is deferential to the teachers, elders, linguists and band members who have laid the groundwork to bring the language back from the brink, including Campbell, Miranda, and Jacobs, as well as Audrey Rivers, Val Moody, Becky Duncan and Ray Natraoro. “I can only do this because people had the foresight and vision to do work with the language before I did,” Khelsilem said.

Khelsilem is particularly targeting the cohort between the ages of 18 and 30, who are the most likely to have children within 10 years, potentially the first generation to speak Squamish as their first language in 100 years. “From there, we just keep rolling. Within 30 years, we could go from seven fluent speakers to 10 per cent of the nation or more being fluent,” he said. “My dream for this isn’t just in my lifetime. It’s a 100-year, 200-year or 1,000-year vision.” Khelsilem isn’t looking for the federal, provincial or even Squamish Nation governments to fund the academy, preferring to go right to the Squamish people. He estimates that if a quarter of the band members put up $20 per month, the school would have enough funding to pay teachers and allow students to focus on their studies full time.

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isn’t a career or a hobby, but rather an imperative to elevate his people out of the lasting impacts of colonization. Many of the problems that Squamish Nation and other First Nations members face are attributed to having their identity and way of life stolen from them. Their social fabric, if it is to be mended, has to be done on their own terms and using their own language. “I really, really believe that through the revitalization of our language, we are able to rebuild our community to be healthier, stronger and more connected. If we have a language that is alive and thriving within

the community, then it’s going to create a sense of community that is stronger than what we’d have without the language,” he said. The language has subtleties and concepts that don’t translate directly into English, so once the language is gone, so are those concepts that have had a place in their way of life for thousands of years. “It really comes back to that feeling that there is something integral to who we are as a people in our language and if we lose our language, then we’ve lost a huge part of our soul as a people,” Khelsilem said. The beneﬁts experienced by those who have embraced

relearning the language of their grandfathers and grandmothers are immediate and tangible, he said. “I see young people who have immersed themselves in the culture, immersed themselves in the language and they stand a little bit taller. They stand a little bit prouder. They know ‘I have roots somewhere,’” he said. Ultimately, he’d like to hear siblings teasing each other, band council members debating policy and arguments being settled in their traditional language. Reviving the language is also part of a larger goal of decolonization, the careful review of the physical, social, political or cultural

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DEVELOPING YOUR RENOVATION PLAN STEP BY STEP 1. Set your renovation goal. What do you want to achieve with your renovation in terms of daily living? 2. Identify areas affected. Which rooms or outdoor spaces will be impacted? 3. Existing problems. Identify the issues that you’d like to change with the renovation. 4. New features we want. Point-by-point, identify how you’ll solve the problems identiﬁed in Step 3. 5. How we will use the renovated space. Identify the functionality that you’ll expect once the renovation is complete. Make sure all issues will be addressed by the new features you’ll be adding. Adapted from: Canadian Home Builders’ Association (chba.ca)

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Business Briefcase On board accountant North Vancouver native Ashley Palmer recently departed for Tamatave, Madagascar to volunteer her services in the finance department on board the world’s largest charity hospital ship, the Africa Mercy. Palmer, 30, has a bachelor of commerce from UBC, with specialization in accounting, and worked for eight years with Ernst & Young in Vancouver. She will serve as senior accountant on board the Africa Mercy until June. The 449-foot ship houses six operating theatres and a 78-bed patient ward and is run by an all-volunteer crew and staff of 450. Business showcase The West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce will host the first Bowen Island Business Showcase on Saturday, Feb. 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bowen Island Community School. It is free for the public to attend. Bowen Island and North Shore businesses are invited to buy a table for display at the event. Visit westvanchamber.com to register. Best in small business The top five finalists in 10 different award categories have been selected for the 12th Annual Small Business B.C. Awards and two North Vancouver companies made the cut. Sole Girls, an empowerment group for tween girls, has been named a finalist in the Best Community Impact

