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Section N of the February 15, 2013 edition of the Burnaby NewsLeader
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page3 page5 page6Family day draws huge crowd
how about a two week spring break?
musing on amalgamation
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Friday February 15 2013
Vital program could be lost: trusteeGrant [email protected]
The spectre of the federal government taking immigrant settlement workers out of schools has the New Westminster board of education concerned.
In 2005, British Columbia used federal money to set up Settlement Workers in Schools (SWIS) programs in 10 districts with the highest concentration of immigrants, including New Westminster. It has since expanded SWIS to 21 districts throughout the province.
Much of the motivation for locating the service in schools was based on them being one of the first places immigrant and refugee families go after arriving in Canada.
Only B.C. and Manitoba administers settlement services in their provinces while the federal government runs them elsewhere in the country. However, Ottawa has now decided to do it for all provinces putting many current provincial programs, including SWIS, in jeopardy.
City hoping to get it open again soonerGrant [email protected]
The single-lane Braid Street Bailey bridge connecting New Westminster to Coquitlam’s United Boulevard will be closed for at least a couple of weeks as authorities look at options to repairing splits in its structure.
The wood bridge was supposed to be closed for 12 hours last Saturday for a structural assessment, the first to be done on the bridge since 2007.
That’s when it was discovered
there were splits in two of its significant trusses where they are held together by steel pins.
The bridge has not been reopened to traffic since then.
City of New Westminster chief engineer Jim Lowrie said the problem would have been caused by “excessive loading” from all the heavy vehicle traffic that regularly crosses the bridge between the two cities’ industrial parks.
Lowrie said the engineers also conducted gamma ray testing on the
remaining trusses to determine if they are suffering from fatigue and stress, but the results weren’t known
as of the NewsLeader’s deadline.
On Wednesday he said the city was looking at a repair to get the bridge back in service sooner
rather than later. “I don’t have a timeframe of when
that would be.”Media reports this week stated
that New Westminster unilaterally lowered the load limit on the bridge in January, but Lowrie says that
doesn’t tell the whole story.“To say we lowered it is not
entirely correct,” Lowrie said. “There was no limit before.”
He said the 48-tonne limit imposed by the city was to meet the recommended specifications of the manufacturer, Acrow Bridges, based in Richmond.
Although New West is responsible for the maintenance and operation of the bridge it shares the costs with Coquitlam.
If it was to be replaced, both councils would have to approve.
Splits shut down Bailey bridge
MarIO barTeL/NeWSLeaDerkeith whitely, an engineering technologist with the city of new westminster, examines photos of the damaged section of the bailey bridge that connects to coquitlam at the foot of Braid Street. The one-lane bridge has been closed to traffic until it can be repaired.
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SEEING THINGS DIFFERENTLY, LIVING WITH LOW VISION FORUMSaturday, February, 23, 201310:00 am - 3:00 pmCentury House, 620 8th StreetFREE Admission
New Westminster Lions Club, in partnership with Century House Association Low Vision Group, present Seeing Things Diff erenlty, Living with Low Vision Forum.
Speakers will lead discussion on 5 topics: Medical Research on low vision; Etiquette for the sighted around low vision/blind; Computer-assisted Technology for low vison/blind; Jobs & Legislation for low vision/blind; and Low/Non-tech for low vision/blind. There will be 20 display tables of services and products and four XXSighting Challenge tables for the sighted to test their other senses.
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JUMP START YOUR HERITAGE AND GENEALOGY RESEARCH The Heritage Week theme Good Neighbours: Heritage Homes and Neighbourhoods has inspired the New Westminster Public Library to help you Jump Start Your Heritage and Genealogy Research.
Drop in to the clinics on Monday, February 18, from 3:00 -6:00 pm or Thursday, February 21 from 5:00 -8:00 pm to get personal assistance researching your New Westminster house or family. Librarians will be available to show you how to fi nd things online and in print, including unique materials found only at the library. Historical photographs, newspaper articles, obituaries and funeral records are some of the resources available.
OUR SPORTS HERITAGEThe early history of sports in BC and the Lower Mainland will be featured at a special event at the New Westminster Public Library during Heritage Week. Two authors who have recently published books on soccer and hockey will be at the library on Tuesday, February 19 beginning at 7:00 pm to talk about their subjects.
At 7:00 pm Robert Janning will begin the evening with the early days of soccer in British Columbia. Janning’s book is Westcoast Reign: The British Columbia Soccer Championships, 1892 – 1905. At 7:45 pm Craig H. Bowlsby will present his slide talk The Birth of Hockey in New Westminster. In Bowlsby’s new book, Empire of Ice: The Rise and Fall of the Pacifi c Coast Hockey Association, 1911-1926 he also describes how Vancouver did win the Stanley Cup.
The event is free and held in the New Westminster Public Library auditorium. Pre-register at 604-527-4667.
VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSIONA volunteer information session is being held for individuals interested in becoming Tour Guide Assistants and Archive Volunteers for the City of New Westminster’s Samson V and New Westminster Archives.
Wednesday, February 206:30 - 8:00 pmNew Westminster Museum & Archives302 Royal Avenue
Located at New Westminster’s waterfront, the Samson V was a sternwheel snag-puller that worked on the Fraser River and was restored and transformed into a museum. Tour Guide Assistants help visitors understand the conditions on a working riverboat and the Fraser River.
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MOODY PARK RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION AGM7:00 pm Thursday, February 21, 2013New Westminster Public Library Auditorium
Agenda:
• Right Turn Restrictions on Henley St.• Off -leash dog area in Moody Park• Family Friendly Businesses - Kathleen McConnell, KidsNewWest.ca • Parking, sidewalks• Report from Police Committee• Report from MPRA Traffi c Sub Committee• Report from Community Traffi c City Rep.• Elections of Offi cers 2013 - 2014
For further information, contact Andrew Baker at 604-522-0037 or [email protected]. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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Infocus OPINION page 6 | LETTERS page 7 | SPORTS page 17
CITY OF NEW WESTMINSTER/CONTRIBUTEDThe city’s first Family Day celebrations, hosted at the Fraser River Discovery Centre, were hugely popular.
At least 2,000 people show up at Discovery Centre for celebrationGrant [email protected]
New Westminster’s family court committee had done its social media homework.
To promote its inaugural Family Day celebration, they’d hit the Twitter send key many a time. They created the obligatory Facebook page. And they put it on the city’s website, as well as utilizing the tried-and-true, traditional method of advertising in the newspaper. But they weren’t sure what kind of response their version of Premier Christy Clark’s little political bone to the electorate would generate.
They needn’t have worried.When the doors opened to the
Fraser River Discovery Centre, where the celebration was held, at 11 a.m. on Monday there were people lined up anxious to get in. It wasn’t long before the place was
packed as parents and kids watched demonstrations and performances, marveled at exhibits, got involved in making things and, of course, had their faces painted.
