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Burnaby low on the Best Places to Live listBurnaby may have been
Canadas best-
run city in 2009 but it placed low on a list ofmost livable
cities in the country in 2010.
MoneySense magazine ranked Burnaby137 out of 179 cities across
Canada on itsannual Best Places to Live list. Burnabydropped from
its 94th-place ranking in2009.
But Mayor Derek Corrigan thinks it isstill a pretty nice place
to live, and pointedout that the many people who move here
seem to agree.Im still pretty proud of our portion of
the world, Corrigan said.Burnabys low ranking in the liva-
bility survey was affected by a literaldamp cloud hanging over
the city,according to Dan Bortolotti and PhilFroats, who wrote the
story accom-panying the survey.
In the precipitation department,we look for the sweet spot of
700 mil-lilitres of rain or snow annually, thepair wrote. British
Columbia communitieslay at both extremes in this category:
bone-
dry communities in the interior, such asKelowna and Penticton,
scored low, as didsoggy coastal cities such as Prince Rupert
and Burnaby.Corrigan acknowledged that peo-
ple who have an ability to moveanywhere they like do consider
theweather when doing so, mention-ing his brother-in-law who
started abusiness in Sydney, Australia, par-tially for that
reason.
But New Westminster rankedexactly the same as Burnaby,
weather-wise,and placed at 50 on the annual list.
Both cities ranked at 146 out of the 179cities for rain and snow
days, and 173 forannual precipitation levels.
Burnaby, however, also ranked low inthe affordable housing
category at 175 and was second-to-last for how long takesto buy a
house here, at 7.6 years.
Corrigan pointed out that factors suchas the weather, housing
affordability andaverage income are out of the municipali-tys
control. Cities such as Burnaby, locatedbetween other Lower
Mainland cities andthe ocean, dont have the ability to expand
The sweetsmell ofskunk:Nine-year-old GarrettYeo gets awhiff of
thepungentskunkspray atMetropolis atMetrotown.The mallis puttingon
AnimalGrossology,an interactivedisplay thatfeaturesanimalpoo
andfarts in aneducationaland funsetting. Thedisplayopens today see
a sneakpreview onpage 3.
Awhiffof
what?
Janaya Fuller-Evansstaff reporter
City Page 8
The health of Byrne Creek is gettingbetter after a March 4
chemical spill killedeverything.
Its recovering slowly. Weve beenreleasing fish in there, and
they have beensurviving, said Paul Cipywnyk of the ByrneCreek
Streamkeepers.
The volunteer stream stewards have beenreleasing small fish into
the creek with thehelp of community members.
The streamkeepers have also been fresh-ening up storm drain
markers bright yel-low fish symbols that remind people not todump
anything down storm drains.
The March 4 spill killed the creeks fishpopulations, including
baby coho salmonthat had just hatched and were emergingfrom the
gravel and coho smolts that werealmost ready to head out to sea.
Residentcutthroat trout also perished. Volunteersfrom the Byrne
Creek Streamkeepers count-ed about 500 dead fish but estimated
1,000 to2,000 were killed in total.
Environment Canada test results showedthat various types of
cleaning agents werereleased into the creek.
According to the Fisheries Act, its ille-gal to dump substances
harmful to fish ortheir habitat into waterways. Under the
act,first-time offenders could be fined up to$300,000.
Fish are backin the creekJennifer Moreaustaff reporter
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Getting ticketed in Burnaby willsoon be done with state of the
art equip-ment.
The change takes place shortly afterthe city increased parking
fines for thefirst time in 15 years, according to DougLouie,
assistant director of engineering.
The new system, which is to befunded with $315,000 from
capitalworks, could also include cameras forthe devices, voice
communication andGPS safety tracking.
Since 1995, the city has issued tick-ets from handheld devices
that havean integrated printer. Now, parkingenforcement will be
done with wirelesshandheld devices that allow commu-nication
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A report submitted to city council bythe engineering department
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bylaw officials arecurrently issuing tickets manually.
Parking fines were not increased tofund the new system, but to
stay in linewith other municipalities, Louie said.
Council passed a bylaw last summerwhich defined the current fine
regula-tions in Burnaby and included newcriteria.
A managers report that includedthe new bylaw, 12657, was
approvedin March. The city approved the bylawdispute adjudication
system last June.
All bylaws and fines are clarifiedunder the new system, Louie
said.
We looked at some of the (fine)rates and they were extremely
low,Louie said of the parking fine increase,adding that the fines
are still low butnow more in line with other cities.