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Community Bulletin Board BOOK TALK Join Jean Rae Baxter for the presentation of her research for her novel Freedom Bound:The Black Loyalists’ Story Monday, Feb. 16, 7-8 p.m. at Capilano library, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. Free, but registration is required. Call 604-987-4471 x8175. CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMENWEST VANCOUVER welcomes Speaker Dr. Helen McKay, who will discuss “Is Mobility the Key to Aging Well?” Monday, Feb. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Church, 885 22nd St.,West Vancouver. All women welcome. cfuw.westvan@gmail.com. MONTESSORI VISITOR DAYS Eagle Harbour Montessori School is inviting the public to meet staff and see the classrooms in action Tuesday, Feb. 17, 9-10 a.m. at 5575 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604981-1380 PROVINCIAL COURTHOUSE FAMILY MEDIATION INFORMATION TABLES Local experienced

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Sometimes the inspiration for the next step in life is right under our nose. Literally, in JohnTrigg’s case. At his home in North Vancouver, the retired naval engineer can be found in his easy chair,The New York Times crossword and a stack of books within reach. Stretched out at his feet snoozes a heap of toffeecoloured fur. Her name is Abigail, known to her legions of friends as Abby. John’s working life began

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in England during the Second World War. He was 15 in 1940 when he joined the Royal Navy’s rigorous apprenticeship program in engineering. He was a sublieutenant (e) at Portsmouth in 1947 when he met and married Billie Sprules, who worked across the harbour at Fleetlands in the Fleet Air Arms aircraft repair and maintenance facility. “How did we meet? Billie would have loved that question. She would say that she picked me up,” says John with a laugh. It’s true enough as their ﬁrst dance together was ladies’ choice. Though the years at sea took John from frigid Arctic waters to the balmy Far

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East in cruisers, frigates and aircraft carriers, weather was as immaterial as the view in the engine rooms where he toiled.Two years as an adviser to the Turkish navy brought John up on deck during his daily commute by ferry to and from the family’s digs. As this was during the Suez Crisis when the sight of a British uniform provoked both approbation and insult, John may have

preferred the haven of the engine room. When John retired from the navy in 1959, he embarked on one landlocked career in England, then another with B.C. Hydro when the Triggs immigrated to North Vancouver in 1968, the first time in all his years at sea that John crossed the Atlantic Ocean. He lives in the Parkgate area now, with six grandchildren and his first great-grandchild (and their parents) nearby. “When my wife Billie came to the end of her days,” says John, “I decided to find something useful for Abby and me to do. Off we went to the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Program and we’ve never looked back.” He was correct in believing that Abby’s See Duo page 24

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Since opening on the North Shore in 2008, Driving Miss Daisy has become a valued provider of assistance and mobility services for an increasing number of seniors, families with children, and for people with special needs.We extend our services to people with vision, cognition and mobility challenges as well as people recovering after surgery.

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ability to remain calm in any situation. Both John and Abby possess these qualities plus a little something extra. Call it empathy. For six years, John and Abby were regular visitors at a local seniors’ residence. “Many people living in seniors’ residences never have a visitor, for whatever reason. Just having the dog there will start a conversation with them. Abby seems to have the

ability to get close to people. She greets everyone but she knows who needs the extra attention.” Last year, when John turned 90 and Abby turned 84 (in dog years), they decided to curtail their visiting duties to focus on recruitment and introducing potential candidates to the program. “I thought my experience as an instructor and trainer in naval engineering would

be useful,” he says. Sue Ennis, St. John Ambulance therapy dog unit facilitator, agrees. “John, with Abby, is our most successful recruiter,” says Ennis. “Now he’s also my co-facilitator.” The program is open to people and their dogs who want to make a contribution to their community.The demand is growing as the role of the therapy dog expands.

