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guy black, an advocate for veterans of the korean war, presents a special ceremonial stone to Choi yeon ho, the consul general of the republic of korea, at a special remembrance service at Central Park on Saturday marking the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire that ended the conflict. Black had just concluded a two-day walk from Coquitlam to Seymour Mountain to Burnaby to bring attention to the contribution of Korean War vets. See Photos, Page A3

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After a rash of bear sightings in recent weeks, a North Burnaby resident is questioning whether the city’s food scraps collection program might be helping attract the large mammals to her neighbourhood. Louise McElhill lives across the street from Burnaby Mountain

secondary where source, berries, a mother bear are back and and two cubs were people were spotted a few weeks heeding calls to back. keep their garbage Conservation inaccessible to officer Jack wildlife. Trudgian said in a After reading recent NewsLeader a resident near burnaby mountain the story, McElhill says she’s heard of more bears this contacted the story that the trio have since returned past year than the entire 17 years NewsLeader she’s lived in the area. to their regular pointing out the habitat on Burnaby Mountain, townhouse complex next door to partly because their natural food hers, on Mira Place, has two bins

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for food scraps kept easily accessible to residents and ostensibly to bears as well. They’re not enclosed in any way, nor do they have locking mechanisms. They’re the same toters that all single-family homes in Burnaby get from the city. “I remember last summer they smelt horrendous when it was hot,” said McElhill who tried expressing her concerns to Burnaby city hall last year but gave up after a round of telephone tag went nowhere. Please see CITy STAff, A17

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Korean and Canadian veterans of the Korean War hold a special remembrance ceremony Saturday at the Ambassador of Peace monument in Burnaby’s Central Park. This is the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire that ended the war. MArIO BArteL neWsLeADer

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Guy Black’s 72-kilometre walk from Coquitlam to the Ambassador of Peace Monument at Central Park via Mount Seymour and Burnaby Mountain was a garden stroll compared to some of the slogging up densely forested mountains Canadian soldiers had to endure during the Korean War. Black, from Port Moody, completed his 24-hour journey Saturday at a special ceremony honouring Canadian and Korean veterans and marking the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire that ended the three-year war. Accompanied by his wife and twin sons, as well as some students and fellow teachers at Banting middle school in Coquitlam where he teaches, Black said he embarked on the walk to set an example and show what the Canadian war vets went through. “I was thinking about them when I was doing

the training,” said Black who prepared for two years, carrying 40 pounds of rock on his back as he hiked up and down Burnaby Mountain. “They were carrying 100 lbs, I was carrying 40 lb., but I’m 48 years old and they were 18. Along the way Black conducted special Gapyong ceremonies, collecting rocks signifying waypoints of his trek. He presented a decorated box of the rocks to the Republic of Korea’s consul general at the conclusion of Saturday’s remembrance ceremony. Black said he hopes his small effort will help everyone remember the soldiers who served in a largely forgotten war, as well as implore future generations to avoid war altogether. “Veterans are guys that have gone to war and they know what the reality of war is,” said Black. “I’ve learned that message from them, and yeah, you have to try to avoid war.”

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PIE program changing lives Participants, many of them immigrants, working towards high school diplomas

in Education program (PIE), an initiative of the Canucks Family Education Centre (CFEC), which provides support to parents and meets weekly to discuss topics Wanda Chow such as parenting skills. wchow@burnabynewsleader.com “PIE Plus” is aimed at helping It wasn’t too long ago that when participants improve their English Cathy Ismail applied for a job and and assisting them on a path was asked what level of education leading to a high school diploma, she’d reached, she cried. all while providing early-education After all, while growing up in classes, lunches and snacks for Syria, Ismail had to quit school their preschool-aged children. at age 10 to look The school space, after her siblings after instructors and video-online] her mother fell ill, supplies are provided she being the eldest burnabynewsleader.com by Burnaby school daughter in a family district, while the of 11 children. CFEC covers everything else And while she always wanted with funding from the Canucks to continue her schooling, after for Kids Fund, the Vancouver immigrating to Canada and Canucks, the Vancouver Sun settling in Burnaby eight years Raise-a-Reader program and ago, she had three children and it private donors including Burnaby was too expensive to put them in boy and superstar crooner daycare while she took classes. Michael Bublé who contributed Until now. $30,000, said Jean Rasmussen, Ismail is among 21 students CFEC’s executive director. in her lower-level English Rasmussen has a background in foundations class, which along adult education and founded the with the higher-level class with 26 centre after realizing in working students, began as a pilot project with adults struggling to improve this past January at Edmonds their literacy that “there was Community School. always this other piece missing.” It’s an extension of the Partners Please see ‘I feeL LIke’, A4