Parking meter fines were previously$50, but only $25 if paid
within 15 days.The new system kept the regular fine at$50, but
fines are now $40 if paid within15 days.
Parking fines for all other infractionsincreased to $80, $64 if
paid within 15days.
The increase in parking fines wasmade after a review showed that
ourparking fines were well below whatmany other municipalities were
charg-ing Louie added in an e-mail. Forexample, Vancouver fines are
$60 formeters and $90 for others, while NewWestminster fines are
$70 and $80respectively.
ParkingsystemupgradedJanaya Fuller-Evansstaff reporter
Pooping and farting should still bringa smile to the face of any
young boy, butat Metropolis at Metrotown this summer,crap and gas
are all part of the educationalexperience.
The Animal Grossology exhibit, whichopens on Saturday in
theGrand andAtriumcourts at Metropolis at Metrotown and runsuntil
Aug. 22, features a variety of interac-tive exhibits that show the
wonder of someof the slimiest, stinkiest and yuckiest
bodilyfunctions of animals.
The interactive 3D exhibit is based onSylvia Branzeis
best-selling Grossologybooks and the exhibits will keep
childrenentertained for many hours.
Kids will experience a carnival-likeatmosphere that also has a
large learn-ing and educational focus, said ArtieChumpol, public
and community relationsmanager forMetropolis atMetrotown. Notonly
will kids learn a lot of interesting factsabout animals, parents
will also learn a lotof cool things and the parents will alsoget a
break to go shopping.
Animal Grossology exhibits take up bothof themain courts in
themall,with the largerdisplay in the Grand Court geared
towardolder kids and teenagers. The smaller dis-play in the Atrium
Court features games
and displays for younger children ages fiveto 10. Best of all,
everything is free.
This years exhibit follows on the heelsof last summers wildly
popular dinosaursexhibit, which had more than 1.5 millionvisitors
during its summer run.
Anne Blaine, special events manager atthemall, said finding an
exhibit for this yearwasnt easy.
We are always looking for new, andfresh ideas and this was one
that I sawdisplayed in Reno, Nevada, said Blaine.When I looked at
bring-ing this here, I found outthis would be the first timeAnimal
Grossology would befeatured in Canada.
Blaine said a similar dis-play, Human Grossology, didappear in
Vancouver a coupleof years ago, but the wondersof animals are even
more fas-cinating than human bodilyfunctions.
On a Thursday afternoonmedia tour of the exhibits,the Burnaby
NOW conscriptednine-year-old Garrett Yeo yes, hes mynephew to be
our test subject.
Garrett started with the Scents display,where people can put
their noses up to fourdifferent pumps, squeeze and inhale a
smellthat only animals can produce.
Wow, thats really stinky, Garrett saidof his first whiff.
And who could argue when he discov-
ered that he had just inhaled the spray ofa skunk?
Not all the smells are as bad as the skunkspray, but in the
adjacent igloo display, thefake poo balls are nasty enough.
A display of animals, from an elephantto a rabbit to a penguin,
are featured along-side fake piles of animal poo. Childrenmustlook
inside the camera, focus on the pooand then try and correctly match
up the pooto the animal that produced it.
I know which one is the elephant poo,said Garrett. It took me a
coupleof times to figure out what therabbit poo was.
Perhaps the most fun gamein the big kids area is the
frog-belching game. Because somefrogs belch out their babies
dur-ing childbirth, the Grossologydisplay mimics that action,
withkids trying to belch out balls intoscoring areas on the
board.
This is the game I havethe toughest time with, saidChumpol as
she watched Garretthard at play. I think kids will
have a lot of fun with this game.AsGarrettmovedover to
theTransfusion
Confusion game, the wonderful worldof animal blood was
introduced to theMarlborough French immersion student.
Garrett learned that blood isnt alwaysred, as some animals have
clear, blue oryellow blood as well. For example, most
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Its gross but also great fun
We are alwayslooking for newand fresh ideas,and this was onethat
I saw dis-played in Reno,Nevada.ANNE BLAINEspecial events
manager
Animal Grossology to take overMetropolis for three monthsAlfie
Laustaff reporter
Larry Wright/burnaby now
Gross Page 4
Eww: Garrett Yeo demonstrates how to aim a viewing scope at
various types of poo before trying to identify which pile goeswith
which animal. Its part of the Animal Grossology exhibit at
Metropolis at Metrotown, on till Aug. 22.
