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Winter may still have a grip on much of the rest of North America, but the spring crocusses are already in full bloom in New Westminster’s Queen’s Park. The mild, sunny weather is expected to persist until at least the weekend, when spring showers are forecast to return.
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A motion for the Queen’s Park Residents Association (QPRA) to oppose Urban Academy’s expansion plan passed at the group’s regular general meeting recently. But the association’s president says it won’t yet take an official position on the private school’s plan to build a new 45,000-square-foot expansion behind its current home
in the historic Robson Manor on Third Street. Berril Parks said a motion from the floor at the meeting held on Feb. 22 passed 38-13. But because the vote was unexpected, there was no notice given to residents of the vote so it won’t hold much sway. “We weren’t formally looking to do that,” said Parks of the surprise vote. “There was some disagreement in the room.” Instead, said Parks, the association will continue surveying the area’s 500-600 households to gauge the neighbourhood’s
sentiments about the school’s plan to expand. An online poll launched Feb. 15 has already garnered 225 responses. “If we had 225 people show up at a meeting, we’d be ecstatic,” said Parks of the poll, which runs until March 16. Parks said Queen’s Park residents have expressed concerns about the size of the school’s expansion, its impact on traffic and safety in the neighbourhood, the use by the school’s students of Tipperary Park across the street, and the loss of affordable housing because a
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small walk-up apartment building on Manitoba Street would be demolished to accommodate the new school structure. Urban Academy has offered to help relocate residents of the building who would be displaced as well as contribute to their moving expenses. While the expansion project still has to be considered by New Westminster’s advisory planning commission, as well as two readings by city council and a public hearing, Parks said it’s been a divisive issue in the neighbourhood. Please see STORY, A9
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New Westminster residents will likely pay six per cent more for their electricity in 2015. That’s the increase recommended by a staff report to council on Monday. The new rate would come into effect on April 1. The report said the six per cent jump is in line with increases set by the province, and the city must match those as it purchases its electricity from BC Hydro. The increase would mean a household that uses 1,000 kWh a month will now pay $106.31 for that electricity. “Even with the proposed rates, electricity rates in New Westminster will continue to be among the lowest rates in North America,” noted the report. In fact, a comparison chart included in the report said only Montreal residents pay less for electricity, $100 per 1,000 kWh while residents of San Francisco pay $370 and rates in New York City are $435 per 1,000 kWh. Official notice of the rate increase, once it’s adopted, will appear on the CityPage in the NewsLeader as well as on the city’s website and social media channels.
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FOR SALE FROM THE LIBRARY Bargains galore are available at the New Westminster Public Library’s ongoing booksale.
CITYPAGE 2015 WATER MAIN FLUSHING PROGRAM The City of New Westminster Water Branch will commence the annual program of flushing water mains on Monday, March 2, 2015, for a period of approximately twelve weeks. This procedure will cause pressure fluctuations, some discolouration and sediment in the water reaching your home or business. These conditions should be of short duration and will not pose a health hazard. If your water appears discoloured, run a cold water tap until the water clears. City staff will try to minimize any inconvenience. Locations of water main flushing activity are updated daily on the City’s website at www.newwestcity.ca/watermainflushing For more information, please contact Engineering Operations at 604-526-4691.
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Discarded books and gift books that aren’t needed in the library are sold for bargain prices ranging from 25 cents to $2.00. Special books have special prices. In addition to a wide selection of paperbacks and fiction, a different topic is featured on a rotating basis. Upcoming features are How-To Books (February 27 to March 8), Mysteries (March 9 to 16), Education (March 17 to 24) and Gardening (March 25 to 30). All proceeds go toward special projects for the benefit of library users.
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INFORMATION ACCESS SURVEY The City of New Westminster wants your input on what City information, records or data you would like to be publicly accessible. The City is proposing four guiding principles for information sharing, which have guided the creation of a guideline document. The City invites residents to review the principles and the guideline document and provide feedback via an online survey, paper survey (available at City Hall), or attend an open house on April 9th at City Hall. The online survey and guidelines are available at www.newwestcity.ca. The survey deadline is May 8, 2015. For more information, please contact clerks@newwestcity.ca or call 604.515.3764.
