Royal City Record October 22 2014

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City works to make school streets safer

The city has taken action to improvepedestrian and traffic safety around NewWestminster’s newest school.

Rhonda Field, a parent at QayqaytElementary, appeared before city councilon Oct. 6 to express concern about a lack

of traffic control and markings aroundthe school, saying it was leading to “dailychaos” at drop-off and pickup times.Council forwarded her concerns to staff.

“The contractor that was building theschool was also responsible for buildingthe sidewalks and road improvementsadjacent to the school, fronting the school,”Jim Lowrie, the city’s director of engineer-ing, told The Record Oct. 16. “We couldn’tget access until they were finished.”

Lowrie said the city was able to beginwork on the paint markings and signagelast week. Most of the work, which was

included in a traffic management plandeveloped as part of the plan for the newschool, was completed last week.

According to Lowrie, the contractorworking on the school was behind sched-ule, which resulted in a delay in the citybeing able to put up signs and do mark-ings on the road.

To date, work completed includes four-way stop and crosswalk markings at theAgnes/Merivale intersection, at Merivaleand Cunningham streets, at the multi-usepathway and at Agnes and Elliott streets.Curb bulges at Royal Avenue and Third

Street are currently underway and will bedone by Oct. 24.

Lowrie said school pickup and drop-offsigns have also been erected at the site, a30 km/h speed zone has been enacted onAgnes Street, and Merivale Street has beenrestricted to one-way southbound traffic.

Field told council that parents wouldlike to see enforcement of the traffic viola-tions, such as double parking, blockingaccess and failure to stop at stop signs.Parents would also like to see school zonesignage on Agnes and Royal.

In search of the Great Pumpkin: Zara Brown, 5,clings to her pumpkin find during DerrickThornhill’s annual Pumpkin Patch event atQueen’s Park on Saturday, Oct. 18. At right,Dylan Crema, 3, is all dressed for the seasonas he traipses through the pumpkin patch. Theevent, which raises funds for Monarch Place,includes pumpkin carving and free pumpkins.

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Splitting the spouse voteOn the ballot: They may be husband and wife, but they’re also political rivals: Marge and John Ashdown are both vying for spots on NewWestminster city council in the Nov. 15 election.

John and Marge Ashdown would like tocarry on some of their dinnertime discus-sions in council chambers.When New Westminster residents head to

the voting booth on Nov. 15, two Ashdownswill be among the choices for city councillor.Both John and Marge are running for council.

“It’s just a name. She is going to fight forwhat she believes in and I am going to fightfor what I believe in,” John said. “Whenit comes to making a decision, it won’t be‘Honey, you are going to vote this way.’”

John originally told The Record he wasn’tplanning to run for council but ultimatelydecided to throw his hat into the ring again.If elected, he’d like to work on issues such astransportation/traffic, improving relationswith neighbouring municipalities and ensur-

ing the city’s staffing wages and productivityare what they should be.

Marge said her goal is to bring “bal-ance” to council chambers and deal withissues like traffic, development, trains andtaxes. Through her involvement in groupslike the Kiwanis Club of NewWestminster, whose mandateis serving the children of NewWestminster, she helps addresschildren’s and seniors’ issues.

Marge, a first-time candidate,would love it if both she and herhusband of 10 years were elected.

“There are six seats. He canhave one – and so can I,” shelaughed. “There’s four left over.”

Marge and John don’tanticipate any clashes at homeif they’re both successful onElection Day.

“We are both individuals,”Marge said. “Our dinner times are interestingsometimes. That’s life. It’s give and take, it’scompromises, it’s hearing the other personbut having respect for their beliefs too. That’salways here.”

John agreed.“The final goal is to make things better,”

said John, a critic of some of the initiativessupported by the labour-friendly city council.“The only time I would take her on is if itwasn’t making things better. That is why I am

taking on these other guys.”While John is hoping he’ll be

successful on Election Day, he’sgot a backup plan if his partner iselected and he’s not.

He points out that former NewWestminster police officer KenMcIntosh retired while his wifeBetty continued to serve on citycouncil.

“We kid about it,” he said. “Isay, ‘If you get in, I can pull a KenMcIntosh – buy a trailer, retireand sit back and wait for you toretire.’”

What do you think? Have yoursay on this and other New West election news onTwitter or Facebook. Find us on Twitter,@TheRecord, or on Facebook, www.facebook.com/RoyalCityRecord, and use the #elxnnw hashtag tojoin the conversation.

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New West voters will find twoAshdowns on the ballot whenthey head to the polls Nov. 15

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Incumbent mayor WayneWright may be fighting for NewWest – but he’s bending the rulesto get it done.

The City of New Westminster’selections office received a com-plaint that signage in Wright’scampaign office at 612 CarnarvonSt. violates election signage guide-lines. Isabell Hadford, the city’schief election officer, referred thecomplaint to the city’s bylawenforcement.

“They went andvisited them. Theymeasured the signsand they were too bigso they asked the peo-ple to bring them intocompliance with theguidelines,” she toldThe Record Monday.

On Saturday,Wright held a grandopening of his cam-paign office in a spacethat was formerlyoccupied by a martialarts centre. A poster in the win-dow shows a martial artist doingthree different moves. Wright’sface has been placed on the threebodies.

In addition to placing Wright’shead on the pre-existing sign, sev-eral election signs have been post-ed around the martial arts image.

“When we looked at the wholewindow, we made the determi-nation that that whole windowwas one sign because there wasn’tanything indicating they were

separate signs,” said VeronikaMetchie, acting manager of licens-ing and integrated services.

Metchie said the signage mightconform to the election signageguidelines if the signs appearedto be separate, rather than part ofone large unit.

“There isn’t any talk abouthow many signs can be in onelocation. If they want to breakup the signs and make them intoseparate signs they can comply, aslong as the size of each individ-ual sign is within the guidelines.

That is what we haveadvised their cam-paign office.”

Metchie saidshe’d be returning tothe campaign officeto ensure the signagecomplies with guide-lines.

City staff spokewith campaign staffat Wright’s officeduring their Oct. 20visit.

“They were veryunderstanding,”

Metchie said.Wright told The Record there

was some misinterpretation of thesignage, as he didn’t think plac-ing his image on the pre-existingsignage would be included.

“As far as their interpreta-tion goes, we accept that totally.The little heads that are there,we thought conformed to an oldsign that was up that wasn’t ours,which is fine,” he said. “Theywant us to separate that and wewill do it. We will cut out strips

to make sure they are all separatesigns – now we will have more.…

“I wouldn’t have done that onpurpose. It’s a simple thing to takethem and separate them,” he said.“The message will be the same.The message is everything staysthe same, vote Wayne.”

Wright said he takes responsi-bility for the error and his cam-paign team will fix it as soon as

possible.“No excuses. We will fix it up,”

he said.News of Wright’s signage

issues travelled far and wide.“I had a message come from

the Ukraine. The person that sentit said I read in the news aboutyour signs, ‘keep it up, you aredoing a fine job’ – Senator LarryCampbell.”

Before being taken down,

Wright said the response to thesign was overwhelming. Hehoped it would bring a little lev-ity to the campaign.

“There’s more people cominghere than we have had any time,taking photographs of it and stop-ping their cars and looking, andsmiling, which is nice,” he said.“The way things are going, let’snot put too much pressure oneverybody.”

Mayor’s fighting form draws city fire

Voters will have one less name to con-sider when they head to the polls on Nov.15.

“We had one candidate drop out,”said Isabell Hadford, the city’s chief elec-tion officer. “For council it was HeatherBoersma. She dropped out before theclose of nominations.”

All totalled, New Westminster resi-dents will have to choose between fourmayoral, 21 councillor and 13 schooltrustee candidates.

