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Second World War veteran Arthur Holmes and his wife Kaye enjoy the thousands of Canadian flags planted on the George Derby Centre grounds for Remembrance Day to honour the many veterans who live at the Burnaby seniors’ centre. Students from Cariboo Hill Secondary and Armstrong Elementary visited George Derby to place flags Thursday.

For more on Remembrance Day in Burnaby, see the special section starting on page 15 of today’s paper.

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Are Stoney Creek salmon in trouble?

City is assessing the environmental damage to a salmon-bearing stream after heavy rainfall Jeremy Deutsch

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The City of Burnaby is assessing the environmental damage to a portion of a Stoney Creek tributary undergoing rehabilitation work after a rainstorm last week.

James Lota, an assistant engineering director with the City of Burnaby, said city crews are currently assessing the impact from sediment on the fish habitat along

a salmon-bearing stream near Ash Grove Crescent in the Forest Grove area. He indicated an assessment report could be ready by next week.

The city had contractors working in the area to reline a culvert, but heavy rains last Friday appeared to cause erosion in the construction area, filling the stream with sediment.

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He explained the contractor had byThe two incidents, which are related to pass pumps on site that were the Stoney Creek rehabilitaworking the night before and tion project, had local streamThis should into Friday, but then they keepers warning about the never have failed. Now the city is trying damage from the work. to figure out the root cause of John Preissl, a local volunhappened. the pumps’ failures. teer streamkeeper, has been Lota noted city officials keeping an eye on the project were out at the site the next and questioned the timing of day to start assessing the damwork on the Burnaby Mounage to fish in the stream. tain slope in the rainy season.

Besides the sediment issue, the heavy “They’re in trouble here,” he said. “This Continued on page 8 rains also washed out a section along Kind-

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Where are all the bears coming from?

Bear sightings on the rise in city Jeremy Deutsch

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Time for a new gallery?

Support for the plan was high at a public forum in Burnaby this week Jeremy Deutsch

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The time has come for a new art gallery in Burnaby.

That was at least the overwhelming sentiment Tuesday night at a public forum held to discuss the topic.

Dozens of residents and local artists turned out to the forumTuesday night at the Shadbolt Centre to offer their opinions on the possibility of a new art gallery, and it was near unanimous in the crowd that the city needs a new art gallery.

The forum was sponsored by the Burnaby Arts Council as part of a new effort to gauge support for a new gallery in hopes of finally securing a facility.

A number of people spoke up to offer their thoughts and support, including local artist Maria Anna Parolin, who argued that as the city grows, the community needs to create a cultural centre to showcase the talented people here and to attract people from abroad.

She noted cities like Richmond and NorthVancouver have sizable art galleries, as does Abbotsford, which

Booster: Irene McCutcheon speaks out in support of a new art gallery at a public forum Tuesday night. PHOTO JEREMY DEUTSCH

recently opened a new 20,000-square-foot gallery.

A presentation by the arts council noted the current gallery, located in Ceperley House at Deer Lake, is only 1,700 square feet and can’t hold the city’s vast art collection of more than 5,000 pieces.

“We have these works we can show everyone,” Parolin said.

Resident Darcy Olson told the forum a new gallery is long overdue and suggested the new gallery should encourage the evolution of art, adding the space should be flexible.

“We have to serve the whole community,” he said.

The arts council has expressed the view that the current gallery has long outgrown the building and has limitations in a community that continues to keep growing.

Arts council member David Handelman was pleased by the turnout and support for a new gallery, and believes the message was sent to city council.

“There’s never going to be a better time than now,” he said.

“I’m convinced the public support is very, very real,

and I hope our city politicians feel the same way.”

However, Handelman also acknowledged that going forward, the idea of a new gallery will need help – likely from the city – for it to become a reality.

He said the next step is to develop a strategic and business plan but pointed out the arts council doesn’t have the funds or expertise to do so.

Handelman is hoping the city will come to the table and offer resources to take the idea to the next step.

Coun. NickVolkow came out to the forum to listen and afterwards said he understands the passion coming from the arts community on the issue.

But he suggested in other communities with larger galleries, support has also come out of the corporate community and from philanthropists.

“I think there’s another element that has to stick their head out of the foxhole and come forward,” he told the NOW. Volkow also said while Continued on page 8

Burnaby isn’t exactly known as a playground for bears like its neighbours to the east and north, but sightings of the wild animal appear to be on the rise.

James Kelly, a conservation officer, noted the conservation service has received a number of calls about bears in the past couple of years, with an increase coming last year.

“Last year we’ve started seeing more,” he told the NOW. “This year we’ve had a fair number in the Burnaby Lake (area) and a lot up on SFU mountain.”

Exactly how many bear sightings there have been in Burnaby is not clear. Kelly explained the conservation service changed the system of recording sightings recently, adding the service should have a better sense of the numbers next summer.

So if the number of bruin sightings is up, what’s bringing them to the city?

Kelly suggested there could be a number of factors, but accessibility to food sources is the likely the culprit.

And one community’s success at keeping bears at bay could turn into another’s problem.

Kelly said communities like Port Moody and Coquitlam have offered bearproof bins to residents and have implemented bear education programs.

Burnaby does not have any such garbage programs

in place.

“If the food isn’t accessible there, the bear is going to go where the food is accessible,” Kelly said.

The conservation officer noted some of the increased calls could also be related to a sow who recently kicked her cubs out, adding a couple of teenage bears are bound to cause a few extra calls.

Coun. NickVolkow said he was unaware the number of calls about bear sightings was on the rise, suggesting the education programs in places like NorthVancouver and the Tri-Cities may be working to the city’s detriment. He said he would be bringing the issue to both engineering and parks staff.

