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Irish Rovers to appear at Massey in March The Irish Rovers will bring their 50th year tour to New Westminster’s Massey Theatre. Fittingly enough, the concert will be on March 13, just a few days before St. Patrick’s Day. The Rovers, who starred in their own national television show on CBC during the 1970s and later on private broadcasters, are touring the world to celebrate their 50 years of music. Despite their longevity and being on their final world tour, band member George Millar, one of the band’s original members with Wilcil McDowell, doesn’t plan to stop performing. “As you get older and you’re in a different bed every night, your poor old back is screaming at you. But God, no. I’m never retiring.

After the world tour is over we’ll still be recording and performing at festivals, special events and short trips here and there. Better to leave those big tours to the younger bands,” said Miller in a press release from the band. Miller’s brother Will was the band’s leader from 1965 to 1993 when he left. Lead singer Jimmy Ferguson died in 1997. The band was known for hit songs like The Unicorn and Wasn’t That a Party. The Massey Theatre will also be the site of an International Guitar Night tour on Jan. 22 featuring renowned guitarists Maneli Jamal, Brian Gore, Diego Figueiredo and Andrew York. Tickets for both concerts are available at www.masseytheatre.com. newsroom@newwestnewsleader.com

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The Irish Rovers final world tour will stop in New Westminster at the Massey Theatre on March 13.

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CITYPAGE Happy Holidays The City of New Westminster would like to wish you a happy and safe holiday season with best wishes for the new year!

PUBLIC ART CALL FOR PROPOSALS GATEWAY TO DOWNTOWN NEW WESTMINSTER The City of New Westminster is seeking submissions from qualified artists with public art experience to propose an installation on the median along Columbia Street in downtown New Westminster. The call for proposals seeks work that celebrates and acts as a visual gateway marker into downtown New Westminster. The installation should be non-interactive and appreciated from a visual distance such as driving, transit, Skytrain and pedestrian traffic from across the street. The call seeks work that is positive, celebrates downtown New Westminster and is reflective of the heritage, growth and development of the City.

On January 1, 2015, the City of New Westminster will implement changes to the Smoking Control Bylaw No. 6263 which has been amended to reduce the impact of exposure to second-hand smoke in public spaces and to make our city a healthier community. The bylaw changes include the following restrictions: • Smoking is prohibited within 7.5 meters of doors, windows and air intakes for public and workplace buildings;

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• Smoking is prohibited on all restaurants and pub patios; and • Smoking is prohibited within 15 meters of outdoor sports facilities, playgrounds, off-leash dog parks and picnic areas within city parks. Building owners must take reasonable measures to post bylaw compliant signage, removing ashtrays and taking steps to ensure that smoking does not take place on their premises. ‘No Smoking’ signs must be prominently displayed so they are clearly visible. A limited quantity of printed signs and decals will be available for pick up at New Westminster City facilities including City Hall, Queensborough Community Centre, Century House, Centennial Community Centre, and the Fraser Health Public Health Unit, 218 - 610 6th Street. Signs are also available online and can be downloaded and printed at www.newwestcity.ca/hcp. For more information on amendments to the Smoking Control Bylaw, the Healthier Community Partnership Committee and resources for smoking cessation, please visit www.newwestcity.ca/hcp.

NEW WESTMINSTER FIRE FIGHTERS’ CHARITABLE SOCIETY TREE CHIPPING

The successful artist or artist team will be responsible for the creation, fabrication and installation of the art and will work with the City of New Westminster’s Public Art Advisory Committee. This opportunity is funded in part by the former New Westminster Community Development Society and the City of New Westminster. The submission deadline is March 6, 2015.

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I’ve said it before; parades are really just people walking. So working the staging area before the parade can be fertile ground for fun, unusual features. I walked past this cadet corps falling into place for the Hyack Parade in New Westminster and figured it would only be a matter of time before I got a funny face, grimace or smile. The yawn was a good surprise.

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his year the NewsLeader celebrated its 25th anniversary.