New West introduceselectronic voters’ list

If you were planning on voting morethan once in the upcoming civic election,you’d better think twice.

In recent elections, a handful of peoplehave voiced concerns that voters couldcast votes more than once. As peoplevoted, election staff crossed their namesoff a massive paper voters’ list.

But that’s all about to change.“It’s an in-house system that has

been developed by the city. It’s an elec-

tronic voters’ list, rather than paper,” saidIsabell Hadford, the city’s chief electionofficer.

If someone votes at one voter station, itwill be recorded that they voted.

“If they try to vote at another pollingstation, it will show up that they havevoted before,” Hadford said. “It was aconcern expressed by the city. That is whywe have decided to implement it thisyear.”

Run early and often?New West council candidate Raj

Gupta may be the first multi-municipal

candidate in recent memory.Along with seeking a councillor seat in

New Westminster, the Vancouver residentis also running for mayor in Burnaby.He was a B.C. Conservative Party candi-date in Vancouver-Kingsway in the 2013provincial election. Gupta, who was amechanical engineer in India, has livedin Vancouver since 1974 and worked as aRealtor for 24 years.

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Fighting spirit: Mayor Wayne Wright outside his campaign office, where the size of the signs ran upagainst the city’s election signage guidelines.


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Why do we have to keep writingabout something that seems so flat-outstupid?

Yes, we’re talking about distracteddriving – and the fact that the provinceof British Columbia felt itnecessary to increase the pen-alties for that offence becausedrivers simply aren’t gettingthe message.

B.C. Justice Minister Suzanne Antonjust announced new penalties, effect-ive Oct. 20, for drivers who are caughttalking on a hand-held device while

driving. With the new penalties, driv-ers will get three demerit points, whichremain on a person’s driving record forfive years.

The penalty for getting more thanone distracted driving ticketin a year will be at least $634:the total of two fines (at $167a pop), plus a $300 penaltypremium for six points.

On top of driver penalty points(which are paid by everyone even ifthey don’t insure a vehicle), there areAutoplan insurance premium penalties,

ranging from $175 for four points to$24,000 for 50 or more points.

We have to applaud the govern-ment’s insistence on tackling this prob-lem – which, sadly, doesn’t seem to begoing away on its own.

A recent blitz in New West, forinstance, saw the cops issue 32 dis-tracted driving tickets in less than threehours. Seriously?

We were sure that, eventually, peoplewould catch on to the fact that dis-tracted driving is just as dangerous asdrunk driving.

We can only hope that, one of thesedays, people will get the message – asmany have with drunk driving – thatdriving while chatting on a hand-heldphone or watching a DVD is a stupidmove that puts lives at risk.

In the meantime, we just have tosigh. How often can you say “Put downthe damn phone and pay attention tothe road” before you just give up indespair?

Here’s hoping that where words havefailed, money will talk loudly enoughthat drivers finally clue in.

Labour’s glory daysare behind us

The two candidates run-ning to replace Jim Sinclairas president of the B.C.

Federation of Labour says a lotabout the state of organizedlabour these days.

Both candidates are formerlong-time public sector unionactivists. Amber Hockin was aCUPE staff member, while IreneLanzinger is a former presidentof the B.C. Teachers’ Federation.

The fact they are both fromthe public side of labour, ratherthan the private sector, is a cru-cial distinction.

Organized labour’s relevancyand influence has waned con-siderably in the private sector.Just 16 per cent of the privatesector workforce in Canada isa member of a union (this com-pares to more than 70 per cent ofpublic sector workers).

It’s notable that, as of thiswriting, only public sectorunions had endorsed eithercandidate. I assume that eventu-ally some private sector unionswill back their candidacies, butclearly getting the backing ofthe more powerful public sectorunions is more important.

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has never been led by some-one from a public sector union(Sinclair was from the old UnitedFisherman’s Union, while hispredecessor Ken Georgetti wasfrom the United Steelworkersand before him presidents ArtKube, Jim Kinnaird and Len Guywere all private sector unionactivists).

As a result, will a schism formwithin the Fed itself, one thatpits the interests and prioritiesof public sector workers againstthose in the private sector? I’veheard grumbling from privatesector labour activists who feelthat Sinclair was pushed asideby public sector union interests.

And will either Hockin orLanzinger continue to work– as Sinclair and BuildingTrades Council president TomSigurdson did – with PremierChristy Clark in a quasi-part-nership to boost skills trainingefforts to get more people intothe trades to work on naturalresource projects?

Or will they fall back into amore antagonistic relationshipwith the government?

Whichever one of them wins,however, will mark a turningpoint in the history of organizedlabour in the province. Its glorydays – when it could literallyshut down the economy of B.C.– are clearly over, as it has large-ly become a government worker-dominated organization.

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Whitecaps decision made senseDear Editor:

Re: Whitecaps decision was puzzling, Opinion,The Record, Oct. 10.

Mr. Brett asks what happened when theWhitecaps’ franchise to Queen’s Park Stadiumfailed. In spite of Mr. Brett’s win-win scenario, atQueen’s Park, only 29 out of 50 residents surveyedwere in favour and 21 against in a very narrowsurvey of a few residents. Also important is the factthat many Queen’s Park residents, when they foundout what was going on, turned out to the meetingof council in Queensborough and also to the councilmeeting a week later to speak out against it.

According to Mr. Brett, people were shouteddown and the opposition used misinformation. Iwas there, and no one was shouted down, and alack of information, not misinformation was the

problem. Even Mayor Wright had to apologize forthe lack of consultation and information, with onecouncil member after another stating that it camedown to the financial numbers. Coun. JonathanCote said the cost was too significant to saddle thecommunity with this expenditure of $11.4 million toaccommodate the franchise at the expense of cuttingother planned projects.

So, Mr. Brett, your discontent and misrepresen-tation of the legitimate questions and concerns ofpeople and their rejection of this deal in what isobviously a personal issue for you, does not changethe facts or rightful concerns and objections by thecommunity at large.

For a number of years, the Whitecaps have beenhoused in Vancouver and Burnaby, where there aremore facilities. One question never answered was:if this was such a good, win-win financial business

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deal, why did they let it slip through theirfingers?

Simply put, the $11.4 million in costs tothe community for a “business plan” thatwould put a for-profit sports franchise inQueen’s Park was not acceptable; espe-cially as it meant the displacement of othersports, such as baseball, and the overalleffect on other park facilities, parking andimpact on nearby residents with trafficand noise.

It is regrettable that this fiasco hascaused the Cannons’ baseball team of theB.C. Premier Baseball League that hasused the Queen’s Park Stadium for sixyears, paying $90,000 in fees for its use, hashad its membership in the league revokedbecause it could not confirm the use of thestadium for the 2015 season. Let us nowhope this revocation can be reversed.

Again, lack of forethought as to the con-sequence to the park and other park usersis, in my opinion, the bigger issue, not-withstanding the dumping of costs ontothe people of this city.

Finally, I believe it was the concernsexpressed and unanswered questionsposed by the citizens that finally producedthe wake-up call that the city councilneeded.

William Zander, New Westminster

Opinions misrepresentedDear Editor:

Re: It’s all about movement, The Record,Oct. 4.

I feel that the article written about mehas misrepresented my opinion about fit-ness and the fitness instructors. I teachholistic movement, and whilst I do notconsider myself a fitness instructor I donot judge anyone for the path they chooseto follow to improve their health – it issimply not my way, and I feel the articlemakes me appear judgemental and angry,which I am most definitely not.

I do think harm is done to womenby promoting an unattainable physicalappearance, however, I respect the work

that all the people in that industry do asthey do it from the heart and are only try-ing to help others. I wish to apologize toall who were offended by the manner inwhich my opinions have been overstatedand misrepresented.