Organizers were forced to monitor the front door throughout the four-hour celebration to make sure the centre wasn’t too crowded.
“They did a count and it was at least 2,000 people over the four hours,” said Coun. Betty McIntosh, chair of the city’s family court committee. “It was a really successful day.”
She gave an example of the fishing booth, exhausted of its 400 prizes well before the event was shut down.
McIntosh said she wasn’t sure how the response would be, but as they surveyed the scene Monday, city worker Ruby Campbell declared, “OK, this is working.”
It wasn’t just New Westminster families that showed up, said McIntosh. She talked to people from Vancouver, Victoria and
Aldergrove who had come seeking something to do during the fledgling holiday in British Columbia.
“This is great for the Fraser River Discovery Centre. Anyone I spoke to, I said, ‘come back when it’s not busy and you’ll see what it has to discover,’” said McIntosh.
The committee used to put on the seniors family day in October at the Royal City Centre, but when Clark declared Family Day they felt they had to do something for February. Although some consideration was given to holding an outdoor event, McIntosh said the committee felt it was better staying inside. While it won’t be open next year, McIntosh envisions the celebration eventually being moved to the Anvil Centre currently being constructed Downtown because it will be capable of holding much bigger crowds.
That, however, wouldn’t count out the Discovery Centre being part of the event.
New West’s Family Day a hit
Lowrie said he heard Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart on the radio calling for a multi-lane replacement, something that city has urged for a long time.
That would create an even worse traffic nightmare at Braid and Brunette than already exists, Lowrie said.
“I don’t think that would be in our interest at this time,” he said. “The traffic would be basically, in a day, be jammed at Braid Street and Brunette. With the multi-railway tracks there (the intersection) it simply would not able to handle the traffic that a multi-lane bridge would bring.”
He also disputed a report Coquitlam ordered the assessment. He said it was a joint decision because a review was overdue on the bridge built in 1995 since its expected service life span is 15 to 20 years.
“It’s a huge, huge thing in my mind,” said New Westminster school trustee Lisa Graham. “Our board is seriously concerned about these changes and the impact they will have.”
New Westminster has received $154,500 each year from 2007 to 2012 to fund three settlement workers, who help newcomers navigate not only the school system but also point them in the right direction for community services. An additional 10 per cent was given to the schools to program information sessions, workshops and training in partnership with community settlement agencies. The program serves up to 650 clients per year.
Graham and Hargurjeet Sekhon, who
manages the program for the district, are worried the federal government will force the school districts to compete with community non-profit agencies for funding. If they are unsuccessful, much of the work done by SWIS will have to be rebuilt from outside the schools. That could be a problem because, for example, there would be privacy issues surrounding outside workers getting access to the schools.
Sekhon also said it would sever connections built between teachers, students and families.
Since they’re right in the schools, teachers can consult with the settlement workers on any immigrant issue involving their students. If they’re not there, those issues might get glossed
over. The workers can also let the families know what’s happening in their kids’ schools.
“They’re visible and they’re there, even for the parents,” said Sekhon. “There’s been so much time and effort to make them successful and then to suddenly lose out on that, that will have an impact on the relationships and the connections with the school.”
According to a report by Sekhon to the board of education, 31.7 per cent of New Westminster’s residents are immigrants with 23.1 per cent of the city’s population having lived in Canada for less than five years.
Graham said she intends to put a motion to the board to take a stand on the issue at a future meeting.
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BRIEFS
Queer prom night SaturdayOne More Chance, a
1980s-themed queer prom night, will be held in New Westminster on Saturday.
Pinoy Pride Vancouver (PPV), a Filipino-Canadian LGBTQ social and community group, and New West Pride will be putting on the joint Valentine’s party at Java Jazz Café and Bistro on Sixth Street in Uptown New Westminster.
The fundraiser toward each group’s community programs, will run from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tickets are $25, which includes a buffet dinner, and available at the café or by calling 778-385-3996 or 778-713-1494. For more information go to PPV’s Facebook page.
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New Westminster Community Schools is hoping to raise $1,000 for its after-school programs at a fundraising event at the local Boston Pizza outlet. The event, Monday, Feb. 18 from 5 to 10 p.m., will have a pizza buffet, silent auctions and raffles.
Local artists featured at the library
Two local artists are on display this month at the New Westminster Public Library.
Katherine Freund-Hainsworth’s work is a visual historical walk through the city’s neighbourhoods in honour of Heritage B.C.’s Heritage Week theme of Good Neighbours: Heritage Homes and Neighbourhoods. Her work ranges from pen and ink drawings of heritage homes to mixed media collages and historic artifacts. The On the Ramp gallery features acrylic paintings of winter, including the Iditarod race, by Harvey Tuura.
New executive named for Glenbrooke
Clarissa Sprancis was elected as the new president of the Glenbrooke North Residents Association (GNRA), taking over from Deb Sutherland at the
organization’s annual general meeting Jan. 16. Tom Lockhart is the new vice-president while Christine McGover takes over the treasurer’s position from Paul Fuoco. The secretary is Marya McLellan and the directors at large for 2013 will be Doug Bjornson, David Francouer, Angela Lee, Silvana McNulty and Brian Muench.
The GNRA’s next meeting is at Century House on March 20, 7 p.m.
Health and wellness fair at Robson
A free health and wellness fair is being put on by the John Robson elementary parent advisory council in the school’s gym on Tuesday, Feb. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m.
To promote mental, spiritual and physical health, as well as academic wellness and literacy, the fair will have numerous exhibitors and community organizations. There will also be Kids in Motion dance class, and Blood & Iron Martial Arts demonstrations for the kids.
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QUEENSBOROUGH RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION MEETING Tuesday, February 197:00 pmResidences by the River, 83 Star Crescent, common room
Questions, concerns or agenda items can be sent to [email protected].
CITY PARKING PERMITSAll city residential and visitor parking permits expire on March 31, 2013. Renewal fee for the year is $5.00 per permit.
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First published as Those Foolish Things, the book follows a group of British pensioners who move to a refurbished hotel in India in order to save money. However, the hotel is not as luxurious as advertised. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was recently made into a movie starring Maggie Smith and Dame Judi Dench.
Copies of the book can be borrowed from the Library. Please pre-register at 604-527-4667.
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Two options for community, board to consider for 2013-14Grant [email protected]
Despite concerns there would be too many voices, the 18-member New Westminster school district calendar committee reached consensus at its first meeting Feb. 7.
It proposed the community and the board of education discuss either sticking with the current school calendar for 2013-14 or go to one with a two-week spring break.
Superintendent John Woudzia had also presented two other options similar to ones being contemplated by other districts in the region for the committee to consider—a two-week break along with additional closure days and a 12-month calendar—but the committee decided against them.
The committee’s composition included two representatives from each of the five employee groups, six parents and two students.
