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Asweapproachedthe Vancouver, BC railroad station on our Mt. Lassen Motor Transit tour, Pa- cific Coast by Bus, Train & Ship, we noticed the train was just barely moving. Then we saw our luggage being unloaded against the fence as the train slowly moved forward. When we reached the sta- tion, we were to go back, get our suitcases and then proceed to customs with our passport and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) card. Everyone had trou- ble filling out the CBSA card because we automat- ically write month, day and year when filling out the line for date, and the card wanted year, month and day. After the impressive King Street Station in Se- attle, the Vancouver sta- tion was just a dark rail road station. We were met by a Pa- cific Coach Line motor coach with driver Nick, for a guided tour of Vancou- ver, but after a very early breakfast, everyone was hungry. He said the BC stood for "bring cash." It was a sunny, blue sky Sun- day afternoon, and the traffic jams were like Cal- ifornia. Granville Island was our location for lunch, a penin- sula and shopping district located under the south end of the Granville Street Bridge. It was once an in- dustrial manufacturing area, but now a hotspot for Vancouver tourism. Wikipedia — "In 1915, with the port of Vancou- ver growing, the newly formed Vancouver Har- bour Commission ap- proved a reclamation proj- ect in False Creek for an industrial area. A 14-hect- are (35-acre) island, con- nected to the mainland by a combined road and rail bridge at its south end, was to be built. Al- most 760,000 cubic me- tres (1,000,000 cubic yard) of fill was dredged from the surrounding waters of False Creek to create the island under the Granville Street Bridge. The total cost for the reclamation was $342,000. It was orig- inally called Industrial Is- land, but Granville Island, named after the bridge that ran directly overhead, was the name that stuck." There were five large si- lo's that had colorful mu- rals painted on them, be- hind a wire fence near Public Market. It is a working cement plant on Granville Island. The biggest attraction on Granville Island is the Public Market. Housed in- doors, there are endless rows of stalls that feature fresh produce, gourmet foods, baked goods, sea- food and many other com- mercial vendors. During the 2010 Win- ter Olympics, a free shut- tle service was offered be- tween Granville Island and Sky Train's Olym- pic Village in the SE False Creek neighborhood. Kendra and I, plus sev- eral others from our tour, found a sit down restau- rant on the water away from the public market, and saw the 49ers lose to the Giants, 28-0, on the television. Vancouver has had a dry summer, and usually the leaves are just turning color. This year they are falling off the trees when it is breezy. We drove through Chinatown, Gas- town, Canada Place, Rob- son Street. The buildings are built of concrete and glass because of the dark winter days. Many of the condo's had trees and gardens on their roof tops or patios. Many locations had been sites for the Winter Olym- pics. From the bus we saw the statue of Dr. Sun Yat- Sen in the city park, and it was built about the same time as The Classical Chi- nese Garden. Sharing the same pond, the park is an extension of the Garden and both were built for Expo '86. Gastown featured a de- lightful history as told by Nick. I picked up a bro- chure that read: " Vancou- ver was born in Gastown. As old as Canada itself, the neighborhood owes its start to Gassy Jack and the saloon he built on its shore. "Armed with only a bar- rel of whiskey and a pen- chant for long-winded tales, John "Gassy Jack" Deighton wandered through the wilderness of the Coast Salish lands in 1867 and set up his sa- loon on the south shores of Burrard Inlet. Where the whisky went, others soon followed and the loggers and mill-workers named the area Gastown to hon- our Jack for his generous pours. " Almost every build- ing in Gastown has a her- itage designation. Most were built right after Van- couver's Great Fire in 1886 and the area was desig- nated a National Historic Site in 2009. The Gastown Steam Clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Incorporating a steam engine and electric mo- tors, the clock displays the time on four faces and an- nounces the quarter hours with a whistle chime that plays the Westminister Quarters. The large cen- tral whistle counts off the full hours." No one can visit Van- couver without visiting Stanley Park, and we had a tour of the park with many others on a sunny Sunday. Wikipedia: "Stanley Park is a 1,001-acre public park on a peninsula that borders the downtown of Vancouver, and is almost entirely surrounded by wa- ters of Vancouver Harbour and English Bay. "The park has a long history and was one of the first areas to be explored in the city. The land was originally used by indig- enous peoples for thou- sands of years before Brit- ish Columbia was colo- nized by the British during the 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. For many years after colonization, the fu- ture park with its abun- dant resources would also be home to non-aboriginal settlers. The land was later turned into Vancouver's first park when the city in- corporated in 1886. It was named after Lord Stan- ley, a British politician who had recently been ap- pointed governor general. "Much of the park re- mains as densely forested as it was in the late 1800s, with about a