I wish everyone the best results fromwhatever path they choose to in order tobecome healthier.

Deanne Rapacioli, holistic movement teacher

Endorsement questionsDear Editor:

An interesting issue is developing in thecivic election.

Based on column inches (centimetres?)in your newspaper, and discussions withfriends and acquaintances, the approval/non-approval of candidates by the NewWestminster and District Labour Councilis garnering as much consideration as anyother issue.

Now, it’s not the “Labour” part that con-cerns me, as much as the ”and District.”

It would seem that people who do notlive or pay taxes in our city are makingthese decisions for us.

A look at the New Westminster andDistrict Labour Council’s website indi-cates a large geographic area, but littleinformation on how individual candidatesare approved, or by what criteria, or bywhom.

The decision-makers could be shopstewards from Surrey that decide ourmayoral candidate. Or, posties from PortMoody promoting our council candidates.Is it clerks from Coquitlam or bakers fromBurnaby who will decide who gets theschool board nod?

Again, I must stress it’s the out-of-citypossibilities that disturb me, not the hon-ourable trades mentioned above.

In discussions with other voters, manyprofess they do not know the answers tothese questions, but would like to.

Perhaps one of your reporters couldassist many of your readers with someanswers to these questions.

I look forward to the next few editionsof your paper.

Chris Dumfries, New Westminster

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Site C dam the greenlight, but there is anemerging impression thatany enthusiasm the B.C.Liberal government mayhave for the project is per-haps slowly waning.

That’s the impressionI got after receiving anout-of-the-blue phone calllast week from EnergyMinister Bill Bennett, aguy you can usually counton to display strong sup-port for anything that putsshovels in the ground andcreates jobs.

Bennett phoned todispute my earlier on-aircharacterization of him asbeing the chief cheerleaderfor Site C.

Not so, Bennett toldme. In fact, he said hewas genuinely torn about

whether the project shouldbe built, and recounted tome the validity of all theopposing views he’s heardalong the way.

More telling, perhaps,was his disclosure to methat the government cau-cus was “split” on whetherthe dam should be built.

Earlier that day, heacknowledged to themedia that the projectlacked any support fromFirst Nations, and he toldme he didn’t expect that tochange any time soon.

A lack of First Nationssupport (indeed, thereis instead considerableopposition to the projectfrom that constituency)is just one of the factorsstacking up against Site C.

Bennett admitted tome that Site C’s estimated

price tag of $8 billionwould add hugely to theprovince’s debt load, andthat was a concern. Healso admitted other, small-er energy projects may justas easily answer the needof the province’s futureenergy demands.

In summary, he listeda lot more reasons whythe dam shouldn’t be builtthan why it should. Andremember, Bennett isn’tthe kind of politician who“spins” things and sticksto a government messagebox.

He can be counted forbluntly telling you what hereally thinks, and for nowat least, he doesn’t seemto be on the Site C band-wagon.

Keith Baldrey is chief pol-itical reporter for Global B.C.

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“Don’t let the wheelchair foolyou; that wheelchair doesn’tstop her from doing any-

thing.”That’s how New Westminster’s Linda

McGowan was recently introduced to anew employee at one of the many com-

munity groupsshe works withas HandyDart’saccess manager.

It’s not true,of course; thechair does stopher from doingthings – andthere was a timethe disease thatput her into it

stopped her dead in her tracks.In 1983, just before her 35th birthday, a

few months after running the Vancouvermarathon, the energetic nurse and motherof two was taking time off work and amaster’s degree she was working on todrive to Disneyland with her family.

Riding in the passenger seat, feet onthe dash, she reached down to pick some-thing off the floor when she felt a shocklike a hot wire travel down her back.

She would soon learn it was calledLhermitte’s sign – often among the firstsymptoms people bring to their doctorsbefore being told they have multiplesclerosis (MS).

“I was a basket case,” McGowan said

of her diagnosis not long after the Disneytrip. “I just cried all the way home.”

It would be two more years beforeeven her parents knew she had the dis-ease, but as a home-care nurse, McGowanknew what she was up against from dayone.

“I had never seen anybody who couldlive a life with MS,” she said. “As ahome-care nurse, I only went in to seepeople who needed a nurse at homebecause they couldn’t get out. I couldn’tbelieve that there was any other option. Iwas shattered.”

Her moment of truth came six yearsafter her diagnosis, when she had nearlylost the ability to walk.

One dark, rainy Friday in February,she came home from work and holedherself up in her basement suite alone tothink.

“By Sunday night, I had decided that Ionly had two choices: to sit at home andmoan and groan that life was not fair orto take what I had and do what I couldwith it.”

The next day, she booked herselfa ticket to Beijing to fulfill a longtimedream of walking on the Great Wall ofChina, and by Friday she had bought herfirst wheelchair.

“I thought, if I get to China, and I haveto walk three-quarters of a mile to get tothe Great Wall, I won’t be able to walk onit,” she said.

Since that weekend, McGowan hasn’tlooked back, travelling the globe, readyto take on whatever challenges each newcountry presents to her and her chair.

In the Himalayas, she rode in a basketon a porter’s back. In India, a few rupeesbought her manual hoists onto wheel-

chair-inaccessible rail cars.She has mingled with emperor pen-

guins on the Falkland Islands and gottenup close and personal with elephantsin Tanzania, seen the great pyramids inEgypt, Sugarloaf Mountain in Brazil, theGreat Barrier Reef, the Taj Mahal and theTower of London.

“Sometimes I have two or three planetickets in my drawer,” she said.

She travels on the cheap, booking trips

in the off seasons and staying in hostelsand guesthouses.

“I put away some money every month.It’s my travel fund. It’s untouchable foranything else,” she said.

So far, besides some lost luggage, somethings stolen from her at airports and theoccasional time border guards have takenapart her chair during a search and thenhanded it back to her in pieces, McGowan

‘Feel the fear and do it anyway’

ON MY BEATCORNELIA NAYLOR

Trail rider: Sherpa porters join New Westminster’s Linda McGowan in a 2008 phototaken in the Himalayas with Mount Everest in the background.

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New West woman launchesbook about her travelsaround the world with MS

Dog park sold, but city will look for replacementKaren Doyle has walked her dogs

around her home in Port Royal since theformer sawmill site was first redeveloped17 years ago.

Three years ago, thanks to petitioningby members of the community, and toDoyle’s delight, an enclosed off-leash dogpark went in just up the street from hercondo. Finally, she and her husband couldlet their two dogs run free in a sanctionedarea that is complete with communal dog-water bowls and enough room for theanimals to play.

But now, the city-owned land on whichthe Queensborough Dog Area sits has beensold, to Platform Development Ltd., andDoyle is not happy about it.

“(The dog park) has been a bonus foreverybody and now they are taking itaway,” said Doyle.

Doyle said the park has been very wellused since it was created. “At any time ofday there are dogs using this park in therain, snow and sunshine,” she said.

The park is so popular that every yearthere is a dog picnic for all the local pooch-es and their owners, which is hosted by alocal woman who doesn’t even own a pet,Doyle said.

According to the city, while the land hasbeen sold, the title on the land has not beentransferred to the purchaser and won’t beuntil certain subjects are cleared, such asrezoning of the property.

Even if, or when, rezoning takes place,the dog park still won’t have to close rightaway.

“The city still has a period of two yearsafter rezoning before it has to relinquishthat site,” said Dean Gibson, director ofparks, culture and recreation for NewWestminster.

In the meantime, city staff will be start-ing a process with local residents to finda spot within the area to relocate the dogpark, once the current location closes.

Gibson pointed out the parcel of landthe dog park is on was never intended togo to the dogs permanently.

