Dunbar Residents Association News and Events

Monday, Nov 3, 7:00 – 9:50 PM (doors open at 6:45)

?DRA Annual General Meeting/Mayor & Councillor Candidates Meeting

St Philip’s Church Hall, 3737 W. 27th

AGENDA

• 7:00 DRA Business Meeting
• 7:30 Candidates Debate
  • Introductory Comments
  • Written Questions
  • Questions from the Floor
• 9:20 Meet the candidates over coffee, tea and cookies

Mayoral Candidate Gregor Robertson and Councillor Candidates from COPE (David Cadman & Ellen Woodsworth), NPA (Suzanne Anton & Michael Geller) and Vision (Raymond Louie & Geoff Meggs) will be on hand to answer your questions. Cards will be available at the door for your written questions.

DRA board members for the 2008/2009 term will be elected during the business part of the meeting from 7:30 to 8:00 pm. If you would like to become a board member, please leave a message, including your name and contact information on the DRA phone line at 604-222-9824 by October 27.

We hope you will join the Dunbar Residents’ Association and help to support our work with your membership fee. You can join or renew your membership at the door.

We look forward to seeing many of you, old and new members alike, at the AGM. Please take this opportunity to ask your civic candidates the questions that are on your mind, listen to the answers and decide which candidates deserve your vote on November 15th.

OCT 29 UPDATE

AGENDA

• Community Advisory Committee Terms of Reference
  • Purpose
  • Membership
  • Time Commitment
  • Attendance
  • Meeting Structure
  • Rules of Conduct
  • Revision of Terms of Reference
  • Committee Termination

Input gathered at these meetings will be considered by Coast Mental Health in a second draft OMP.

This second draft OMP will be presented at a public meeting on November 20th with another opportunity for public comment.

These comments will also be considered by Coast Mental Health in the development of an Operations Management Plan that will be submitted to the City of Vancouver as part of the conditions for a development permit.

An independent report will be prepared by the facilitator of these meetings documenting all input received and how this input was used in the OMP or why it was not used, as the case may be.

*Monday, Nov 3, 7:00 – 9:50 PM: DRA Annual General Meeting/Mayor & Councillor Candidates Meeting, St Philip’s Church Hall, 3737 W. 27th

• 7:00 Business Meeting including election of 2008-09 Board
• 7:30 Civic Council Candidates Debate with mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson (Vision) and councillor candidates Suzanne Anton (NPA), David Cadman (COPE), Michael Geller (NPA), Raymond Louie (Vision), Geoff Meggs (Vision) and Ellen Woodsworth (COPE
  • Introductory comments by candidates
  • Written questions from audience (cards available at door)
  • Questions from the floor
• 9:20 Informal chatting over refreshments

*Thursday, Nov 6 and Nov 20: Local Toastmasters Club meeting, St. Faith’s Church, 7284 Cypress Street at 57th (on Arbutus bus route), lower floor, parking east of church next to lower entry.

• Guests & new members welcome.
• No experience necessary.
• Subsequent meeting dates for the fall of 2008 are Dec. 4th & 18th.
• For more information, contact Pat Stone at 604 261 0588 or Allan Welch at 604 318 4466, or email Pat at: pat_stone@telus.net

*Sunday, Nov 16, 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon: “Fall Into Story Time” – Dunbar Community Centre, lower level

• Lliteracy event presented by Dunbar Memorial Preschool & Dunbar Community Centre Association.
• Local children’s authors Dan Bar-el (Alphabetter) and Kari-Lynn Winters (Rhyme or Reason) will read from their award-winning books.
• 10:00 – 10:45: Dan Bar-el
• 11:15 – 12:00: Kari-Lynn Winters
• Enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks as you giggle your way through letters and poetry at this FREE event.

*Tuesday, Nov 18, 7:00 PM: Dunbar Vision Implementation Committee (DVIC) meeting, St. Philip’s Church, 2727 W. 27th

*Tuesday, Nov 25, 7:30 PM: Dunbar Garden Club, Dunbar Community Centre

• Public Gardens of California – Daniel Mosquin, botanist from UBC Botanical Garden
• Drop-in fee $3.00

OCT 15 UPDATE

AGENDA

• Good Neighbour Practices
• Neighbourhood Relations – Staff Liaison with Community
• 24 hr Emergency Response
• Evaluation

Click here for DETAILED AGENDA

As a gill-netter on the North and Middle Arms in the 1950ies and 1960ies, I can remember seeing many big Steelhead in my Chinook catches during Sept. and up to mid Nov. The Fishing companies reluctantly bought them as they were not Red enough for the consumer to buy in cans. These great 20 pound + Steelies as we called them, lost some of the pink color even when they were cooked in the cannery steam canning retorts.

I notice in the late 1950ies in my fish catch records that I received around 20cents a Pound in the round for these huge silver bullets. They hit the net and continued to fight for their lives, pulling down numerous net floats, before leaving a last jumping fight at the end, when they were being removed from the gillnet.

Some fishers said the big Steelhead were only playing dead, as they came over the gillnet stern roller, they were quite right.

I can remember one Huge Steelhead that was so foxy, he or she tried to sneak close into the riverbank at the mouth of Mac Donald Channel in the North Arm, I guess not knowing I had a shallow 10 mesh depth taper, at the end of my fall net. I set the shallow Gillnet end on the edge of the now brown marshes, near the south side of the channel. This is where the Harrison Chinooks moved through on low water Slack. I rolled off about 30 fathoms from the power net drum, the big Chinooks were hitting the corkline everywhere, jumping and bouncing off the web! I let out more net, but the corkline was going down with the weight of the tangled Harrison Chinooks. The boat caught a bit of the tidal Backup from the open Mac Donald Channel and I started to pick up the net with the fish gaff in one hand and my foot hard on the net reel or drum control. My old trusty Easthope Engine was just a pounding out steam rings from the overboard exhaust pipe, it was a big salmon setting of the gillnet. About 15 big Fall Harrison White Springs were in the stern in no time, then at the shallow end of the net I saw this long silver salmon laying on the surface, it was huge and very quite, I thought it was dead when it came across the stern roller. Not so, for as it dropped on the Drum Deck, it made one mighty kick and jumped right over the gunnels of my old boat and shot off like a bullet into the flooding tide! Yep, that great Thompson Steelhead was playing Possum and I fell for its last survival trick of watching me carefully for an escape opportunity.

Its a much different world today as I scan my computer to find out that only 3 Steelhead and about only 95 Harrison Chinooks have moved up the Fraser so far this year, in test gillnets around the Albion Drift, on the Fraser River. Those Wonderful Fraser River Wild Northern Coho have also just about disappeared from the whole river never to return, I find myself missing them all, for they were with us for hundreds or maybe thousands of years. I caught some of them and thought they would be with us forever.

Yes it is a quickly changing world of loosing many species that we all loved and now wait patiently every year for them to return, knowing that probably now many of them are gone forever.

Terry Slack
North Arm Commercial Fisher

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