“I was really impressed. People were thoughtful,
contemplative, they listened to other people,” said board chair Michael Ewen, who was a spectator and not a participant at the meeting. “It was exactly the way committees should work. It’s a template for how to proceed despite the size. In two hours there wasn’t even a negative word.”
The committee was formed to discuss what direction the district should take in establishing its 2013-14 calendar. For the first time, the Ministry of Education is requiring all districts in the province to come up with a 12-month calendar (opening the option for classes during July and August) instead of the traditional 10-month version. Each district has to present a proposed calendar for consideration by the end of February and a final one to be submitted to the ministry by the end of March. Previously, those dates were two months earlier.
The committee also decided the public consultation would only be for 2013-14 and not for a two-year calendar, “but agreed that a question regarding approving multiple
year calendars in the future should be included in a calendar survey,” wrote Woudzia in a summary of the committee’s meeting.
The survey is to begin Friday (Feb. 15) and close March 8. The district will collect feedback from partner groups next week with the calendars going to the public for review the week following. There will be an open house on the issue at the NWSS library on Wednesday, Feb. 27 starting at 7 p.m. A final decision will be made by the board March 26.
Ewen said a two-week spring closure instead of one would bring New West in line with other school districts, many of which have made the move to save money. SD40 is currently trying to make cuts to reduce an expected deficit this year and for 2013-14, and recover a $2.2 million deficit from 2011-12.
“It’s not an educational decision, this is a financial decision,” said Ewen of the two-week break option. He added he’d like to discuss a year-round school system to see if there are educational and/or financial advantages.
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Back in the 1990s there was a worldwide push for banks to merge, and Canada’s banks were not immune.
When then-Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was asked in a media scrum outside the House of Commons one day what he thought about the issue, he said something to the effect of:
“Who says bigger is better? If I were 300 pounds, would that make me a better prime minister?”
But just as a child dreams of nothing but “growing up” and economies are always urged to grow, grow, grow—bigger is almost always seen as better in our world.
And for cities, bigger comes in the form of amalgamation. Across Canada, many cities have almalgamated their metropolitan areas in recent years—Toronto, Montreal and Halifax among them.
Vancouver is a notable exception—which also explains why this grand, sprawling city only ranks as Canada’s eighth most populous.
In the case of New Westminster, its diminutive size (15 square km, 65,000 souls), is definitely part of its charm. But the expense of running this city often challenges the wisdom of going it alone—especially when compared to bigger neighbours, who, the logic goes, benefit from economies of scale to keep per-capita costs under control.
And in the case of our school board, aggravating delays in getting a new high school built and balancing the budget only serve to add ink to the pens of letter writers who say it’s time for SD40 to partner with Burnaby (where, of course, they’re eagerly waiting by the phone).
Many fear that “bigger”—in whatever form— also means less responsive to local needs.
Yet sharing the load is something municipalities do all the time. One has only to step outside the boundaries of New West and see municipalities sharing in the delivery of everything from education and public safety to fire protection.
On the North Shore, the city and district of North Vancouver share policing and a single school district.
In the Tri Cities, a single school district serves Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. Yet for policing Port Moody has opted out of the trio to run its own municipal force. In the Langleys, the city and the township share both a school district and policing. Similarly, the Surrey school district includes White Rock.
Across Metro Vancouver, fire services are usually operated locally.
White Rock (pop. 19,300) has both its own RCMP detachment and its own fire service.
And over in the rarified air of West Vancouver, they do just about everything on their own,
from police and fire to schools, and even down to their own bus service. Blue Bus Transit is the oldest continuously operated, municipal system in North America, in service since 1912.
Sounds a bit like New West. Here we even boast our own electrical utility, the oldest continuously operating electrical utility in British Columbia—since the city started generating electricity for streetlights in 1891.
In all, it’s a hodge-podge out there in terms of how cities deliver key services, but one thing is clear: if the province were to one day step in to amalgamate Metro Vancouver, there would be an unholy hue and cry in cities like New West.
Meantime, we’re not as separate as we might think. For everyday services, there’s always been a lot of cooperation, formal and informal. And there’s no harm in talking about where it might work to do more in future.
Chris Bryan is editor of the NewsLeader.
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A provincial crackdown on distracted driving by police during the month of February is a welcome step.
Police say statistics show that 30 per cent of traffic deaths are due to distracted drivers, with 37 per cent of serious injuries in crashes attributed to drivers not paying proper attention to the road.
These are staggering numbers and beg the question — why has so much effort been put into tightening up drinking and driving laws, and so little towards distracted drivers?
Drivers talking on cellphones or texting are the most commonly-distracted, but there are many reasons that drivers become distracted. Eating while driving can be a big distraction, as can driving with pets in the front seat. Children can at times distract drivers as well.
Police will be on the lookout for all kinds of distractions during February, and chances are they won’t have much trouble spotting some. Despite a law that is now three years old, which prohibits people from talking on hand-held phones while driving, it remains a very common practice. Sit at a major inersection for five to 10 minutes and watch drivers. It won’t be hard to spot a number of drivers on hand-held phones.
Part of the reason this problem persists may be the minimal fines. While police have issued almost 106,000 violations since January, 2010, the fine for using a hand-held phone while driving is just $167.
Lawmakers don’t take the issue of distracted driving too seriously. Perhaps it is because they haven’t found a way to tie the distracted driving laws so closely to victims. Members of the public need to take the issue seriously and pull over when making a call. At the same time, lawmakers need to consider if stiffer penalties for driving while distracted are needed.
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Re: Plans to control coal dust must be in place (NewsLeader, Feb. 8)
I normally consider myself a “New Westminsterite” because I’ve spent nine years of my adult life here. Second to that, a Canadian. And finally, a citizen of planet Earth.
Somehow, though, in light of what is happening on the planet at this time, the tables have turned. It’s no longer my little back yard and its white picket fence. It’s no longer “jobs” and “crime” and the venerable Maple Leaf that ride high on my list of priorities. My priority now is the welfare of planet Earth, because I realize if we continue to tip the scales of the ecological balance the way we have been, we simply won’t have a planet to live on any longer.
I can’t pretend that these little human interest stories, these endless cops-and -robber chases of drug lords and organized crime, these sentimental “dog-in-the-dumpster” stories ... I can’t pretend that they mean anything to me any more. In light of the reality we face as human beings, if we keep pushing the carbon footprint off the charts on a global level, how important can these things be?
We used to keep all this at bay with our cozy rationalizations that these concerns where just for hippies and fringe activists, but now, the vast majority of all scientists and scientific evidence is admitting that our mismanagement of the environment has indeed gone way off the deep end. We have
only to open our eyes and see the ice caps melting, ages-old glaciers disappearing, oceans rising, record storms and escalated weather disturbances becoming commonplace...
And we’re letting WHAT shipped through our local ports?
I mean, if it was plutonium or cargo ships full of assault rifles, or anthrax or nerve gas, we’d be up in arms. We’d be outraged.