“It was a triangle that was identifiedby local residents… and because it didn’thave any other specific uses at the timeit seemed to make sense to put it to thatparticular use, but it wasn’t envisioned asa permanent, for now and forevermore useof the site,” he said.

Doyle said she hopes the city puts ina new park, within walking distance, assoon as the current one is gone.

About 70 per cent of Port Royal resi-dents have a pet, most of them dogs, shesaid.

Doyle predicts that without the parkdog owners would have a hard time fol-lowing the on-leash rules of other areas.

“We are not allowed to be on the beachbecause people don’t want to hear thedogs running up and down barking…people are going to start using the beacharea again (if they have nowhere else),”she said.

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Sold: The Queensborough dog park is popular with residents – but it won’t bearound forever. The land the park sits on has been sold, but city officials say it willnot be removed for at least two years.

Cops close the file on lastfall’s massive downtown blaze

No criminal charges will be laid inconnection to last fall’s massive fire onColumbia Street.

Two of the downtown’s prominent heri-tage buildings were destroyed when firegutted the 1904 E.L. Lewis Block (alsoknown as the Crescent Block) and the1899 Hambley Block in the 600 block ofColumbia Street on Oct. 10, 2013.

A press release from the NewWestminster Police Department states thatnumerous police resources were involvedin assisting New Westminster Fire andRescue Services with a large structure fire.

Following the fire, the police department’smajor crime unit, assisted by the foren-sic identification section and the NewWestminster Fire and Rescue Services,were tasked with conducting a thoroughinvestigation to determine both the causeof the fire and whether it had been startedas a result of the commission of any crimi-nal offence.

“The major crime unit has now com-pleted this investigation; however, theywere unable to conclusively determinethe cause of the fire,” states a press releasefrom the police department. “Based onthis determination, the criminal investiga-tion has been concluded and no criminalcharges are forthcoming.”


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has returned from her tripsunscathed, but she knowsshe’s vulnerable.

“It’s one thing to be awoman travelling alone;it’s another to be a womanin a wheelchair travellingalone,” she said. “Youhave to be able to feel thefear and do it anyway.”

Why?McGowan said she

feels a responsibility, as aperson with a disability,to educate people at homeand around the worldthrough her travels.

Toward that end, shehas written a book thatwill launch this Sunday:Travelling the world withMS … in a Wheelchair, acollection stories from

McGowan’s travels.“My whole goal in writ-

ing this book is to motivatepeople with or withouta disability to embracetheir dreams, to get off thecouch and to look at whatthey can do, not what theycan’t do, to look at theirability, not their disability,”she said.

Travelling the worldwith MS … in a Wheelchairlaunches in Vancouver atthe Blusson Spinal CordCentre (818 West 10thAve.) on Oct. 26 from 4 to7 p.m.

Admission is free. Toregister, visit eventbrite.com. For more informationon McGowan’s travels,visit www.lindamcgowan.ca.

Lowrie said the city’s parkingcontrol staff will be monitoring themorning drop-off and afternoonpickup times to ensure motorists arecomplying with the rules.

Jerry Behl, a transportation engi-neer with the city, said staff will bewalking around the site in the nextcouple of weeks with the school’sPAC to see if there are any outstand-ing deficiencies and update the bestroutes to school plan. Although con-tractors were still working on thesite, he said the city should haveinstalled signs prior to the schoolopening.

Coun. Chuck Puchmayr said hevisited the site on the morning afterField’s presentation to city council.

“It was crazy how people were lit-erally stopping their cars anywhereto let their children out,” he said.

Lowrie said it’s been determinedthat 30 km/h signage is not war-ranted on the Royal Avenue side

of Qayqayt School because there isa grade separation between RoyalAvenue and the school. He said theschool is well below the grade onRoyal Avenue and the multi-usepathway is also separatedfrom Royal Avenue.

“There is no studentdrop-off or pickup on RoyalAvenue,” he said. “All theschool drop-off activityoccurs on Agnes Street andMerivale Street, so having a30-kilometre zone on RoyalAvenue isn’t warranted.”

Coun. Betty McIntoshsaid that, while the issueswere exacerbated aroundQayqaytElementarybecauseit was a new school, it’s a situationthat exists around all schools.

“It’s not a new problem,” saidMcIntosh, who suggested everyschool should be working with theirparents on safety issues.

While students won’t be dropped

off on Royal Avenue, they may crossthe street to get to the school.

“They are protected by traffic sig-nals at both Third Street and FirstStreet. There is traffic signals at both

those locations,” Lowriesaid. “They were existingbut we have enhanced theThird Street one by puttingin a curb bulge to makepedestrians more visible.”

According to Lowrie,not all schools have 30km/h zones around theirsites, including GlenbrookMiddleSchool,whichbacksonto McBride Boulevard.

“If you look around theLower Mainland, most on

major thoroughfares they fence theschool grounds or they have madespecific provisions for pedestriancrossings,” he said. “Typically theydo not have pickup or drop-off loca-tions on major roads.”

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from the arts and entertainment scene. Each sub-ject fills out a short questionnaire, “filling in theblanks” to let us know more about themselves.

This week, we feature Solveig Brickenden.1. I am Solveig Brickenden.2. I spend my time working out, painting, bookclub and working with seniors.3. Right now I am working on a series of paint-ings entitled “Be impeccable with your word.”4. The book on my bedside table right now isHemingway’s A Moveable Feast.5. Three songs you’ll find on my iPod play-list are Patricia Kass Mon Homme, Beth Hart/Joe Bonamassa I’ll take care of you, Diana Krall,Charmed Life.6. One work of art that inspires me is Vermeer’sGirl with a Pearl Earring because of its depictionof the softness of light.7. One artist who inspires me is Ross Penhallbecause his paintings reflect a contemporizationof the work by the old masters.8. My idea of a perfect day is lazing in bed witha great book followed by a long lunch by thewater in the company of my sweetheart (hus-band) Dal.9. My favourite edible (or potable) treat isVeuve Clicquot!10. My guilty pleasure is chocolate coveredcaramels with sea salt.11. My favourite vacation spot is a house onSalt Spring Island.12. My favourite thing about New Westminsteris its fabulous vistas … sunrises behind themountains and sunsets on the river.13. If I could sit down for coffee with anyone atall, I would choose C.S Lewis.14. If I could live anywhere at any point intime, I would choose Rome.15. If I could have a superpower, my superpow-er would be a healing touch.

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Artists, have yousigned up totake part in the

Arts Council of NewWestminster’s album artproject?

The arts council is call-

ing for submissions for itsFAKE album cover exhib-ition, which will take overthe community art space atthe Anvil Centre from Nov.20 to Jan. 16.

Artists must confirmtheir submissions by Nov.7.

Taking part is easy– pick up your 12-by-12-inch album “cover” at thearts council office, andchoose one or more of theband and album namessupplied by the arts coun-cil. (There are 85 to choose

from, so your choices willbe many!)

After that, the artscouncil says, “Let yourimagination run wild!”

Work in all mediums isaccepted.

Finished album coversmust be back to the artscouncil by Nov. 18 to beincluded in the show.

The Arts Council ofNew Westminster officeis in Centennial Lodge,Queen’s Park. It’s open1 to 5 p.m. from Tuesdayto Sunday, and closed

Mondays. Call 604-525-3244 or see www.artscouncilnewwest.org formore details.

Art among booksIf enjoying someone

else’s artistic efforts ismore your style, thenswing by the NewWestminster PublicLibrary before the end ofthe month.

The library has twoongoing art exhibitions.

