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Making music in the city Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

t all started with a story in the local newspaper. A few years back, longtime Burnaby resident Lindy McQueen had came across a news story about the plan to replace the Edmonds Value Village with more high rises. “And I thought: ‘No, no more isolation. We’ve got to start building community and connecting neighbours,’” she recalls. With all the schools in the area and the diverse demographics, McQueen saw the opportunity to create a really strong community – the neighbourhood just needed a little push. “I’m retired and I love organizing things, and my husband said run with it,” she says. So in spring, 2013, Lindy and her husband started EPIC – Edmonds People In

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Should new SkyTrain renos include washrooms? Mayor and councillors butt heads over having public washrooms on transit lines Jacob Zinn staff reporter

When it comes to the Metrotown SkyTrain expansion, Burnaby council can agree on most of TransLink’s plans – except public washrooms. On Monday, council authorized city staff to prepare a rezoning bylaw to permit the expansion, which is designed to “accommodate ridership demands over the next 30 years.” A report from TransLink noted provisions for bicycle storage, elevators and at-grade retail units, but the most

contentious provision was about giving the public a place to, um, go. Coun. Nick Volkow said he was happy to see public washrooms included in the provisions, but he disliked the transit authority’s condition that a third party agree to take on the operation and maintenance of the facilities. “I’ve been around long enough to know that when we started hearing things about finding agreements in regards with third parties, that sometimes means that we’re never going to find a third party that’s going to agree to deal with us on this,” he said. Coun. Sav Dhaliwal echoed Volkow’s comments, saying public washrooms should be necessary along major transit routes.

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Likewise, Coun. Pietro Calendino supported implementing washrooms but suggested putting them only at major stops like Commercial-Broadway and Surrey Central along the Expo Line. “Perhaps TransLink cannot afford to do washrooms at every single station, but this is going to be the second busiest SkyTrain station in the system,” said Calendino. “They don’t have to provide it at every station, but if it is every five or 10 minutes, I think seniors like me and others will be patient.” Calendino added that, given fare increases year after year, the transit authority should be able to afford running the washrooms without outside help. SkyTrain Page 8

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“It is part of the system – if you want to get people to start travelling, make it comfortable,” he said. “When we are adding more and more networks of transportation … (people) should have no difficulty in trying to find a place where they can relieve themselves.” Dhaliwal referenced the plan by the mayors’ council on regional transportation to inject $7.5 billion into Lower Mainland transit projects, which, if successful, would boost TransLink’s annual budget to $2.2 billion. He said even if they couldn’t find a third party, TransLink should be able to run the washrooms on its own. “Here’s a (plan) to become a $2.2-billion a year operation and how they can’t find a way to provide public washrooms, it’s just in my opinion, unheard of.”

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ulia Nelson was only 32 when she was diagnosed with leukemia last year. Six months later she was gone. Nelson was the teen services librarian in the Burnaby Public Library from 2010 to 2013. On Oct. 27 of last year, she passed away. This July, the library will honour her memory with a series of workshops for teens. “Julia was pretty special,” said Kelsey Jang, who worked with Nelson at the File photo/burnaby now library. “She was very bright, very bold. Fearless is kind of a word that comes out A tribute: Former teen services librarian Julia Nelson will be remembered this summer with a special series of creative workshops for teens at the Burnaby Public Library. Nelson passed about her a lot. She was a very genuine away last fall from leukemia at age 33. person and very kind.” By the time Nelson landed a job at the the Bob Prittie Metrotown branch throughPenny and her husband Paul donated Burnaby library, she had already worked out July. Jang said the library put together a $1,000, in their daughter’s memory, to supin the Bronx library in New York City, had collection of workshops that reflected Julia’s port programming for teens. degrees in religious studies and library scipersonality and passions. “I think what we wanted to do was to ence, met and married a man who was (and “She was really creative and innostill is) madly in love with her and settled THE DETAILS vative and passionate about learning in the Lower Mainland. Nelson’s loved ones new things,” Jang said. “We wanted Who: Teens going into Grade 8 to Grade 12. describe her as someone with a charismatic Where: Bob Prittie Metrotown branch, 6100 Willingdon to have a set of programs that encourpersonality; someone with strong opinions aged teens not only to connect with Ave. in the first floor program room who never forgot a face and had a knack for each other but to try new things, When: making people feel special. and create something beautiful and Wednesday, July 2: Comics 101, from 1 to 4 p.m. At the Burnaby Public Library, Nelson Wednesday, July 9: Banner Making/Urban Intervention, rewarding, and to ultimately have was responsible for purchasing the teen fun.” 1 to 4 p.m. books and running workshops for the underThe workshops are all free and run Wednesday, July 16: Mask Making, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. 19 demographic. Wednesday, July 23: Drawing Workshop, noon to 4 p.m. in the afternoons at the Bob Prittie “They all really responded to her really Metrotown branch, at 6100 Willingdon Space is limited. Go to bpl.bc.ca/events to register. well. She connected with them,” Jang said. Ave. “She was so passionate about serving her The library board has also set up a teens. There’s just that loss in itself of not trust fund in Julia’s memory, and the interhonour the fact that Julia had worked there having that energy.” est earned will help pay for teen programNelson’s mother, Penny, said her daughter and honour the work she had done,” Penny ming. To donate, send cheques (payable to said. loved working at the library. “She kind of BPL Julia Nelson Trust) to: Chief Librarian, The library used the money to create considered it a dream job, and I think that Burnaby Public Library, 6100 Willingdon Julia’s Studio: Creative Workshops for Teens, was because of the personnel she worked Ave. Burnaby B.C., V5H-4N5. a special series running every Wednesday at with,” Penny said.