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Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan clarified that, contrary to Smith’s understanding, the proposed mausoleum is slated to be 37 feet high and not 37 metres. It’s also about 100 feet long. And while the Board of Variance recently approved the project, the cemetery was already allowed to build the structure, it was simply asking for a variance for the number of floors that would be inside. Corrigan noted that the Board of Variance is given its authority by the provincial government, as a “second thought” to city hall. It’s also the province that has jurisdiction over cemeteries, which means city hall has no power to control what happens at such facilities. “We are no happier over these developments than you or your neighbours are,” Corrigan said. “It’s not for lack of desire, it’s for lack of authority.” In the past, city hall fought similar issues in court but “we spent a lot of money and were unsuccessful.” Coun. Nick Volkow, who has the distinction of getting a court injunction laid against him over past run-ins at SCIowned Forest Lawn Cemetery, sympathized with Smith and his neighbours. “They like to describe them as mausoleums, with the marble cladding and all that but what’s the difference between that and a self-storage unit down on Marine Drive? Nothing at all.” Council asked city staff to report back on the Ocean View project, residents’ concerns and what the city can and cannot do to address the issues raised.

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The Canadian dollar is sinking. Gas prices have been going up for the past month. Banks are making noise about raising mortgage rates. The housing market is cooling. The weather seems changeable on the hour. It must be summer. This coming Canada Day holiday weekend is the traditional start of vacation season. Time to get away from it all. And with the ever-increasing gloom and doom that seems to drain our optimism and energy at a quickening pace, it’s never been more imperative to tune out and step back. At least for a stretch. Getting away from the workplace, turning down the busyness of our lives is an important change to routine. It reduces anxiety and stress, allows us a chance to recharge, maybe even refocus. Holidays make for happier, more motivated employees. But Canadian holiday entitlements lag behind those enjoyed by workers in many other countries. We get a minimum of 10 working days off depending on the province and tenure of employment. That’s supplemented by five-10 public statutory holidays, like Canada Day. Australian workers get 20 working days off, plus 10 paid public holidays. Brazilians enjoy 22 working days off, plus a 33 percent premium on top of their regular pay. Workers in Denmark get 25 work days off plus an additional nine public holidays. German workers get four weeks off plus nine-13 public holidays. In Finland, the minimum mandated holiday time is 30 days. Even workers in developing countries like India are granted 12 work days a year for holiday. But in the United States there’s absolutely no legal provision for mandated holiday time. Employees are completely at the mercy of their employer. Canadians may not feel we get enough holiday, but at least we get something.

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Cabinet rookies handed hot files VICTORIA – There are nine new faces in Premier Christy Clark’s cabinet, seven of them elected to the B.C. legislature for the first time on May 14. They have been handed some of the hottest problems, and Clark’s marching orders in “mandate letters” for each ministry. And this is the start of a four-year term, when unpopular reforms are attempted. Take Amrik Virk, the former RCMP inspector from Surrey who’s suddenly in charge of advanced education. His mandate includes: “Review the student loan program to make recommendations for improvement to ensure the loan program is meeting the needs of today’s students.” Virk must also set targets to “match the skills we need with the skills we are graduating” and require post-secondary schools to “ensure student seats are being filled.” B.C. can’t afford to keep cranking out university grads with $50,000 in debt and no job prospects in a system that’s subsidized 65 per cent. Virk will be working closely

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Okanagan prison built, to relieve a system that has inmates living in tents. And examine whether to spin off the Liquor Distribution Branch into a Crown corporation, a possible prelude to selling it. Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s first test was a grilling by the Vancouver media. Yup, this Kamloops hayseed has been to the Big Smoke a few times, ridden that fancy SkyTrain and taken the odd ferry, too. Now he has to impose the ferry route reductions that have been worked on by two previous ministers, and push Metro Vancouver through a referendum on ways to fund its own transit. If more tolls or taxes are going to be implemented, now is the time. Coralee Oakes has made a political leap from Quesnel city hall to the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development. One of her key tasks is to invent a framework for a “rural dividend” from liquefied natural gas development in northwestern B.C. Oakes has to figure out how to “better provide provincial support” to sport and cultural