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insects have clear blood while mostcrustaceans have blue
blood.
Garrett had the guiding hand ofpublicist Melissa Guillergan
lead-ing him through the displays, andGuillergan suggested that he
mightbe interested in seeing the youngerkids displays in the Atrium
Court.
As we walked through the busymall, we could see that many
kidswere envious of what Garrett wasdoing.
Were expecting a lot of kids tocome through here during the
open-ingweekend, said Chumpol. Wevealready had a lot of kids with
theirfaces pressed up to the fence lookingat the displays.
When we arrived at the AtriumCourt, we found a giant
submarinewhere kids can look through a peri-
scope and see whats happening inthe mall all through a secret
videocamera.
Kids also learn about fish andother water animals before they
canclimb up through a tunnel and godown a slide.
And then its off to the Dung Ballchallenge, where four kids at a
timecan go to the computer station andtry to push a dung ball up
the hill thefastest.
Garrett convinced his uncle andNOW photographer Larry Wright
totry out the computer game and,because Wright and I are
considerateadults, we let Garrett win the battleto the top of the
hill.
Returning to the Grand Atriumfor a look at the other games,
wefound out that tapeworms can growup to 60 feet long and there are
some
villages in Africa where one in twopeople has a tapeworm in
them.
We also learned that hippos usu-ally poo in the water, but if
they pooon land, they leave droppings the sizeof small bowling
balls, and gorillasoften eat their own poop because theyare shaped
like a big Tootsie roll.
While the exhibits are open duringmall hours, Chumpol said
teachershave already signed up to bring theirclasses in for field
trips.
There are so many learningopportunities here, and its a lot
offun as well, said Chumpol.
Kids will want to keep on com-ing back to try all the exhibits,
andthey will learn something new eachtime.
For more information, go to www.metropolisatmetrotown.com.
[email protected]
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while yousearch for an accessible entrance.
Those are just a couple examplesof things people in wheelchairs
doevery day, and on May 12, politiciansin Ottawa had a chance to
see whatlife was like in a wheelchair.
Local MP Peter Julian participatedin the event to help highlight
disabil-ity issues.
It was far more difficult than Iexpected, and it opened my eyes
thatwe really have to make Canada moreaccessible, he said.
Julian was joined by 25 otherpoliticians, mostly MPs and
somesenators, who were responding toa call from the Canadian
ParaplegicAssociation to spend their work dayin a wheelchair. The
annual eventkicks off spinal cord injury awarenessmonth in May.
The idea is participants go abouttheir normal working day in a
wheel-chair, having to make extra time tofind accessible entrances
and wash-rooms. They are only allowed to leavetheir chairs while in
the House ofCommons. There is only one wheel-chair-accessible floor
space in theHouse of Commons chamber, and
thats for Conservative MP StevenFletcher, the only MP in a
wheel-chair.
Several senators and MPs haveparticipated over the three
years,since the annual event started.
I proudly support this veryimportant initiative, Julian
said.More than 250,000 Canadians relyon wheelchairs to get around
eachday. It is essential that able-bodiedpersons experience some of
the chal-lenges Canadians with disabilitiesface and help raise
awareness of theirneeds and abilities.
Julian noticed several difficultieswhile in the wheelchair. A
two-min-ute bus ride became a 20-minute waitfor the only
wheelchair-accessiblebus. He had to go around the backof the
Parliament buildings to get insince the front entrance is not
acces-sible.
He also noted how little thingslike light switch positions and
howto open and close blinds became anissue.
Julian is also former executivedirector for the Western
Institute forthe Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Jennifer Moreaustaff reporter
Wheeling to raise awareness
Photo contributed/burnaby now
Overcoming obstacles: MP Peter Julian, at right, was one of
25politicians who tried out life in wheelchairs as part of an
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Do we want representativegovernment? Yes. Do weget it?
No.Burnaby city council now
consists of eight members allfrom the same party; theyreceived
51 per cent of the votesat the last election.The other 49 per
centof the votes did notyield any representa-tives of those voters
points ofview.
The previous election in 2005was mainly a contest betweentwo
parties; the one that got themost votes got three councillors;the
other party got fewer votesbut got five councillors.
It is clear that the city govern-ment we get is not
representa-tive of the voters. These typesof results are
characteristic ofthe block-voting system that weuse. On examining
the results ofseveral Burnaby and Vancouverelections one finds that
a partythat gets over 50 per cent of thevotes will probably get 100
percent of the council seats, and aparty that gets under 30 per
centof the vote will probably getzero council seats.
