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MARIA SPITALE-LEISKS t A f f R e p o R t e R

There’s a game of retail musical chairs currently happening in 100-block of

West Lonsdale Avenue as shop owners await the outcome of a redevelopment application for the entire block.

Staburn Property Group is seeking to rezone the proper-ties between 101 and 149 on Lonsdale. The mixed-use, six-sto-rey development would contain 64 residential units, five of which would be low-income housing, as well as office and retail space at street level.

Included in the project is the preservation of The Beasley Block, a false-fronted, two-storey wood-frame building on the cor-ner of Lonsdale and West First Street. Built in 1904, the Beasley is one of the oldest surviving buildings in North Van and cur-rently houses Moodyville Cafe.

Grant Gardiner with the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society is pleased with Staburn’s proposal to restore the heritage building.

“We are happy to see they are going to keep The Beasley Block,” said Gardiner.

However, the NSHPS is hop-ing Staburn will work with its architect to bring the Beasley back down to its original mass-ing, which Gardiner estimates is six feet smaller in width than the current structure.

“That building was originally thinner than it is now,” explained Gardiner. “We felt it might be best to bring it back to its origi-nal era.”

Speaking ahead of a Jan. 20 public hearing for the project, Alex Wren with Staburn Property Group told The Outlook the rich heritage of this particular block of Lonsdale was appealing to them.

“Our proposal includes a complete rehabilitation of the McDowell Block (also known as the Beasley Block) at Lonsdale and First [Street],” said Wren in an email. “Further, our archi-tect pays respect in both design and building materials to earlier “period” buildings adjacent to the McDowell Block to

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Longtime 100-block retailer Big Pete’s Comics & Collectibles hopes to make a home in the proposed redevelopment, but it will be dependent on the rent

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CoLoSSAL ChANgE - Pete Turcotte, owner of Big Pete’s Comics and Collectibles, hopes to stay in the Lower Lonsdale neighbourhood.Rob Newell photo


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The operator of a Norgate daycare centre destroyed by a massive fire late last month is vowing to

rebuild.Lisa Hubbard, executive director of the

North Shore Neighbourhood House, which runs the Novaco childcare centre, was woken up at 4 a.m. on Dec. 28 to news the beloved daycare was engulfed in flames.

She rushed to the scene at 1370 Redwood St., which is adjacent to Norgate elementary.

“When I got the call, I didn’t know the extent [of the damage] until I actually came down to the daycare. It was shocking, devastating,” describes Hubbard.

All that remains today is the charred hull of three or four modular trailers that housed the daycare. The cause of the fire is yet to be determined.

Hubbard stressed, while devastating for Novaco’s stakeholders — the staff and families who rely on the centre — the most important thing is that no one was hurt.

Approximately 32 children, ranging in age from infant to four years old, attend the daycare, which has a 30-plus year history in the Norgate commu-nity. Hubbard explained, NSNH took over Novaco’s business licence from a parent-run society approximately six years ago.

“It’s a great neighbourhood, a strong community and there’s a need for childcare,” said Hubbard.

The roar of multiple fire truck sirens jolted Norgate resi-dents Darcy Patterson and her dad Fred from their sleep Saturday morning. When they went to investigate an hour

later, Darcy stood on the damp sidewalk and watched in hor-ror as her childhood daycare burned to ashes.

Back at the scene late last week, Darcy, 26, tells The Outlook this daycare was where she first met her lifelong best friend Jessica when they were babies. They later attended Norgate elementary together.

“I remember we would play under cover here after school,” recalls Jessica, pointing through a blue security fence to some pavement protected by a now-charred overhang.

For Fred and his wife, who both worked full-time, Novaco offered them convenient and quality childcare.

“In my mind, I didn’t know why they didn’t have daycares on all school grounds,” says Fred.

According to Hubbard, NSNH is the largest childcare provider on the North Shore. She says the families the non-

profit organization supports come from diverse financial backgrounds.

As of last Monday morning, the displaced children have been integrated into other daycare programs offered by NSNH inside Norgate school and at Sutherland secondary.

“The kids did very well with the transition,” said Hubbard.Meanwhile, NSNH will now work with the North

Vancouver School District and the District of North Vancouver, as it looks to rebuild the daycare centre. Financial donations for the project can be made at nsnh.bc.ca.

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DAycArE DESTroyED - A father and daughter, Norgate residents Darcy and Fred Patterson, survey the destruction three days after a fire razed Darcy’s childhood daycare.Maria Spitale-Leisk photo

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— had already become accustomed to drinking their dad’s homemade healthy smoothie concoc-tions chock full of lentils, and/or kale and/or flax seeds.

The girls’ personal favourite is “Ironman” juice made from apples, cucumber, spinach and lemon.

“I would always say: If they drink it, anybody would drink it,” says Jacqueline, sporting a lime-green T-shirt and black athletic pants.

She’s seated next to Chris at a table inside their juice bar The Local Lift that boasts a view of the conifer trees outside. For this couple, who met while tree planting in Prince George in the early ’90s, their lives have always been embed-ded in nature.

“We are both really into mountain biking,” offers Jacqueline, when asked why they migrat-ed to North Van by way of Kitsilano and East Van.

They both agree Boogeyman, a Seymour bik-ing trail situated practically within spitting dis-tance of their shop, is their favourite ride.

“It’s pretty technical. There are some good rock faces,” says Chris, dressed the part of a mountain biker in a hoodie.