On the ramp gallery onthe main floor, you can see

Home Sweet Home, fea-turing Minyoung Park’swatercolour paintings thatshow everyday scenes oflaundry, dishes and chil-dren’s toys, “transcendingtheir mundane subjectmatter to consider whatmakes a home,” as a pressrelease explains.

Upstairs, you can checkout the Magnificent Treesexhibition by a group ofartists called The GardenGals, who are focusing ontrees in the local environ-ment. Artists taking part

are Susan Tamkin, LindaCant, Silvana McNulty,Carolyn McLaughlin andMerril Hall.

And an early heads-up about the Novemberexhibitions: the library’swebsite informs me thatthe ramp gallery will fea-ture works by veteransfrom the George Derbycentre, to commemor-ate Remembrance Day;with Nina Shenton’sDisposition of Natureupstairs in the reference

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The group is markingthe fifth anniversary ofits Night Out events witha special celebration thatdraws together commun-ity partners and specialinternational guests,together with poets, artistsand small businesses.

Chief Rhonda Larrabeeof the Qayqayt FirstNation will be on handwith a First Nations wel-come, and there will bereadings, art, music andcake. For those inspiredto share their own work,there will also be an openmike session.

It’s free, and everyone’swelcome. Call 604-526-4729 or see www.world

poetry.ca for more infor-mation about the group orthe event.

Newfoundlandcomedy onscreen

And one more finalreminder – this one forfilm fans.

Next Monday, Oct. 27,is the next Last Mondaysat the Movies screening,and it’s Don McKellar’sNewfoundland-set com-edy The Grand Seduction.

The show starts at7:30 p.m. at the MasseyTheatre, 735 Eighth Ave.,and you can buy a ticketfor $9 at the door.

Check out www.artscouncilnewwest.org formore on the film series.

Want to be adead poet?

Here’s another one fromthe poetry front: Don’tmiss out on the Halloweenfun at this week’s PoeticJustice event.

The Sunday afternoonreading event is titledPoets Wanted: Dead orAlive, and everyone’sinvited to join in the fun.

It’s taking place from 3

to 5 p.m. in the back roomat the Heritage Grill.

There will be an extend-ed open mike sessionwhere you can share yourown dark, eerie, mysteri-ous poetry – or the workof a “dead poet” of yourchoice.

And, in the spirit of theseason, there will also be acostume contest with priz-es and other Halloweenfun.

Check out www.rclas.com or www.poeticjustice.ca for more.

Unleash yourcreativity

Writers are being calledto awaken the creativeforce within.

Bonnie Nish is leadinga writing workshop onSaturday, Oct. 25 from 1 to3 p.m.

The workshop,Awakening The CreativeForce, is a two-hour,hands-on workshop thatwill “explore ways ofaccessing all that drivesus – the things which areimportant, funny, sad andpoignant,” a press releasesays. “We will walk downa path of creation together

and come away with thelaughter, tears and joyour individual lives havebrought us.”

The workshop is forpeople of all levels, and noexperience is necessary.

The workshop is hap-pening at 737 Sixth St.(enter in the back), and itcosts $15 for Royal CityLiterary Arts Society mem-bers or $25 for others.

Check out all the detailsat www.rclas.com, oremail [email protected] sign up.

A stitch in timeAre you a knitter?

If you like to knit andchat, then you maywant to drop in to theNew Westminster PublicLibrary’s monthly SocialKnitwork group.

The drop-in knittinggroup invites people ofall ages and skill levels tospend some time togetheron the first Wednesdayof the month. Bring yourown yarn, needles, scissorsand supplies.

The next sessions are onNov. 5 and Dec. 3.

Check out www.nwpl.ca for more details.

Do you have an item forLively City? Send ideas toJulie, jmaclellan@royalcityr

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Rev. Emilie Smith saidthe bishop of the Dioceseof New Westminster visitschurches every two yearsor so and does a Sundayservice and meets with thecongregation. St. Barnabassuggested Skelton visit ona Thursday so she couldattend the communitylunch.

“She is coming to cele-brate our lunch here thatwe do. She is coming toshare with us and sharewith the community,”Smith told The Record priorto the bishop’s Oct. 16visit. “We thought it wasso important, because ofour neighbourhood min-istries here that we really

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Skelton didn’t just dineand dash, taking part in ameet and greet with din-ers, offering a pre-mealblessing and staying forlunch.

“It was the best timeever. We had a wonderful,wonderful visit,” Smithsaid after the event. “Shestayed and met folks,poured tea for parishion-ers. We did morning pray-er together.”

Learning inthe kitchen

Family Services ofGreater Vancouver is lend-ing a hand to men in thekitchen.

A community kitchenprogram for men is beingoffered on Tuesdays untilDec. 9 from 9:30 a.m. tonoon. Participants willlearn how to plan, cookand share healthy, nutri-tious meals – while spend-ing time in a friendly set-ting.

Organizers say theprogram is a great wayfor men to get together, besocial and enjoy the bene-fits of cooking and eatinga delicious and healthymeal.

All ages are welcome.If you’re interested in a

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Raising fundsTeam B.C. Freshman

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Anyone with cloth-ing (for men, womenand children), accessor-ies (belts, hats, scarves),purses, wallets, backpacks,bags, shoes, boots, under-garments, nylons andsocks, towels, tablecloths,curtains, linens, blankets,bedding and pillows,can drop them off at therear of New WestminsterSecondary School onSunday, Oct. 26 from 11a.m. to 4 p.m.

Grateful fordonation

RBC has donated$12,000 to Douglas Collegeto support educationalprogramming for youthand community membersaround ecological environ-mental issues.

The RBC Foundationfunds will go toward twomajor programs run byDouglas College’s Instituteof Urban Ecology – theenvironmental educationworkshops and the usernetwork for insect biologyin the urban garden (theUNIBUG program).

“We are very gratefulto receive this generousdonation and continuedsupport from RBC,” RobMcGregor, executive dir-ector of the Institute of

Urban Ecology, said in apress release. “This dona-tion will be instrumentalin allowing us to con-tinue our work educatingyouth about ecologicaland environmental issuesand the larger communityabout ecological approach-es to food production.”

The Institute of UrbanEcology conducts research,organizes community pro-jects and delivers educa-tional workshops on issuesrelated to ecology in urbanareas. The UNIBUG pro-gram educates the publicabout the beneficial insectsin urban gardens.

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If you’re looking forsome spooky fun beyondtrick-or-treating, the cityhas a host of Halloweenactivities for families.

Here are a few high-lights from the city’srecently posted Halloweenbrochure.

For tots:! Monster Madness: Fortwo- to four-year-olds,with parent participation,the city offers an afternoonof spooky crafts, gamesand a Halloween treasurehunt, plus stories and facepainting. It’s on Monday,Oct. 27 from 1 to 2:30 p.m.at Centennial CommunityCentre and costs $6. Call604-777-5100 to sign up.! Motoring Munchkins

Halloween party: You’reinvited to dress up yourmunchkin and come alongto the regular MotoringMunchkin drop-in onFriday, Oct. 31 at Queen’sPark Arenex, running 9 to11:30 a.m. Kids aged oneto six can enjoy the usualgames, toys and activities,plus treats and photo ops.It’s $3.25 for one childwith parent, and $1 foreach additional sibling.Call 604-777-5121 for info.