The provincial govern-ment recently set up the LocalGovernment
Elections TaskForce to look at several issuesassociated with
governmentelections.
The task force received manymore submissions than it
hadanticipated and has posted themon its website. On reading
them
one finds there is an overwhelm-ing opposition to any form
ofcorporate vote. The backgroundinformation provided by thetask
force tells us it could findonly one place in the world inwhich a
corporate vote exists,
and that is the tiny por-tion of central London,England, its
financialcentre, that is known
as The City. Yet, many in ourbusiness community plead thatthey
should not be taxed with-out representation. Read on andyou will
find the solution belowthat should make most peoplehappy.
The task force did not havethe system of voting explic-itly
mentioned in its mandate.Despite this, 10 of the 45 submis-sions
from organized groups ofcitizens made recommendationsabout the
voting system. Theclear message from them is thatthey want city
councils to bemore representative. The recom-mendations included
the use ofpreferential voting, wards andallowing each city or
municipal-ity to choose its voting system.None of the submissions
recom-mended keeping the presentblock voting system.
If we are to be able to havelocal governments that are
trulyrepresentative of the voters thenit will be necessary to use
someform of proportional representa-tion obtained using
preferentialvoting.
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To be sure, governments are gun-shyabout revealing information
for fear ofendangering someones privacy rights.
But those concerns do not excuse thevacuum-sealed approach to
releasinginformation. Moreover, even if you canfind the
information, you still often haveto pay for its compilation in
amountsthat make it prohibitive to obtain. Thengovernment stalling
tactics and appealsoften stretch the potential release
ofinformation for months and months.
This past week, democracy was alsodealt another blow when the
SupremeCourt of Canada decided, in an 8-1 split,not to back the
National Posts actionsto protect a confidential source. The
decision does not mean that journalistswill not try to protect
their sources, butit certainly means that those who wouldtry will
face less legal support and thatwill send a chill through
journalists andwhistleblowers. (For the editors view,go to Pat
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If the CNA thinks B.C. deserved a D+ ,wed also like to add a D
to the SupremeCourts report card.
Both deserve a failing grade wheredemocracy and freedom of
informationare concerned.
Its time for realrepresentation
City must act on homelessnessDear Editor
Dear Editor: Re: Working to end homelessness(In My Opinion,
Burnaby NOW,May 8)
Ms. Mulholland makes many excellent points inher column.
Perhaps the most important is that all levels ofgovernment
including Burnaby must get morefully involved in addressing this
issue.
Some of your readers object to spending civicfunds on the
homeless, as the homeless are not for-mally a civic concern.
They ought to reflect on two points: (1) millionsof civic
dollars are already spent each year on thehomeless and (2) Burnaby
could reduce such spend-ing (potentially freeing tens of millions
of local dol-
lars over a decade for other purposes) by makinga capital
contribution to the proposed ProgressiveHousing shelter.
How are Burnaby dollars already spent on home-lessness?
It happens most times an RCMP officer attends acall for police
service involving the homeless.
Absent a local properly equipped and staffedemergency shelter,
most homeless persons accusedof misdemeanours like loitering on
Burnaby streetsjust ride in a police car, sit in a cell for a few
hours,and then go back to the street as they are not guiltyof real
crimes.
If 15 per cent of Burnaby RCMP calls involvenon-criminal
homeless people, then as much as$6 million (or 15 per cent) of the
now $40 million
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
As we saw above,presently a party with 50per cent of the vote
usu-ally gets 100 per cent ofthe council. This is notfair
representation. It isessential to have a varietyof voices on
council withdifferent points of view sothat reasoned discussionsand
decisions can takeplace. Even the occasionaleccentric is good to
haveas such people can makepeople think more clearlyabout their
values, andthey can be harbingers ofsignificant change in
atti-tudes.
There is no questionthat the best system toobtain proportional
rep-resentation is the singletransferable vote. It isthe choice of
voters oncethey understand what itcan bring them. It is thechoice
of academics whenthey reason that the vot-ers should get what
theywant and vote for. WhatSTV does is to group equalnumbers of
voters, not bygeography, but by theirinterests. If used properly,it
also puts in the hands ofthe voters the choice as towhich
candidates offeredby each of the parties areelected, and the
ability toelect popular independentcandidates. Those who runthe
political machines havea deep-rooted hatred ofSTV as it transfers
powerfrom them to the voters.When it was introduced
in two dozen cities in theU.S.A. early in the lastcentury, it
played a sig-nificant role in reducingcorruption in their
admin-istration, and it resulted inimproved services at lesscost.
