June 23 to Aug 25 on Ambleside Landing from 6:30 to 8:30pm on Thursdays; $6 drop-in

Open to all; ph 925 7290; see http://ferrybuildinggallery.com for info.

Saturdays 9 to 3 - Dundarave Farmers' Market, 2400 Marine Drive

Sundays 10 to 3 - Ambleside Farmers' Market - Bellevue Ave & 13th St.

Date                                  Song                   Cinema                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Sunday July 10  The Sea To Sky Wind Ensemble         The Blind Side

Sunday July 17          Redgy Blackout Acoustic Duo           Invictus

Sunday, July 24 The Milleraires               It's Kind Of A Funny Story

~ noon to 2pm ~ Harmony Arts Preview Concert: The Adam Woodall Band at Park Royal

~ noon to 8:30pm ~ PARKS DAY 2011 -- Parks Canada turns 100!

Free party for hipsters featuring reggae poet K'Naan and Saskatoon's righteous psyche-rockers Sheepdogs.

Complete list of events: http://kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/events_calendar

Electronic newsletter: http://kaymeekcentre.weebly.com

Simplest way to get on email list, call 913 3634 (also for tix) or email tickets@kaymeekcentre.com

July 19 - Chamber Breakfast Club  --  Cafe TrafiQ, Ambleside

July 26 - Chamber Breakfast Club 2  --  Delany's, Dundarave

As You Like It

Great acting by Lois Anderson, on stage nearly the whole time

The Merchant of Venice

a difficult play, an excellent production; even with humour: John Murphy and Ryan Beil

Henry VI, Wars of the Roses

Three plays into one, masterfully melded by Christopher Weddell; complicated but made clear by the acting; politics and intrigue always with us, the well-intentioned side-lined

Richard III opens Saturday July 16

A Good Woman of Setzuan by Seven Tyrants Theatre

a musical re-imagining of Bertold Brecht's classic; 662 3207 www.seventyrants.com

The Director of Finance proposed another approach to budgeting, particularly in terms of aligning the budget with priorities.  She suggested migrating from the current process of a one-year budget and a five-year financial plan to a three-year planning horizon in order to focus better on longer term issues.  She also sought more specific guidance from Council in terms of a bottom line tax increase.  Discussion by council was inconclusive.

1.  Council should indicate the amount of the tax change to be used in the budget.  This would define the resources from taxation available to DWV for planning purposes at its beginning rather than at the end.  A range would also be set above and below this amount which would be managed through Increments and Decrements.

2. Increment and decrement packages would be prepared by Staff to enable tuning of the final budget according to Council priorities or, this year, by the new Council based on its own priorities.  These would act as "building blocks" of projects or programs which may be deleted (decrement) or added (increments) to come up with a final budget amount and related tax change.

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{ Dear Readers:

I will leave it to them (cclrs) to speak up in public at the ccl mtg rather than naming them.  Since this is an election year I assumed it wd be 0%.  Surely there'll be some discussion Monday 18th and definitely a Round Two at the next scheduled Finance Cmte mtg 4pm July 25th.  Obviously staff wd prefer to get some certainty now so preparation can be done over the summer and the draft budget can be presented in the fall -- with general agreement.  The sooner we find out, the more time we have for input and recommendations.

It's your cmnty -- get involved!

It's also your wallet!  }

THAT the Devt Permit Applic, which would allow for five townhouse units with ten underground parking spaces with variances to reduce yard setbacks, be approved.

{Please read the minutes of these two mtgs; critical information on devt, process, taxation, District finances, budget planning, etc.}

{Against selling land for AmbNOW studies, several supporting Pajari's Ccl comments and NSNews letter decrying selling land to build structures (wch will deteriorate).}

{This completes and clarifies my comments; also has G Polman's excellent questions re AmbNOW planning/expenditures since they do not appear in Ccl's minutes.}

Fresh out of the oven!

Thomas Haas's croissants were said to be the best, and now comes FOOTO!

What can you do but sip tea and try to find time to read a good book.

My tea discoveries are Tiramisu and the yummy banana cream tea from Murchie's.

- 2 to 4pm - Saturday August 13 in Dundarave Park

A Heritage West Van annual event (tel 922 4400)

I went for a drink with a Matador the other day. I had a tea, he had a cafe au lait.