For kids:! Spooktacular Fun: Five-to eight-year-olds canmake crafts, decorationsand treats in this sessionon Monday, Oct. 27 from3:30 to 5 p.m. at CentennialCommunity Centre. Call604-777-5100.! Spooktacular Pro-DDay Fun: Five- to 11-year-olds can join in amorning of Halloweenfun that includes cook-ing, crafting and games.It’s at QueensboroughCommunity Centre onFriday, Oct. 24 from 9 a.m.to noon. Call 604-525-7388.! Count Cholola’sCreatures: Kids aged fiveto 13 can get hands-onmaking creepy choco-late moulds and tricky

treats at the CentennialCommunity Centre. It’son Tuesday, Oct. 28 witha session from 3:15 to 4:45for five- to eight-year-olds,and from 5:30 to 7 p.m. fornine- to 13-year-olds. Itcosts $9.50. Call 604-777-5100.! Night at the Museum:Eight- to 12-year-olds cancheck out the museum byflashlight, hear spookystories, make a craftand play some old-timeHalloween games. It’s inRoom 311 at the AnvilCentre on Thursday,Oct. 23 from 6 to 8 p.m.Registration fee is $12.70.Call 604-527-4640.! Freaky Facepainting:Nine- to 13-year-oldscan learn how to create aHalloween face-paintingmasterpiece in a sessionat Centennial CommunityCentre on Friday, Oct. 24from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Call604-777-5100.

For teens:! Halloween bash: Twelve-to 16-year-olds are invitedto the post-trick-or-treatingfun at the QueensboroughCommunity Centre, 6:30to 9:30 p.m. on Halloweennight, Oct. 31. It’s free.! Pumpkin carving: Kids

in grades 8 and up can joinin for a carving sessionon Thursday, Oct. 23 from3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Call 604-515-3775 to sign up.! Scary movie marathon:The youth centre hosts ascary movie marathon onSaturday, Oct. 25 from 3to 11 p.m. Call 604-515-3775. It’s free with a youthcentre membership.! Zombie Walk and AfterDead Party: Kids in grades6 and up are invited toroam the streets of NewWest as part of this funmob of zombies. Get“zombified” from 3 to 5p.m., then leave the youthcentre at 5 p.m. Suppliesand make-up artists willbe provided. Drop into the youth centre onWednesday, Oct. 29. It runsfrom 5 to 8 p.m., and it’sfree. Call 604-515-3775 fordetails.

For the whole family:There are a host of

events for families inthe city, including aHalloween party at theCentennial CommunityCentre on Sunday, Oct.25; a Fraser River Frightsafternoon on the SamsonV on Sunday, Oct. 26;a Monster Mash Bash

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There’s also a HauntedHalloween family skateevent at Moody ParkArena on Saturday, Oct.25, and a grandpar-ents Halloween Partyat Century House onSaturday, Oct. 25.

For details of all ofthese programs, pickup the city’s HalloweenHappenings brochure ordownload it from www.newwestpcr.ca.

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Call 604-777-5100 or seethe city’s Active LivingGuide (you can pick it upat city facilities or see itonline at www.newwestpcr.ca) for more details.

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Parents will learn waysto help their teenagersbecome financially respon-sible adults by planningfor school, buying a carand even saving for ahome.

The workshop ispresented by the CreditCounselling Society, and itstarts at 7 p.m.

Call 604-527-4667 oremail [email protected] formore details.

Do you have an idea forFamily Ties? Send sugges-tions of family- and parent-ing-related events and topicsto Julie, [email protected]. You can alsofind her on Twitter,@juliemaclellan.

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Only qualified electors of NewWestminster who are patients/residents at the above facilitieson the dates and times shown are eligible to vote at the special voting opportunities. Where thepatient/resident is unable to attend the voting place within the facility, election officials mayattend the patient for the purpose of receiving their ballot.*NOTE: Qualified residents of Ross Tower, Rotary Tower and Kiwanas Tower are also allowed tovote at the Dunwood Place Special Vote.

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If you are not on the list of electors, you may register at the time of voting by completing therequired application form available at the voting place. To register you must meet the followingqualifications:

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• Not otherwise disqualified by law from voting.

Resident electorswill be required to produce 2 pieces of identification, at least one of whichmust contain the applicant’s signature. The identification documents must prove identity andproof of residency in the City of New Westminster.

Non-resident property electors (NRPEs) who have not yet registered with the City willbe required to bring the following:• Application to register as an NRPE;• If more than one person owns the property, a completed consent form signed by the

majority of owners must accompany the application;• A copy of a real property tax notice issued by the City of New Westminster; and• One document that provides evidence of identity and contains the elector’s signature.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION please visit our website at www.newwestcity.ca/electionsor contact the Election Office at [email protected] or call Chief Election OfficerIsabell Hadford 604-636-4484 or Deputy Chief Election Officer Philip Lo at 604-636-4485.

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With housing subsidies ending for 133New West households by 2024, a com-munity meeting is being held Oct. 23 toinform residents and rally support.

“We want to make sure co-op membersunderstand what’s going on,” said FionaJackson with the Co-operative HousingFederation of B.C. “A lot of them may haveheard their operating agreement is ending,or something about a subsidy being gone,but they may not totally understand it.

“Eight co-operatives will face a loss ofrent subsidy,” she said. “These are society’smost vulnerable, including seniors, peoplewith disabilities and single parents.”

Back in the 1970s and ‘80s, in an effortto provide housing during a crisis in therental sector, the Government of Canadabegan funding co-operatives under 30- or35-year agreements. With the deadlinelooming, the federation’s solution is forthe provincial government to pick up theslack.

“Because housing is a provincial respon-sibility, the question really goes to them.We’re hoping our campaign creates enoughbuzz that something’s put forward duringthe next provincial budget in February,”

she said. “A new program might not haveto be set up. The funds could be adminis-tered through B.C. Housing.”

Jackson is confident the province willstep up to the plate, given the support atthe local level.

“At the Union of British ColumbiaMunicipalities convention this year, theyvoted unanimously in favour of our cam-paign. That says something,” she said.

Because these homes have been in NewWest for so long, Jackson said “it makessense” to continue subsidizing them, rath-er than forcing people out. “This is wheresome people have raised their families andare seniors now. They’re scared of home-lessness and of the possibility of havingto move.”

The campaign, dubbed You Hold theKey, is making its away around the LowerMainland, asking co-op communities tomobilize its members and host info ses-sions like the one being held in the RoyalCity this month.

“This is also a chance for us to askpeople to spread the word and be part ofthe campaign,” she said.

The meeting is being hosted at theWestminster Landing Co-op, 1-13 K de KCourt. Discussion gets underway at 7 p.m.For more information, visit chf.bc.ca.

Co-ops working torally support in city

Hop to it: Home brewers from Brew Westminster brew beer out-side the River Market during the Oct. 19 Wort Day on the Quayevent. Local brewers were on hand Sunday for beer makingdemonstrations.

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Throughout the 80s and 90s, Lindell strug-gled with addictions. With no regard formaking choices to improve his life Lindellsays, “I had taken my addictions to thelimit and could not go on one more dayliving that way.” He recognized the desirefor more and wanted to positively impactpeople. So overnight and with the grace ofGod, Mike Lindell stopped his addictivebehavior and found a new way.

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Singers, dancers, storytellersand other performers took tothe stage in the second annualSeniors Have Talent show.

The Sapperton Old AgePensioners and the NewWestminster Lions Club joinedforces to present the talentshow on Sunday, Oct. 19 at theSapperton Pensioners Hall. CalDonnelly was the show’s MC.

Event promoter Vic Leachsaid it was an “excellent show”with 14 contestants and threeguest performers.

Aman Gill, a 21-year-oldsinger who appeared in BlindBeginnings Has Talent, was thespecial guest who started theshow. Local poet Susan McLeodattended and recited her newpoem, Seniors Have Talent,

and 89-year-old Second WorldWar Veteran (and last year’sAudience Choice winner) ChuckJohnston sang with Donnellyduring the intermission.

While the judges selected thewinners, the audience also hada chance to get into the act.

For $1, folks had the chanceto vote for the best in show.