The politicians man-aged to get it repealed inall these cities,
except forCambridge, Massachusetts,which uses it to this day.
In 1917, the B.C. legisla-ture passed a bill that per-mitted any
city or munici-pality to use proportionalrepresentation, and at
leasteight, including Victoria,Vancouver and NewWestminster,
adoptedSTV for their elections.As expected, it resulted inimproved
representation.
In the three electionsin Vancouver in which itwas used, it
resulted in theelection of one of the citysleading business men
anda representative of orga-nized labour, which it hadnever had
before.
STV in B.C. was got ridof by politicians when theyrealized its
potential forgiving power to the vot-ers. In New Westminster,the
city council rescindedSTV without any publicbody requesting this,
yetthere were strong protestsafterwards. In Victoria,STV was
adopted by plebi-scite but repealed after oneelection due to a
campaignagainst it by a local news-paper which spread thefalse
statement that ballotswere transferred to per-
sons for whom the voterhad not voted.
A number of other citiesin Western Canada haveused STV. The
longestuses were in Calgary from1917 to 1971 and Winnipegfrom 1920
to 1970.
The Local GovernmentElections Task Force oughtto consider
seriously ourvoting system as our pres-ent system is
seriouslydefective. Half the votersmay have no one on coun-cil who
represents theirpoint of view. A smallchange in the vote cancause a
wholesale changein the council; in the caseof Burnaby if the
otherparty vote were to gofrom 48 per cent to a littleover 50 per
cent, they arelikely to take all the coun-cil seats. This is not
goodfor either party or for thegovernance of the city.
The alert reader willnow realize that with aproportional
representa-tion voting system one ormore representatives of
thebusiness community canbe elected if the voters sowish. This is
as it shouldbe. The same applies toother community interests.
(The early historyis largely taken fromProportional
Representation,by C.G. Hoag and G.Hallett, published byMacmillan in
1926, andincludes some quotationsand paraphrasing.)
David Huntley is aBurnaby resident.
Voting: Proportional system neededcontinued from page 6
annual RCMP allocation is ineffectivelyspent delivering police
service to peoplewho really need social service.
This cumulative $60 million (over 10years) could buy more
genuine felonyprevention efforts from the RCMP andenable local
social workers to better helpthe homeless at the same time.
How might this happen?The plan starts with a $7.7-million
capi-
tal contribution to Progressives proposedshelter, from the $400
million or so inBurnabys fiscal reserve (repaid at $1 mil-lion per
year over 10 years discounted atfive per cent) to prod Victoria and
Ottawainto offering matching funds.
A second $1 million per year could thenfund joint patrols by
officers and socialworkers to secure and support the
hostneighbourhood for the new facility.
(And the remaining $4 million can gointo other policing
priorities!)
Now readers who seek full value fromlocal taxes (just raised,
yet again, by 3.95per cent) should join me in pressing
MayorCorrigan to offer Progressive Housing thiscapital
contribution.
At one stroke he could deliver moreeffective police service,
give Burnaby socialagencies a focal point for helping
homelesspersons and finally demonstrate some fis-cal acumen and
social progressiveness.
(He might even look a touch B.CGreen in the process!)
G. Bruce Friesen, Burnaby
New solutions are neededcontinued from page 6
Burnaby NOW Saturday, May 15, 2010 A07
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A08 Saturday, May 15, 2010 Burnaby NOW
outwards, he explained, so housing costsare high.
However, Burnaby is growing upinstead of out, he added,
necessary whencreating higher density in a limited space,much like
Vancouver.
As for the average income, Corrigansaid he is content with
focusing on keep-ing Burnaby as affordable as possible forthe
people who live here, adding that, ifit comes down to attracting
people withmore money or protecting rental housing,Ill take
protecting rental housing.
Residents ranked low when it came towalking or cycling to work,
coming in at156, though Burnaby did relatively wellwhen it came to
public transit use, ranking34th on the list.
The citys low crime rate was a definiteplus in the lifestyle
section of the survey.
In that section, Burnaby ranked num-ber 10 for having a low
crime rate, andnumber 7 for having a low violent crimerate.
It was number 4 of all 179 cities basedon the countrys crime
severity index.
The low crime rate is especially goodfor attracting tourists to
the city, Corrigansaid.