The Mountainside secondary woodwork-ing and gym teacher explains how adopting a healthy lifestyle was a slow evolution, save for the foray into vegetarianism.

“We went cold turkey,” says Chris, who found he had way more energy after dropping the meat from his diet.

Chris and Jacqueline had discovered Tao Organics to be a good source for vegan and raw food. The Esplanade-area cafe somewhat served as inspiration for the Doll’s juice bar, in terms of offering North Shore residents healthy food alternatives.

Today they have a partnership with Tao, serv-ing their products including nut burger patties and kale chips at Lift.

Before they were awarded the business space at Parkgate Village, the Doll’s had to prove to the property management company that they had a palatable product. Jacqueline, a chartered accountant, went to work on a business model for the juice bar.

To create the recipes, she chose Breville’s Juice Fountain Plus, featured in the documen-tary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, as the workhorse of the fruit and veggie masticating operation.

The naming convention for the smoothies and the store itself arrived organically. The Dolls’ intention was to draw a connection to the local

mountain and ski hill through the word “lift” — and by naming their smoothies after area trails.

First opening their doors in prime mountain biking season, the couple thought they nailed down their main clientele. They went so far as to stock their juice bar with spare bike parts and even whole, ready-to-ride bikes.

The Dolls have been more than happy to see a cross section of the community, from stay-at-home moms to outdoor enthusiasts, become regulars at Lift.

“In this community, the Cove area, people are into supporting local businesses,” says Chris.

By virtue of geographic location, the Dolls are also feeding the local economy and, at the same

time, adopting a 300-metre diet by purchasing their fruits and vegetables from Parkgate Farm Market.

As well, Lift sells sand-wiches from Copper Alley Cafe and gluten-free goodies from Sweet Tooth Cakery — both in the Riverside Drive area.

In November, Lift launched a juice cleanse program, in which customers commit to only consuming six fresh-pressed juices, spirulina supplements, herbal teas, broth and plenty of water each day. The detoxification cleanse can last as little as three days or up to 10.

Jacqueline says one customer comes in every day for his “Upbeet” elixir, which he attests has lowered his blood pressure.

The Dolls explain how the cleanse gives the digestive system a rest.

“With the juices, there are so many minerals that are going directly into your system so your body doesn’t have to work hard at pulling them out of other food,” says Chris.

We know what the Dolls are doing with all that reserve energy. You can find them taking down the Boogeyman on their bikes.

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FrEsH prEssEd juICEs - Jacqueline and Chris Doll are serving up liquid nutrients from their juice bar at Parkgate. Maria Spitale-Leisk photo

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North Shore woman credits addictions recovery house for her new lease on life

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The North Shore’s first-ever drug and alcohol recovery centre is set to open adjacent to Murdo Frazer Park in the spring

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At the height of her alcohol addiction, North Shore resident Jane couldn’t shake her self-destructive routine of drinking on the way to work and “getting hammered” on the return trip home.

There was a specific route that she would take — one that purposely took her past a liquor store near Lonsdale Quay. Living on her own at the time, Jane (not her real name), lacked a solid support system to help her break the vicious cycle of alcohol abuse.

“I was losing track of days because I blacked out a lot,” she recalls. “The consequences were getting worse. I found myself in the drunk tank and had no idea how I got there.”

Four years ago, Jane who was now broke, finally hit rock bottom and was ready to seek treatment. It was through her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor that she learned of the Turning Point Recovery Society — which operates addiction treatment facilities in Vancouver and Richmond.

Jane stayed at the Vancouver recovery house where, for three months, she received counselling, took yoga classes and learned life skills. There were chores that she would have to complete each week. And, at the end of the day, she was in a safe place — free from the lure of a seemingly innocuous glass of wine.

While in residential treatment, Jane made a connection with one coun-sellor in particular who inspired her to go back to school. Essentially, says Jane, Turning Point put her back on the right path to a healthy and happy life.

“I feel like I have even more tools,” Jane explains. “It’s a long journey, it doesn’t happen overnight.”

Jane is just one of the 30 per cent of Turning Point clients that have come from the North Shore in the past five years. Soon, those struggling with addiction will be able to receive treatment at a residential facility on this side of the water.

Doug MacKay-Dunn felt a little lighter at the groundbreaking last month for Turning Point’s new women’s addictions recovery house set to open adjacent to Murdo Frazer Park in the spring.

The District of North Vancouver councillor has been championing for the North Shore’s first-ever public drug and alcohol recovery centre for over a decade.

In 1999, MacKay-Dunn — a former Vancouver Police Department inspector and one-time Downtown Eastside beat cop — helped establish the North Shore’s first substance abuse task force.

The strong advocate of detox and rehab programs that provide increased support for the families sees a correlation between these addic-tion support services and the reduction of both violent and property crimes.

“I’ve talked about it being the only answer, as far as I am concerned, to deal with this ballooning drug and alcohol addiction problem,” says MacKay-Dunn.

The problem has hit home for his family. MacKay-Dunn’s daughter had her cellphone stolen while she was riding the bus in North Van. The thief was a 16-year-old, drug-addicted criminal with a “significant” crystal meth dependency, according to MacKay-Dunn.