half million trees, some of which stand as tall as 76 metres (249 ft) and are up to hundreds of years old. Thousands of trees were lost (and many replanted) after three ma- jor windstorms that took place in the past 100 years, the last in 2006. "Significant effort was put into constructing the near-century-old Vancou- ver Seawall which can draw thousands of resi- dents and visitors to the park every day. It is a stone wall that was con- structed around the pe- rimeter of Stanley Park to prevent the erosion of the park's foreshore. The term also denotes the pe- destrian, bicycle, and roller blading pathway on the seawall. "One of Stanley Park's most fascinating attrac- tions (and one of the most-visited tourist at- tractions in British Co- lumbia) is the renowned totem-pole display at Brockton Point. Begun in the early 1920s with just four totems from Vancou- ver Island's Alert Bay re- gion, the display grew over the decades to in- clude totems from the Queen Charlotte Islands and Rivers Inlet (on Brit- ish Columbia's central coast). Some of the orig- inal totem poles were carved as early as the late 1880s and have been sent to museums for preser- vation; others were com- missioned or loaned to the park between 1986 and 1992. Lions Gate Bridge from Stanley Park to North Van- couver was built for six million dollars in 1938. The same architect that designed the Golden Gate Bridge, only not as long. The park also features forest trails, beaches, lakes, children's play ar- eas, among many other at- tractions including one hour horse drawn wagon tours. On June 18, 2014 Stanley Park was named "top park in the entire world" by TripAdvisor. JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@ gmail.com. JEANBARTON A visit to Vancouver, BC Tehama Angus Ranch, Gerber, ranked as third largest and Byrd Cattle Company LLC, Red Bluff, ranked as sixth largest in registering the most An- gus beef cattle in Califor- nia with the American An- gus Association during fis- cal year 2015, which ended Sept. 30, according to Rich- ard Wilson, association in- terim CEO. Angus breeders across the nation in 2015 regis- tered 320,362 head of An- gus cattle. "Our growth this fiscal year continues to demon- strate strong demand for Angus genetics and solidi- fiesourlong-heldpositionas aleaderinthebeefcattlein- dustry," Wilson says. "These resultsunderscoreourmem- bers'commitmenttoprovid- ing genetic solutions to the beef cattle industry." The American Angus Association is the nation's largest beef breed orga- nization, serving 25,000 members across the United States, Canada and several other countries. The asso- ciation provides programs and services to farmers, ranchers and others who rely on Angus to produce quality genetics for the beef industry and quality beef for consumers. For more information about Angus cattle and the Association, visit www. ANGUS.org. TEHAMA COUNTY Ranchers ranked by Angus Association The Paul L. Byrne Me- morial Agriculture Teach- ing and Research Center at California State Uni- versity, Chico, commonly known as the University Farm, was ranked No. 1 in College Values Online's re- cent list of top sustainable college farms. To create the list, the col- legerankingcompanymea- sured the sustainability of the top 30 from its initial pool of 100 college farms. Points were awarded for farm size, being certified organic, having animal components, providing ac- ademic courses on the farm and selling to campus din- inghalls,CSAbasketshares and other venues. College Values Online also ranked CSU, Chico No. 30 in its list of schools offering the most value to agriculture students. That ranking was based on pay- scale.com return-on-invest- ment data, tuition, finan- cial aid and number of ag- ricultural programs. The 800-acre University Farm is among the nation's mostdiversifiedandproduc- tive college-run farms. With fourlivestockunits,aUSDA- inspected meat laboratory and 600 acres of orchards, row crops and greenhouses, students have unparalleled access to hands-on learning in the heart of the nation's food basket. About 10 percent of the farm's acreage is certified organic, including an or- ganic dairy and a variety of organic vegetable crops. Through a sustainabil- ity partnership with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in Chico, beef cattle raised at the University Farm are fed grain and yeast byproducts from the brewing process and eventually become the beef supply for the brew- ery's restaurant. And earlier this year, the College of Agriculture cohosted the Western Re- gional Grazing Confer- ence themed "Grazing for Change," which focused on sustainable farming and ranching practices. "The University Farm is the living laboratory for ag- riculture students at Chico State," said Dave Daley, in- terim dean for the College of Agriculture. "It is likely the most diversified farm- ing operation in North- ern California, which gives students opportunities to work with a wide variety of crops, livestock and pro- duction systems. Our stu- dent-centered approach at the University Farm gives undergraduates the oppor- tunity to take the lead in day-to-day management, giving them valuable lead- ership and team-building skills as they prepare to en- ter the workforce." Other California college farms making the top-30 sustainability list include UC Davis (No. 6); UC Santa Cruz (No. 14); Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo (No. 18); and Butte College (No. 30). 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