Burnaby also received extra points forhaving a college,
university and hospitalin the city.
Despite ranking in the top half of cit-ies for how many doctors
Burnaby has,at 75, the city ranked 129 for the num-ber of health
professionals overall withinits boundaries. In the culture
category,Burnaby came in at 35 on the list, whileNew Westminster
ranked in at 15.
Vancouver ranked 29th overall on thelist but came in dead last
at 179 in theaffordable housing category.
MoneySense released the results at theend of April.
Macleansmagazine named Burnaby thebest-run city in Canada in a
2009 surveybased on economic development, environ-mental health,
culture and recreation.
[email protected]
City: Low crime rate, universityamong positives for
Burnabycontinued from page 1
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of anti-viraldrugs.
SFU chemist Andrew Bennet and PhDstudent Jeff Chan have
developed a newtechnique that will help speed up thesearch for
molecules that help stop influ-enza viruses from spreading.
Chan and Bennet were on a team offive, working on the research
project. Theyused a specially equipped nuclear mag-netic resonance
spectrometer to speedup the search for molecules that disruptthe
chemical workings of an enzyme thathelps flu viruses to spread.
This is the first time people have usedthe spectrometer this
way, Bennet said,adding he came up with the idea yearsago, but the
technology wasnt availableat the time.
The researchers use the spectrometerto detect differences in the
molecules
mass, which helps determine the molecu-lar vibrations. That
helps them identifyhow the viruss enzyme reacts with eachtype of
molecule.
Once you know that, you can design amolecule that interferes
with the reaction,Bennet said.
Almost all drugs are molecules thatinteract with enzymes, which
act as cata-lysts, helping viruses spread.
If the virus mutates, it takes only twoweeks to analyze its drug
resistance andthen create more effective pharmaceuti-cals, a press
release notes.
If you give a person a cocktail of twoor three anti-viral drugs,
then the viruswould have to mutate two or three timesbefore it
would be fully resistant, Bennetexplained.
The Western Economic DiversificationFund, the Canada Foundation
forInnovation and the B.C. KnowledgeDevelopment Fund provided
researchgrants for Chan and Bennet.
[email protected]
SFU researchers lead theway on anti-viral drugs
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A10 Saturday, May 15, 2010 Burnaby NOW
Thursday afternoon rush hour trafficalong Boundary Road was
snarled for sev-eral hours after a semi-truck going towardMarine
Way lost its brakes and caused anaccident that involved at least
six othervehicles.
The accident, which occurred around6 p.m., saw the southbound
truck hit a14-foot trailer that was being towed byAbbotsford
resident Tim Lee.
Lee told Global News that the trailer con-tained a collection of
paintball guns andpellets that he was collecting for use
withvarious childrens groups.
Lee, who appeared to be making a leftturn up Boundary Road
fromMarineWay,
said he was lucky that he was able to gethis car out of the way
of the oncomingtruck, but the trailer he was pulling wasntso
lucky.
And while the road was littered withbrightly coloured paintball
pellets, theaccident only resulted in minor injuriesto two people
also caught up in the chain-reaction accident.
Emergency personnel, along withpolice officers from both Burnaby
andVancouver, spent several hours cleaningup the area and attending
to the injuredparties. Police investigators are lookinginto the
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Photo contributed by Greig Geipel/burnaby now
Major crash: Debris was scattered across the road after a
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Getting Started1. Get a lidded container to collect food
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A12 Saturday, May 15, 2010 Burnaby NOW
The British Columbia Institute ofTechnology has been named one
of thetop 50 greenest employers in Canadafor 2010 by the Globe and
Mails Reporton Business.
The Burnaby-based post-secondaryinstitution won the honour
primarilybecause of its food-composting pro-gram, according to
Report on Business.
(The) food composting programfirst established at the main
campusin 1998 today has more than 170,000red wiggler worms working
aroundthe clock to create compost to fertil-ize campus flowerbeds,
the Reportstated.
We compost all of our food wasteon campus and mix it with
shreddedpaper, said Jennie Moore, director ofsustainable
development and environ-
mental stewardship at BCIT.The composting is done in
coopera-
tion with the institutions food serviceprovider, Chartwells, she
added.
There were some snags in theearly days of the composting
pro-gram, Moore said, though she wasntwith the program when it
started. Inone instance, compost was put outtoo early and tomato
plants startedsprouting, Moore said.