Now that a women’s treatment facility is on the way, MacKay-Dunn

TurNINg PoINT - Many politicians and addictions stakeholders were on hand for a groundbreaking Dec. 18 at the site of a women’s addictions recovery house slated to open adjacent to Murdo Frazer Park in the spring. Turning Point Recovery Society executive director Brenda Plant; North Van-Lonsdale MLA Naomi Yamamoto; District of North Van Mayor Richard Walton, Vancouver Coastal Health mental health and addictions director Elizabeth Stanger; North Van MP Andrew Saxton; West Vancouver-Capilano MLA Ralph Sultan; Turning Point Recovery Society board chair Gary Schubak and District of North Van Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn. Submitted photo


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Where: Construction activities along Mahon Ave & W 1st st. North Vancouver (as shown in map below) Start: January 7, 2014 Anticipated Completion: January 14, 2014 Working Hours: 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Saturday PLEASE BE ADVISED OF TRAFFIC DISRUPTIONS IN YOUR AREA: To meet the demand for electricity and improved reliability, BC Hydro will be constructing a new, underground duct bank in your area.

Construction may result in temporary traffic delays, construction noise, and possible driveway restrictions. Crews will provide sufficient notice to residents and businesses in the event of driveway restrictions, changes to construction schedules, or any other possible disruptions.

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1 Comedians Brett Butt, left, and wife Nancy joined Leo Awards producer Walter Daroshin on the red carpet this past spring. Look for Leos to be handed out again early June 2014. 2 West Van’s Harmony Arts festival has grown in so many ways and now includes fun wine and food nights as well as the week-long art show and live entertainment stages. Harmony Arts manager Christie Rosta, left, joined Marnie Wilson and House Wine hostesses Michaela Morris and Michelle Bouffard for a perfect night on the pier last year. Mark your calendars for Aug. 1-10, 2014.3 Putting up a fight for kids in sport are Craig Knapton, left, and boxer Manny Sobral. The Athletics for Kids (A4K) gala will be held on May 2, 2014 at Hollyburn Country Club and

includes live sanctioned boxing bouts. 4 Whistler’s Cornucopia is one of the year’s best food and wine events and now extends to two weekends starting the second week in November 2014. Notables like Olympian Ashleigh McIvor, hubby and Whitecaps star Jay DeMerit, Hy’s Steakhouse owner Neil Aisenstat and Foxtrot Vineyard’s Gustav Allander were all on hand at one of last year’s best dinners. 5 A toast to the Vancouver International Wine Festival by executive director Harry Hertscheg, left, and Bard on the Beach’s Christopher

Gaze. This year France is the featured country and events run from Feb. 24 to March 2, 2014. 6 North Van’s Lynn Valley Days is an amazing community day event and gala dinner evening held at the end of May 2014. Last year, Peter Haigh, left, from North Shore Rescue, Lynn Valley Days committee member Gillian Konst and Lynn Valley Community president and Lions Club member Eric Miura celebrated in style.

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ART THAT POPS - CityScape’s Michelle Richard invites you to semi-annual Art Rental Show, January 10-25, at Lower Lonsdale community art gallery where you have an opportunity to buy or rent original art. In this picture, she’s holding up Marilyn Monroe 12, acrylic on canvas, by Druh Ireland. Rob Newell photo

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Tired of staring at that blank wall beside your office computer? Does your drab living room need a vibrant focal point? Well, now you can

add some original artwork to your life for as little as $10 per month.

CityScape Community Art Space’s semi-annual Art Rental Show runs from Jan. 10-25 and features more than 400 pieces by professional and emerging Lower Mainland artists.

The artworks rent for between $10 to $50 per month — you also have the option of buying — and offer an eclectic range of subject matter and style, from the pop art Marilyn Monroe acrylic painting (pictured at left) to abstracts and watercolours, pho-tography, mixed-media and more.

The Art Rental Show has been running for more than three decades and become a staple for local art lovers.

“It’s our longest-running program — it has become really popular,” says Jo Dunlop, exhibition coordina-tor for North Vancouver Community Arts Council.

The shows draws all sorts: individuals who like to regularly change-up their artwork at home; families letting their young kids choose their first art piece for their rooms; set decorators from the film indusrty; local businesses and more.

Of course, not all the art gets returned. Many peo-ple end up purchasing their pieces.

“People fall in love with the artwork — they’ve grown attached to it. Others might like to switch it up,” says Dunlop.

An opening reception for the Art Rental Show takes place tonight (Jan. 9) from 7 to 9 p.m. CityScape Community Art Space is located at 335 Lonsdale Ave., nvartscouncil.ca, 604-988-6844.

-The Outlook

CityScape’s annual Art Rental Show opens this Friday (Jan. 10)


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A North Shore Rescue team member peers through his binoculars to the snow-covered boulders 20 feet below.

Freezing wind whipping his face, the doors of the helicopter have been removed so he can meticulously scan the forested terrain for any signs of Tom Billings, a 22-year-old hiker who went missing on Nov. 25.

A crew of four, including the pilot, is taking part in one of the last searches of the North Shore mountains before the operation is called off — for now.

No new tips have come in and despite extensive air and ground searches, the young British man hasn’t been found for nearly a month and a half.

The same day, scent dogs scour Lynn Canyon, the area where a pair of trail runners say they saw Bill-ings before he set out on a late afternoon hike.

This was the last time he was seen.Tim Jones, North Shore Rescue’s team leader, coor-

dinates his crew from a small trailer in the Capilano Watershed near Cleveland Dam.

A dozen maps, including Capilano Regional Park, Mount Strachan and Black Mountain, are tacked on the wall above Jones as he updates the missing tour-ist’s file.