My byline has appeared under photos in this newspaper for all but two of those years. When I came out of journalism school 30 years ago, I was determined to tell stories with a camera. I’d gone into journalism school four years earlier because my high school teachers said I could write and working for a newspaper seemed a pretty good way to get paid regularly to write. But during the course of my education I decided I wanted to make the camera my storytelling tool of choice. Photographers seemed like the cool guys in the newsroom,

with their expensive cameras and lenses, the mysterious darkroom where they disappeared at the end of every shift, then reappeared hours later with stacks of fantastic images as if by magic. Photographers can’t sit in the office and reconstruct events by making phone calls. They have to be there. Photographers don’t get to hang out in the warmth of press boxes or work rooms. They have to be on the sidelines, lens pressed to the glass at the hockey arena, down in front at the political event. Of course that also means photographers have to endure the rain and cold, have to jostle for space with other photographers and TV camera operators, have to

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Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. That’s where the photographers for a few papers picked up their assignments at the beginning of the day and went to process film and make prints towards the end of our shift. Needless to say traffic wasn’t as bad back then. Getting from Boundary Road to the Mary Hill Bypass wasn’t the half day-long excursion it can be now. When the photographers from the various papers converged at the end of the day, we chewed over the events and people we covered, looked over each other’s negatives, pitched in if someone had a particularly voluminous load of film to process. If a big event was happening, a photographer could get pulled

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from their paper to pitch in, provide back up or relief. It was a collegial, collaborative team that produced some pretty good community photojournalism and pushed each other to do even better. Of course we had complaints. We wouldn’t be journalists if we didn’t grumble cynically about stuff. A lot has changed since then. Digital technology has changed the way we work and thinned the numbers who still get to do this work. It’s changed the perception of the work we do. But one thing hasn’t changed. We still can’t take pictures from our desk, over the phone. We have to be there.

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Christmas trees to be chipped this weekend The chippers will be whirring at full force this weekend at the city’s annual Christmas tree recycling put on by the New Westminster Firefighters Charitable Society. It will be held at the Canada Games Pool parking lot Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with proceeds to the society. Trees will be chipped and recycled. A barbecue, music, extinguisher demonstrations and other fun kids activities will also be held. The New Westminster Scouts will also hold a bottle drive to help support their friendship, adventure and outdoor experiences for youth.

Steel & Oak best new B.C. brewery New Westminster’s Steel & Oak has been labeled as the best new craft brewery in British Columbia in the Beer ME BC’s annual craft beer survey. More than 1,500 respondents chose Steel & Oak, opened in June, to be the best new brewery opened in the past 12 months. It beat out Vancouver’s Bomber Brewing, Dageraad from Burnaby, Yellow Dog in Port Moody and Barkerville Brewery in Quesnel.

Tie auction raises $11,000 Royal City Jewellers and Loan’s 18th annual Tie Day auction raised $11,042 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank this year. Food bank CEO Aart Shuurman Hess said the money means it will be able to leverage the money into $33,000 worth of groceries. newsroom@ newwestnewsleader.com

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Raise Two of the biggest events in New Westminster’s year occurred within a few weeks of each other, and on the same block of Columbia Street. Right: Hundreds of people turned out at Hyack Square for the unveiling of the Wait For Me Daddy statue commemorating a famous news photograph from the Second World War. The subject of that photo, Whitey Bernard, then a young boy reaching out to his dad as he marched off to war, was the special guest of the event headed by Coun. Lorrie Williams. It took a bit of hustle to get behind the statue to get his reaction to it as he saw the final product for the first time. Below: Everyone in New Westminster was excited about the opening of the new Anvil Centre on Columbia Street. Especially these dancers as they gathered in a hallway to perform at the new building’s public debut.

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Justin Trudeau has come up with a campaign idea that may help him seal the deal with enough voters to win power in next October’s federal election. He has taken direct aim at the prime minister’s secrecy, the muzzling of cabinet ministers, MPs and bureaucrats and what he calls “message control.” Many people who otherwise have few issues with the Conservative government are not happy with the manufactured flow of information. Other than government ads which feature “the Harper government,” actual information from MPs and civil servants is often sparse. While some MPs like Langley’s Mark Warawa are quite open and accessible with citizens and local media, many more are not. Many cabinet ministers rarely hold press conferences. Harper himself is almost permanently unavailable to the media. He makes a few appearances, such as a recent year-end interview on CBC, but he never answers questions in an impromptu fashion. When he appeared at a fundraiser in Langley in the summer, he did not say one word to any media person, national, regional or local. Supporters who wished to talk to him had to stand in a lengthy lineup. Prime ministers don’t have to be your friends. But they do have to be accountable, and that includes saying something that isn’t scripted, at least once in a while. Like Bard the bowman in The Hobbit, Trudeau has taken aim at this weak spot in the dragon’s scales, and it may score enough votes for him to at least win a minority government. —Langley Times