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COMMENT This HOV lane makes no sense I’m retired so I’ve done my share of commuting. I was lucky, though, as I always worked within a short drive, walk or cycle distance from work. Last week a friend and I took our motorcycles to Buntzen Lake and on the way home we travelled west on Barnet Highway between Port Moody and Burnaby close to rush hour. I could not believe the single lane of cars backed up moving at a snail’s pace while only a handful of cars were in the HOV lane. How come the Idle Police weren’t there shaking their fingers at them? I understand having HOV when there is at least three lanes, but where there are just two lanes it just doesn’t make any sense. Rob Arseneault Burnaby

CITY SALARIES SOARING, OUT OF LINE Re: $100K club at city hall boosts ranks (NewsLeader, June 14) Wow—did I do my math correctly? 144 City of Burnaby employees earn $14.4 million, an increase of 36 per cent since 2011? Where do I sign up? The 24 employees mentioned in the article, along with 49 members of the Burnaby Fire Department are not the issue with me, as they are valuable positions and members of the City of Burnaby. However that leaves 71 others earning $100K-plus. The citizens of Burnaby need to see that list. My property taxes (all in) in 2012 were $4,518.46. I just paid 2013 which was $4,911.48—an increase of $393.02 or 8.7 per cent. What happened to the 2.95 per cent the mayor told us about a while back? Please get those municipal auditors in here ASAP, this has got to stop. The city is enjoying a boom in condo development and this brings in a ton of property tax revenue. It seems the mayor and council are content to pay out big-time salaries as the taxes continue to flow in. And Mr. Mayor don’t give us the story

that you need to pay big bucks to retain good people. There are a lot of very qualified people out there that would jump at an opportunity to work for $60,000-$80,000 annually, along with all the benefits the City of Burnaby employees enjoy. Curtis Evans Burnaby

NDP’S FAILURE UNSURPRISING Re: What ails the NDP? Plenty (BC Views, NewsLeader, June 19) With interest I read Tom Fletcher’s article. Generally, the views expressed are reflective of the lack of understanding the NDP has for a creative economic vision for B.C. Social policy can only be supported by a strong economic policy. It was curious that during the election the NDP’s slogan was “Change for the Better, One Practical Step at a Time.” For a party which viewed so many things wrong with the Liberal track record to suggest it would be fixed by taking one practical step at a time smacks of a bureaucratic approach to governing. It seems the NDP would not tackle the myriad of issues they thought were needed anytime soon. Spending much of its time on policy rather than vision and opportunities, it is no wonder the electorate was not attracted to the NDP. John Vegt New Westminster

ABOVE AND BEYOND Edmonds Appliance deserves recognition and thanks for helping me out of a jam recently. Our fridge “quit” on us the day before we were to leave for holidays and I was in a bit of a panic. I called Edmonds Appliance and explained the situation. Even though the truck had already left with the current day’s deliveries, the men agreed to deliver a new fridge that day once I had bought it. By 10:15 a.m. I had purchased the fridge and at 2 p.m. they pulled up to the house, took out the old fridge, installed the new one, switched the doors from right to left and were gone by 2:30 p.m. We were

delighted. By 6 p.m. that night, the fridge was cold, the freezer was freezing and we were able to leave the next morning knowing all was well. Thank-you to Sarah for getting things organized; Stormy for calming me down with a great cup of coffee and kind words, and to the delivery men for being willing and efficient. You all went above and beyond. M. Brassington Burnaby

HISTORY ABOUT TO REPEAT? With the recent headlines of shipping coal and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)—both damaging fossil fuels—to China, I was interested in two news articles this past weekend indicating the Chinese government is ordering heavy polluting industries to cut emissions by a minimum of 30 per cent in four years or face financial penalties. That’s hopeful news for our environment and mankind’s future. So if China is planning to cut its emissions, why are the B.C. government and Port Metro Vancouver staking their financial future on selling more fossil fuels to them? I was then reminded of the early ’80s when then-Premier Bill Bennett moved mountains, quite literally, to create the new town of Tumbler Ridge and rail infrastructure to the northeast corner of the province and also quadrupled the size of the coal pile in Tsawwassen. Our political leaders at the time unwisely gave the Japanese, who said they would buy our Tumbler Ridge coal, a ‘change your mind card’ which they played and left the taxpayers of B.C. a huge bill to pay for a white elephant. I do hope history is not repeating itself with our current leaders. Gavin Wishart New Westminster