But friendly old coal? Four million tonnes per year? Four million tonnes being incinerated, spewing toxic and deadly CO2 into an atmosphere already out of balance?
This is not about one city or one banana republic or a toxic neighborhood. This is about destroying a planet, the planet we all stand on and live on and draw our food, water and air from: not only every day and every hour, but every moment of our lives.
Now, the fine city of New Westminster is allowing this planet-killing cargo to pass “safely” through its portals, without even a token whimper, while being lulled by excuses of the “bound and gagged” in their positions of power, who make laughable statements about “prevailing winds” and “internal review processes”?
Unfortunately, it’s not a laughing matter any more. It’s up to the citizens to lead the way and take action. Lies and money and the misuse of power have had their day. It’s time for planetary change, now, if we’re going to survive as a species.
Gary BandzmerNew Westminster
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Re: City seeks to protect rental housing (NewsLeader, Feb. 8)
Currently there is no zoning within New Westminster which allows for laneway houses or granny flats, and no plans for council to explore this option. Why? Is there no money in it? No interested homeowners?
Councillors, stop whining.If you really care about
creating dedicated, well-maintained, community oriented and affordable rental housing, it’s time to take a look in our own backyards.
Pun intended.Lauren Brain
New Westminster
NoT oNe more ceNTRe: Sales tax proposed for TransLink (NewsLeader, Feb. 8)
No. Not one penny more for
these habitually overspent, non-accountable, non-elected cabal of bureaucrats.
Do like the rest of us and learn to live within your means. And all of you mayors that are on board with this better watch your backs come next election.
You have some nerve, after hitting us with huge increases on everything from property taxes to water to sewage to you name it, to be throwing us under the TransLink bus again!
Karen TurnerNew Westminster
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New Westminster man committed crimes here and beyondMonique TammingaBlack Press
A career criminal was back in court last week facing 20 charges in connection to a high profile arrest and the recovery of a large amount of stolen property taken from homes in the Fraser Valley and found at the Super 8 Motel on Glover Road on March 2, 2012.
Ivan Logan Johnson, 33, is charged with everything from possessing a weapon obtained through an offence and possession of stolen property and credit cards to dealing with identity theft.
He was arrested along with Dave Yaroslawsky, 29, by the Emergency Response Team and police dogs who surrounded the motel room after the two men refused to come out. Witnesses had called 911 after seeing the two men, allegedly with guns, unloading items into a motel room.
Those two men are believed to be involved in up to 18
home robberies in the Fraser Valley, said Langley RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Holly Marks at the time.
The men were in possession of so many stolen items that police had to create a slideshows on their website to allow the public to look through the items and determine what might belong to them.
The police then held a day where victims of break-ins could come to the detachment and view the property.
Police recovered everything from stolen jewelry, including lockets and rings, to coins and electronics.
Johnson, of New Westminster, is a career criminal with pages upon pages of crimes committed in Langley, Surrey and New Westminster, among other places. Among some of the crimes he has committed in the past 10 years include theft and dangerous operation of a vehicle.
Any victims of property crime related to this investigation who would like an update on the court proceedings for Yaroslawsky and Johnson are
encouraged to contact Langley Client Support and Victim Services at 604-532-3214.
Shark fin bill moves forward
A private member’s bill brought forward by a Tri-City MP that’s aimed to stop shark fin imports waded into Parliament for second reading this week.
New Westminster-Coquitlam MP Fin Donnelly, the NDP’s deputy Fisheries and Ocean critic, has been advocating for the ban for two years.
His proposed bill has been supported by the cities of New Westminster, Coquitlam and Port Moody — all of which introduced municipal bylaws last year to ban shark fins from being possessed, traded, sold and distributed.
Donnelly said shark overfishing has resulted in the near extinction of several species. Shark fins are commonly used in soups as a Chinese delicacy.
A vote on Donnelly’s Bill C-380 is expected on March 27.
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Friday, February 15, 2013 NewsLeader A9Friday, February 15, 2013 NewsLeader A9
Jeff NagelBlack Press
Port officials say they don’t expect harbour traffic jams to arise from a major increase in the number of oil tankers loading from an expanded Trans Mountain pipeline.
Kinder Morgan Canada announced in mid-January it has enough committed shippers to justify a larger pipeline expansion to a capacity of 890,000 barrels per day.
That’s expected to bring up to 34 oil tankers per month,
up from about 25 previously forecast and around five per month right now.
Port Metro Vancouver harbour master Yoss Leclerc said the project would, if it advances, undergo a comprehensive review of harbour transit needs.
But he said it doesn’t appear the new size of the proposed pipeline – bringing up to 400 tankers a year – would tie up too many anchorages and cause a shortage of space for other cargo ships.
“Usually the tankers don’t stay a long time at anchor – one to two days,” Leclerc said.
“Looking at what we saw from Kinder Morgan, I don’t see any foreseeable issue in terms of anchorages or where to put them.”
Nor did he expect harbour traffic restrictions – no other vessels are permitted to move in the Second Narrows when a tanker is transiting – to be too onerous for other users of the waterway.
He was responding after Burnaby NDP MP Kennedy Stewart suggested an “oil export only port” could be the end result if Kinder Morgan continues to upsize the pipeline project.
“There will be a choke point in Burrard Inlet where you have so many tankers you can’t have any more traffic,” Stewart said.
Stewart argues Kinder Morgan may expand the planned line further – to a million barrels per day and beyond – and at that point there will
be enormous pressure to dredge the Second Narrows to allow much larger oil tankers.
The current Aframax size tankers carry up
to 650,000 barrels per day, but due to draft restrictions in the harbour they are only loaded 75 to 80 per cent full so they sit no
deeper than 13 metres in the water.
“They are going to bring the same size of vessels that are coming today,” Leclerc said.
“From our perspective, the project will not require any dredging, not even with the new information, with the expansion.”
BLACK PRESS PHOTOA tanker heads out of Burrard Inlet. Officials from Port Metro Vancouver say they don’t expect there to be traffic jams of tankers entering and leaving the inlet if Kinder Morgan Canada is granted its bid to increase the capacity of the pipeline to its Burnaby facility.
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Cases of higher costs mostly due to human error, catchup billsJeff NagelBlack Press
BC Hydro officials say it’s highly unlikely that smart meters are driving up the power bills of some households this winter.
Smart meter program spokesperson Cindy Verschoor said testing has proven the new wireless meters to be extremely accurate.
“Last year we had 169 customers who were absolutely convinced their meters were not reading accurately,” she said, adding Hydro pulled them out and had them tested at Measurement Canada’s facility in Burnaby.
“Every single one
of them came back as accurate.”
Anyone can request such a test and watch as it’s conducted – the homeowner has to pay $100 if it turns out to be accurate, while Hydro covers the cost if it’s outside the accepted one per cent margin of error.