Students wait for summer school decisions Cornelia Naylor staff reporter

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Excited: Tobin Hinton with the musical instrument he created as part of his LID – Learning In Depth – project at University Highlands Elementary.

‘There’s wonder in everything’ University Highlands students delve into new topics with Learning In Depth program Cornelia Naylor staff reporter

How much is there left to learn about paper after you study it for seven years? What about skin? Coffee? Buttons? An awful lot, as students at Burnaby’s University Highlands Elementary are finding out. Some students at that school have studied a single topic – randomly assigned to them via a marked Popsicle stick pulled out of a bag – for years, and they’re still finding out interesting new things about it. “The point is not the topic,” principal Lori Driussi told the NOW. “The point is learning. The point is that there’s wonder in everything, and you can become knowledgeable, fascinated and expert on absolutely anything.” It’s all part of the school’s Learning in Depth (LiD) program, showcased at an open house last month. Learning in Depth is the brainchild of SFU education professor Kieran Egan, who devised it in about 2008 and outlined it in his 2011 book, Learning in Depth: A Simple Innovation That Can Transform Schooling. The idea is that each student be given a particular topic to learn about for an hour a week through her or his whole school career – kindergarten to Grade 12. “If you don’t know something in depth, you really never get an understanding of the nature of knowledge,” Egan told the

NOW. “So what I was trying to do was invent a little program that would ensure that every child became an expert. What they actually learn is how little they know, so it generates a kind of humility about knowledge, but it also gives them a sense of how the other things they’re studying in school are all very superficial, and it gives them a desire to want to know more.” It’s a simple add-on that doesn’t cost extra money and has dramatic educational potential, according to Egan, but a meeting with Burnaby principals and vice-principals about a month ago didn’t spark a lot of interest. Egan wasn’t surprised. “The schools are under a lot of pressure,” he said. “One more bloody program is all they need. A lot of adminFor istrators, they hear about a new more photos, program and their eyes roll back because they don’t know how scan with they’re staying afloat as it is.” Layar Driussi, however, piloted the program herself with a group of 10 students when she came on as the principal of the new University Highlands in 2010. Today, hers is the only Burnaby school, to take on the program school-wide. Besides students who are more engaged and eager to learn, Driussi said Learning in Depth has brought her school community closer together. “Because everybody has a LiD topic, everyone talks about LiD,” she said. Students put their accumulated knowledge on display at the school’s first Learning in Depth open house May 22. “The layers are deep and endless,” she said. Twitter/CorNaylor

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Some citizens are more equal than others It was another sad day for Canadian ship revoked if found guilty of certain democracy when Bill C-24 became law crimes. That would also apply to people this week. born in Canada. That’s a dramatic The Strengthening Canadian change. Citizenship Act does nothing of the sort. The Conservatives would have us Instead, it makes citizenship harder to imagine the law applying only to terget and easier to take away rorist sympathizers who use and creates a second class of their citizenship as a badge of Burnaby NOW citizen with fewer rights than convenience when captured in others. an overseas hideout. But under In particular, citizens with dual the new laws, many regular Canadians citizenship – or even those who are could also find themselves “less than” eligible for it – could have their citizenother citizens.

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Crimes that could trigger stripping of citizenship aren’t just those of people found guilty in Canadian courts but also those convicted in places where the rule of law doesn’t apply in the same way. One immigration lawyer said people handed parking tickets have more rights than those who stand to have their citizenship stripped under this law. That’s why the Canadian Bar Association is challenging it as unconstitutional. More profoundly, the law creates an

“us” and “them” – them being people whose families were originally from somewhere else. That’s repugnant in a country that is built on immigration. Not many of us can go back more than two generations without encountering that “other.” Banishment as a legal remedy may play to xenophobic fears among the Tory base, but it deserves no place in a modern democracy. – Guest editorial from the North Shore News

‘Balanced’ books come with a cost

But when a government hristy Clark and the B.C. illegally strips $250 million from Liberals defend their “no the education system to create a new money” tactic when balanced budget – you have to negotiating with government ask if they truly know what they employees as their “means” to are doing. the balanced budget “end.” When the government If you agree that the governimposes a contract with ment should operraise hikes but does not ate on a balanced give more money to the budget, then you Larry Ryan school districts to pay agree that teachers for them – you have to ask if should not get anything they are they truly know what they are asking for in this dispute. doing. If you are part of the Liberal If the cost of everything government, then making goes up (like hydro 25 per cent) money and spending money is but the government does not all that matters. Anything that happens in between will be justi- increase the education budget – you have to ask if they truly fied by the balanced budget/ know what they are doing. surplus budget “end.” So, yes, if a balanced budget Environment can be sacrificed is the “end,” and you agree that for a balanced budget. $5 billion is the correct amount Health care can be sacrificed of the $44.4-billion dollar for a balanced budget. budget, year after year, no matEducation can be sacrificed ter the cost of inflation, then you for a balanced budget. are a Liberal with a capital “L.” Ten years from now we may You are an accountant balancing be the richest province in the the books. Congratulations, and country. Unfortunately, we will good job. need all that money to treat the However, if you believe that ills of our society. perhaps within all of the billions Teachers see the “end” difof dollars, that the government ferently. We believe that we are can reallocate some funds and responsible for raising educated stay balanced in support of educitizens that will contribute cation, then perhaps the teachers to society and that a properly are supporting the correct “end.” funded education system is the Perhaps being in government is “means” to make that happen. more than balancing the books Yes, it is expensive. The eduand getting re-elected. cation budget is $5 billion and If you want an end to the has been right around that number for a number of years. Teachers Page 7