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Harrison Lee had just been practicing the yo-yo for four months when he entered his first competition, the Western Canadian Regionals. He finished second. He was 11 years old. Two years later, the Burnaby boy is ranked fourth in Canada, he’s sponsored by a yo-yo manufacturer and he has his own line of specially coloured yo-yos. Lee’s slender fingers dance through the neon-coloured string, weaving it in intricate patters as the grey and blue-splattered yo-yo spins perpetually at its end. He’s putting in two to three hours a day designing and perfecting new tricks that will bedazzle the four judges during his twominute session at Saturday’s third Western Canadian

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Regionals, to be held at the National Nikkei Museum and Heritage Centre. “Whenever I’m not eating or sleeping, I’m yo-yoing,” says Lee, who owns 40 yo-yos, many of them prizes from competitions he’s won since taking up the hobby. Lee says he took a shine to yo-yoing from the moment a school friend introduced him to it. He loves the creative aspect of creating his own unique tricks and, after getting his first taste of competition, he relishes the challenge of honing the speed and accuracy of those tricks. “You have to have a drive to practice something,” says Jeremy Meugens, one of the organizers of Saturday’s competition and Lee’s yo-yo mentor. “You have to have stage presence and personality. But it’s a fine balance; every bit of showmanship you put in takes away a bit from the tricks you can do.”

Lee’s still working on finding that balance. His success at a competition in Seattle last year got him on the local TV news and caught the attention of two manufacturers that made pitches to sponsor him. Lee took it in stride, “I said I’d think about it.” A trip to the world championships in Orlando, Florida last August was an eyeopening experience as players even younger than him placed higher than his 36th position. “I learned a lot,” says Lee, who now competes in the open division against players who can be as old at 40 or 50. For Saturday’s regional competition, Lee promises he’s got something “up my sleeve.” Or maybe through, over and under it, as he whips the spinning yo-yo around his back and over his shoulder. • More about the Western Canadian Regional Yo-yo Competition at http://bit. ly/1aIc3Y0.

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CANADA D Y Only became ‘Canada Day’ in 1982 On June 20, 1868, a proclamation signed by the Governor General, Lord Monck, called upon all Her Majesty’s loving subjects throughout Canada to join in the celebration of the anniversary of the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada on July 1. The July 1 holiday was established by statute in 1879, under the name Dominion Day. There is no record of organized ceremonies after this first anniversary, except for the 50th anniversary of Confederation in 1917. The next celebration was in 1927 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation. It was highlighted by the laying of the cornerstone by the Governor General of the Confederation Building and the inauguration of the Carillon in the Peace Tower. Since 1958, the government has arranged for an annual observance of Canada’s national day. By 1968, there was multicultural and professional concerts held on Parliament Hill including a nationally televised show. Up until 1975, the focus of the celebrations was in the National Capital Region during the whole month of July and involved numerous cultural, artistic and sport activities. In 1980 the federal government moved to sponsor celebrations all across Canada. On Oct. 27, 1982, July 1 which was known as “Dominion Day” became “Canada Day”.

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Burnaby Village Museum is a great place to show your national pride as they celebrate Burnaby’s official Canada Event on Monday, July 1. Other events are being held at the new Edmonds Community Centre and at Lougheed Town Centre. In New Westminster, there will be fireworks over the Fraser River in the evening.

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LIFENET saves lives in race against time Allows paramedics to transmit important electrocardiogram information to RCH doctors to ensure patients get the best care at the best place