“The profile we have is he’s a ‘hard-charger’ — he would take risk versus caution. Also he would make spontaneous decisions,” says Jones.

“So his profile is he’s an unguided missile.” Unfortunately, that day the avid hiker left behind

his cellphone — often a valuable resource if a signal can be found in the North Shore mountains.

“There is a very fine edge on giving the family hope,” says Jones, adding it would be a miracle if he was still alive on the mountain.

Couch surfer Details around Tom Billings’ disappearance are

scarce. With no video surveillance footage, police and

searchers are relying on two women who said they saw the missing tourist looking at a sign near the Lynn Loop Trail in Lynn Canyon the day he disap-peared.

Although they didn’t report the sighting until nearly a month later, the pair remembers seeing the lone hiker at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and confirmed the clothes investigators said he was wearing. With night-fall in just a few hours, the women said they warned Billings not to climb Crown Pass.

During the lengthy conversation, Billings apparent-ly told them he would head towards Grouse Mountain.

Another hiker later came forward, according to North Shore Rescue, who saw the two women chatting

with a handsome young man with a British accent. But how Billings got to the North Shore, if he indeed

did, is still a mystery. Instead of staying in hotels, he routinely searched a

popular website for couch surfing accommodation and, once he landed in Vancouver on Nov. 23, he settled into an apartment in the 1400-block of East Broad-way, a couple blocks from Commercial Drive in East Vancouver.

“He has a profile that he did not like paying for things,” says Jones, sitting beside a computer at North Shore Rescue headquarters. “His parents confirmed that he hates paying for anything.

“He said to the couch surf resident… that he won’t pay for the [Grouse Mountain] tram or the [Capilano] Suspension Bridge.”

His father, Martin Billings, told The Outlook that couch surfing was his son’s favourite way to travel.

“He told me… he got under the skin of a place by staying with people, as opposed to staying in a hotel.

“I think he made quite a lot of friends doing that.”His new roommate says Billings, wearing a black

jacket, olive-coloured shirt, grey pants with cargo pockets and brown hiking boots, left the suite at 9 a.m. on the morning of the 25th and promised he would be back by 9:45 p.m. before the apartment was locked up for the night.

Before he took off, Billings discussed hiking Grouse Mountain and Lynn Canyon, as well as several other areas in the Lower Mainland.

He left his cellphone in his room because it was broken, says Jones, but took his Nikon Coolpix camera, wallet and passport and told his roommate that he planned to be back that day.

But he never returned. His backpack, computer and cellphone still in his room, the room-

mate reported him missing eight days later on December 2nd — which was unfortunately a “major delay,” says Jones.

This is where the puzzle begins.

Independent world hiker Hiking alone wasn’t new to Tom Billings. In his gap year between high school and university he hiked exten-

sively throughout the world. The long list includes: Russia, Siberia, Belarus, Latvia, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Cuba and Scotland.

“He was really used to being on his own… He’s very independent,” says his father, Martin Billings, on the phone from England.

Now finished university, his son de-cided to visit North America for the first time while waiting to hear back about research proposals and contemplating graduate school back home in the U.K.

“I asked him before he went on this trip to North America whether he gets lonely. And he said he prefers to go on his own because he can do what he wants when he wants, and not have to worry about what someone else wants to do,” his reserved but noticeably distraught father tells The Outlook.

He said his son carefully planned his excursions, even though he wouldn’t tell anyone the exact route.

“We’d really like there to be some other explanation on why they ha-ven’t found anything. We’d like to believe there is some other explana-tion —Tom went somewhere else and didn’t want to be contacted for a few weeks or months,” he says, emotion evident in his voice.

“We had mixed feelings when we heard about the confirmed sighting by the two trail hikers who talked to him, because that almost certain-ly puts him there and, barring a miracle, it means he must have died on the mountain.”

Fit and healthy, 22-year-old Billings could usually hike faster than other people and often didn’t rely on tourist brochures that outlined how long specific trails would take to complete.

If a route took four hours, for instance, it often took him only two. But still, his father is confused as to why his son would attempt to

climb a North Shore mountain at 2 p.m., a couple hours before night-fall.

“There didn’t seem to be a lot of time to spare.”

No video surveillance After accessing Billings’ password-protected computer, investigators

saw he searched for the North Shore mountains, Golden Ears Provin-cial Park and other hiking locations.

They think he likely travelled by transit to North Vancouver but are unable to confirm this because they haven’t viewed TransLink security footage.

“In order to locate vid-eo, say through transit or personal businesses, is extremely difficult, if not vir-tually impossible,” says VPD spokesman Brian Montague.

“We would be looking at gathering video from hun-dreds of buses… We would have to put in thousands and thousands and thousands of man hours to look at it all.”

Billings’ exact path is unknown and Montague was unable to say whether he searched bus routes on his computer before departing from East Broadway.

“We don’t know exactly what time he went to the North Shore.

“Whether he went to the North Shore at all is still speculation at this point. It’s obviously a very high prob-ability but it’s still specula-tive, a little bit.”

continued, PAGE 15

Missing - North Shore Rescue crew members (top) fly

above Hanes Valley in North Vancouver

looking for Tom Billings (far right), a

22-year-old tourist from the U.K. who

disappeared on Nov. 25. Maps of

the North Shore mountains cover the walls of their headquarters in a trailer (above) off

Capilano Road. Michaela Garstin photos

New details emerge in the disappearance of the 22-year-old British tourist

BY MICHAELA GARSTIN

The Search for Tom

Billings

“He was really used to being on his own...