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Underfunding must stop now Dear Editor:

The government keeps insisting that the teachers’ demands are “unaffordable.” Actually, the government has been spending $1,000 less per student than the national average. If the government spent the national average on our students, they would have over $500 million more every year for education. This is the amount that the government has been siphoning away from the education sector for more than a decade. When Peter Fassbender claims that teachers’ demands will cost over $2 billion, he is not mentioning that the $2 billion is spread out over five years. If you do the math, $500 million more over five years

does make more than $2 billion. So if the government continues to hold the line on spending, they will be shortchanging our kids over $2 billion over five years, compared to the rest of the country. B.C. has the worst educator-student ratio in the country. Other provinces have hired more teachers (per student-capita) while B.C. continues to have less. B.C. teachers have had enough. If other provinces can afford to spend more on their students, then so can B.C. So whenever the government says the word “unaffordable,” what they really mean is they think B.C.’s students deserve less than students in other provinces. Is that what the citizens of B.C. want?

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Students deserve better continued from page 6

B.C. teachers help prepare students to become contributing members of society. What price do you put on that service? Don’t our kids deserve the same as other Canadian kids? B.C. should at least spend the national average. Anything less continues to rob them. The 12 years of underfunding has got to stop. Jennifer Heighton, Burnaby teacher

Thanks to kind strangers Dear Editor:

I really must say thank you to the three Good Samaritans that worked together to help me on the morning of June 2 after I tripped and fell alongside Willingdon Avenue, just north of Midlawn Drive. I didn’t think to ask their names, but their care and attention was just wonderful and very much appreciated. J. Rushton, Burnaby

Wrong answer, Mr. Mayor Dear Editor:

Re: Mayor disputes driving ticket, Burnaby NOW, June 25. I think it is pathetic that Mayor Derek Corrigan is taking the blustery, attack mode in his response to the ticket he received for distracted driving. Has he learned nothing from the Rob Ford fiasco? The correct response would have been to admit it, apologize and make a statement about how destructive the practice

can be. Instead, he gives the impression that he believes that he is above the law, that the law doesn’t apply to him. The Rob Ford of Burnaby. What kind of impression does this leave with the people who will be voting for mayor in the next municipal election? Gordon Foy, Burnaby

Mayor stands up for city Dear Editor:

Re: Mayor must learn to cooperate with others, Letters to the editor, June 20. I differ in Mr. Evans’ opinion because I thought Mayor Corrigan’s reasons for voting against the plan reflected some critical thinking on his part. He did not disagree that a transportation plan was needed. He disagreed with the scope and cost of the plan and was concerned about how taxpayers would pay for it and whether the public would accept it. As a citizen of Burnaby, I was actually proud to have him represent me, and I applauded his courageous stance rather than fall into a group think mentality and take the easy road by just “going with the flow.” Yes, he has opposed many other projects, but it was always in the interest of the City of Burnaby and its residents who he recognizes would be among those who actually pay for these projects and/or be affected by them. I am glad that he does not view the tax paying citizens of Burnaby as cash cows and believe he is one of the more fiscally responsible and cognizant mayors in the Lower Mainland. Jason Chow, Burnaby

Teachers: It’s time to take a stand continued from page 6

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THE BURNABY NOW OPINION: “Stephen Harper’s gift to the environmental movement” – June 23

Comment via BurnabyNOW.com I TopherX: You hear this argument all the time, but its super weak. Most activists engage in activism on a volunteer basis. Standing up for the wilderness is not a revenue deriving endeavour. Trying to claim that its all about the environmental movement making money shows how the writer only sees the world in dollars and cents ignoring all externalities that are impacted by the short term interest of proﬁt. The neo-conservative revolution is over, condolences! Comment via BurnabyNOW.com I bnthrdntht: The problem for Harper is the coming election in 2015 and after watching all of his Machiavellian moves over the last 10 years (omnibus bills for one) it wouldn’t surprise me if he used this in the same manner. I am so hoping the electorate doesn’t fall for this type of bs again.

THE BURNABY NOW OPINION: “Teachers are ﬁghting for B.C.’s children” – June 19

Comment via BurnabyNOW.com I Bettie Marchiori: Thank you Larry for expressing so clearly the sentiments of BC teachers. We will not return to our classrooms until the government agrees to make our students a priority by restoring the funding that was illegally stripped. BC’s children deserve better. Comment via BurnabyNOW.com I Andre: Some one understands what the issues are...

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SkyTrain: Should expanded station have public washrooms? continued from page 1

“I think this is part of doing business – they shouldn’t be looking at other partners to take care of cleaning the washroom facilities.” But Mayor Derek Corrigan said operating public washrooms in a transit system is not only expensive, but “extremely problematic.” “At many of these locations, they become centres for drug deals, they can be places that are fraught with

heavily delayed come to the City $194-million of Burnaby, or the Compass system, old Greyhound Volkow said the bus stations, and fare evasion stratthey wanted to egy, if successopen up a facility, ful, should allow I think our requireTransit Police ment would be more time to deal that there would with more unsabe public washvoury characters rooms,” he said. than turnstile “So here we are in Nick Volkow jumpers. the 21st century, Yes to washrooms “When that and we’re coming up with every excuse pos- Compass system comes in, there’s going to be a lot less sible not to do it.” While also a critic of the need for people checking

possible.” criminal activity,” But Volkow he said. “It means c o u n t e r e d you have to really Corrigan’s points, up your level of noting that if supervision, which operators of other means more staff. public transpor“While I undertation modes stand that people pitched running can have emerroutes in the city, gencies while public washthey’re out on the rooms would be SkyTrain, I also Derek Corrigan think it’s impor- Too many problems mandatory. “If we had tant that people plan their trips and try (Canadian Pacific Railway) to avoid having to utilize or (Canadian National public washrooms if at all Railway) back in the day

for fare evasion, and I think we’ve got a lot of armed police – the highest paid policing department in the province – I think there’s going to be an opportunity for them to do all kinds of policing that might not have been in their mandate when they were created,” he said. The Metrotown SkyTrain expansion bylaw will go before council for first reading on July 7, with a public hearing scheduled for July 22.