n the race against time to save the life of a heart attack victim, Dr. Gerald Simkus’ medical team at Royal Columbian Hospital is like the pit crew ready to spring into action. Each member—including emergency room physicians, nurses, a cardiologist, cardiology and lab technicians, cath lab nurses and technologists, and sometimes a perfusionist— has a specific role to help give the incoming patient their best chance to make it to the checkered flag. And just as in-car telemetry gives engineers and mechanics a good idea of what is ailing a race car before it pulls in for repairs or adjustments, the LIFENET system communicates vital information from the paramedics attending the patient to the team awaiting their arrival at RCH. Except there’s a lot more at stake than a champagne shower on the winner’s podium. “Without rapid treatment the risk for death as a result of the heart attack increases,” says Dr. Simkus, the program medical director of cardiac sciences for Fraser Health. LIFENET uses cellular technology to allow paramedics to alert doctors at RCH that they are incoming with a heart attack patient and transmit important electrocardiogram data directly to the assembling acute cardiac ABOVE: Helen Elliott (left) STEMI Project Manager for Fraser Health joins Dr. Gerald Simkus, Program Medical Director, Cardiac Sciences, intervention team so they know what sort Fraser Health and Randy Hansen, BC Ambulance Service Superintendent in the back of an ambulance. of heart attack to expect. Alarms alert BELOW: Dr. Simkus works in a catheterization suite at RCH. the cardiologist who mobilizes the cardiac catheterization team that can prepare one of the The Burnaby senior was on her weekly visit to the hospital’s two catheterization suites. Highgate Save-On-Foods when she was felled by a The detailed advance notice allows the heart attack two years ago. A staff member at the ambulance crew to whisk the patient directly to the grocery store administered CPR until paramedics catheterization suite for specialized arrived, who were then able to expedite Did you know? care, saving valuable time. her return to health by using LIFENET. Bypassing local emergency “The doctor said not many people • RCH’s Cardiac Centre is rooms can save 30 minutes to an among the best in Canada. come through that, but I suppose I hour from the time paramedics first was one of the lucky ones,” says Greer, Show them your support attended the call to the beginning 84, who had three blocked arteries by purchasing a heart tile of treatment in the catheterization corrected with stents. for the Cardiac Wall of suite. Her rapid care allowed her to leave Gratitude. “This process allows us to make hospital after two weeks and resume Visit rchcares.com an accurate diagnosis immediately most of her regular activities after a for more information. and redirect the patients to where month. That’s a lot of extra laps of life for those patients. they need to go immediately,” says Since LIFENET was implemented in Like every racing team looking to shave those Dr. Simkus. 2009, Dr. Simkus says 491 heart attack patients extra few seconds that can be the difference One person grateful for that time savings is have been redirected for immediate care at RCH between winning and losing, Dr. Simkus says there’s Yvonne Greer, who is happy to still be able to attend rather than going first to a local emergency room in always room for improvement. her twice-weekly exercise classes, driving herself Surrey, Burnaby or Port Moody before being sent on “The cath lab team is always mindful of new ways there in her own car. to the cardiac unit in New Westminster. the system can be made even faster.”

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In recent weeks, McElhill’s teenaged son spotted a bear behind Stoney Creek elementary and was aware there were bears in the area after Mountain students were warned about it in an announcement. The food scraps program was implemented in 2010 at singlefamily and duplex homes city-wide and then expanded to multi-family complexes served by city garbage collection crews. Diverting all organic material for composting is one way Burnaby hopes to meet upcoming restrictions on how much garbage can be sent to local landfills. McElhill isn’t opposed to the

program itself. “I just think that these very large recycling bins that are open and easily accessible shouldn’t necessarily be in use if we’ve got a bear problem.” In the 17 years she’s been living in the neighbourhood, she’s seen one bear on Gaglardi Way and that was several years ago. “But this year it’s the most I’ve ever heard of bears around here.” As an animal lover, “I think they’ve got just as much right to be here as we do … If they have to get destroyed because of [being attracted to garbage] I’d be very unhappy about it.” Whether food scraps are mixed into garbage as in the past or

separated out into their own toters doesn’t make much of a difference to a bear, said Dipak Dattani, Burnaby’s assistant director of engineering in charge of environmental protection. Either way, residents are required to keep their bins in a secured underground parkade or, if one isn’t available, in an otherwise secured shed or area, Dattani said. The city is encouraging residents to not put out garbage toters the night before but to do so just before pickup during bear season, and returning them to the secured area as soon as possible after collection. Dattani said city staff will look into how the toters are being stored at the complex in question.

Louise McElhill sent this photo of green bins at an apartment complex near her home which she believes could be attracting bears to the area.