“These dogs have performed miracles with people with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive conditions,” says Ennis. “Their calming presence relaxes children with learning disabilities, autism and behavioral conditions.They help students overcome exam anxiety.Wherever stress exists, a dog can help.” For more information about the St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog

program, call Sue Ennis at 604-990-1290 or email her at info@sja.ca. Or, have a chat with John and Abby.They can be found most mornings with a group of two- and four-legged friends enjoying the waterfront at Kings Mill Walk at the foot of Fell Avenue. Laura Anderson works with and for seniors on the North Shore. 778-279-2275 lander1@shaw.ca

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU LUNCH Those 55+ who would like to know more about the Lynn Valley Seniors Association with the hopes of joining are invited to a luncheon Friday, Feb. 27 from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Mollie Nye House, 940 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. New members and long-standing members are also invited to meet over a sandwich and other refreshments. Also learn what volunteer opportunities there are for seniors. Program leaders will be there to assist. Free. Registration required: 604-987-5820 or drop by Mollie Nye House. Compiled by Debbie Caldwell Email information for your non-proﬁt, by donation or nominal fee event to listings@nsnews.com.

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Many ways to support animal shelters I recently heard an interesting saying: “When you rescue one dog, you are actually rescuing two.” The premise behind this saying is that when you adopt a dog that has been surrendered you are not only giving that dog a second chance at a lifetime home, but you open up space for the shelter or rescue organization to take in and rescue another dog. Adopting a recycled dog has to be one of the most rewarding experiences a dog lover can have. Dogs that ﬁnd themselves in shelters or private rescues all come with some sort of history. More often than not it is as simple as the former owner being inexperienced and/or irresponsible and not providing proper training and leadership. All it requires is some time, effort and a heartfelt commitment to consistent training and the new owner will be rewarded with an incredible dog. In some cases the rescued dog comes with

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rehabilitation while they are between homes. This not only helps relieve stress while a dog is in the temporary care of these organizations, but also increases its adoptability because some of the baggage has been worked through. It is unfortunate that shelters and rescue groups are needed. We all wish for a time when people adopt dogs with forethought and don’t give up on them, regardless of their circumstances. But as long as humans are, well, humans, we will need the resources of shelters, private rescues and foster homes to provide that back-up plan just in case Fido doesn’t work out. There are situations that come up that are not due to human failings where shelters and rescues provide that much needed resource. For example, when Fido outlives his human and no provisions have been made for his care after the owner has passed on. Most people are

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not funded by municipal budgets, but rather their own money and subsidies from bake sales, bottle drives, photos with Santa and whatever creative way they can come up with to create funds. If you see a private rescue in the process of fundraising, please support it, even if you never plan on using it. Their work is directly responsible for saving the lives of many unwanted pets from situations where the dogs would not have survived due to neglect, abuse and abandonment. It can be a bit more challenging to adopt from a private rescue, but please realize that these organizations have a huge emotional attachment to the rescued dogs. They often go into situations

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The arrival of a puppy in the home is the start of a long-term relationship. The training and socializing of your new pet begins that ﬁrst day and when done with positive reinforcement you are both well on your way towards a rewarding future. Claire Arrowsmith presents a lot of valuable information in this easy-tofollow guide book. Before introducing the training games she explains how puppies learn, how rewards can stimulate learning and the importance of starting right away. With chapters on topics such as Equipment and Basic Lessons, Active Games and Search Games, Arrowsmith covers a lot of material in this slim volume. Many of the activities described will offer valuable stimulation for your puppy and establish your

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and a bright, well laid out format make this an easy book to spend time with, and like the time you’ll be spending with your puppy, it will be well worth it.

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Dreaming of sleepy Mompox

Undisturbed survivor of Colombia’s colonial past

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Santa Cruz de Mompox Mampo was the local indigenous chieftain of the Quimbaya civilization people when the Spanish arrived — Mompox means “land of the ruler Mampo.” The city was founded on May 3, 1537 by Don Alonso de Heredia as a safe port on the Magdalena River. —Wikipedia