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The year SD40 turned a corner If you had told me last January that Casey Cook would be acclaimed vice chair of the New West school board, I’d have laughed in your face. Not that Cook, named to the job this month, isn’t knowledgeable and experienced, or deserving of the role. But his political stripe—that being not labour-endorsed—blocked him from the role in the past. To the average New West resident, the school board of the past appeared to be mired in acrimony and incompetence. We have a different board today. And, in large part thanks to the leadership of superintendent/CEO John Gaiptman, we have a different school district. That’s not to say SD40 has slayed all its dragons. Years of accumulated deficits are still being paid off. But there’s a viable, credible plan, with an entirely new staff in the finance department charged with

Chris Bryan ensuring it unfolds to plan. And in November, there was the glimmer of good news as the district was hiring (15 teachers, nine educational assistants) instead of laying people off. It doesn’t make up for the 90 or so laid off over the previous two rounds, but it’s progress. “We’re not there yet, but I believe we’re heading in the right direction,” Gaiptman said at the time. But what about the bloody high school, you say? Yes—this is a biggie—there’s still no replacement. For many, this is the biggest, most painful thorn, a source for some of almost maddening frustration.

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And they may not even be aware of the fact that a 1993 NewsLeader article refers to a possible groundbreaking for the new school in… 1995. (OK, let’s all take a breath...) But past is past. The good news is, there’s a timeline— agreed to by the province—for project approval. There’s also the beginnings of a track record of success in school construction, with the opening of Qayqayt elementary in September, and the new Fraser River middle school under construction and slated to open this September. There were glitches at Qayqayt, of course, with what appeared to be some poor coordination with the city about traffic management and safe pick-up/drop-off routines. Yet since he was hired in February, Gaiptman has been quietly making repairs to SD40, and giving good information to the school trustees so they can

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make wise decisions. And the trustees, who have always been skilled, communityminded folks, are looking more professional by the day. Scrapping political lines of division, putting a labour and non-labour trustee together in the key posts on the board, is a sign of a maturing board and a new atmosphere of professionalism. My greatest hope is that this doesn’t just lead to stable, competent management of the big issues, like balancing budgets and building schools. Ideally, it also results in better opportunities and support for students and teachers, and greater excellence in New Westminster’s school system. Gaiptman came to New West to be a “fixer” of sorts. He’s not here for the long haul. Let’s hope he stays long enough to ensure the foundations are solid, and the district so successful that top talent will clamour to carry on his work.

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TOO MANY TROUBLED PEOPLE Re: Police seek machete-wielding attacker We need to stop attracting troubled people into our city with these halfway houses and treatment centres or soon we’ll become as dangerous as Surrey. I haven’t lived in New West long but was instrumental in the capture of a vandal who likes to smash windows of local businesses. He lived at the Lookout project on Carnarvon. The best way for our community to be safe is to report suspicious activity immediately to police. From my experience New West police are awesome at responding, but they can’t do their job without your call. Turner Brocaw newwestnewsleader.com

Bicycle Bill was a local legend in New West

icycle Bill was a local legend in New Westminster for nearly half a century. He was peculiar, eccentric, and a one-of–a-kind loner. But although people saw him collecting pop bottles from Columbia Street litter bins almost every day beginning in the 1930s, few knew his real name, or ever spoke with him.

He was nicknamed Bicycle Bill because he was never seen without the bicycle with only one pedal he used to transport the pop bottles he sold for two cents each on Front Street. He never sat on the bike, but pushed it, and had removed the one pedal so he could walk alongside the bike without getting his legs tangled. The remaining pedal allowed him to use the bike as a kind of scooter if he wished. Some claimed Bill lived in a shack in Surrey under the Pattullo Bridge. Others said he lived in a cave or a tent somewhere in the Surrey bush lands. But wherever he lived, he walked his bicycle across the bridge to New Westminster early each morning for years, carrying his bag lunch, usually a tin of sardines, a container of milk and a banana. Former Deputy Police Chief Rod Keary used to tell a story about his encounter with Bill and the one-pedal bike. “We got a hot a tip that someone was planning to waylay Bill and steal the money

