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Bad food made
good again at
new startup

Re-PRODUCE aims to cut
food waste by selling ugly
fruits and vegetables

By VERONNICA MACKILLOP

trying to change attitudes towards
food waste with a new business
venture.

Re-PRODUCE, which Papania hopes
to get off the ground through a Kick-
starter campaign, plans to sell “sec-
onds,” or produce that would otherwise
be thrown away because it was over-
ripe or blemished. The goal is to get
people to re-think how food can be
used. If the venture gets going, it would
be the first of its kind in Vancouver.

“Tt’s more than just a fruit and vege-
table store,” she said. “We want to
change how people view food. We want
to educate people on what they’re eat-
ing, and how to reduce over-produc-
tion.”

To date, the Kickstarter campaign
has raised $2,501 of its $500,000 goal. “If
we don’t get the support, we'll have to
work on it a different way,” said Papa-
nia.

Re-PRODUCE is the next step in the
‘lupii boxes’ program which distributes
boxes of older produce in addition to
soups and preserves to customers at
$12 a box.

Lupii boxes have the power to change
the way people
view food, ac-
cording to lupii
cafe customer
Linda Richards.

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Kickstarter campaign, Re-PRODUCE
draws attention to the problem of food
waste in Canada.

“T like the idea. There’s too much
good, edible food going to the landfill,
and too much energy going into it,” she
said.

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Sunset celebrates /0th

Community association to celebrate on April 21

By CHANTELLE DEACON

Ihe Sunset Community Associa-

tion will celebrate its 70th anni-

versary serving the community

of South Vancouver with a bar-
beque and look back at the storied past
of its rise.

In its 70 year history, the association,
which currently offers over 40 new
community programs this year and
maintains an arena and the Moberly
Arts & Cultural Centre, has grown
from some parents at Sexsmith Ele-
mentary School calling for recreational
opportunities in South Vancouver into
an integral part of the city.

The celebration, which takes place
on April 21, will feature guest dancers
and an opportunity to relive the asso-
ciation’s history, according to Barb
Womersley, secretary of the Sunset
Community Association.

“Many community members have
fond memories of the old outdoor
swimming pool as well as lots of won-
derful memories in our current build-
ing,” she said.

After the construction of the new
Sunset Community Centre in 2007, the
association was in the process of tear-
ing down the old building when some
long-standing community members re-
membered there was a time capsule
hidden in the original structure.

Sue Bigelow, digital conservator at
the City of Vancouver archives, was on

hand for the opening of the 58-year old
time capsule. Inside they found news
articles, photos and letters, said Big-
elow. What surprised her was the final
item they found.

“We figured we had pulled every-
thing out,” she said. “I thought I better
take a flashlight and just check and I
look in and there is something else in
there, so I reach in a pull it out and it
was a nitrate movie film.”

The footage turned out to be a news-
reel of Bing Crosby who had been
brought in by the association’s presi-
dent at the time, Stan Thomas, to per-
form a benefit concert to raise money
for the original community centre. The
concert raised over $26,000, according
to the association’s website.

Despite the find, the association has
no plans to plant another capsule, ac-
cording to past-president Ken Thomp-
son.

“Time capsules are a product of a by-
gone age. There was a greater sense of
permanence to a community then. The
rate of change in the mid to late 1940s
was considerably slower than today,”
said Thompson. “But even so, people
were aware that things were changing
and most thought it a good idea to pre-
serve something of the “now” to look at
sometime in the future.”

Roland Moore a 79-year-old South
Vancouver resident, however, said “It
sure is nice to see a little bit of the past
every now and again.”

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Many
community
members
have fond
memories
of the old
outdoor
swimming
poolas
well as
lots of
wonderful
memories
in our
current
building

BARB WOMERSLEY

SUNSET
COMMUNITY
ASSOCIATION

Strip club
set to open
in the fall

After many delays, Gal-
lery Show Lounge still
promises customers they
will open in September

By NICO HERNANDEZ

proposed strip club in the Mar-
Ae: area continues to tease its

potential customers as it faces
permit and city approval delays.

Gallery Show Lounge was supposed
to open on SW Marine Drive under the
Arthur Laing Bridge on-ramp in 2014,
but structural changes have meant that
it now has to obtain approval from both
the City of Vancouver and the B.C. Li-
quor Control and Licensing Branch be-
fore opening, according to the Bert
Hick, speaker for Rising Tide Consul-
tants, a B.C. based liquor licensing
company.

“Quite frankly, it’s an old building.
There have been structural issues, and
architectural challenges,” Hick said. “It
has just taken quite a bit of time to get
this thing underway, get the building
permits approved, and they’re now in
construction.”

Gallery Show Lounge acquired the
liquor licence from the previous owner,
but the renovations require the com-
pany to reapply for its liquor licences.

Hick said that the SW Marine Drive
location was chosen to capture a di-
verse demographic that includes trav-
elers using the Vancouver Internation-
al Airport.

“There is a demand of strip club es-
tablishments near airports, but it will
cater towards to people in the SW Ma-
rine Drive, the business quarter and
the residential area as well,” he said.
“There is a market there to be served.”

The Marpole Residents’ Coalition, a
loosely organized group of Marpole
residents, is indifferent to the opening
of the club because The Fraser Arms,
which is located about a block west,
had exotic dancers until 2004.

Mike Burdick, spokesperson for the
coalition, said that the group polled
Marpole residents and found that Gal-
lery Show Lounge isn’t an issue.

“There are much bigger issues such
as density, transportation and schools,”
he said.

CLOSED STRIP CLUBS

in Metro Van

1 Oasis Restaurant and Bar - Downtown
2 ginger sixtytwo - Downtown
3 G Spot Show Lounge - Surrey

4 Ozone Nightclub - Surrey