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Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia — Sixteenthcentury Santa Cruz de Mompox, a fivehour drive inland from Colombia’s historic port city of Cartagena, is a town in a doze. In swampy territory, on an island between two arms of the Rio Magdalena, it’s a little bit of Seville that got lost and then marooned both by silt and by political upheaval. The Magdalena is Colombia’s principal river and was once the route by which gold and silver from Ecuadorian mines was shipped to Cartagena for transfer to convoys crossing the Atlantic to Cádiz. Mompox (also shown on maps as “Mompós”) grew up to service this river traffic, and the wealth it produced paid for the construction of vast courtyard mansions and imposing churches that now seem entirely out of place in such a backwater, where the horse cart is still an important part of local transportation. A line of them waits in the shade beneath trees on the riverbank, across the square from Mompox’s most magnificent monument, the orange-sorbet-coloured Santa Barbara church. Its recently restored tower is an octagonal wedding cake, trimmed in white, incorporating faintly Egyptian pillars, and with

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large bells in each of eight niches. The trip through verdant scenery from Cartagena, typically in a shared pick-up that boards an antique car ferry, would be worth it just for this. When the river silted up in the late 19th century waterborne trade came to an end, the population dropped and Mompox fell asleep. Until recently drug cartels and insurgency made the 385-kilometre journey from Cartagena a little risky. Inscription on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1995 brought Mompox to the world’s attention just as the region was becoming safe for travel. But still the only sign

of tourism is the conversion of a small number of ancient houses into boutique accommodation, whose hoteliers still dream of a rush to come. Best-known is La Casa Amarilla, a quiet and comfortably modernized 17th-century mansion with rooftop views across the island, which neighbours Santa Barbara. Its fame is partly due to the untiring efforts of its AngloCanadian journalist owner, Richard McColl, to build the town’s reputation. Happily, the grid of narrow streets contains bakeries and groceries rather than souvenir shops or pestering guides.

Ordinary life goes on behind the ornate iron grilles of the whitewashed houses. Dark entrances offer glimpses of sunlit courtyard gardens, drenched with bougainvillea. Another five plump churches and the cultural museum echo to your footsteps, and in small workshops craftsmen making the filigree gold and silver jewelry for which the town is famous, tap on largely unobserved. Take a boat out on the river and your company is innumerable kingfishers and herons, with large and lazy iguanas observing from the banks. The 2014 death of Latin American literary superstar

Gabriel García Márquez brought the town to public notice again.The novelist lived elsewhere on the river, but mentions its dream-like quality in The General in His Labyrinth, and it is where Chronicle of a Death Foretold was ﬁlmed. For Mompox is the last undisturbed survivor of colonial Colombia. If you go: For more information on Mompox visit off2colombia. com/colombia-regions/thecaribbean-coast/mompox. For information on travel in Colombia visit the Government of Colombia website at colombia.travel. — More stories at culturelocker.com CPBC# 37951

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Pipers grab North Shore title

Swant sisters team up to push Argyle past top-seeded Handsworth ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

North Shore basketball teams have had enough problems contending with one Swant girl, but now there are two? On Wednesday night the Argyle Pipers senior girls team claimed the North Shore AAA title with a 5348 win over Handsworth and it was Argyle star Sophie Swant who led the way with a big assist her from little sis, Georgia. Sophie, a relentless Grade 12 forward, bulled her way to 26 points, 12 rebounds, four steals and two blocks in the win, while Grade 9 rookie Georgia Swant added nine points and provided cool and calm point guard play that belied

her young age. “Two Swants — that’s not fair,” said Argyle head coach Anthony Fortunaso with a laugh. Handsworth built an early lead by throwing up a trapping, pressing defence that rattled the Pipers.With the game on the verge of slipping away in the ﬁrst quarter, Fortunaso brought Georgia off the bench and the momentum started to shift the other way. “I thought she came up huge for us. She really calmed us down when they were pressing us, she made some really good passes,” said Fortunaso. “People go after her because they know she’s in Grade 9 — she just handles it, she doesn’t let it affect her. I thought she was a real calming inﬂuence

out there. Her sister is really emotional. She’s kind of the opposite. Calm.” The Royals, meanwhile, were battling uphill all game because their star guard Alanna Martin — recently picked as the North Shore Player of theYear — got into early foul trouble and had to sit on the bench for long stretches of time. Martin, bound for CIS school Wilfred Laurier next year — ended the game with just ﬁve points. “She’s a great player, she’s one of the best shooters in the province,” said Fortunaso. “She’s really tough to handle because she’s so good at coming off screens and getting open. If you give her a little sliver See Pipers page 30