Group indoor cycling is coming to Fitness New West at Centennial Community Centre. Get a great non-impact cardio workout by simulating riding a bike outdoors through hill climbs, sprints and interval training. Our instructors will use music and visualization techniques to guide you through a motivating workout suited to your individual fitness level. For schedule information, please call Centennial Community Centre at 604.777.5100 or visit www.newwestpcr.ca.
TAXATION AND FILING INFORMATION The basics of Taxation and Filing will be covered at a free program at the New Westminster Public Library on Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00 pm. The program will include an introduction to the Canadian tax system, how taxes are calculated, what tax credits and benefits are available and how to find help to do your taxes. It is presented by VanCity’s Each One Teach One Program and co-sponsored by the New Westminster Public Library. As space is limited, pre-register at the library, call 604-527-4667 or email listener@nwpl.ca.
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“We ask that you support the improvement of transportation in Metro Vancouver. As members of this community, we use public transportation every day. We ride the bus to and from school, take the SkyTrain to parttime jobs, and bike to friends’ houses amid congested streets. For youth, like for many Metro Vancouver residents, public transit is the most feasible means of getting from one place to another. The majority of our members are unable to vote in this referendum. That is why we are asking you, the adults, to keep our future in mind as you go to vote on the transit referendum. We value a region that is liveable, healthy, and connected. We value a future in which we are less reliant on fossil fuels. We believe that an improvement in public transportation is essential for a sustainable future, and as such, we urge you to vote ‘YES’ in the upcoming transit referendum.”
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NWPD fires officer A New Westminster police officer has been fired after an internal theft investigation. The officer had been with the department for eight years and also faces other allegations under the Police Act and Criminal Code. “This allegation was taken very seriously from the outset,” said NWPD chief constable Dave Jones. “I can assure the community that a significant amount of effort and resources were committed to this investigation to ensure that the information gathered was accurate and complete.” The department wouldn’t divulge the specific allegations because of ongoing investigations.
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Jenny Cashin is shaking up her Mid-Century Modern Furniture store by adding a sister outlet to display and sell decor items like glassware, lamps, art and pottery.
Mid-century mania sparks expansion Furniture store appeals to seniors and hipsters alike Mario Bartel
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Jenny Cashin wants to bring back cocktail hour. So she’s expanded her Mid-Century Modern Furniture store at River Market to add an additional 1,000 square feet across the hall. But Cashin hasn’t applied for a liquor licence or posted a job fair for buxom waitresses and cigarette girls – although an entire wall of her new MCM Home adjunct store is dedicated to martini glasses, tumblers and shakers. Cashin said MCM Home is a place to display and sell her burgeoning collection of smaller, more affordable vintage decor items from the 1950s and ‘60s, such as glassware, pottery, lamps and artwork. Many of those items pop in vibrant
colours of orange, blue, red, purple and green, adding pizzazz to the warm teak and neutral fabrics commonly found in mid-century furniture pieces. But they’re not necessarily just for hard-core collectors looking to live out their Mad Men fantasies. Still, Cashin admits inexpensive accent items can be the entry point to bringing homeowners and condo dwellers back to the time when men wore suits to work, women wore push-up bras and everyone smoked at their desk. And when the workday was done, executives and secretaries alike kicked back with a relaxing martini. “We’re so busy now, we’ve forgotten how to do that,” said Cashin, who opened Mid-Century Modern six years ago and has been at River Market for two years. In that time she said she’s seen interest in
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“Because of the emotional nature of the proposal, we want to be careful,” said Parks. “We’re all neighbours. We have to get along in a respectful way.” A splinter group called Queen’s Park Neighbours is opposed to the size of the new school building as well as its modern design which it considers inappropriate for the historical area. In a statement linked from the QPRA’s
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website, the newfound group said the proposed site is eight times smaller than provincial guidelines for the number of students it would accommodate. “These size criteria are not arbitrary,” said the statement. “They reflect best practices, foster positive educational outcomes, provide open space for unstructured play and physical education, create a safe space for students.” The group said it’s particularly opposed to a plan by Urban Academy to send students across the street to Tipperary Park for recess and other outdoor activities. “This is essentially creating a private monopoly over public space,” said the statement. It also expressed concerns about bringing additional traffic to the neighbourhood’s narrow streets as well as the lack of parking. “The residential neighbourhood cannot cope with that scale of activity,” said the statement. Parks said once the poll results are in and vetted to weed out duplications or submissions by nonresidents, the QPRA will use its sentiments to form a position. “We don’t have the right to make a stand until we understand the sentiments of the community,” said Parks. “We’re here to facilitate the process of getting their voice heard.”