In the last 18 months since smart meter installation began, Verschoor said, there have been six cases of smart meters malfunctioning, leading Hydro to adjust four bills downward and increase the other two.
“It’s extremely rare,” she said, noting 95 per cent of BC Hydro’s 1.9 million customers now have smart meters.
Verschoor spoke after Surrey resident Vernon Keller
complained his bill doubled in the latest winter period now that he has a smart meter.
He said he’d go back to an analog meter if he could.
Keller said a friend with a camper plugged in to his home and while he doubted it could drive up
his consumption dramatically, Hydro officials suggest it could.
Verschoor couldn’t speak to the specifics of the case.
But she said there are three main reasons why customers sometimes have received unexpectedly
high bills.Hydro is gradually
switching households over to automated billing and only about half of smart meters are currently sending data wirelessly, while the other half of smart meters are still being read manually.
Hydro estimates power consumption based on past use when staff can’t get to the meter, and that has led to large catch-up bills in some cases where a home used more power than it historically did.
“We had a lot of customers last year where the bill was underestimated and then they got a catchup bill,” Verschoor said.
Other customers may be on the equal payments plan but if they add more appliances or otherwise
start using more power, they, too, may face a large catch-up bill later.
The third scenario, she said, is simple human error by Hydro staff reading the smart meter manually and transposing digits or otherwise entering the wrong data.
Hydro expects that problem will end once all smart meter data is sent wirelessly rather than via human readers.
Homes where automated billing is now in effect can sign in to their BC Hydro account online and see hour-by-hour power consumption.
Verschoor said a household can use the feature to compare how their power consumption changes when a space heater or other appliance is used.
A malfunctioning smart meter will alert Hydro, she added.
“The old meters, if they were broken we didn’t know unless
there was something wrong with the customers’ bill.”
Asked if sharply higher bills could be a result of an old meter reading too low and now being replaced with an accurate smart meter, Verschoor said even the old meters were tested regularly.
“It’s not impossible but it’s fairly unlikely,” she said. “We were replacing about 40,000 meters a year because they weren’t meeting our requirements.”
The provincial government has said it won’t force the remaining five per cent of B.C. homes without smart meters to accept them against their will for at least the next few months.
It’s not clear what will happen to smart meter resisters if the BC Liberals win the May 14 election, but the NDP has said it would look to the B.C. Utilities Commission for guidance.
Smart meter program spokesperson Cindy Verschoor said in the last 18 months since smart meter installation began, there have been just six cases of smart meters malfunctioning.
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Learn about New West’s first pro hockey team, and Vancouver’s only Stanley Cup
A library, naturally, is a good place to research history, but that will be particularly true at the New Westminster Public Library during Heritage Week, which this year has the theme of Good Neighbours: Heritage Homes and Neighbourhoods.
The library will hold drop-in clinics on Monday, Feb. 18 from 3 to 6 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 21 from 5 to 8 p.m. that will provide personal assistance for those wanting to research their New Westminster house or family. They’ll help residents look through historical photographs, newspaper articles, obituaries and funeral records.
Early sports history in B.C. and the Lower Mainland will be featured on Tuesday, Feb. 19 when two authors will talk about their soccer and hockey books.
At 7 p.m., Robert Janning, whose book is Westcoast Reign: The British Columbia Soccer Championships, 1892-1905, will discuss the early days of soccer in B.C.
He’ll be followed at 7:45 p.m. by Craig H. Bowsby’s talk on The Birth of Hockey in New Westminster where he’ll show how ice hockey was first played in the city in 1862, and how the city’s first pro team, the Royals, was created in 1911 and subsequently folded in 1914.
Bowsby, the author of the Empire of Ice, will also talk about the Vancouver Millionaires’ Stanley Cup victory in 1915.
The free event will be held in the library’s auditorium. Pre-register at 604-527-4667.
Then on Wednesday, Feb. 20, the New Westminster Historical Society’s monthly evening will be on homes and neighbourhoods in the Royal City. It will include images and descriptions of houses and their communities in the city. The photographs will show the differing styles across the decades and the growth of the city’s neighbourhoods.
The presentations, which start at 7:30 p.m. in the library auditorium, will be made by local historians Archie Miller and Gavin Hainsworth. The program is free with no need to pre-register.
So you want to be a firefighter?
Any Grade 11 or Grade 12 student in New Westminster with a dream of becoming a firefighter can get a taste of what it’s all about with the city’s fourth annual youth firefighter program July 2-6.
The city’s fire, and parks, culture and recreation departments give 12 students an opportunity to experience a condensed fire academy. Applicants go through an interview process with preference going to students in New Westminster.
“This is a great opportunity for youth who are interested in a career as a firefighter,” said Sandon Fraser, the city’s youth services coordinator in a press release. “They’ll get to start the summer off in an exciting and challenging environment they will never forget.”
More information, including applications and pictures from previous programs, is available at www.newwestyouth.ca.
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Tom FletcherBlack Press
VICTORIA – Undoing the harmonized sales tax and establishing a modernized version of the 60-year-old provincial sales tax is the biggest task facing Premier Christy Clark’s government in the brief legislative sitting that precedes the May 14 provincial election.
Finance Minister Mike de Jong introduced the transition legislation Wednesday. It includes provisions for transactions that straddle the transition date such as new home purchases.
The bill to replace the HST runs nearly 200 pages, and it will add accounting costs for business as well as taking away business input tax credits that match those available under the federal Goods and Services Tax. The government has given itself a deadline of April 1 to make
the switch for the 2013-14 fiscal year.
The administrative burden of the switch starts with businesses reprogramming cash registers and other systems to go back to collecting two separate sales taxes. One of the few modern touches to the new PST is the ability of more than 100,000 businesses to register online at www.gov.bc.ca/etaxbc/register, and view online instructions to help make the transition.
About 30,000 B.C. businesses have started up since 2010,
and operators may have no experience with the old sales tax system.
Provincial sales taxes on restaurant meals, haircuts and other services will be removed as of April 1, but one companion tax is being kept in place. Private sales of vehicles, boats
and aircraft are exempt from GST, but the province levied a 12 per cent provincial tax on the transactions to equalize treatment of used vehicle sales between dealerships and individuals.
The government vowed to reinstate the old PST at seven per cent after the HST was rejected in a province-wide initiative petition. The HST was imposed in 2010, extending the provincial sales tax to a range of services.
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New Westminster Girl Guides International Fa i r : T h e N ew Westminster District Girl Guides celebrate guiding in 145 nations around the world. There will be displays, presentations on stage, and a bake sale to raise funds for the Canadian World Friendship fund, which helps guiding groups in less fortunate countries. Open to the public. When: Saturday, Feb. 16, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Where: Lord Tweedsmuir School Gym, 1714 Eighth Ave.,
(enter from the rear on Hamilton St.).