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she’s going to hit it. And she’s such a competitor in the same way that Sophie is — she wants to win so bad. . . .When she got into foul trouble it was really tough for them. But I thought they did a really good job, they had some people step up big.” Handsworth forward April Christiansen and guard Nicola Ros kept the score close, putting up 11 points each in the game, and when Martin returned to the ﬂoor in the fourth quarter the Royals jumped back into the lead. Martin, however, picked up her ﬁfth foul with a little more than two minutes left. At that point the Royals were leading 4845 but they wouldn’t score again in the contest. Instead it was Argyle’s Danielle Paulson who provided the decisive buckets, dropping in a layup off a slick inbounds play to pull the Pipers within one at 48-47 before hitting a huge three-pointer on the next possession to put the Pipers in the lead for good. Paulson

finished the game with nine rebounds and nine points, five of them coming in that crucial one-minute stretch. “She had been struggling all game and (we) just kept telling her ‘keep at it, keep shooting those because they’re going to go in,”’ Fortunaso said of Paulson. “She hit that layup and then came right back down the court and hit that big, big three — that was huge. That’s what you get with a Grade 12.They know they’ve got to keep taking those shots.” Handsworth had a couple of shots to tie it up in the dying seconds but couldn’t knock them down. At the final buzzer the Pipers celebrated their upset victory — Handsworth finished first in North Shore premier league play with a 7-0 record while the young Pipers scuffled into fifth place with a 3-4 record. When the same two teams met in January, the Royals claimed a 66-54 win. “It’s like I told the kids before the game — it’s playoffs now,” said Fortunaso. “The fact that

they beat us before doesn’t really matter. Everybody gets a fresh start. I think they really took that to heart and they didn’t let our last loss hurt us.” The North Shore ﬁnal was a tough, physical affair, as was expected. “That’s a classic North Shore, Handsworth/ Argyle rivalry game,” said Fortunaso. “Just getting after each other, really physical.They all know each other really well so it’s really hard to get anything by them.” Leading the way in the physical department was Sophie, who threw her body all over the court on offence and defence while managing to avoid serious foul trouble.The SFUbound forward’s shot wasn’t dropping for much of the game but she still did a ton of damage, including a 14/20 performance at the free throw line. “She was rebounding, she played defence. I thought she really held us together today,” said Fortunaso. “And when we needed a big shot we knew

she was going to be there, and when we needed to get to the free throw line we knew she was going to be there. Her game today was fabulous.” Fortunaso is hoping that his team’s North Shore championship win is a good omen for the rest of the playoffs. “We’re a little bit under the radar and we can deﬁnitely surprise some people.” Both teams will now turn

their attention to the Lower Mainland Championships with Argyle set to host the opening rounds of the tournament. Argyle and Handsworth will both be in action Monday night against undetermined opponents. Argyle will tip off at 6:35 p.m. with Handsworth to follow at 8:15 p.m. If both teams win they will meet again in the Lower Mainland semiﬁnals Thursday starting at 6:35 p.m. at New West secondary.

The winner of that game will earn an automatic berth into the provincial championships while the loser will have more work to do on the consolation side. The provincial championships are scheduled for March 4-7 at the Langley Events Centre. Handsworth was listed at No. 7 and Argyle as an honourable mention in the latest provincial rankings, released before the North Shore ﬁnal.

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Basketball Blues score big wins

The Capilano Blues men’s basketball team scored a pair of important wins last week as the PacWest regular season winds down. The Blues ﬁrst romped to a 92-62 win over

Kwantlen Feb. 5 before knocking off Columbia Bible College 99-88 two days later.The wins bumped the Blues six points above Kwantlen in the race for the sixth and ﬁnal playoff spot. Capilano will look to

solidify their playoff position next weekend when they host Langara on Friday and Douglas College Saturday. Tip-off both nights at the Capilano Sportsplex will be 6 p.m. for the women with the men to follow at 8 p.m.

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