Music: New outdoor concert series will help to build community continued from page 1

Community, a new residents’ association for the Edmonds neighbourhood – but that was just the beginning. McQueen got talking with her friend and fellow churchgoer Jeff Neufeld about hosting some kind of music event in Edmonds and they put together a show last fall. It went so well, they decided to

expand the idea this year into a series, which kicks off June 29 in the Edmonds Park Plaza, just outside of the new community centre. Neufeld, who sings and plays guitar, will be performing. “It’s going to be fun. We want to build community, and if you have a free concert, where people bring their own chairs and blanket and listens to music,

known for its high numbers of refugees and new Canadians, Lindy is hoping to draw people out with the universality of music. “Music is international. It’s not like it’s a Sudanese thing or a French thing or an Albania thing – everybody loves music,” she says. “If we could do music and people just come and sit and listen, and they bump into someone and

it’s going to be awesome,” McQueen says. Neufeld also hosts an open mike session at the Blenz coffee shop on Sixth and Sixth in uptown New Westminster, which doubles as a venue to audition new talent for Music in the Park. People who do well at open mike night could be invited to perform in the park. Given that Edmonds is

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realize they live a block away from each other, we just don’t know what can come out of it.” What’s she’s hoping for is the classic formula of building community by connecting neighbours. “That’s what it’s all about,” she adds. The EPIC Music in the Park series runs the last Sunday of June, July and August, from 6:30 to 8:30

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Healthy options: Red Square owner Mark Tsemak started cooking with his parents – then he started cooking for his parents. In an interview with the NOW,

he shared the history of their family-run South Burnaby business.

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t’s sometimes hard to keep up with fast-talking baker Mark Tsemak, but if your ears are quick enough, you’ll hear the story behind his food production company Red Square, the authentic Russian kitchen turned “healing food manufacturer.” What began as a modest 800-squarefoot store in North Vancouver has since ballooned over the last 24 years to a large South Burnaby warehouse that ships its high-fibre, low-carbohyON MY BEAT drate products Jacob Zinn across Canada and the United States. Not bad for a young man who was lucky to have been let out of the Soviet Union in the late ’70s. On Dec. 5, 1979, Tsemak and his family emigrated from Eastern Europe with $90 each in their pockets and nothing else, after waiting four-and-a-half months for their visas. Given the choice between America and Canada, they sought the freedom of the Great White North and the Canadian Dream. Twenty years old at the time, Tsemak enrolled in engineering courses at UBC and later BCIT, despite knowing very little English.

“I figured if I wanted to pass the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) test, I’d better start getting some vocabulary,” he said, noting he challenged himself to memorize 60 English words per day. “At first, you speak as much (English) as Canadians learn French here: nothing,” he said with a laugh. While attending university, Tsemak pooled some money with his parents to open the Stanley Squirrel, a confectionery store in downtown Vancouver that proved profitable and allowed him to finish his studies. Through working in the food industry, the Tsemaks recognized a lack of Russian fare amid Asian, Greek and Italian restaurants on every corner. In response, they sold the Stanley Squirrel and, in 1990, started Perestroika Products, serving up piroshki (a baked yeast-dough roll stuffed with potato, onion, broccoli and spinach), vareniki (bite-size dumplings) and vegetarian borscht. They cracked into a niche market, forcing Tsemak, who had left the cooking industry for construction work, to return and assist his aging parents in their North Vancouver kitchen. “Life dropped me back into flour, where I started my career,” he said. “I used to get up at five, go to Perestroika in North Van, pick up boxes of piroshki, put

them in my car and drive to three or four Costcos delivering in the morning. “Then I’d go to the Richmond (foamcutting) factory and spin foam. It was not unusual to work 23 hours. When you had to do it, you had to do it.” Perestroika soon moved to the southwest corner of Burnaby because of its centrality in the Lower Mainland – taking on the name Red Square for its part-warehouse, part-retail location – and Tsemak quit his construction work to focus on the family business. If you spend five minutes talking to Tsemak today, he’ll surely tout the health benefits of flax, but it took a health scare in the family for him to realize the true positives with the crop. “My mom suffered a massive stroke from high blood pressure,” recalled Tsemak. “She collapsed, and she was paralyzed on one side. “I started pushing myself, what can I come up with (to make her better)? We started concentrating on the idea that food is medicine.” Through research, Tsemak discovered that flax can thin the blood, which can allow more oxygen to the brain to potentially regain motor skills in stroke victims. He put his mom on a flax-heavy diet, and steadily, her health improved. It helped his mom to get better; then it helped him to get better.