He’s very independent”Martin Billings

Tom’s father


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A North Shore Rescue team member peers through his binoculars to the snow-covered boulders 20 feet below.

Freezing wind whipping his face, the doors of the helicopter have been removed so he can meticulously scan the forested terrain for any signs of Tom Billings, a 22-year-old hiker who went missing on Nov. 25.

A crew of four, including the pilot, is taking part in one of the last searches of the North Shore mountains before the operation is called off — for now.

No new tips have come in and despite extensive air and ground searches, the young British man hasn’t been found for nearly a month and a half.

The same day, scent dogs scour Lynn Canyon, the area where a pair of trail runners say they saw Bill-ings before he set out on a late afternoon hike.

This was the last time he was seen.Tim Jones, North Shore Rescue’s team leader, coor-

dinates his crew from a small trailer in the Capilano Watershed near Cleveland Dam.

A dozen maps, including Capilano Regional Park, Mount Strachan and Black Mountain, are tacked on the wall above Jones as he updates the missing tour-ist’s file.

“The profile we have is he’s a ‘hard-charger’ — he would take risk versus caution. Also he would make spontaneous decisions,” says Jones.

“So his profile is he’s an unguided missile.” Unfortunately, that day the avid hiker left behind

his cellphone — often a valuable resource if a signal can be found in the North Shore mountains.

“There is a very fine edge on giving the family hope,” says Jones, adding it would be a miracle if he was still alive on the mountain.

Couch surfer Details around Tom Billings’ disappearance are

scarce. With no video surveillance footage, police and

searchers are relying on two women who said they saw the missing tourist looking at a sign near the Lynn Loop Trail in Lynn Canyon the day he disap-peared.

Although they didn’t report the sighting until nearly a month later, the pair remembers seeing the lone hiker at 2 o’clock in the afternoon and confirmed the clothes investigators said he was wearing. With night-fall in just a few hours, the women said they warned Billings not to climb Crown Pass.

During the lengthy conversation, Billings apparent-ly told them he would head towards Grouse Mountain.

Another hiker later came forward, according to North Shore Rescue, who saw the two women chatting

with a handsome young man with a British accent. But how Billings got to the North Shore, if he indeed

did, is still a mystery. Instead of staying in hotels, he routinely searched a

popular website for couch surfing accommodation and, once he landed in Vancouver on Nov. 23, he settled into an apartment in the 1400-block of East Broad-way, a couple blocks from Commercial Drive in East Vancouver.

“He has a profile that he did not like paying for things,” says Jones, sitting beside a computer at North Shore Rescue headquarters. “His parents confirmed that he hates paying for anything.

“He said to the couch surf resident… that he won’t pay for the [Grouse Mountain] tram or the [Capilano] Suspension Bridge.”

His father, Martin Billings, told The Outlook that couch surfing was his son’s favourite way to travel.

“He told me… he got under the skin of a place by staying with people, as opposed to staying in a hotel.

“I think he made quite a lot of friends doing that.”His new roommate says Billings, wearing a black

jacket, olive-coloured shirt, grey pants with cargo pockets and brown hiking boots, left the suite at 9 a.m. on the morning of the 25th and promised he would be back by 9:45 p.m. before the apartment was locked up for the night.

Before he took off, Billings discussed hiking Grouse Mountain and Lynn Canyon, as well as several other areas in the Lower Mainland.

He left his cellphone in his room because it was broken, says Jones, but took his Nikon Coolpix camera, wallet and passport and told his roommate that he planned to be back that day.

But he never returned. His backpack, computer and cellphone still in his room, the room-

mate reported him missing eight days later on December 2nd — which was unfortunately a “major delay,” says Jones.

This is where the puzzle begins.

Independent world hiker Hiking alone wasn’t new to Tom Billings. In his gap year between high school and university he hiked exten-

sively throughout the world. The long list includes: Russia, Siberia, Belarus, Latvia, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Cuba and Scotland.

“He was really used to being on his own… He’s very independent,” says his father, Martin Billings, on the phone from England.

Now finished university, his son de-cided to visit North America for the first time while waiting to hear back about research proposals and contemplating graduate school back home in the U.K.

“I asked him before he went on this trip to North America whether he gets lonely. And he said he prefers to go on his own because he can do what he wants when he wants, and not have to worry about what someone else wants to do,” his reserved but noticeably distraught father tells The Outlook.

He said his son carefully planned his excursions, even though he wouldn’t tell anyone the exact route.

“We’d really like there to be some other explanation on why they ha-ven’t found anything. We’d like to believe there is some other explana-tion —Tom went somewhere else and didn’t want to be contacted for a few weeks or months,” he says, emotion evident in his voice.

“We had mixed feelings when we heard about the confirmed sighting by the two trail hikers who talked to him, because that almost certain-ly puts him there and, barring a miracle, it means he must have died on the mountain.”

Fit and healthy, 22-year-old Billings could usually hike faster than other people and often didn’t rely on tourist brochures that outlined how long specific trails would take to complete.

If a route took four hours, for instance, it often took him only two. But still, his father is confused as to why his son would attempt to

climb a North Shore mountain at 2 p.m., a couple hours before night-fall.

“There didn’t seem to be a lot of time to spare.”

No video surveillance After accessing Billings’ password-protected computer, investigators

saw he searched for the North Shore mountains, Golden Ears Provin-cial Park and other hiking locations.