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Whenever he’d have a bad practice and get beaten up by another boy he’d give it up for a couple of weeks. But the mat kept calling. “You can’t stay away from it.” Grant Granger sports@burnabynewsleader.com When he was ready to go into high school he chose to travel from Six-figure scholarships to elite his Surrey home so he could work American universities are hard to with Burnaby Central wrestling come by, especially for Canadian legend Gianni Buono. After he boys, so for Burnaby Central to have won the provincial high school three such graduates is almost as championship when he was in rare as ice hockey in South America. Grade 9 what was in his DNA was Amar Dhesi will be taking his in his blood and heart forever. wrestling skills to Oregon State “It was probably the best moment University in the fall while soccer I had in my wrestling career,” says players Quinton Duncan and Brody Dhesi. Huitema, both products of the As the referee raised his hand to Vancouver Whitecaps residency signify he was the victor, confidence program at Burnaby Central, flowed through his veins. There was will be attending Tulsa and Duke no consideration of quitting after universities respectively. that. Later that year when he went Dhesi was destined for success on to win a Canadian title beating a on the mat. He’s a third-generation kid who had won the previous three wrestler. His grandfather was a years that feeling was consolidated grappler back in India while his MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER further. Wrestler Amar Dhesi and soccer player Quinton Duncan are Burnaby Central students who earned U.S. athletic scholarships. father opened up one of the first In April, after he’d basically made Dhesi will be attending Oregon State while Duncan will be going to Tulsa University. Indo-Canadian clubs in 1976. his decision to go to Oregon State, “The day I was born he was at a was wrestling. By the time he was six he’d be out in the which finished eighth at the 2013 tournament,” says Dhesi. family garage practising with his cousins. NCAA national tournament, he went to an international Little boys love play wrestling with their dads, brothers “We had a choice, but at the same time we didn’t,” says junior wrestling event in Las Vegas. and cousins. Almost from the day he could stand, Dhesi Dhesi wryly. Please see PARENTS, A20

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Parents pushed him to ‘never be comfortable’ ⫸

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There, in front of university coaches from across the country, he defeated Adam Coon the top recruit for every weight class in the country who has committed to Michigan State. Since university coaches couldn’t talk to him directly, Buono’s phone was ringing off the hook. Dhesi, however, was adamant about sticking with OSU because they’d been the first one to nurture a relationship with him. Besides, it was closer to home. Since signing on down south, the hardest thing for Dhesi hasn’t been on the wrestling mat, it’s been in the classroom. He had been planning to take a lighter course load and finish off his Grade 12 at a slower pace, so it was a mad scramble to adjust his courses so he could take a full load and study to make sure he got good enough marks so he could attend OSU in September. “I’m excited. I want the school year finished,” says Dhesi. Summer can’t end soon enough for Duncan, who will get a $250,000 scholarship for tuition, room and board to become a

Tulsa Golden Hurricane, either. “I was taking on two or three him a spot in their residency Like Dhesi, Duncan’s DNA of the best kids on the other program. He could go to school destiny in the sporting world is team. That’s kind of when I three periods a day and train deep. knew. I was always looking for five days a week, just like the big His father’s family moved to a challenge, always looking youth programs in Europe. He Canada from Jamaica when for someone better than me,” decided to go for it. Duncan’s dad was nine years says Duncan. “I didn’t feel like “My parents have always old. He felt he had the potential anybody was better than me.” pushed to me never get to develop into a pro comfortable in a situation player, but coming from a and to keep growing,” struggling immigrant family says Duncan. “My father it didn’t materialize that is my biggest fan. When Quinton Duncan, Burnaby Central soccer way. people don’t stand up for I was taking on two or three of the best kids “He feels if his parents me he does. He fights for on the other team. That’s when I knew. I was always looking for a challenge, always looking gave him more support he what he thinks I deserve.” for someone better than me. I didn’t feel like would have done better And what he deserved anybody was better than me. and pursued with more was playing at the elite seriousness,” says Duncan. level the Whitecaps When he was growing up in When he got that feeling, that offered. London, Ont., he started kicking was when he moved on, although As he flew into Vancouver at the ball around while watching that wasn’t always easy. Since he the tender age of 16 to live with his older brother play. When he wasn’t from Metro Toronto when an Italian-Canadian family in finally got to play on a team, he’d he went to Ontario provincial North Burnaby and live, eat and always be the one scoring goals. tryout camps he felt he had breathe soccer he had mixed He realized he had a special talent something to prove even more emotions. when the coach was talking to than the rest of the boys. “I was excited and anxious the team during practice one day “I never had a bunch of people at the same time. My real life is and wanted them to play better behind me saying, ‘he’s good,’ ” starting and I’m going to have to defensively. recalls Duncan. seize the opportunity. I’m going “Quinton is really good, but he Toronto’s Major League Soccer to have to seize the big ones that can’t beat all of you,” the coach club never dialed his number, but are going to get set the fortunes said. when the Vancouver Whitecaps of my life,” says Duncan, who That didn’t stop him from saw him a few years ago at a patrols the back line as either a trying. camp in California they offered right back or centre back these

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