“That was the awakening for me to look at my future,” he said, realized the same thing could happen to him back then. “I was already a bit overweight – eating and working basically was my life.” Sooner or later, doctors started sending their patients with diabetes, high cholesterol and other ailments to Red Square, and Tsemak gained the added bonus of enriching others’ lives. “What I’ve learned over the years is that there’s nothing better than helping each other to achieve better health, better lifestyles,” said Tsemak. “We produce from the heart to solve somebody’s problem.” The shelves of his retail store are lined with bread, pizzas, cakes, energy bars, cinnamon buns and chocolates – and they’re healthy, thanks to him stumbling upon the benefits of flax so many years ago. It’s not just a family business – it’s a business helping families, and that means more to him than anything. “I’m probably now the richest man on the planet – not in terms of materialistic values but, my mom gave me life, and together, we rebuilt her life. And I’ve helped many other Canadians rebuild their health. It’s priceless.” Red Square is located at 8626 Joffre Ave. and is open Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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nterested in how the film industry works? The Burnaby Village Museum is offering a series of filmmaking demonstrations on Saturdays throughout the summer, in connection with its temporary summer display At the Movies. This weekend (Saturday, June 28), you can check out green screen technology by Sim Digital, running from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Volunteers from the Blanche MacDonald Centre will also be on hand from noon to 4 p.m. to demonstrate special effects makeup – you can try out some beard stubble, lizard skin or perhaps a scab. On July 5, you can experience special effects makeup or stunt performances – local stunt performers will be on hand to rehearse their scenes and then perform on the streets of the village. Other demonstrations throughout the summer will include costuming,

Choreographer featured in fest

A Burnaby choreographer is featured in the upcoming Dancing on the Edge festival. Michelle Olson, who teaches dance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, is the artistic director of the aboriginal dance company Raven Spirit Dance. Her piece Northern Journey is a contemporary dance performance, inspired by a traditional First Nations story about the caribou. A press release notes that the work is “inspired by the land we carry inside of us. This internal landscape carves out the pathways that lead to our animal instinct and lead us to images that hold our human experience.” The work is part of Edge One, a mixed dance night that also includes work by Sarah Chase of

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Astrid Dance and Brazilian choreographer Paulo Lima. The performance runs Friday, July 4 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, July 6 at 2 p.m., both at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver. This year’s Dancing on the Edge is the 26th annual festival, celebrating contemporary dance from Vancouver and across Canada. More than 70 dance artists are taking part in the festival’s 10 days, July 3 to 12. Check out www. dancingontheedge.org.

The art of nature

Art lovers, don’t forget to stop by the Deer Lake Gallery to see the latest work from the Burnaby Artists’ Guild. The guild’s exhibition Nature Inspired is underway at the gallery, at 6584 Deer Lake Ave., until July 12. The exhibition features the work of 23 guild members in a variety of styles and mediums, and admission is free. The gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday.

See www.burnaby artistsguild.com for more details, or call 604-2987322.

Who deserves the spotlight?

Do you know an interesting artist or performer who deserves to be in the spotlight? We’re running a series of “Fill in the Blanks” profiles of interesting local people, and we’re always on the lookout for suggestions. Each participating

person just has to fill out a questionnaire to tell us a little more about them, and have a photo taken for the paper. Please send me your ideas – along with a few details and contact information. You can reach me by email, jmaclellan@ burnabynow.com, or come find me on Twitter, @juliemaclellan. Do you have an item for Lively City? Send arts and entertainment ideas to Julie, jmaclellan@burnabynow. com, or find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.

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he Burnaby Village Museum is hosting the city’s official Canada Day celebration on Tuesday, July 1, with heritage games, a parade and bagpipes. Set against the museum’s 1920s backdrop, the celebration runs from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. There will be live music (flamenco, jazz, Chinese lute and ukulele), a sword fighting demonstration, face painting, heritage games and red velvet cupcakes. The Burnaby RCMP will be there, wearing red serge. Admission is free, and rides on the vintage carousel are $2.50. The Burnaby Village Museum is at 6501 Deer Lake Ave. But that’s not the only party in town. The Edmonds Community Centre is marking Canada Day with a free celebration that includes the official opening of the park’s plaza, a spacious outdoor area people can use for gatherings, picnics or even music performances. The Edmonds Park event starts at 11 a.m. and runs till 2:30 p.m. There will be games, activities, multicultural entertainment and food, and there is a flash mob File photo/burnaby now people can join. For more information on that, call the Edmonds Community Centre at 604-297-4838. Flag fun: Kids can have their faces painted during Canada Day celebrations at Burnaby Village Museum.

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ooking for a fun way to celebrate the nation’s birthday? Look no further than Swangard Stadium on July 1, when the City of Burnaby hosts a free concert for Canada Day. The shows features Spirit of the West, Dear Rouge and Dustin Bentall and the Smøkes. “I think it’s going to appeal to all ages,” said the Shadbolt Centre’s Corey Philly. “You kind of get a little

evening, Philly suggested. There’s no outside food or alcohol allowed in the stadium, and those hoping to patronize the beer garden need two pieces of ID. Seating is by general admission, so those who get there early will get the best seats. Swangard Stadium is at 3883 Imperial St. For more information, call the Shadbolt at 604-291-6864 or visit burnaby.ca.