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Together, these projects and many more meet the demands of an expected population growth of 1 million in the next 30 years, which would otherwise put unimaginable strain on an already
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Combining creatively B.C. school boards will have to cut $29 million in the next year, and $54 million over the next two years, says the provincial government. The B.C. Liberals says they would like to see some amalgamation of services between neighbouring school boards and that’s not such a bad idea. We’re sure you wouldn’t have to look very hard in government to find suitable cuts and areas where district could come together to share resources. Heck, the Burnaby school district has managed to build two brand new high schools and extensively renovate a third in the time New Westminster has been dithering over replacing its single high school. Perhaps if the two districts functioned as one, New West students and their parents would finally have some certainty when they’d no longer have to share their rundown classrooms and overcrowded hallways with rats and peeling paint. The Education and Health Ministries continue to be a black hole for government money – both major expenditures for the provincial government. Instead of griping about the problem (after all, the province has been forced to make cuts of its own to keep the budget balanced), it would be refreshing to see school trustees come together to see what could be done to deliver better service and lower costs. How that would look must come from the education sector and parents. The focus must always be put into the classroom and better preparing our students for the future. Administration and non-teaching roles are important, but does every school district need someone counting widgets when that same person could count widgets for two or even three districts? To use a tired, old cliché: it’s time to look outside the box – or classroom, if you wish – to find solutions.
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The pleasure of ignorant bliss Like so many on Feb. 22, I watched the Academy Awards presentations. Like most who tuned in, my interest was boring at best. Movies have never been a big part of my time allocation. In fact, the last film I watched in a theatre was The Bucket List, which was eight years ago. A more recent movie, viewed on my home DVD player, was Avatar, had to be at least three years ago. As a result of my disinterest in most things celluloid (or is it all digital now?), I have no idea what any of today’s movies are about, and I seriously doubt I will ever watch them. On that Sunday I did, however, reflect on a memorable movie or two in my past. The first colour film I ever watched, in the Qualicum Beach theatre, was African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. Bogie died in 1957, which dates both me and the film. His wife,
Mark Rushton Lauren Bacall, whose fame as the “Icon of Cool” was added to in the Key Largo song lyrics “like Bogie and Bacall,” survived until August of last year. Katharine Hepburn starred in the African Queen in 1951, and 30 years later, teamed up – again on a boat – with another Hollywood icon Henry Fonda. I can’t remember if I saw that one in the theatre or at home on the VCR. I still have one – brand new, never-used – sitting beneath a similarly dormant DVD player. Like tape decks and movie players, all have succumbed to the online streaming of film and music. Nowadays, you can get all the movies on Netflix (at least I’m so told, as I’ve never watched
nor subscribed). Besides, these days you don’t have much of an alternative, as nearly all the movie rental stores have long ago closed. I recall many years ago the rage for eight-track tape decks that allowed you to listen to music in cars, other than on the radio. It wasn’t long before those clunky and prone-to-failure tapes were replaced with much smaller cassettes. Technology wasn’t long in replacing them with CDs which, now occasionally seen dangling from a car mirror, also lived a brief life. Most new cars come equipped with satellite-delivered sound, commercial-free, and the selections available on voice command. If you want your own music, plug in your iPod or mobile phone. My Jeep has a six-CD player in it – the unit replaced a year ago because the original ate a homerecorded disc and destroyed it.