“After the six finalists com-

peted with their second act,judges Dolores Kirkwood,Belle Puri and Rick Carswellchose first place to poet DavidSlater of White Rock, secondplace to storyteller Comfort Eroof Surrey and third place toa trio of dancers from BrightSunset Chinese Dance Group ofVancouver,” Leach said.

“The Audience Choice win-

ner was the tap number byPat Trimble and Dan Minor,along with accompanist AliceMcAuley, all who perform reg-ularly with The Vaudevilliansfrom Surrey. Overall it wasan afternoon of high qualityentertainment from many fieldsappreciated by both the audi-ence and performers.”

– Theresa McManus

Seniors strut their stuff on stage


Shining stars: Above, Evelyn Benson reads from her book dur-ing the second annual Seniors Have Talent show. At right,singer Dan Minor gives it his all. The show, held at the Sap-perton Pensioners Hall on Sunday, Oct. 19, was hosted bythe Sapperton Old Age Pensioners and the New WestminsterLions Club.

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The New West Pop-Up Library project got off to agood start on Sunday, Oct. 12 with a successful launchevent at River Market.

Visitors turned out to check out the “leave-a-book,take-a-book” swap event, which featured 1,000 booksdonated by the Kindlers Society.

They also had a chance to check out the adoptablelibraries – three-shelf “homes” for books that were builtduring summer community workshops – that will betaking up residence around New Westminster.

The project is being spearheaded by the Fox siblings,Alexa, Isaac and Quentin, who got funding througha Neighbourhood Small Grant from the VancouverFoundation.

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Young reader: Lexi Zajac, age 2.5, checks out a book.

Love for libraries:Far left: Tegan Cherem-kora of SoAreWe Cre-ative, left, with pop-uplibrary founders AlexaBennett Fox and herbrother Quentin at thepop-up library launchevent at River Market onOct. 12. At left,Visitorscheck out the books andthe libraries up foradoption at the launchevent.

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For seniors: At left, Susan Tamkin and Barbara Hilstad set up the CenturyHouse artists’ workshop at Seniors’ Day at Anvil Centre on Saturday.Above, visitors check out one of the many presentations offered at theannual festival, which was attended by about 600 people on Oct. 18.


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◗WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22Seasonal employment, FraserWorks Co-Op will present a freeinformation session at the NewWestminster Public Library onWednesday, Oct. 22 from 12 to4 p.m. Find out how they canhelp you find, get and maintainemployment. The session is co-sponsored by New WestminsterPublic Library and FraserWorks Co-op. For more informa-tion and to register, call thelibrary at 604-527-4668.Tillicum Toastmasters meets7:20 to 9:30 p.m., Unity inAction Church hall, 1630Edinburgh St. Do you want toget over your fear of publicspeaking? Do you want to learnthe how-to’s within a support-ive environment? Do you wantto nail that upcoming interviewfor your dream job? Take thefirst step and join us for ournext meeting and see whatwe’re all about.

◗FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24Employment workshop, under-standing labour market andemployer expectations. Learnwhat you need to get a jobin a series of employmentworkshops at the library onFridays from 1 to 3 p.m. Formore information and to regis-ter, phone Faustin at MOSAICat 604-438-8214 ext. 112 oremail [email protected] or register at the libraryat 604-527-4667. The seriesis co-sponsored by the NewWestminster Public Library andMOSAIC’s settlement program.

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◗FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31Ukrainian Perogy, cabbagerolls and borscht sale, HolyEucharist Church Hall. Salesfrom 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., FourthAvenue and Fifth Street. Info:604-526-0988.

◗SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1Craft sale and tea, 1 to 4 p.m.,Dunwood Place, 901 ColborneSt.Families of Early NewWestminster; The HerringMemorial Symposium,Glenbrook Park Centre,Jamieson Court, NewWestminster, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.For more information, [email protected] or visithttp://franceselizabethherring.wordpress.com.

◗TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4Royal Columbian HospitalAuxiliary, general meeting,1 p.m., Neil Russell room ofRoyal Columbian Hospital,third floor, Columbia Tower,330 East Columbia St. Publicwelcome.

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welcome.St. Peter’s Catholic Women’sLeague bazaar, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.in the parish hall, 330 RoyalAve. Features silent auction,baking table, jewelry booth,knitting and sewing booth andChristmas booth.The Ladies Auxiliary of theFraternal Order of Eagles #20,craft fair, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,CAW hall at 707 12th St.

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◗ IN THE GAMEJV Hyacks lead Valley football division ◗P28Wheellchair basketball coach to be inducted to Canada Hall ◗P28

Douglas soccer to PacWest provincialsThe Douglas College

women’s team will share abus to the PacWest provin-cial soccer championshipswith the men for the firsttime in recent memory.

Fifth-year twin sistersAshley and Hayley Melvinwill get their first taste ofthe post season in theirfinal year of eligibilitythis weekend in Squamishwhen Douglas takes onLangara in the semifinalsto kick off the provincialsat Quest University thisFriday.

“We’re proud of whatwe’ve done so far, butwe’re far from satisfied,”said Douglas head coachChris Laxton. “We’ve hadsome really clear goals andthis is one more step downthat road.”

The first step was justgetting to the B.C. col-legiate championships, afeat that had eluded thewomen’s program forsome time.

But the Douglas womenchanged all that, openingthe regular season with a5-0 start and then avenginga dismal 5-0 loss to leaguechampion VancouverIsland University, post-ing a 2-1 victory overthe Mariners on NicoleFraser’s game-winner inNanaimo last week.

“If we face (VIU) again,it will be a tight game,”predicted Laxton.

But first, the Royals willhave their collective handsfull with Langara College,which finished third in theleague with a 7-5-3 record,seven points behind run-ner-up Douglas.

“(Langara) has the hist-ory and some good playersall over the pitch. I think

it’s going to come down toset pieces. They have twoquick strikers we’ll haveto keep tabs on,” addedLaxton.

The Royals finishedwith a 10-4-1 record, justthree points out of firstplace and sport a wellbalanced lineup that isled by defending co-cap-tains Tiffany O’Krane andKelsey Acaster.

Danae Harding led theteam in scoring with aleague-high seven goals,while keeper RebeccaMainardi posted fiveshutouts and a 1.08 goals

against average.“We have tremendous

leadership and everythingI’ve heard is, ‘We want towin now,’” said Laxton.

The Royal men are nostrangers to the PacWestpost season, but still havesome unfinished businessto attend to, says co-coachRobbie Toor.

With bronze medals atthe Canadian Colleges’nationals in 2009 and lastseason, Toor says the teamis itching to bring backthe title that Douglas wonin 2005, when he was aplayer.

With B.C. earning twoberths to the upcomingnationals, it’s “winner takeall,” he said.

“You win (the semi-finals) and you get a tick-et to the national cham-pionships. It’s almost asimportant as the provin-cial championship,” Toorsaid.

Douglas won five ofits last six regular seasongames,includinglastweek-end’s 2-1 in Nanaimo.

In that game, DorianColopisis and JaydenSandhu, with the game-winner in the final 15 min-

utes, scored for Douglas.The Royals finished

safely in second place tothe Mariners with a regu-lar-season record of 8-4-3.

“What I liked about thefinal third of our seasonwas we went down a goalin three of our games andgot through the adversity,”Toor said. “It’s all aboutfinding that grove andpeaking at the right time.”

Last week’s play-er of the week, SpencerDeboice, and Burnaby’sMark Baldisimo led theteam with eight and fivegoals, respectively.

Hyackssour onSenior’sNight

The New WestminsterHyacks are still lookingfor their first win over theVancouver College FightingIrish.