They think he likely travelled by transit to North Vancouver but are unable to confirm this because they haven’t viewed TransLink security footage.

“In order to locate vid-eo, say through transit or personal businesses, is extremely difficult, if not vir-tually impossible,” says VPD spokesman Brian Montague.

“We would be looking at gathering video from hun-dreds of buses… We would have to put in thousands and thousands and thousands of man hours to look at it all.”

Billings’ exact path is unknown and Montague was unable to say whether he searched bus routes on his computer before departing from East Broadway.

“We don’t know exactly what time he went to the North Shore.

“Whether he went to the North Shore at all is still speculation at this point. It’s obviously a very high prob-ability but it’s still specula-tive, a little bit.”

continued, PAGE 15

Missing - North Shore Rescue crew members (top) fly

above Hanes Valley in North Vancouver

looking for Tom Billings (far right), a

22-year-old tourist from the U.K. who

disappeared on Nov. 25. Maps of

the North Shore mountains cover the walls of their headquarters in a trailer (above) off

Capilano Road. Michaela Garstin photos

New details emerge in the disappearance of the 22-year-old British tourist

BY MICHAELA GARSTIN

The Search for Tom

Billings

“He was really used to being on his own...

He’s very independent”Martin Billings

Tom’s father


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will concentrate his efforts on bringing a similar addic-tions recovery program for youth to the North Shore.

“This is a problem that is going to be significant,” says MacKay-Dunn of substance abuse among youth. “There are impacts on the criminal justice system, because we are not dealing with the root cause. More and more young people have a huge problem with mental health deficits, some of which has been brought on by the use of drugs.”

Turning Point executive director Brenda Plant says she welcomes those discussions for a youth facility on the North Shore. The recovery society currently operates two men’s and two women’s facilities.

Plant says the decision to open a women’s only facil-ity in North Van was dictated by the results of a needs assessment conducted by Turning Point two years ago.

“Research shows women are more vulnerable when they are in the community and homeless with an addic-tion issue,” explains Plant.

At the same time, Turning Point also faced opposition from some area residents for the recovery house site at 2670 Lloyd Ave.

“There is still, sadly, misperception about people in recovery from addictions,” says Plant. “We have encoun-

tered a lot of NIMBYism. We felt there would have been greater acceptance of a women’s shelter.”

Plant says, well it would be nice to think there are neighbourhoods that are exempt, the reality is addiction does not have boundaries — geographical or otherwise.

Recent Statistics Canada numbers on mental health and addiction validate her point: One in 10 Canadians struggle with, in some cases, sev-eral mental health or substance use disorders.

The approximately $2 million capital cost for the North Van recovery house project is being partially funded by all three levels of govern-ment and private donors. While the district is providing Turning Point with the land, DNV park property, at a substantially reduced lease rate, the federal and provincial governments are contribut-ing $250,000 each for a total of $500,000. Meanwhile, Vancouver Coastal Health will provide $40,000 in annu-al operational funding for program operations onsite.

North Van MP Andrew Saxton attended the facility’s groundbreaking and later told The Outlook via email of the significance of this project for the North Shore com-munity.

“It will provide much needed housing support for women trying to turn their lives around while recover-

ing from addictions and substance abuse,” said Saxton. “Addictions and substance abuse cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars each year and have a huge human cost as well, affecting thousands of Canadian families. It’s estimated that the Canadian healthcare sys-tem spends over $1.2 billion each year treat-ing substance abuse.”

When asked about Turning Point’s success rate with addiction recovery, Plant explains how that’s measured along a continuum.

“It isn’t just about abstinence, it’s helping people get integrated back into the communi-ty,” says Plant, adding that 75 to 80 per cent of residents are still clean and sober a year

after leaving Turning Point.For Jane, who in her mid-40s, Turning Point put her

on a new path, one that includes earning a university degree and a circle of friends.

“Most importantly, I have peace of mind,” says Jane. “I’m not waking up with the incredible feeling of guilt and the ball and chain of addiction.”

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» TASTING NOTES

Exploring the wines of Mexico

I just came back from a couple weeks in Mexico and am quite excited about what 2014 will bring.

We’ll learn more about the B.C. Liquor Policy Review that the province is looking to implement, and see how many of the proposed changes like liquor in grocery stores and happy hours will roll out.

I’m looking forward to travelling to Chile, Germany and Washington State to dive deep into their respec-tive vineyards and wineries, and of course seeing what the new year brings for the world of B.C. wine.

I put in a fair amount of energy into exploring Mexican wines while I was there. Seriously; stay with me here. Just as many around the world are surprised there are

good wines to be had from Canada, the same goes for Mexico. The main reason for this is volume — there’s simply not that much to go around. In

fact, their production is currently around 2 million cases which is roughly the same level as British Columbia’s current output. They’ve been at it a tad longer though, ever since Spanish settlers planted vines in the 16th century.

In fact, Mexico has been producing wine longer than any other country in the Americas.

While 90 percent of their production comes from the Baja Peninsula (which enjoys a similar climate to Napa), a high concentration of calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium in their soil has been known to occasionally add a slight ‘salty’ character to their wines, often making them a bit of an acquired taste.