I installed a new player because the damaged one made a hell of a noise every time I started the vehicle. Still haven’t played a CD in it. While it would be convenient to blame “the industry” for built-in obsolescence, the root cause is simply the incredible march of innovative technology that has allowed us to go from vinyl records (themselves evolutionary) played through scratchy needles, to digital sound bounced off a satellite hundreds of miles above us. What next I wonder will be developed ... glasses that downstream music, movies and the Internet (oops, already here)? Or will it be cornea implants? Whither the future lies in distribution of entertainment, from the above it can be interpreted that I shall forever remain mostly, and pleasantly, disconnected. Mark Rushton is a weekly columnist for The Abbotsford News
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proposed by Trustee Casey Cook. The trustees should be spending their time on more relevant issues such as graduation rates, improving learning conditions, improving exam scores and maximizing the use of funds for school resources. It’s the mission statement, business plans and initiatives which make a dynamic organization, not the logo. Have Apple, Microsoft, Esso, NY Yankees, or Montreal Canadiens changed their logo over the years? If the trustees want a new logo, how about a tortoise with NWSS etched on its shell?
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Re: “Not much to love, or be ‘happy’ with,” The NewsLeader, Feb. 20. I read with interest the letter from Gerald Thomson, who had nothing positive to endorse about the city’s efforts to involve its citizens. In fact, it was critically thinking citizens that the city was hoping would fill the room with wellthought-out analysis and suggestions that the city could build upon to shape a new Official Community Plan. And, as it turned out, there were about 125 such citizens of New West in attendance. We can always look backwards to the day when Col. Moody, Simon Fraser or First Nations peoples lived and travelled along the shores of the Fraser River. But the reality is that New Westminster will see an anticipated 40-per-cent growth by 2041 of 34,000 new residents, along with the need for 16,500 new housing units and 700,000 square feet of new commercial property. Our limitations are obvious: lack of space, a steep hill, transit throughways which divide communities and lack of space for residents to socialize, build trust and become integral people as part of a “happy” community. Many ideas were presented (including the tower issue). Now we must go through the process of deciding which ideas could work, be affordable and encourage participation in the new New Westminster of 2041. I also attended a climate change seminar at SFU recently.
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New West native unplugged from technology and found herself better connected. She documents her experience in a new book.
Christina Crook grew up in New Westminster and studied communications at Simon Fraser University. She now lives in Ontario and a month-long experiment to go offline has evolved into a book about her experience and the lessons she learned.
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Somehow Christina Crook had managed to lock one of her children in her house. She instinctively reached for her cellphone, but it wasn’t connected. Frantically she started knocking on neighbours’ doors. One answered, invited her in, gave her young son a juice box, used her phone to call a locksmith and gave Crook a comforting hug. That’s something her cellphone couldn’t do. And “that’s what I needed most,” she said. Crook was offline as part of a self-imposed experiment to re-examine the role her online devices played in her life. For 31 days she unplugged her computer from the Internet, logged off her iPad and disconnected her mobile phone. That project evolved into a book, The Joy of Missing Out, about Crook’s quest to find joy and enhance her personal connections in a wired world. Crook, who grew up in New Westminster and studied communications at Simon Fraser University, said she didn’t appreciate the addictive nature of being online until she went offline. “I had nervous twitches. I had the feeling of wanting to go online.” But by the next day, she’d let go. “There was a lot of freedom in that,” said Crook. She’d been thinking of going offline for months. Crook said she’d become increasingly dismayed about the artificial busy-ness created by her online life. including an email inbox overflowing with unread messages and social media feeds that