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Meet the Zanottos Burnaby family becomes subject of reality TV show Marelle Reid staff reporter
The Zanottos are not your average family. Parents Tina and Franco Zanotto live with their adult children, Guiliana, 27, and Mareno, 26, and teenage daughter, Tatiana, in a neatly kept house in North Burnaby where they all eat breakfast and dinner together every single day. They’re very close, yet they couldn’t be more different from each other. So when Life Studios Inc., a Vancouver production company, started looking for a subject for its first reality TV show and was introduced to the family through a mutual friend in the entertainment industry, producer Jacob Wasef felt the Zanottos were a perfect fit. “Working with their personalities (we found) they’re very down-to-earth people, but at the same time they have extra-ordinary lives,” he said. Zanottos Page 9
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Real life: North Burnaby family, the Zanottos, (left to right) Mareno, Tina, Guiliana, Tatiana and Franco, have been featured in a pilot for a new reality TV show called La Famiglia. Vancouver-based Life Studios Inc. has finished editing a pilot for the series which the producer says is close to being picked up by a major North American network.
No more oil exports – Burnaby tells port Stefania Seccia staff reporter
Burnaby does not want to see more petroleum exports coming through its water, and has a thing or two to say about utilizing the marine and land area surrounding the city’s ports. In January 2012, Port Metro Vancouver initiated a public process to update its Port Land Use Plan, which would lead to an integrated plan for the region’s former
individual ports for the first time ever. The planning process includes Burnaby’s Burrard Inlet waterfront and harbour, and the city’s riverfront on the North Arm of the Fraser River. The port authority began a consultation process with local municipalities to share information and get feedback. The affected sites include the Chevron Refinery, Confederation Park and Berry Point, among others. At its Monday night meeting, council approved a report that both opposes the
expansion of petroleum exports and makes about 15 suggestions for the port’s marine and land-use designations. Mayor Derek Corrigan said council does not oppose jobs, but there are many different ways of achieving a well-run economy. “I want to add that there’s a lot of misdescription about what goes on in these kind of discussions,” Corrigan said. “In the sense that people want to describe it as being opposed to jobs, or opposed to the economy – the reality is that I think all of
us understand (that) the port is a working port.” Corrigan noted that the port has significant industrial activity, which takes Canadian goods all over the world and imports goods throughout North America. “But we can’t forget the second biggest industry in British Columbia is tourism,” he said. “And the reality is that the port … has some of the most beautiful beaches in Oil Page 10
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