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learned during nine weeks of training. or three decades, the new director The Burnaby NOW caught up with of the fire and safety division at the Grootendorst to talk about the changing Justice Institute of B.C. battled all ways of firefighting and what the Maple types of blazes in Maple Ridge. Ridge vet thinks of the Burnaby Fire Today, Peter Grootendorst uses his Department. 30 years of experience to train future fire recruits across the Lower Mainland and Cayley Dobie: How has firefighter trainprovince. ing changed over the years? As director of fire and safety at the Peter Grootendorst: What we’re findJustice Institute, Grootendorst, former ing is that, chief of the through prevenMaple Ridge tion, fire departFire Department, ments have done oversees a numa great job of ber of programs A special series by Cayley Dobie educating people aimed at educatso that they’re ing new recruits more safe and the buildings are built to about firefighting. Among the programs a higher standard with smoke alarms offered, there is a 12-week pre-employand sprinkler systems, which have done ment program that teaches firefighting a huge job to reduce the number of fires. hopefuls all the basic skills they’ll need in But when the fires do occur, the fires are anticipation of being hired by a departusually quicker burning and they’re hotment. ter and they’re more dangerous for the While a pre-employment fire program firefighter, so they certainly need different isn’t a prerequisite for applicants to the skills than they did before. Burnaby Fire Department, Grootendorst (and training officers in Burnaby) noted CD: What type of skills? that most applicants do enroll in some PG: They (firefighters) have to be very kind of fire school prior to applying quick in arriving on scene and very quick to various departments. Next fall, the in deploying their equipment, so they Justice Institute is offering a modified have to be very skilled at laying the hose pre-employment program that has only out and moving the hose up stairwells seven weeks of on-campus training. By in apartments. They have to be very shortening the length of time people skilled in their techniques. But we’re also need to spend on campus and by offering introducing new technology like thermal more online components for the theory imaging cameras, which will allow us to portion of the program, the institute is find the seed of the fire quicker and it also attempting to accommodate more people, allows us to search for victims. Things Grootendorst said. like reading the smoke, where you can This change, however, won’t affect fire look at the colour of the smoke, the dendepartments that take advantage of the sity of the smoke, whether the smoke is training programs and facilities offered lazy or whether the smoke is under presat the Maple Ridge campus. Burnaby fire sure. Now when we’re looking at things, recruits spend three days at the facility, putting into practice all the skills they’ve Fire Page 22

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CD: How do you train the recruits for these circumstances? PG: Nowadays we do what’s called a 360, so before you enter the structure, you want to run around or go around all sides of the buildings so you get a good visual of what’s going on in the building, trying to look at the building. A good fire officer will be able to look at the building from the outside and be able to

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own equipment. It is real fire, it’s not simulated fire, real smoke, real heat, and it’s just an experience they’ll never be able to get other than going to a real emergency. CD: What do you think of Burnaby’s training program? PG: They have a very creative program and I compliment them for it. What they do is they take their junior officers, so the people that are moving into an officers’ role, and they pair them up leading the recruits during the training. … It gives the officers a good opportunity to demonstrate their skills and hone their skills as team leaders and in addition to that, it gives the recruits the opportunity to go in and actually experience the fire and demonstrate their skills in pulling hose and putting up ladders. See the other parts of this series, including photos and videos, online at www. burnabynow.com.

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2014 Porsche 911 boasts legendary performance David Chao

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he Porsche 911 is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the 2014 911 Turbo takes Porsche’s legendary car into the “supercar” territory, thanks to its heart-pumping performance, unmatched by virtually all cars on the road.

Design

Visually, the new Turbo carries many of the styling cues from the past models. These include wider hips, larger air intakes, the signature wing and the 20inch wheels. The front chin spoiler remains hidden for a sleeker appearance and better ground clearance but extends at high speeds to increase downforce and emphasize aggressiveness. Also, the adaptive rear wing has been redesigned and can change height and angle. The interior continues the trend started in the Carrera family. The focus is to convey the 911’s performance capability while still providing comfort and a sense of exclusivity.

Performance

Porsche continues the tradition of powering the 911 with a flat-six mount-

tires, are capable of offering incredible stopping power. The only available transmission is Porsche’s PDK seven-speed automatic. While purist may moan over the loss of a true manual, the PDK shifts amazingly quick and the dual clutches are exceptionally efficient and make city driving easy and enjoyable.

ed behind the rear axle. Both Turbo models come with a 3.8-litre, twin-turbo unit. The base 911 Turbo has 520 hp and 487 ft-lbs of torque on tap. This is enough to push it to 100 km/h in just 3.4 seconds and on to a top track speed of 315 km/h. If you feel like you just can’t live with a “normal” 911 – if such a phrase even makes sense – the Turbo S bumps power to 560 hp and 516 ft-lbs of torque. It is now capable of accelerating to 100 km/h in 3.1 seconds and on to 318 km/ h top speed. The 911 Turbo is not just about going fast in a straight line, it’s also built with exceptional cornering ability that is second to none in this industry. The Turbo’s AWD system features an evolved torque vectoring system, which can distribute power to the front wheels quicker based on what is needed. Also, the Turbo offers a rear-axle steering; this system can vary the steering angle of the rear wheels up to 2.8 degrees opposite the front or 1.5 degrees in the same direction. This results in tighter turns and increased high-speed stability. The Sport Chrono package comes with ceramic brakes, and combined with the large performance

Environment

The standard 14-way adjustable sport seats allow any size driver to find a comfortable driving position. The instrument cluster is based on the current 911 Carrera design but is made to look unique with black dials in aluminiumcoloured outer rings and illuminated Turbo or Turbo S logos. The 4.6-inch colour display shows an extensive array of information including available engine torque in real time. Porsche Communication Management with navigation is standard on all Turbo models. The system has been updated to include features like a 3D navigation map and mapbased speed limit display. Standard audio is a Bose Surround Sound system, but an upgrade to a 12speaker, eight-amplifier