The Hyacks came intoa damp Mercer Stadiumsporting a 3-1 record inthe B.C. high school AAAWestern conference, butcame away looking thelesser of the two teams,losing 31-6 to the Irish onSeniors Night on Friday.

Vancouver Collegescored points on its firstthree possessions and led17-0 at halftime.

The Irish had a shutoutpending and would haveblanked the home Hyackshad it not been for backupquarterback Jamie Shiho,who engineered a last-min-ute drive that culminatedin a 17-yard touchdownrun up the middle by theGrade 11 pivot with justnine ticks left on the clock.

“I wanted to finish theplay. I knew the team need-ed that,” said Shiho afterthe game. “It all starts onthird and fourth down. Thedefence has got to get offthe field and that didn’thappen.”

New Westminster ’sJonathan Tomalty gavethe home crowd a reasonto cheer on VancouverCollege’s opening posses-sion, recovering a fumbleon the Irish 21-line.

But New West squan-dered that possession, los-ing 12 yards on a high snapand another five on a pen-alty to put the Hyacks outof field goal range.

The Hyacks only flirtedwith the Irish red zone ontwo other possessions inthe game, while commit-ting six three-and-outs onoffence.

Contrastingly, New Westdefence could not containVC in long-yardage situa-tions.

“I wanted to believe wewere a better team thanthis,” said Hyacks headcoach Farhan Lalji after thegame. “We had a bad weekof practice and it carriedover to this. … We playedpoorly.”

College marched 79yards on 11 plays on itsnext possession before

BY TOM BERRIDGE SPORTS [email protected]

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Mountain Utd wins first national medalMountain United FC won its

first national medal, claiming abronze medal at the the CanadianSoccer Association club champi-onships in Surrey last week.

The under-17 Mountain boysclaimed a bronze medal followinga 5-3 victory in a penalty shootoutover Alberta in the u-18 finalsat South Surrey Athletic Park onOct. 13.

Following a scoreless regula-tion and overtime, Mountain wasclinical from the penalty spot, scor-ing from Edris Najm, Evan Libke,Julian Gailiunas, Dzenan Bezdroband Brendan Shaw. Keeper Mike

Girard got the win in goal.Mountain’s Bezdrob and Ola

Ajibike shared the Golden Boot asthe tournament’s leading scorerswith another B.C. player – nation-al champion Surrey United’s KyleSohi – all with five goals in thetournament.

The underage United boys tookadvantage of an opportunity totake part in the tournament fol-lowing an 11th-hour pullout byNewfoundland.

“It was certainly a rush,” saidMountain United’s technical direc-tor Frank Ciaccia. “I told the boys,‘We’ve just been handed an unex-pected privilege.’ In the semifinalversus Ontario a call here and abounce here and there and we

could have been in the final.”Mountain’s only loss was a 3-1

defeat to Ajax FC from Ontario.A late penalty kick turned themomentum in the match. Bezdrobscored Mountain’s only goal.

Mountain also defeated HalifaxCity 3-2 in a close game in the sec-ond day of competition.

The local squad also had bigwins over Saskatchewan andNew Brunswick, winning 6-1 overthe Prairie club and 7-1 over theAtlantic region champ to kick offthe nationals.

Mountain’s under-16 girls team,including Sarah Stuart of NewWestminster and Burnaby’s JennaGurniak, Lauren Rea, StephanieRizzo and Reesa Wright, placed

seventh overall at the club nation-als in Mount Pearl, Nfld.

U-15 callup Camila Gomez-Hernandez scored four times inMountain’s final 9-0 victory overSaskatchewan to claim a shareof the Golden Boot award as theleading scorer at the nationals.

Other goals came from RachelKordysz, Destiny Lutz, AnnaCrone and Gurniak, with a pair.Mikayla Isobe posted the shutoutin goal.

Mountain opened with a 1-0win over PEI, but lost its nextthree matches, all by slim margins,including a 4-3 defeat on penaltiesto Ontario, before finishing thenationals with a flurry of tallies.


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Courtesy of Douglas College Royals Athletics

First-timers: Third-year forward Lindsay Munroe, in white with ball, will be going to the PacWest provincialswith Douglas College for the first time this weekend in Squamish.



scoring on a six-yard run by OvieOdjegba, who carried the ball 17 timesfor 138 yards in the game.

The Irish opened the second quarterwith a 26-yard field goal off the toe ofKieran Metha after another long driveand increased the score to 17-0 on a 69-yard pass play to Matthew Legge, whooutjumped two defenders for the balland then outlegged them the rest of theway.

New West had its best chance to scoreright after, with Shiho, who took overfrom starter Mackenzie Ratcliffe, march-ing the ball downfield on a nine-playdrive in the final minute of the half beforean untimely personal foul call put the

Hyacks back on the Irish 42-yard linewith a fourth-and-25 situation.

In the second half, Legge scored hissecond TD of the game on a 55-yard puntreturn in the third quarter.

Alex Akpata, who rushed for 82 yards,scored the final TD for the Irish on a one-yard run after a costly offside penaltyby the Hyacks gave the field goal teama first down and the College offenceanother crack at a major.

“We still have a slim chance of a homefield bye, but we have South Delta nextweek and they beat these guys. We haveto get better than that,” said Lalji.

New West is on Vancouver Island thisweekend with a Friday tilt against 1-2Belmont at Bear Mountain.

Lauren Fuerderer scored the game-win-ning goal against PEI, while Brooke Molbyclaimed the shutout.

B.C. teams faired well in all divisionsat the various club nationals with whatCiaccia described as the best, or one of the

better, showings by B.C. in some time.Coquitlam Metro-Ford boys won gold

in the u-16 division, while Coastal FC tooksilver in the u-14 boys and shared a bronzein the u-16 girls.

Surrey United also placed runner-up inthe women’s Jubilee Trophy final.


Soccer: B.C. teams have best showing


Hyacks: Still in hunt for a playoff bye

◗HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

JVs remain in first in ValleyThe New Westminster

Hyacks continued to sharetop spot in the Valley div-ision following a 34-15 winover Mission in B.C. highschool junior varsity foot-ball.

Trew Dancey rushed formore than 200 yards andthree touchdowns, includ-ing an 80-yard romp on thelast play of the first halfthat gave the home team a

27-2 advantage.Dancy also scored TDs

on runs of 48 and 15 yardsin the opening quarters.

Josh Olango also scoredoff a long-gainer in the sec-ond quarter to rush over100 yards.

Sammy Sidhu ran inNew West’s fifth touch-down, punching the ball infrom three yards out on athird-quarter score.

Mission scored two lateTDs.

New West is currentlytied with Abbotsford, bothwith 5-0 records.

New West travels toAbbotsford to take on 2-2 Robert Bateman onThursday. The JVs willclose out the regular seasonat home against 3-1 LordTweedsmuir on Oct. 30 atMercer Stadium.

Former Douglas College wheelchairbasketball coach Tim Frick will add anotheraccolade to an already long list of hon-ours following his induction into Canada’sSports Hall of Fame on Oct. 22.

Frick, who was inducted into theWheelchair Basketball Canada Hall ofFame in 2012 and the Canadian Paralympichall last year, led Canada to a decade-longundefeated streak in major internationalcompetitions, including three consecutive

Paralympic gold medals from 1992 to 2000and four consecutive world titles from1994 to 2006.

He is also a seven-time CoachingExcellence Award of Canada winner.

Frick will be inducted alongside skijumper Horst Bulau, the late Sarah Burke,dual sport champion Pierre Harvey, hockeyinnovator Geraldine Heaney, figure skaterElizabeth Manley, rugby’s Gareth Rees andbasketball coach Kathy Shields.


The champ: Rosalia Calla, left, won an amateur boxing title at the WBC nationalchampionships in Ontario last week.

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