Organ concert: Marc D ’ A n j o u , t i t u l a r organist of the Quebec City Cathedral-Basilica performs music of Bach, Messaien, Bedard and Young and others. When: Saturday, Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m. Where: Q u e e n s Av e n u e United Church, 529 Queens Avenue, New Westminster. Tickets: $15/20 at the door.
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Abreast in a Boat: Dragon boat team of breast cancer survivors seeks new members.
R e c e n t s t u d i e s suggest exercise may significantly reduce the risk of a cancer recurrence. What better way to get this exercise than with a team of fellow survivors who will “buoy” you every step of the way. Info and to register: www.abreastinaboat.com or [email protected].
Fraternal Order of Eagles: Aerie No. 20 New Westminster hosts a fundraising meat draw, sponsored by Thrifty Foods. Three meat draws per day, 50/50 draw includes dinner and breakfast. When: Fridays, 5 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 3-5 p.m. Where: Fireside Pub, 421 East Columbia St., New Westminster.
Sunday Afternoon Dances for 55+: Live music each week – come join us. When: Sundays, 12:45 – 3:45 p.m. Where: Century House, 620-Eighth St., New Westminster. A d m i s s i o n : $ 5 members and $6 non-members. Includes r e f r e s h m e n t s a t intermission. Info: 604-519-1066.
Adult Skate: Join the Royal City Skating Club on the ice for an evening of skating, suitable for all levels. When: Mondays, 8-9:30 p.m. (mid-October to March) Where: Queen’s Park Arena, New Westminster. Drop-ins welcome, $8. Info: www.royalcityskating.com or 604-520-1052.
Heritage Uke Club: Organized by Gord Smithers (Guitarist for Deadcats, Swank, ReBeat Generation & Wichita Trip), learn to play the ukulele, beginners welcome. When: Mondays, 6-8 p.m. Where: Heritage Grill, 447 Columbia St., New Westminster. Cost: suggested $5 donation. Info: http://tinyurl.com/6uy9h4h.
Write From the Heart: Vancouver’s Ruth Kozak has been teaching writing classes since 1994 including travel, novel, creative writing and memoirs. Cost: $5 drop-in fee. When: Mondays, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Where: Waves Coffee Shop, Back Room, 715 Columbia St.
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CURL BCAndrew Bilesky delivers a shot in the final of the B.C. men’s curling championship in which he defeated fellow New Westminster and Royal City Curling Club skip Brent Pierce to advance to the Canadian championship.
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After months of bad luck Andrew Bilesky wasn’t about to risk giving it a chance to spring up and bite him once again with his dream of reaching The Brier a shot away.
The New West resident was about to throw his last rock in the B.C. men’s curling championship final against Royal City clubmate Brent Pierce in Parksville on Sunday. He had a choice of drawing or making a hit and stick for the win.
He was a bit nervous, though. Not about his ability, but about lady luck. All through the provincial playdowns, Bilesky and his teammates had been the victims of many untimely picks, where their shots picked up debris underneath the rocks they threw. If that happened again, they wouldn’t be going to Edmonton for the Canadian championship, aka the Brier.
Another despicable pick would ruin all he and third Steve Kopf, 24, second Derek Errington, 24, and lead Aaron Watson, 34, had worked all winter for. At least on a hit, reasoned Bilesky, if it picked there was a good chance the stone would at least get rid of the rock they were shooting for and if his shooter rolled out of the rings they’d still be tied.
Bilesky, however, cleanly hit the target on the nose for a 7-4 victory avoiding an extra end.
“It’s amazing. Everyone as a junior curler has a dream of going to the Brier and not everyone gets to go so to get to the Brier is really amazing. It still hasn’t really sunk in,” said Bilesky on Tuesday.
The road to the Brier is rarely smooth, but it was big-time bumpy for the Bilesky bunch. During the regional playdowns they were in the B and C finals. If they had won either of those games they would have received a berth in the provincials. Then at Curl BC’s last chance bonspiel they lost the A and B final before they finally punched their ticket to Parksville with a win in a C event final when a loss would have ended their dreams for this year.
Their high-wire act continued in Parksville where they lost the A final to get into the page playoff system, 9-4, to another Royal City team skipped by Sean Geall, and then the B final to Pierce, 7-6. But they made it on their final chance, naturally, defeating a former RCCC young gun Jay Wakefield 9-8. In the playoffs, they beat Tom Buchy of Kimberley 8-3 in the quarter-final and Geall 8-4 in the semifinal.
“We did have a lot of picks and bad luck, we must have had 20 picks in the playdowns,” said Bilesky. “It was very frustrating because you work all year for things and you get picks and it’s out of your control. It was definitely a grind.”
After surviving the playdowns, the adversity they faced in the provincials was a breeze especially when Geall and Pierce nailed “amazing” shots to win in the A and B finals.
“If anything we were more prepared than others because of all the games we played,” said Bileskey, who works as an avionics technician on water bombers at Conair at the Abbotsford airport. “We had that fight in us to battle us through that thick and thin ... It wasn’t easy.
You’re playing good, we were still playing good to get to those qualifying games but we just weren’t able to get to those.
His team will be the first from Royal City to go to the Brier since 2009 when Geall was the skip and Pierce played third. After he’d won a provincial junior title in 2001, Bilesky played third for Pierce, who won a world championship in 2000 playing for Greg
McAulay, for three seasons.“Making it to junior nationals is still a huge
accomplishment, but when you get to men’s it’s a whole different game. It takes a lot more mental energy and dedication,” said Bilesky.
That’s why he’s recruited Geall to be the team’s spare and will have two-time provincial champion Deane Joanisse as coach. Neil Houston, their regular mentor, won’t be available because he is organizing the world championship in Victoria.
Bilesky’s team will be absorbing all the knowledge they can from them because playing in Parksville is not the same as Edmonton’s Rexall Place which can hold nearly 17,000 spectators.
“The atmosphere, it’ll be a huge, huge difference. It’ll be exciting,” said Bilesky.
If the prospect of playing before all those people in addition to a national television audience wasn’t daunting enough, the opposition includes three of the sport’s superstars in Ontario’s Glenn Howard, Jeff Stoughton of Manitoba and former world champion and reigning Olympic champ Kevin Martin of Alberta, along with 2006 Olympic champion Brad Gushue from Newfoundland and 2006 Brier winner Jean-Michel Ménard of Quebec.
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The New Westminster Hyacks downed the Moscrop Panthers 67-61 in the first round of the Burnaby/New Westminster senior boys basketball playoffs Tuesday.
They were to meet the league’s top finishers, the Byrne Creek Bulldogs, who had a 17-7 record overall this season and were ranked 10th in the last provincial AAA Top 10 poll, in a semifinal match Wednesday.
The other semi featured the Burnaby Mountain Lions and the Burnaby South Rebels, who finished second in the league. The Lions downed the Burnaby North Viking 78-48 Tuesday.
The BNW final and the third place game will be played Friday
with three teams advancing to the Lower Mainland tournament.
