INDEX Business Dining Food... Sports... 16 33 of 40 NORTH SHORE NEWS North Shore Michael! Becker News Editor mnbecker@nusnews.com A session held last week on high-speed Internet access on the North Shore provided the seed of the beginning of a new business association. The North Shore Technology Industry Association will offer: @ partnering and networking oppor- tunities for North Shore professionals; @ access to bidding on applications development for new community ser- vices; @ shared visibility in marketing the capabilities of North Shore” profes- sionals and businesses to the world. Said Angels Trudeau, chair of smartnorthshore.org, a federally incorporated non-profit society work- _ ing with the goal to create a commu- nity that will make use of information and communication technologies in new ways, “The whole point is oppor- tunity for the North Shore. [f we don’t make it possible for North Shore technology professionals to get first crack at the opportunities, then we haven’t done what we've intended to — so that’s why a technology industry association. “Although there is a B.C. and a Canadian one and so on, I don’t see us duplicating their efforts, just fitting in to what they do. We need to have a way for people to partner, because individuals can’t bid on very much. They can team up and bid on lots of stuff. Beyond all the commu- nications capability of the Internet you still have to get people face to face,” said Trudeau. She envisions a new Web portal, an Internet address for all of the North Shore community. “People {ooking for the North Shore have one point of contact. The North Van chamber has thought about running a Request For Proposals service so that professionals that are registered with them would get automatic e-mail bulletins about oppor- tunities that they might want to bid on. It’s certain- ly a great idea. Especially in technology, job oppor- tunities are independent business opportunities. Very few people are truly employees anymore.” The North Shore has been shortlisted in B.C. to tap up to $5 million worth of Industry Canada fund- ing available through a national initiative called the Smart Community Program. The project invelves a partnership of North Vancouver District, West Vancouver District, North Vancouver City, the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation and the Port of Vancouver. The Connectivity 2000 session held last week at Capilano College attracted some 370 attendees. They came to connect with Rogers@Home con- sultant Kevin Winslow; Telus ADSL experts Parker Moore and A! Strachan; and Dana M. Epp, picsi- dent and CEO of NetMaster Networking Solutions, ne. Artist fundraises for ADD Layne Christensen News Reporter Echristensen@nsnews.com ELAINE Sills is your typi- cal creative type. Driven by her creativity she often stays up late into the night, painting in her home studio. Friends know not to schedule early-morning appointments with her. She likes to leave things down to the wire. Bright and cheery, she : bores easily so always has 101 things on the go. She’s also your cppical over- achiever, who worked hard at a career — as 2 design and art con- ‘sultant, first editor of Canadian House and Home magazine and, in . later years, a real estate agent — while mising a family... wes. +ae, .Thipgh donations, of artwork ee re ee | ay . ate Leet nem eT HOUR EHH KEE THEE OTE FH Ee Le yesh ne eer > s: Sviteant But for Sills, now 61, these characteristics add up to more than just personality. They add up to attention deficit disorder, or ADD for short. _ Sills says the effects of ADD first became apparent to her when she moved from Toronto to the North Shore nine years ago and left behind the structured environment of her work and home life. A friend whose brother suffered from the disorder recommended she read Driven to Distraction, a book on ADD. Says Sills: “It was like learning about myself all over again. It made me feel: hey, this is OK” Recognizing that she’s got it is half the battle. Now she wants to help others who may be affected by the disorder. and commissions, Sills has raised close to $5,000 tor ADD research and education programs. She hopes to raise more money for the cause, through an exhibition and sale of her paintings at the Dundarave Cafe, 2427 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. The exhibition and sale opens with a reception this evening, from 5 to 7 p.m., and continues to March 31. . Sills has tided the show The Diversity of One: an artist’s multi- ple visions of the real and imagined. It includes about 30 of the artist’s paintings that represent a variety of stylistic approaches, from large, colourful abstracts to impressionis- tic landscapes, a spectrum of work that, says Sills, suggests the hands of many, but come from the mind of a person with ADD. . ae eo rye sey Bo » . eeheesreervaesoguecs Wednesday. March 1, 2000 —- North Shore News - 15 COMMUNITY LIFE NEWS photo Julie iverson ANGELA Trudeau, chair of SmartNorthShore, and Pinc System’s Frank Preckel sign up for the new North Share Technology industry Association. The event was co-sponsored by the North Shore News, Capilano College and Pinc Systems. Pine Systems is an authorized solution provider for Intel. Pinc’s Frank Preckel supports SmartNorthShore and the creation of a North Shore Technology Industry Association. Said Preckel, “Pine Systems is an advocate of collaboration. We have adopted a move global vision ourselves and we are expanding our horizons to international bound- aries. Through the resources available to us through Intel we can inject support to SmartNorthShore which works to our mutual advantage.” To get involved with SmartNorthShore or the technology association ¢-mail to . ~ raise awareness.and funds for close te how Readers: meet Nis. Neilson ‘THOSE of you who know me as Shannon Humphreys may be wondcring about the new name you see at the top of this column. To explain, my maiden, name is Nelson, and when my marriage ended a while ago I started thinking about whether [ wanted to stick with my married name, Humphreys. I am a woman in marital status transition, so to speak, and I don’t know," mv married name fects like a misnomer to me now. After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to revert to the name Nelson. Here are just a tew things I took into con- sideration: First of all, the practical side of the equation is com- pelling. My maiden name (Nelson) is much easier to write than my married name. It’s shorter and flatter, whereas Humphreys has a bunch of up and down loops Sve more page &1