Moore listed other sustainabilityinitiatives at BCIT, including
facilitiesmanagements recycling stations; recy-cling of cans and
bottles, funding fromwhich goes into the Student AssistanceFund;
and programs that managewood use by the joinery woodwork-ing
program and limit the use of urea-formaldehyde in BCIT
programs.
The school is planning to expandthe compost program in the
future,Moore said.
BCIT measured its ecological foot-print for the 2006/2007 fiscal
year. Itwas 16,159 hectares, based on use ofenergy, water, food,
waste, transporta-tion, land and buildings.
BCIT also has an environmentalstewardship and sustainability
prac-tices committee whose goal it is totransform BCIT into living
labs ofsustainability; a student-run eco-fair;an in-house energy
management pro-gram; and an employee-driven GreenTeam, which
generates sustainabil-ity awareness among employees andencourages
them to get involved.
Another Burnaby-based company,the Certified General
AccountantsAssociation of Canada, with a 138employees, was also on
the list whichcame out on April 22 because ofenvironmentally
friendly transporta-tion initiatives.
[email protected]
BCIT is a top green employerJanaya Fuller-Evansstaff
reporter
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15 Here & Now 21 MotoringSECTION COORDINATOR Julie
MacLellan, 604-444-3020 [email protected]
Just in case Yvette Lu wasntalready busy enough with adual
career as a doctor andfilmmaker, shes also adding play-wright to
her resum.
Lu who has a part-time careeras a family doctor and also worksas
an actor and filmmaker - wasfeatured in the May 8 BurnabyNOW for
her short film thats air-ing as part of Shaw MulticulturalChannels
annual FilmmakersShowcase.
On the Victoria Day weekend,shell also be seen as part of
theFirehall Arts Centres B.C. BUDSspring art fair.
The weekend brings togetheremerging and established arts
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Lu will be doing a partial read-ing of her play Stories from
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performing in theSt. James Cathedral Hall, 303 EastCordova St., on
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All performances in the B.C.BUDS festival are free. Check
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Pianist on stageA Burnaby pianist is taking to
the stage in a fundraising concertthis weekend.
Eric Hominick is featured in arecital on Sunday, May 16 at 7
p.m.
The event is a fundraiser forthe Maple Ridge Music Societyand
the Ridge Meadows HospitalFoundation..
It features duets and arias fromworks by Hayden, Mozart,
Verdi,Puccini, Wagner, Schumann,Rachmaninov and more.
Madeleine and Ionut Pascu,leading soloists at the
BucharestNational Opera House, willperform, along with
SylviaSzadovszki.
Its at the Maple Ridge MusicSociety Hall, 23575 124th Ave.
Tickets are $30. Call 604-467-3162.
Singing in HarmonyMusic lovers should also note a
Poetry and prose will be celebrated andshared at the next event
in the Spoken Inkreading series.
The next Burnaby Writers Society gath-ering is set for Tuesday,
May 18 at LaFontana Caffe, 101-3701 Hastings St.
Featured at this months reading will beMarni Norwich and Don
Simpson.
Norwich is the author of Wildflowers atmy doorstep (Karma Press,
2008), winnerof the 2009 Independent Publisher BookAward for
poetry.
She presents her work at events through-
out Vancouver and has performed with thedance and musical
ensemble Bad Poetry.She works as a writer and editor with
herbusiness, Inkcat Media.
Simpson is retired from a working back-ground in mechanical
engineering andmetal fabrication.
His prose consists mostly of gallant,but often doomed, attempts
at humour,he says in a press release. His verse tendstowards the
more traditional poetic forms but then, he adds, with a
backgroundlike that, what can you expect?
This months open-mike session has nospecific theme, so all types
of presentationsare welcome.
Once again, Browns Books (across thestreet from La Fontana, at
3740 Hastings) isoffering a 20 per cent discount to all SpokenInk
attendees between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
Sign-up time for the open mike readingsis 7:30 p.m., and the
featured guests willbegin reading at 8 p.m.
For more information, check out
www.burnabywritersnews.blogspot.com or e-mail
[email protected].
Modern dance intertwines with spokenwords, video and theatre in
a performanceat Shadbolt Centre for the Arts this week-end.
Continuum Dance Company, theShadbolt Centres modern dance
commu-nity company for adults, is presenting aperformance called
Here and Now tonight(Saturday).
The performance includes works bycompany dancers and
accomplished dance
professionals Heather Kirkland and DonnaRedlick.
Theyve worked with dramaturge RuthMcIntosh and artistic
directorSalome Diaz on the production.