Senior girls setbackThe Hyacks senior girls squad
suffered a setback Tuesday after getting upset 70-50 by Burnaby Mountain in a first-round playoff matchup. They were coming off two league victories last week, 72-36 over Byrne Creek and 88-43 over the Burnaby North Vikings. That gave them a 5-1 league record, good enough for second place behind the Burnaby South Rebels (6-0) and ahead of the Lions (4-2).
New West will be playing a wild-card game at Byrne Creek on Friday in hopes of reaching the
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Sider sings for BluesFormer Hyack Rachael Sider
was recently named University of Toronto Varsity Blues female athlete of the week. The third-year, five-foot-10 guard had 39 points and 11 rebounds in two home victories earlier this month.
She drained a three-point shot with one second remaining as the Blues edged the York University Lions 66-65 on Feb. 2. She matched her career high with 21 points in the game. The night before she had a game-high 18 points in a victory over the Laurentian University Vees.
The head coach and vice-president of the Royal City Hyacks community football program has received the 2013 Vancouver Mainland Football League’s Rob Mountford Builder Award.
Ryan Leslie is being recognized for his efforts to establish and grow the program in New Westminster and for his dedication, effort and creativity in making the club a success.
Leslie trains and develops new coaches, coordinates volunteers and many aspects of the program such as its website, promotions, finances,
equipment, fundraising, and on-field operations and management. The program began in 2004 with just one team and now has six.
Leslie was the defensive coordinator for four seasons for the high school team coached by Farhan Lalji, a New Westminster resident and TSN reporter who last week won his second consecutive best sport television reporter award at the Paul Carson Broadcast and Media Awards. Another Royal City resident, Iain McLetchie who works for Team 1040 Radio, was named the best sport radio anchor.
Leslie honoured for work with Royal City Hyacks
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New West boys beat Panthers
“It’s one of the stronger [fields]. There’s a lot of good teams, but that’s not how we’re going out
thinking about it. We’re just going to go out there playing our game,” he said.
At least the team goes into The Brier
knowing they can compete with the big boys having taken Martin right down to the last shot in the final of the Westcoast
Curling Classic at the Royal City Curling Club on Thanksgiving Day.
They’ll be tested right off the bat with their first game March 2 being against Howard, the defending world champion, before facing Martin on the second day.
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The Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association has announced the finalists for the 2013 Ovation Awards.
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ParkLane is a finalist in four categories, with the first being Best Townhouse/Rowhome Development: Less than 2,000 square feet for Flatiron at Bedford Landing. They are also nominated for Best Multi-Family Lowrise Development for The Village at Bedford Landing, Best Marketing Campaign for River District Vancouver and Multi-Family Builder of the Year, which is a Grand Ovation Award.
Portrait is a finalist in the Best Single-Family Detached Home: Less than 2,000 square feet for Hampstead, as well as Best Single-Family Detached Home 2,000 to 2,999 square feet and Best Marketing Innovation for Hampstead. They are also in the running for the Grand Ovation Award for Single-Family Builder of the Year.
Bluetree, which comes from ParkLane, is a finalist in the Best Townhouse/Rowhome Development: 2,000 square feet and over for Bluetree Homes at Kanaka Creek, as well as Best Interior Design Display Suite: Single-Family or Multi-Family for Kanaka Creek. They are also up for the Best Marketing Campaign for their Bluetree Homes – Your Friendly Neighbourhood Builder campaign.
Meanwhile, Concert Properties will be competing in the Best Multi-Family Highrise Development category as well as Best Interior Design Display Suite: Single-Family or Multi-Family and Best Marketing Campaign, all for their Patina development. Concert is also up for the Multi-Family Builder of the Year Grand Ovation Award.
Another developer who is up for several awards is Porte Development Corp., who is a finalist in the Best Multi-Family Lowrise Development and FortisBC Award for Excellence in Energy Efficiency in New Construction: Multi-Family Home awards for Origin, on Burnaby Mountain.
In the renovation categories, My House Design/Build is up for many awards. Among the categories they will be competing for is Best Kitchen Renovation: $100,000 and Over, Best Renovated Room, Best Condominium Renovation and Best Renovation: $500,000 to $799,999. They are also up for the Grand Ovation Awards for RenoMark Renovator of the Year – Large Volume and Custom Builder of the Year.
The other companies that will be competing for the RenoMark Renovator of the Year – Large Volume award are Kenorah Construction & Design Ltd. and TQ Construction Ltd.
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Submitted photosPortrait Homes’ Hampstead at Silver Ridge, top, is up for several awards at this year’s Ovation Awards, including Best Single-Family Detached Home: Less than 2,000 square feet. Bluetree Homes is also a finalist in several categories for their Bluetree Homes at Kanaka Creek development, above, including Best Townhouse/Rowhome Development 2,000 square feet and over.
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134 HOTEL, RESTAURANT,FOOD SERVICES
KITCHEN in Vancouver looking for full time Cook can handle Korean food. Re: 3 yrs. exp. complete high school wage:$2,900./mth.40hrs/wk. resume: [email protected]
160 TRADES, TECHNICAL
ASPHALT SHINGLEROOFERS
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or Call: Sue 604.880.9210
COMMERCIAL TRANSPORT &DIESEL ENGINE MECHANICS
Required for Cullen Diesel Power Ltd. and Western Star & Sterling Trucks of Vancouver Inc. Posi-tions avail. in Surrey. Cummins, Detroit Diesel and MTU engine experience considered an asset.Union Shop ~ Full Benefi ts.
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173 MIND BODY SPIRIT
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182 FINANCIAL SERVICES
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242 CONCRETE & PLACING
PLACING & Finishing * Forming* Site Prep, old concrete removal
* Excavation & Reinforcing* Re-Re Specialists
34 Years Exp. Free Estimates.
Call: Rick (604) 202-5184
257 DRYWALL
ARCO DRYWALL LTD. Boarding, Taping, Painting.
Free estimate. Ryan 778-892-9590
FRANKS Drywall *Boarding*Taping *Spraying no job too sm. Seniors rts Free ests. 604-939-7029, 809-1945
JMYK CONTRACTING LTD.Specializing in steel stud framing, drywall, taping, texture, t-bar, fi re-rating, painting + general reno’s. WCB, Insured. Jay 604-722-6197
258 EAVESTROUGH
THE GUTTER DOCTOR! We clean & fi x gutters (eavestroughs) and re-pair fascia & soffi t. Fully insured and guaranteed work since 2003. Over 10,000 happy customers. Free estimates. (778)881-4647 www.GutterDoctor.ca.
260 ELECTRICAL
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263 EXCAVATING & DRAINAGEBAJ EXCAVATING DEMO, Sewer, storm, drainage, remove concrete & blacktop, old house drainage. 604-779-7816.