Don Benson belt he was supposed to carry under his coat. We drove over the bridge to warn him and saw him approaching with his bicycle. I got out of the car and walked toward him, signaling him to stop. But he took off, riding his bicycle like a scooter. I chased him for about two blocks before I caught up with him.” According to reports, Bill rarely spoke, and, on one occasion declined to speak to a newspaper reporter who stopped him in the street and asked him to agree to an interview. According to his step-niece, he stopped talking to his relatives and rejected all overtures from them beginning sometime in the 1940s. When Bill died in 1973, a Columbia Street business owner came forward to tell Bill’s story. According to the man, a former co-worker, Bill’s real name was Eric Neumeier, and he had been born in Germany. The man said Bill was a skilled watchmaker who once worked at Philip Spurgeon’s Jewelry Shop on Columbia Street, and that he became upset and angry when watches became more and more made by machine rather than

by hand. In addition, the man said, Bill believed Adolf Hitler was doing a commendable job of rebuilding Germany following the ravages of the First World War, and he became bitter when the Allies went to war against his homeland. During his last few years, Bill lived reclusively at the rundown Alpine Apartments in New Westminster. He left behind several battered, stained and padlocked suitcases containing various items he had salvaged from Columbia Street litter bins over the years, and a set of delicate watchmaker’s tools, treasured remnants from earlier and better times. When Bicycle Bill died at St. Mary’s Hospital in November 1973, his remains were unclaimed. He was cremated at the city’s expense, followed by a short funeral service at Mount Calvary Lutheran Church. The service was attended by a handful of women and six pallbearers were supplied by the church. “He seems to have had more friends in death than when he was alive,” one woman commented after the service. “ I didn’t know him but from what I have read about him he seems to have been a lonely man.” Don Benson is a local historian and a City of New Westminster Poet Laureate Emeritus

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Re: LOOKING BACK/LOOKING AHEAD: Reviving the waterfront As the article above clearly describes there is development inequity in New Westminster. Most development has historically happened and continues to happen on the mainland side of New Westminster. At the close of 2014, Queensborough still has no sidewalks or a viable pedestrian connection to the mainland. The Quayside-Queensborough pedestrian bridge is a “hope,” although funding was allocated from the casino deal—which happens to be in Queensborough itself. New Westminster is a fractured city and will remain so until the Queensborough pedestrian bridge is completed. The new mayor and his team should not continue looking at Queensbough from the same perspective as past mayors—top down—as an afterthought, a “nice to have.” Rather, they should look at it as an important part of the city, in serious need of investment and a pedestrian connection to the city.

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RIGHT: It’s always challenging to go to a mundane assignment like a construction update and look for a unique angle or perspective that will produce an unusual photo. That’s what happened when I was sent to get a shot of the new pedestrian overpass to Pier Park in New Westminster. BELOW LEFT: It’s the first day of school at the new Qayqayt elementary school but there’s still last minute construction work going on, so the challenge was to capture those two disparate elements in one frame. BELOW RIGHT: There was no shortage of ice bucket challenge photo ops in the fall, when the fundraising effort for research into ALS became an Internet sensation. This one, by people affiliated with Honour House, was notable for the lengths the New West Fire Department went to make it happen. And that I went to, to stay out of the splash zone.

RIGHT: Business portraits are always a challenge as the subjects are sometimes reluctant to play along with a fun or creative idea. A couple of nononsense realtors are looking to sell the gatehouse of one of the province’s most notorious prisons, so why not go low and make them look like they could have been gruff guards back in the day.

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RIGHT: We get a lot of overcast days on the Lower Mainland, so pops of colour like these paper lanterns are always an allure to a photographer looking for a feature photo. BELOW: There are still days in this job that send you home walking on air because you had the privilege to be part of something very cool. Like spending a morning with the Stanley Cup as Bill Ranford toured it around his New Westminster haunts. And for a few brief moments I even found myself all alone with the magnificent trophy.

LEFT: At a crazy popular event like New Westminsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Columbia StrEAT Food Truck Festival, it can be challenging to find a quiet, clean shot. So you often have to look beyond the crowds. ABOVE: Three guys fulfilling their ambition to brew craft beer. Of course, they toast their success with their distinctive growler jugs.