As a press release says,Here and Now asks the audi-ence, where
are we in our life?Which moments in our life havedefined our
journey? What kindsof events have influenced theway we live our
lives, relate toothers and make sense of it all?Working with the
elements ofdance and theatre, the dancers are intro-duced to the
integration of movement and
text. Continuum Dance Company works to
provide dancers with a chance to continuetraining and performing
in a non-competitive environment, whileexposing dancers and
audiencesto the art of modern dance.
Tickets for the show are $8.The show is set for Saturday,
May 15 at 8 p.m. in the ShadboltCentres Studio Theatre.
Shadbolt Centre if at 6450 DeerLake Ave.
For tickets, call 604-205-3000 orvisit
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[email protected]
For the love of singing
Sharing in song: The B.C. Boys Choir entertains an audience at
Montecito School during a recent performance in Burnaby. Thechoir
holds a series of Just Sing It school shows, presented by its
international touring choir, to introduce schools to the choir
andto keep the love of singing alive in schools. See more about the
choir at www.bcboyschoir.org.
Poetry, prose featured at Spoken Ink
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Centre
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Modern dance in the spotlight
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Local playfeaturedin festival
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Sunday afternoon choralconcert on their calendars.
The Harmony womensvocal ensemble is present-ing its Voices n
Timespring concert on May16 at 2 p.m. at ComoLake United Church,
535Marmont St. in Coquitlam.
The concert features aneclectic program of music folk, pop,
jazz, gospeland more all on thetheme of time.
The 13-member wom-ens ensemble draws mem-bers from around the
area.
And yes, regular read-ers may remember that Iam indeed one of
thosemembers. (Whats lifewithout a bit of
shamelessself-promotion?)
My cohorts MeredithColman, Carolyn Haley,Linda Hodgson,
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Tickets are $15.Buy them at the door,
or call Meredith at 604-469-1641 to reserve yourtickets in
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The VancouverInternational ChildrensFestival runs from May17 to
24, with a week ofmusic, dance, storytell-ing, puppetry, theatre
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Among the headlin-ing performers will bethe National
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Burnabys own JouTou a cultural fusion actthat merges the
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Theyll be on the CoastCapital Bandshell stagefrom 11:45 a.m. to
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Check out the websiteat www.childrensfestival.ca for a full
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Lively City: Harmony sings Sundaycontinued from page 13
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month ago, it wasfinally activated after aseries of delays.
Parentswanted the crossing put into make the area safer
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coun-cil chair Ivy Yu. We hadlots of traffic.
The crossing is onSmith Avenue, close toBurnaby Hospital.
Exotic plant saleIf you want to get your
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The Beresford isan Edmonds area condocomplex with four-acresof
greenery impressiveenough to be featured inpast garden tours.
Resident Chris Jankolooks over the Beresfordgardens and owns
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includingcarnivorous plants, newvarieties of award-winninglilies
and interesting waterplants.
Ive got some reallyneat plants Ive been col-lecting for a couple
ofyears, and I thought itstime to have a sale, Jankosaid.
Many of the sale plantswill be from his green-house, and some
will befrom the Beresford. Therewill be hostias, pine-apple lilies,
Asiatic lilies,giant Egyptian papyrus,
tropical orchids, hardyorchids, O.T. lilies (gianthybrids that
can grow toabout seven feet) and car-nivorous plants,
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Burnaby NeighbourhoodHouse, Burnaby FamilyLife, Purpose Society
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They focus on thingsthat fall outside the man-dates of the
individualagency and group mem-bers. Some of the projectsthe
organization has coor-dinated are the annualhealthy kids
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services inthe Metrotown area. Thegroup has also supportedCoats for
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cleanups.
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get freshlocal produce, free-rangeeggs, natural honey, bakedgoods
and more.
The market is a collabo-ration with the CoquitlamFarmers Market
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The market is openweekly, from noon to 6p.m., from May 19 to
Oct.27. For more information,check out www.sfulocalfood.ca or call
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Local Burnaby youth Antonio Larosa is the overallwinner in the
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Antonio, 18, is a Grade 12 student at Alpha Secondary.He won
first place overall by singing a medley of JohnnyCash and Elvis
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a makeup and hair session. Inthe senior category, first place went
to Soul Company, aninstrumental band comprised of Danny Kim, Ariel
Jo andLinda Son all 16 years old. Jackie Torres placed second,and
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The show was April 1 at Michael J. Fox Theatre. Morethan 300
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