283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS
ALWAYS GUTTER Cleaning Ser-vice, Repairs, 20 yrs exp. Rain or shine.7dys/wk.Simon 604-230-0627
287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS
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Martin 778-355-5840
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Additions, Home ImprovementsRestorations, Renovations,
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288 HOME REPAIRS
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181 ESTHETIC SERVICES
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300 LANDSCAPING
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Cell 778-688-1012 msg
320 MOVING & STORAGE
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GET the BEST for your MOVING. From $40/hr. Licensed & Insured. Senior Discount. 778-773-3737
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ABBA MOVERS & DEL Res/comm 1-4 ton truck, 1 man $35/hr, 2 men from $45. Honest, bsmt clean up. 25yrs Exp. 24hrs/7days 604-506-7576
329 PAINTING & DECORATINGAFFORDABLE INT/EXT painting.30 yrs exp. Refs. Free est. Keith 604-433-2279 or 604-777-1223.
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181 ESTHETIC SERVICES
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353 ROOFING & SKYLIGHTS
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GL ROOFING. Cedar shakes, As-phalt Shingles, Flat roofs, WCB Clean Gutters. $80. 604-240-5362
115 EDUCATION
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356 RUBBISH REMOVAL
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372 SUNDECKS
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374 TREE SERVICES
PETS
477 PETSBERNESE MOUNTAIN DOGS, pure bred at Diesel Kennel, 3 male, $1500. each. Call (604)869-5073
CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866
German Shepherd pups, ckc reg, vet check, 1st shots, own both par-ents, gd tempered, farm & family raised in country, make a good guard dog and family pet. $1000. 604-796-3026, no sunday calls
ITALIAN MASTIFF(Cane Corso) P/B blues, ready to go, 1st shots,
tails/dew claws done. Ultimate family guardian $800
(604)308-5665
Lab/Shepherd/Rotti x pups, 3M/3F. vet check, dewormed, ready to go, $495. Call 604-864-1004.
MULTI POM puppies, 2 F, 1 M, 7 weeks old. Ready to go. All shots. $550. obo. Phone 604-825-2271.
NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604-856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com
SHIH TZU Tiny Toy Poodle X pups, vet checked, 1st shots, dewormed. M $400, F $450. 604-866-4467.
MERCHANDISE FOR SALE
533 FERTILIZERS
WEED FREE Mushroom Manure 13 yards - $160 or Well Rotted 10 yards - $180. 604-856-8877
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548 FURNITUREMATTRESSES starting at $99
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*NEW QUEEN MATTRESS SET*Pillow Top in Plastic. Mfr. Warranty Must Sell $200 ~ 604-484-0379
560 MISC. FOR SALE
HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?
REAL ESTATE
603 ACREAGE
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627 HOMES WANTED
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639 REAL ESTATE SERVICES
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RENTALS
706 APARTMENT/CONDO
BURNABY, Linden Glen Apts. 7052 Linden Ave. Spacious & bright 1 & 2/bdrms. Incl heat & HW. Near Highgate. Cats ok. (604)540-2028
Coquitlam 996sf 2bdrm 2bath strg same fl r carpet/wood, prkg cls to Coq Ctr Doug College elem schl NP/NS $1236 Mar 1. 604-941-3259
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1 Bedrooms available near Lougheed Mall and transit. Rent includes heat & hot water. Sorry No Pets. Refs required.
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Panorama CourtSpacious & clean 1 & 2 bdrms avail. From $750 - $1020/mo. No pets.
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NEW WESTMINSTER: West Coast Apt. 520-11th St. Large 1 bdrm w/ small storage room. Incl h/w & heat. By Transit. Cats ok. $735 - $750/mo. 604-540-2028.
NEW WEST: reno’d 1 Bdrm with loft, deck nr skytrain, NP/NS refs. Mar 1. $800. Rave 604-946-7194
PORT COQUITLAM newly reno’d 2 bdrm corner ste in quiet bldg. On-site card lndry. Cls to amens, WCE, bus. $960 heat/htwr incl. Avail now. Cat neg. Ph: (604)942-4740
PORT MOODY180o Views of Mountains & Water
New exec. 1250 sqft, 2 bd condo on 27th fl r. Unobstructed views. 6 s/s appls. W/D. 2 prkg, storage. Rec center. $1950. NS/NP. Refs/credit chk req. Avail Imm. 604-355-8932
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746 ROOMS FOR RENTPOCO - furnished bdrm. shr’d kit. & living area. Quiet house. No Smoke $400/mo. incls. lndry. 604.941.2959
750 SUITES, LOWER
NEW WEST - 1 Bdrm bsmt suite - ns/np, no drugs. $700/mo incl utils.Avail March 1st. (604)522-4470.
751 SUITES, UPPER
PORT COQUITLAM 3 bdrm totally reno’d ste, 2 bath, NP/NS. Sh ldry. $1600/mo. Mar 1. 604-250-7040
752 TOWNHOUSES
NEW WEST. 828 Royal Ave.2 Bdrms, 2 bthrms, 1 secured prkg. $1500/mo. Avail now. TJ @ Sutton Proact (604)728-5460
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PITT MEADOWS: 2 - 3 bdrm co-op T/H $1030/mo - $1134/mo. Shares req’d. Close to WCE, schools & shopping. No subsidy available. 19225 119th Ave. For more info & to book an appt. call 604-465-1938
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810 AUTO FINANCING
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821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS
2008 VW GOLF City, 5 spd manu-al, silver, 85,000k. a/c, p/w, $6500/fi rm (604)538-9257
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NO. VIC-S-S-121121..............Victoria Registry.........................IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA............. BETWEEN: RUSSELL ANDER-SON AND DAWN ANDERSON PLAINTIFFS.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AND: WADE TODD AND KRIS-TINE CURALL DEFENDANTS ADVERTISEMENT.........................To: Wade Todd and Kristine Curall TAKE NOTICE THAT on January 30, 2013 an order was made for service on you of a Notice of Civil Claim issued from the Victoria Reg-istry of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in proceeding number VIC-S-S-121121 by way of this ad-vertisement. In the proceeding, the plaintiffs Russell Anderson and Dawn Anderson claim the following relief against you: judgment for the damages and costs sought by the plaintiffs in the Notice of Civil Claim. You must fi le a responding plead-ing/response to petition within the period required under the Supreme Court Civil Rules failing which fur-ther proceedings, including judg-ment, may be taken against you without notice to you. You may ob-tain, from the Victoria Registry, at 2nd Floor, 850 Burdett Avenue, Vic-toria B.C. V8W 9J2, a copy of the Notice of Civil Claim, all the plead-ings fi led this action, and the order providing for service by this adver-tisement. This advertisement is placed by Dean P.J. Lawton of the law fi rm Carfra & Lawton, solicitor for the plaintiffs Russell Anderson and Dawn Anderson, whose ad-dress for service is 6th Floor, 395 Waterfront Crescent, Victoria B.C. V8T 5K7.
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