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How to find your calling and true path in life else 2. your passions: what you care about, what you love to do 3. your values: what is important, meaningful and true to you 4. the needs of the world. HEALTHWISE Dr. Davidicus Wong This way of looking at the direction of our careers and our path in life has n his classic book, The an almost universal resoHero with a Thousand nance. Faces, Joseph Campbell I’ve encouraged my describes the refusal of the children to call: “Often read widely, in actual life, “We are called explore new and not infremany times in experiences quently in the myths and life. If you listen and nurture their talents popular tales, carefully, you in the lifelong we encounter the dull case may hear the call adventure of discovering of the call each day.” their calling unanswered; – their positive for it is always DAVIDICUS WONG potential in possible family physician life. to turn the We can ear to other sometimes get stuck thinkinterests. Refusal of the ing that we have but one summons converts the calling in life. There are adventure into its negaprecious few who discover tive. Walled in boredom, the one great thing they hard work, or ‘culture,’ the subject loses the power were meant to do early in life. of significant affirmative For most, it is a process action and becomes a vicof trial and error with tim to be saved.” many being sidelined and I tell my children and stuck by circumstances patients that one’s calling and settling for a life not is the intersection of four quite complete. circles: Sometimes we may start 1. your talents: what you with great dreams and do better than everyone

Need help with red tape? Find it here Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

Burnaby Community Services has launched a new program to help people deal with bureaucratic paperwork. The non-profit created the program after discovering many people who needed and qualified for government help weren’t getting it, simply because they couldn’t deal with the paperwork. “Over the past few years, we have noticed an increase in people who could benefit from a number of government services but were struggling with the application processes,” said Stephen D’Souza, executive director of Burnaby Community Services. “We have tried to assist on a case-by-case basis but quickly recognized that we needed to be better prepared to provide the help needed.” Burnaby Community Services helps local low-income families, new Canadians and seniors. The form filling assistance program takes place every Wednesday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Brentwood Community Resource Centre, at 2055 Rosser Ave. “By starting this program, with highly qualified, screened trainers and volunteers, we are empowering people to improve their lives,” D’Souza said. To make an appointment, call 604-299-5778.

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ambitions but later realize that the life we had imagined is not for us. I have seen classmates and colleagues leave medicine in medical school, residency and even after entering practice. It takes courage to give up old dreams that we have outgrown or never really suited us in the first place. Joseph Campbell said, “You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” My mother’s early childhood was full of promise. She was intelligent and caring. Born

and raised in Vancouver, she was well-read, speaking and writing perfect English. I imagined that she would have attended UBC and become a teacher or a writer. But the trajectory of my mom’s life changed at age nine, when her mother died, leaving her and her siblings orphaned. Their priority was to survive, and with love, they chose to do this together. The older kids sacrificed their personal dreams to ensure the well-being of the younger ones. But by answering the call to keep the family

together, they created an enduring legacy of love, and all of my cousins and our children appreciate the value of family. We are called many times in life. If you listen carefully, you may hear the call each day. In his Serenity Prayer, Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” With these words, I do not hear resignation or surrender. They remind me to see the good, the bad

and the positive potential – to recognize opportunities and accept my own responsibility to be an agent of positive change. Will you answer your calling today? In what special way can you help another in need, change the trajectory of a life and help others achieve their positive potential? ! Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician at PrimeCare Medical. You can read more about achieving your positive potential in health at davidicuswong. wordpress.com.

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all about kids: summer fun Keep kids safe from overdoing it in the summer sun With a greater number of people out and about enjoying the warm weather, the risk for accidents and injuries increases. The National Safe Kids Campaign says statistics indicate children will be rushed to emergency rooms around the country nearly three million times this summer. Higher rates of drowning, motor vehicle accidents and bicycle injuries occur this time of year, but the one safety hazard everyone has to deal with is the sun. While skin cancer and sunburn are the most obvious dangers from the sun, there

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What is the best school for your child? When you cut away all the rubbish earnestly propounded by supporters of this program or that one, or by think tanks who have convinced themselves – how I cannot imagine - that their score out of 10 is the only guide you need, or the myriad other sources of ‘expert advice’, what are you left with?

fees ranging from $15,500 to $20,000. The Westside School is very different. We are deliberately aiming to be as affordable as possible for as many families as possible. We feel that too many families are priced out of a market they would like to join. We intend to change that.

You are left with the one conclusion always reached by all serious research. The best school for your child is the one with the best teachers! As the poet Rudyard Kipling wrote,

We accomplish this by focusing our attention and our funds on teaching and learning. Not for us a proliferation of administrators; not for us a costly fund-raising office; not for us a glossy ‘status’ book; not for us glitzy buildings, not for us an unnecessary proliferation of subject choices, miles of expensive travel for pointless athletic ‘competition’, or cupboards full of under-used technology!

Right on, Rudyard – all we need to know about education in just twenty-eight words! At The Westside School, we concentrate hard on recruiting excellent teachers. We seek teachers who are, and always will be, learners. We seek teachers who are deeply knowledgeable in their academic area, and whose enthusiasm for their subject pierces the gloomiest depths of student disinterest! We seek teachers who are current in their understanding of the processes that lead to deep and remembered learning. We seek teachers who have broad general knowledge. We seek teachers who have empathy, integrity and patience. We seek teachers who believe that all children can learn well enough to succeed in higher education, and we seek teachers who care. Once appointed, we support our teachers with resource-rich teaching spaces, access to ongoing professional improvement, small class sizes, a voice in key decisions, and partnerships with outstanding schools around the world.

We believe that students need to understand their world, so we benefit from partnerships with schools around the globe and infuse our curriculum with elements of the International Primary Years Program and International Middle Years Program. We believe that experiential education is valuable, so we use our city as a resource, and benefit from a wide variety of visits to galleries, theatres, museums, universities, software developers and so on. We value service so we engage in supporting impoverished and homeless children, cleaning beaches, providing water purification to Nigerian villages, and offering scholarships to needy students.