While I found a good dose of Viogniers, Chenin Blancs, Merlots and Syrahs that were quite impressive, the availability of Mexican wine in our market is quite scarce. In saying that, I was able to track down one label I’d quite enjoyed:

L.A. Cetto Nebbiolo | Baja California, Mexico | $30-ish Private Wine Stores

While myself and wine fans may immediately think Barolo or Barbaresco when the Nebbiolo grape is mentioned, I was quite pleased to find many of the typical aromas and flavours you’d find back in Italy here, from tar and roses to dried fruit and chocolate. The style defi-nitely leans ‘New World’ though, a little more ripe, generous fruit and a mouthfeel that’s quite rich and velvety.

Grilled meats, wild mushrooms and very big wine glasses will serve it well. You can track a bottle down at Brewery Creek on Main Street in Vancouver, the Liberty Wines outlets at Granville Island and Park Royal in West Van, and a handful of other private stores.

Oh, and atop my inbox upon my return was a note about a pretty cool event. Find out why I’m often keen to recommend the wines of Meyer Family Vineyards of Okanagan Falls. On Jan. 15 at 6 p.m., win-ery owner Jak Meyer will be presenting a “side-by-side” single vineyard sampling, including their Gold Medal Reimer Vineyard Pinot Noir and Platinum Medal McLean Creek Road Chardonnay, alongside a four-course feast at Forage on Robson Street.

I’ve long been a fan of chef Chris Whittaker’s hyper-local, sustain-able fare; it should dovetail quite nicely with Meyer’s bright, elegant wines. The whole thing’s just $65 plus tax and tip. Track down tickets, and quick, at ForageVancouver.com

As always, if you’re having trouble finding something or just want to say hi, find me via KurtisKolt.com or on Twitter @KurtisKolt

Kurtis [email protected]

The good thing about pairing food with wines made from the Nebbiolo grape is that most classic matches will be pretty bulletproof, regardless of the subtle nuances of the wine’s style. While I centered this week’s column around one wine, going to the grape’s Italian homeland and grabbing a Barolo or Barbaresco from producers such as Ricossa, Batasiolo or Fontanafredda (all available at BC Liquor Stores) will easily follow suit, food-wise. The variety makes fairly big, tannic wines, and can often be quite rich. Because of its bold style, pairing Nebbiolos with subtle and delicate dishes generally won’t work well, they often require something a little meatier to stand up against.

Go literal here; something like a Dry-Aged Boneless Rib Steak, and do it up however you like. If you want to amp up the pairing potential, mushrooms and Nebbiolos are always a sure-fire hit. Whether sautéing some Ponderosa

Crimini Mushrooms or re-constituting a handful of Ponderosa Dried Shiitake Mushrooms and then employing them in a sauce or as a side, the

‘meatiness’ of mushrooms can go a long way, especially if you add a splash of the wine to your sauce. Other ways of playing around include rich risottos, again with mushrooms, or a simple plate of cured meats and sausage.

As you may have guessed, these types of combos will always pair well with cold or rainy nights. January should be a perfect fit!

Perfect Pairings:Kurtis Kolt teams up with Loblaw’s City MarketIt’s a new year and Outlook wine columnist Kurtis Kolt is hunting the aisles of North Van’s Loblaw’s City Market in search of the perfect pairings to go along with his weekly wine picks.

Now, let’s get pairing:

In any case, a member of TransLink said most video of busy areas — such as SeaBus and SkyTrain sta-tions — are recorded over if they’re not requested within seven days.

The police, however, have viewed other video footage, including from businesses around Lynn Headwaters, but much of it was of poor quality — and found absolutely no sign of Billings.

Then two tips came in on Dec. 4 — on Dam Mountain and in Delany’s Coffee House placing him in North Van — and an extensive search began.

Without precise information, North Shore Rescue gave 16 members the daunting task of searching the North Shore backcountry for the missing tourist. The Canadian Armed Forces searched the main drainages.

They started with Lynn Headwaters, a popular hik-ing destination. Billings could have got lost or fallen and hurt himself.

“My feeling was we were in the right area. An edu-cated guess I made was that Lynn Headwaters was the best place to start,” says Jones, flipping through the 22-year-old’s file. He is particularly busy this day as he balances coordinating his team and taking media phone calls.

“It was a very intensive search, a very costly search. It was in excess of $40,000 in air time [for Dec. 4].”

But then the possible sightings were determined to be unfounded and searchers were left with even less

information than when they had began. Police, searchers and his devastated parents were

left in the dark.

Crowd sourcing After the leads began to dry up, North Shore Rescue

took a new tactic. With financial assistance from the Billings family,

they filmed Grouse Mountain, Hanes Valley, Mosquito Creek and Deen Creek from a helicopter.

The public was asked to join eight members of North Shore Rescue to scour through the YouTube footage for any anomalies that could give a clue into Billings’ disappearance.

While the sightings — a possible red tent and a blue tarp, for instance — didn’t lead to any new infor-mation, the strategy helped jog the memory of the two trail runners who have provided the only credible sighting of Billings on the North Shore.

Mark Miller, producer of Discovery Channel series Highway Thru Hell, recorded the footage and Tweeted the link.

This was just the information one of the trail run-ners needed.

Not prone to watching TV, she had heard about the disappearance but hadn’t seen Billing’s photo until then. She alerted her friend, who had been on vaca-tion while the search was underway.

“From the minute she opened the reTweet and saw his picture, she knew it was the guy she talked to

with her friend,” says Jones, proud of his social media effort.

Warning A North Shore Rescue crew lands on a helipad in

Hanes Valley, an area surrounded by steep icy cliffs and massive boulders where Jones believes Billings may be located.