demanded her attention. “They were owning me and I wasn’t owning them,” said Crook of her online accounts. “I wanted to figure out what kind of person I would be without the Internet.” That person turned out to be a lot more engaged with her family, friends and community. Crook said she rediscovered newspapers, reading articles all the way to the end and discussing them with her husband. The pile of books on her night stand got smaller. She bought a map book to find her way around town. She stopped and chatted with other parents when she picked up her kids. “I felt myself slow down,” said Crook. “I felt my head clear. I found a quietness of mind. I found time.” And contrary to popular sentiment, Crook said she felt she was more informed while offline. “Learning requires engagement and interpretation,” said Crook. “When I stepped away and sank my teeth into a whole story, I was getting more of the meat of what happened.” When Crook’s electronic exile ended, she didn’t jump back online with fingers flailing. Crook didn’t reinstall social media apps on her mobile devices. She trimmed all unnecessary email subscriptions. And she discovered an important lesson: Ease and convenience aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. “Our gadgets are centred on ease,” said Crook. “But the things we’re most proud of are the things that take a lot of blood, sweat and tears, and when they’re washed away we’re left with a feeling of achievement.” Even for just looking up directions in a good oldfashioned map book. To learn more about Crook’s project and her book, go to www.jomobook.com
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Commercial Transport Journeyman Mechanic (Surrey Terminal) Van-Kam Freightways Ltd. requires two (2) full-time Commercial Transport Journeyman Mechanics to work out of our Surrey Terminal located at 10155 Grace Road. One (1) position is an afternoon shift starting at 3:30PM and working until midnight and the other position (1) has an 11:30PM start working until 8:00AM. 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.
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ABE MOVING - $35/Hr. Per Person *Reliable Careful Movers. *Rubbish Removal. *24 Hours. 604-999-6020
INFLOW ACCOUNTING & Tax Services. T1 TAX RETURN $40+, 25% discount to seniors, students, and donors. ACCOUNTING $30+/hr. Exp. & reliable. English/Mandarin. www.ifaccounting.ca, Ph: 604-5257618
Westcoast Moulding & Millwork Surrey, a building product supplier has a Full - Time opportunity for an experienced Stair Builder & Parts Craftsman. Must have pervious experience in shaping Rails & Building stair components. Positive attitude, dedication & willingness to learn rewarded with: • Advancement Opportunities • Excellent Remuneration Package Commensurate w/ Experience • Full Benefits
RUBBISH REMOVAL
Across the street - across the world Real Professionals, Reas. Rates. Best in every way! 604-721-4555.
Van-Kam thanks you for your interest, however only those being considered will be contacted.
Van-Kam is committed to Employment Equity and Environmental Responsibility.
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IF YOU own a home or real estate, ALPINE CREDITS can lend you money: It’s That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is NOT an issue. 1.800.587.2161.
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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NEW WESTMINSTER’S NEIGHBOURHOOD PUB
WHERE YOUR FRIENDS ARE! EST. 1986
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TAPS
MOST IN NEW WEST
LET US HOST YOUR NEXT
FUNDRAISER EVENT
The Paddlewheeler can host your fundraiser for up to 120 people Determine how many tickets you would like printed. We will design and print your tickets for you at no extra charge. You are only charged on how many attend you event, NOT tickets printed. Ticket costs to you are $10.00 each which entitles the bearer to: Choice of one beef burger, chicken burger, or veggie burger. All burgers comes with lettuce, tomato, onions, pickle, sauce and choice of fries or salad. Choice of a sleeve of house draft, 6oz glass of house wine, or a bar highball. You MUST have a Gaming License for any raffle or 50/50 draws. A 15% gratuity will be added to your bill. For further questions and date availability, contact us at 604-524-1894
APPY HOUR HALF PRICE
Monday-Friday 3pm-5pm Sundays 7pm-10pm Some restrictions apply
EVERY WEDNESDAY
35¢ ea
For all your favourites!
Some restrictions apply
MEAT DRAW Every Saturday
810 QUAYSIDE DRIVE, NEW WESTMINSTER
604-524-1894 | PADDLEWHEELERPUB.CA
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