For our students, this guarantees an outstanding, comprehensive education full of effortful engagement, authentic problem solving, thoughtful reflection, and significant depth. It also guarantees that learning takes place in a tolerant, inclusive, respectful environment so that the students develop an appropriate moral compass to guide them well through life. Schools like The Westside School are usually very expensive, with

No, we focus on teaching and learning in the four strands our Head has always stressed: Academics, the Arts, Athletics and Service. This focus brings success, for our most recent graduates are all bound for universities of their choice, while our Grade 4 and 7 students are all meeting or exceeding Provincial standards. We produced exceptional results in national math contests, with our leading Grade 12 student ranked in the top 2.5% in Canada.

We value parents, so we operate voluntary programs until 5.45pm daily to facilitate work hours, and run buses (extra cost) to areas where demand makes it viable. We also report student progress to parents every fourth week. We value team building with friendly competition and collaboration in many activities, so we arrange inter–school contests in athletics, debating, chess, drama, and music.

We are an independent school inspected and accredited by the Ministry of Education of British Columbia. Our most recent inspection report (June 2014) described us as ‘offering a great education’. Our class size is targeted at 15. As we are expanding our enrolment, we have current openings for September 2014 with special pricing available until the end of July. We hope you may be interested in giving your child the benefit of a great education at an affordable price. We have a happy, purposeful, productive school that is affordable. Come experience the magic……. Graham Baldwin President & Chief Executive Officer

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Swing by the farmers’ market on he weather forecast calls for rain on Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Saturday, and sun on Sunday with some isolated showers, so plan your Burnaby city hall parking lot, at 4949 Canada Way. The market has convenweekend accordingly. Here are our top tional and organic fruits and vegetables, picks for Saturday, June 28, and Sunday prepared food, and crafts for sale. There’s June 29. live music every week, a book exchange Celebrate National Aboriginal and a children’s play area. Day at the Metrotown The Burnaby Tennis library branch on Sunday, Open starts this Saturday June 29, from 3 to 4 p.m. The (and runs till July 6) at the library is hosting a storytellBurnaby Tennis Club at 3890 ing event with some guests Kensington Ave. The matches from Bellingham. The theme start at 10 a.m., weather is: our home, our land. There permitting. The Burnaby will be refreshments served, Open is an annual provinceand there’s no need to register. wide tournament drawing The library branch is at 6100 men and women of all ages Willingdon Ave. (National and abilities. The Burnaby Aboriginal Day was actually Tennis Open is the second on June 21, but the library is (or more) largest tennis tournament in celebrating it this weekend.) Things to do the province. More than 425 Don’t miss the kick-off competitors are expected, event for Music in the this weekend and there are more than 20 Park, on Sunday, June 29, from different categories, includ6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Edmonds Park Plaza, just behind the new Edmonds ing wheelchair divisions. The top prize is $2,500. Community Centre. The Canada open for table tennis runs Edmonds People In Community, from June 27 to 29 at Burnaby’s SFU a new residents’ association for the campus in the gym at 8888 University Dr. Edmonds neighbourhood, is hosting the Six countries will be playing for $10,000 event, and there will be free outdoor in prize money. Tickets are $10 per day, performances on the last Sunday of each available by calling 604-278-5100. Info: month, through till August. www.ttcan.ca. Bring a blanket or chair and some ! picnic food, and enjoy an evening of live Do you know of something fun planned for music. Music in the Park highlights local an upcoming weekend? Email Top 5 events to talent; anyone interested in auditioning jmoreau@burnabynow.com. can email epicreza@gmail.com.

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Question: I’ve sent you a picture of my phalaenopsis orchid, which I’ve had since 2013. There are still new shoots growing with flower buds, but part of the roots is coming over the edge of the pot and drying out. It looks as if it needs to be replanted. The soil is mostly moss. How soon should I move it into another container? David Chia, Burnaby Answer: Phalaenopsis orchids normally grow new roots outside the pot. This is because in the wild they grow on trees and are used to very humid air around their roots. But in arid house temperatures, these exposed roots do tend to dry out and eventually need shelter in a pot. Meanwhile, those roots would love to be misted at least once a day. Every second year is the best tim-

ing for repotting. By then the old roots down in the pot are decayed, and the moss/bark mix they’re in is probably decayed also. But you can’t know whether your orchid was newly repotted when you bought it. If it was, then it may not be due for repotting just yet. It might be helpful to lift your orchid out of the pot and check whether there are decayed roots down there. Also check whether the potting mix is in good shape or brown and in a state of soil-like disintegration. Spring is the best time for repotting, after your phalaenopsis has bloomed. So if the photo of your phalaenopsis is recent and it is blooming now – and depending what you find when you check the deeper roots, it might be best to transplant now as flowers fade. If the potting mix doesn’t look ready, you could wait until after the next bloom cycle. Garden centres sell special orchid mixes for phalaenopsis. Question: I planted seed potatoes in a vegetable garden along with

other vegetables and the potatoes are thriving, but now their leafy heads are blocking sun over the bed. Could I cut back some of the foliage off the top of the plants to allow more light to the other vegetables, such as cucumbers? Gill Edwards, Vancouver Answer: It all depends which crops you value more. Removing leaves from any plant weakens it. The more leaves you take, the fewer potatoes you’ll get, and they could be smaller, too. But maybe you like eating cucumbers better than you like potatoes. Also potatoes are usually less expensive than cucumbers. If your cucumbers are vining ones, they may be able to escape into the sunshine away from the potatoes. So if the cucumbers are showing signs of developing vines, why not cut just enough leaves to encourage the young cucumber plants, then begin guiding the vines out into the light. Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions. Send them to her via amar rison@shaw.ca.

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