This chilly afternoon is the last day they will search for him until new tips come in, and now the crew has spotted a pair of young hikers miles away from the road.

One crew member hops out of the Talon helicopter to make sure the 21-year-olds have the right gear for overnight camping and warn them not to hike up Crown Pass because they lack proper equipment.

Ensured by the two that they plan to stay put and set up a tent, the crew leaves but later finds out the hikers attempted to climb the steep cliffs.

“They had nothing to take care of themselves,” says Jones, who sent searchers to find them and subse-quently called the hikers’ parents. “Their families were horrified.”

The young men are safe, but Jones says their expe-rience serves as a reminder that hiking the North Shore backcountry shouldn’t be taken lightly.

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When ukiyo-e prints made their way overseas in the late-19th century as wrapping for exported ceramics,

Westerners were awestruck by the exotic designs.

European impressionists Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and American modernist Frank Lloyd Wright praised the technical sophistication and vivid colors, as well as ukiyo-e’s intrinsic meanings.

Japanese people alive during the height of ukiyo-e popularity from 1604 to 1868 treasured images of beautiful women, samurai, kabuki actors and romantic views of famous places.

Many of these woodblock prints, however, aren’t just pleasant to the eye. They are political, with hidden meanings, and portrayed major historical events to those eager to know what was happening in society.

West Vancouver Museum’s is showcasing dozens of ukiyo-e prints at Ukiyoe Spectacular, which runs from Jan. 10 to March 22.

“The general public could now buy these prints. While the wealthy could commission a painting, these were available to anyone,” says assistant curator Kiriko Watanabe, who travelled to Japan to gather the prints. She is working closely with Shinichi Inagaki, a

ukiyo-e print collector and scholar from Tokyo. During the 1800s, says Watanabe, the newly

affordable prints meant messages could be easily passed through Japan, much like a newspaper does today.

Ukiyo-e, which means “pictures of the floating world,” were produced in collaboration by highly trained designers, woodcarvers and printers. Publishers supervised production and carefully watched consumer trends in the rapidly urbanizing Edo public.

In 1842, the government prohibited commoners from indulging in luxury and made ukiyo-e depicting actors illegal. New genres quickly followed, indulging parodies and caricatures, comics and educational prints.

To create a unified exhibit, Watanabe has

arranged the prints in similar groups. “Many of these haven’t been shown in

North America before. Some landscapes have been shown but not these,” says Watanabe, examining a complicated but humorous image.

A cluster of turtle-like creates with human heads may seem perplexing to 21st century Canadians, but each face would have been recognizable during the Edo time period.

“They are actors’ faces. Everyone knew who they were,” says Watanabe, with a laugh.

On the other wall hangs a print with catfish folklore, a more serious image in response to the devastation of the Ansei Edo Earthquake in 1855 when merchants lost wealth and labourers benefited from the new economy.

This mixture of themes — both serious and comedic — is what makes ukiyo-e so extraordinary, says Watanabe.

Ukiyoe Spectacular’s opening reception is on Jan. 9 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the West Vancouver Museum, 680 17th St. A list of other events, such as a Japanese woodcut printing demonstration and seminars on ukiyo-e’s history, is available at westvancouvermuseum.ca. Additional prints are showing at the Nikkei National Museum, 6688 Southoaks Cr., Burnaby.

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Turcotte estimated he has paid $50,000 in operating costs over five years, under a triple net lease which puts the onus of some or all property expenses, including taxes and mainte-nance fees, on the tenant.

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“The developments, the way they set them up, they take away the larger retail space,” said Turcotte, not speaking specifically about Staburn’s application. “They tend to parcel them out into smaller units. I don’t want to see Lonsdale become a bunch of dentists, small hair salons and sushi bars.”

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The 2014 test fees are set at a level where motorists see a reduction, while maintaining the program’s regulatory requirement to operate on a revenue-neutral basis by the end of the program.

The table below shows what the test fees will be month-by-month in 2014.

AIRCARE TEST FEES IN 2014

MONTH 1992-AND-NEWERALL OTHER INSPECTIONS

& RE-TESTS

January $36 $23

February $34 $22

March $32 $21

April $30 $20

May $28 $19

June $26 $18

July $24 $17

August $22 $16

September $20 $15

October $18 $14

November $16 $13

December $14 $12

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111 CARETAKERS/RESIDENTIAL MANAGERS

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114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING

HIGHWAYOWNER OPERATORS & COMPANY DRIVERS

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130 HELP WANTEDThere is a CRITICAL need for Medical Transcriptionists across Canada. Work from Home. CanScribe graduates welcome and encouraged to apply. Apply through MTR at www.hds-mt.com/jobs

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130 HELP WANTED

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134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES

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160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

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182 FINANCIAL SERVICES

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477 PETSCATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

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REAL ESTATE

625 FOR SALE BY OWNER

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627 HOMES WANTED

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Warehouseman’s Lien ActWhereas;

Kerry Drew Uchida is indebted to:

Mitchell’s Towing Ltd. for storage and towing on a

1990 Toyota L CSR with VIN: 2BG60306910000364

A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing of $8,967.00 plus any addition-al costs of storage, seizure and sale.

Notice is hereby given that on the 6th day of February, 2014 or thereafter, the said vehicle will be sold.

The Vehicle is currently stored at Elite Bailiff Services Ltd. 20473 Logan Ave. Langley. The Vehicle was placed in storage on May 1, 2013

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