Just finished reading Vol. V111 over a couple of cups of coffee and thoroughly enjoyed it. Some fabulous articles & stories. It's amazing the number of talented, interesting, and thoughtful residents we have in Lions Bay. I found many of the articles informative, entertaining, and insightful giving cause to reflect. Thank you to everyone involved for sharing your experiences and your time.

Dale Falconer.

Empowerment Coaching, what is it?

I often get asked this question as many people are not sure what the heck I do.  We are in a time of rapid change as humanity. Many of our old ideas and beliefs are not working anymore for us.  We are witness to the change with old systems collapsing, one of them being the financial arena as we knew it, another being jobs which are connected to the financial arena.

These are just a couple of examples of change, there are many more and we are being challenged to think differently and to use our minds in new ways. We have previously been taught to use our logical minds in order to make decisions and come to conclusions, the scientific model.  With the onset of the web and so much more information being available to us, we are often inundated with information and have way too much information and too many decisions for us to make. This is why many of us are stressed these days.

Lions Bay Historical Society Update " Looking Back" Summer 2009 Edition

Our LBHS DVD interview will be conducted with Elizabeth Dehabieh (Mrs. D.) owner of Funtime Daycare during the month of June. We have 10 DVD interviews in our archives. They are of past and present residents talking about the early days in Lions Bay.

The LBHS team has been busy phoning and collecting photos from previous Council members to complete the photo gallery at Council Chambers.

We hope to finish this project in the near future.

We are looking for some photos!  If residents of Lions Bay have photos of council pictures (1970's & 1980's) in their archives please contact the people listed below.

The LBHS will be at the Canada Day Celebration with the Lions Bay Photo Project Albums and the Photo Boards.
The LBHS booklet " Historical Passages from the 1790's to the present" will be available for $ 8.00 a copy
Our popular Lions Bay Stickers will be available @ 1 for $ 2.00 and 3 for $ 5.00
The cloth type stickers are $3.00 and are fantastic for luggage/hiking gear.
Come and visit us at the Lions Bay beach park this Canada Day.

Our members will be busy for the Fall 2009 season in preparing material pertaining to the Brunswick Centennial Trail Opening and Celebration.

Our members will feature a story board on the Lions, featuring hiking stories from the past 100 years and some pretty amazing photos.

Our Annual LBHS Croquet Tournament (one of our highlights) is held this year on Saturday, July 18, 2009.

If you wonder how to get involved by volunteering a few hours per month contact;

Myron Loutet Chair; 921-8698
Tony Cox treasurer  921-9496
Trudi Luethy        921-9992

This year a record number of Lions Bay Grade 12 students - twenty-one in all -  are leaving behind the High Schools of Rockridge, West Van, Sentinel and Collingwood, to embark on the next phase of their careers. A goodly number, "rarin' to go", were able to attend the end-of-year Annual General Meeting of the Lions Bay Community Scholarship Foundation on 3rd June, held in the Village Hall (thank you Councilor Simons for relinquishing the earlier booking of the Green Energy Task Force at very short notice). We were very pleased to see so many take time away from busy exam preparation, along with parents and friends, to attend the meeting.

The Meeting included a sincere expression of appreciation for the generosity of Norm and Vickie Kirby. This year they established the Norman Kirby Scholarship Fund, a perpetual endowment where particular consideration is to be given to supporting a student or students in need. It is an independent Fund that will greatly enhance the existing Curly Stewart and LBCSF scholarship endowments that exist in Lions Bay.

It is an interesting exercise to explore what might be imagined if we were to live toward an ethic of caring for nature, as if unfrozen from a disembodied enchantment of the consumerist worldview. If we could depart from a human-nature ethic that has devastated the planet and that has resulted in substantial inequity of people around the globe, I wonder if we might uncover the “dormant sensitivities” of humanity—namely, deep and profound care for the Earth. I envision that these sensitivities have been suppressed over the last few centuries, and have consequently limited our ability to place analogous value on the more-than-human world. The phenomenon of care, as a dimension of the human world, can be explored with its relevance to our humanness and nature ethics.

One might argue that the dominant ethical stance of the human condition, when it comes to nature, is one that places humans above the natural world in the name of “progress.” In addition to this human-centered thinking, an estimated 3-billion people, nearly half the world, live on less than $2.50 per day, while 95% of people living in developing countries live on less than 10¢ per day (Shah 2008).

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meets yearly. This years meeting, again, pinpointed that lifestyle does make a difference. BMI or Body Mass Index and waist–to-hip circumference are important and easy to use measures of obesity. People with abdominal obesity are at increased risk for all types of cancer.

Decreasing obesity: Litton and colleagues writing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology compared BMI and response to chemotherapy in 1,169 women with breast cancer from 1990 to 2004. Normal weight patients were more likely to have tumor shrinkage after chemotherapy than heavier patients. Obese patients also had more aggressive and difficult-to-treat tumors (less hormone-dependant tumors), more Stage III and IV tumors and worse overall survival four years later.

Increasing Exercise: Irwin investigated whether walking makes a difference in survival. Compared with women who were inactive both before and after diagnosis, women who increased physical activity after diagnosis had a 45% lower risk of death.  On the other hand, women who decreased physical activity after diagnosis had a four-fold greater risk of death.

This information presented at the ASCO meeting clarifies that breast cancer patients can improve their survival outcomes, measured as disease-free survival and over-all survival, by reducing their BMI (obesity) and increasing their exercise. Further, reducing BMI improves response to cancer treatments and reduces complications. BMI data show that even brisk walking provides a survival benefit for breast cancer patients. All women with breast cancer should be encouraged to eat well and exercise.

While I enjoy my association with our Library very much, another connection also gives me great interest and that is the Book Clubs of Lions Bay.  We have three active clubs of women who meet monthly, with chosen books to review, a glass of wine and friendship to enjoy. My club “Chapter Three” has enjoyed a wonderful selection of books read over the past 4 years.

This year’s choices were no exception.  Our selections included Vancouver writer Wayson Choy’s “Jade Peony”, which gives the history of the Chinese settling in Vancouver and their struggle to make a livelihood and maintain their old world habits and religion.  We all thought this was an awesome choice that many of us would not have read if not for book club.
Also read was “Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures” by Vincent Lam, which garnered the author the Giller Prize.