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Clockwise from top left: Like most of us, when it’s cold, I want to be warm. And on a cold spring day, there’s few places warmer than the city greenhouses in Queen’s Park, especially as work begins on preparing the colourful flower baskets that hang from poles around New West; Our preview story for the Heritage Home tour is an annual highlight for me. I try to capture the story of our featured home by concentrating on details as well as giving readers a chance to meet the owners. Sometimes I’m able to accomplish both in one frame; When I walked into Susan Greig’s new 100 Braid St. art studios and gallery, I was immediately struck by the wonderful light and unique decor that was constructed of old door and window frames. So that’s what I used to compose this portrait; May Day in New West is bedlam. So many kids dancing around so many maypoles. So many proud parents trying to capture those moments on their cell phones and digital cameras. The only way to make sense of it is to keep an eye out for something unique.

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2010 VENZA: Like new, only 20,000 kms, fully loaded, automatic, 6 cylinder, dvd system. $22,800. 604-575-5555.

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

3-LINE EXAMPLE

ELECTRICAL

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.CAN-PRO Paint and Drywall. Over 25 yrs of quality service. 3 ROOMS, $250. Insured. 604-771-7052

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PAINT SPECIAL

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SCRAP CAR REMOVAL #1 FREE SCRAP VEHICLE REMOVAL ASK ABOUT $500 CREDIT $$$ PAID FOR SOME 604.683.2200

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TOWNHOUSES

PITT MEADOWS: 2 - 3 bdrm co-op T/H $1108/mo - $1211/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

Aldergrove SxS Duplex, 4 suites 8500s/f lot, full renod, new siding/ windows, rent $3400. $579K or $295K each side. 604-807-6565

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MIRACLE MOVING

Low Cost. Same Day. Licensed. Res/Com. Small job expert. Renos Panel changes ~ 604-374-0062

SUITES, UPPER

TRANSPORTATION

$45/Hr

$500 loans and more No credit checks

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HOMES FOR RENT

EAST BURNABY - 4 bdrm house, Available now. (604)526-2477

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APARTMENT/CONDO

BURNABY,

MISC. FOR SALE

FIREARMS. All types wanted, estates, collections, single items, military. We handle all paperwork and transportation. Licensed Dealer. 1.866.960.0045. www.dollars4guns.com.

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REAL ESTATE

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HELP WANTED

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AFFORDABLE MOVING

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Are You $10K Or More In Debt? DebtGo can help reduce a significant portion of your debt load. Call now and see if you qualify. 1-800-351-1783

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MOVING & STORAGE

ABE MOVING - $35/Hr. Per Person *Reliable Careful Movers. *Rubbish Removal. *24 Hours. 604-999-6020

PERSONAL SERVICES

.Flagpersons & Lane Closure Techs required. Must have reliable vehicle. Must be certified & experienced. Union wages & benefits. Fax resume 604-513-3661 email: darlene.hibbs@shawbiz.ca

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RENTALS

CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 604-856-4866

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INTERIORS: Baths (reno’s/ repairs) specializing in drywall, doors, flooring, tiling, plumbing, painting, miscellaneous, etc. VERSATILE! EXPERIENCED IN OVER 30 LINES OF WORK! * Quality work * Prompt Service * Fair prices For positive results Call Robert SERVICE CALLS WELCOME

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All kinds of re-roofing & repairs. Free est. Reasonable rates. 778-998-7505 or 604-961-7505

HOME REPAIRS

Call Robert 604-941-1618 OR 604-844-4222

Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.

604-575-5555 toll-free 1-866-575-5777

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Van-Kam thanks you for your interest, however only those being considered will be contacted.

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Full Service Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928

Applicants should have an inspectors ticket, a minimum of 2 years of related experience, a positive attitude and able to work in a team environment. Experience in a freight fleet environment would be preferred as this is a busy facility providing service to a large fleet of Company Owned Trucks and Trailers. Seize this opportunity to work for one of Western Canada’s largest regional freight carriers. For more information, call Derek, at 604-587-9818 or 604-968-7149 Interested candidates should attach an updated resume and cover letter to: careers@vankam.com or fax: 604-587-9889

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PLUMBING

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Services for Women Only MONDAYSATURDAY 9AM-8PM

We Do Threading

NEW! Gel Shellac Nail Treatment....$32 Full European facial ..............................$32 Full manicure .........................................$15 Full pedicure ..........................................$19 Parafin hand & foot treatment ..........$15 Brow tint .................................................. $8 Lash tint ..................................................$10

OTHER SERVICES

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