“Our species is encroaching on every other species, they’ve got to go somewhere,” he said.

The city’s website does offer a reminder to residents when it comes to garbage and wildlife, including bears.

“To minimize any interaction with wildlife, particularly bears, it is important to manage any potential attractants on your property,” the website states.

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Conceptual plan shows the Gilmore station area will become a hub with offices, cafés and shopping

Jeremy Deutsch

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In several years’ time, the Gilmore station area in Burnaby will be the hub of Brentwood Town Centre with shops, cafés and a plethora of office workers.

That’s at least the city’s concept for the future of the large piece of land in the growing neighbourhood.

The Gilmore Station Conceptual Master Plan for the Brentwood Town Centre is a grand document that sets out the future for the site as the area continues to be developed.

On Tuesday, the preliminary concepts and vision for the plan were presented to the city’s planning committee.

The Gilmore station site is 12.48 acres in size and is made up of six individual parcels – three of the properties are vacant with a portion of these sites occupied by the Gilmore SkyTrain station and guideway.

According to a staff report, the preliminary concept plan for the Gilmore station area is comprised of five different “community precincts,” each with a distinct and unique architectural and landscape expression.

The plan describes the Gilmore station area as the primary western gateway into the Brentwood Town Centre and will become “a hub of activity with a variety of open-air shopping experiences, cafés and restaurants, office space, and high-density residential opportunities, all designed around new public plazas, open spaces, and tree-lined pedestrian

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“These changes will help create a new, high-quality, integrated neighbourhood in Burnaby that will be a seamless extension of existing surrounding neighbourhoods,” the report noted.

Coun. Sav Dhaliwal, a member of the planning committee, suggested the proposals in the plan will complement what’s happening in the Brentwood Town Centre development.

“I think this is a very exciting proposal master plan that’s come forward,” he told the NOW, noting the aggressive timeline to complete the plan within 15 years.

The plan also includes a commitment of 500,000 square feet of office floor space with the potential for up to one million square feet accommodating roughly 5,000 office jobs.

“This is a great place for what I see as a huge advantage for office space,” Dhaliwal said.

“This is a great opportunity to bring growth and economic prosperity to the city.”

The councillor also noted the site will belong to the citizens of Burnaby and not the strata of the development, adding the city wanted to make sure there was access to the Gilmore station from all corners of the development.

The report noted the opportunity provided by the redevelopment of the Gilmore station area is to transform the site into an activity hub centred on the Gilmore SkyTrain Station.

“The most significant goal of the Gilmore station area’s redevelopment is the achievement of a truly transit integrated development where residential, office, retail and open space uses are connected directly to the SkyTrain station,” the report stated.

The city is planning an open house later this month to get feedback.

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Opinion now OUR VIEW

Small gestures send a big message If you’re driving along 16th Avenue any time this weekend, be sure to keep your eyes open for the sea of red and white on the lawn at the George Derby Centre.

As the photos on the front and page 16 of today’s edition show, students from Armstrong Elementary and Cariboo Hill Secondary joined residents of the centre in placing Canadian flags on the site on Thursday.

The annual field of flags, held in conjunction with Remembrance Day, is a fundraiser for the centre. In return for a donation, visitors can receive a small Canadian flag to place on the lawn in honour of Canada’s veterans.

It’s heartwarming to see that, every year, the young people involved in the project respond with enthusiasm – and so does the city at large.There are 5,000 flags ready to go this year

to help raise money for the centre, which provides a home for 300 seniors – twothirds of whom are veterans from the Second World War and the Korean War. The money it raises is just part of the reason why the annual event is such a positive one.The larger reason is the message it sends.That lawn full of flags proclaims loudly and clearly that today, 70 years after the end of the Second World War, we still remember and still

It’s easy to overlook the importance of the symbol. pay tribute to our veterans.

We can also send that same message by the simple act of wearing a poppy on our lapel.

Poppies are by now so

ubiquitous at Remembrance Day that it’s easy to overlook the importance of the symbol.

Making a donation in exchange for a poppy can provide very real practical help for veterans in need: the Royal Canadian Legion’s poppy fund is used to help veterans in many practical ways (see story page 20).

But, just like those small Canadian flags, the more important part of poppy wearing is the message it

sends.

For more than 90 years, the poppy has been a symbol of honour and ultimate sacrifice – inspired by Lt.Col. John McCrae’s famed poem In Flanders Fields.

Wearing one is a visible display of respect for our veterans and a silent pledge that we will not allow their sacrifices to be forgotten.

So take a moment to remember. Place a flag.Wear a poppy.

We will not forget.

MY VIEW LAURA JONES

A mixed bag for small biz

What does last month’s election result mean for small business? Like with most new governments, it’s a mixed bag – there is the good, the bad and the worrying.

Let’s start with the good.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has committed to reduce the small business tax rate from its current 11 per cent to nine per cent by 2019.This is unequivocal good news for business owners who consistently cite tax loads as among their biggest challenges. A reduction in taxes will allow for additional investment in new equipment and employee training.

More good news comes in the form of a commitment to reduce Employment Insurance contributions in 2017 from an expected $1.88 for employees and $2.63 for employers to an estimated $1.65 and $2.31.

With respect to labour shortages, there are several commitments small business owners will like, including providing an EI premium holiday for hiring youth – a nice incentive to hire young people and invest in their training. Specifically, the new government has committed to waiving EI contributions for 12 months for any employer who hires someone between the ages of 18 and 24 for a full-time position in 2016, 2017 or 2018.The Chrétien Liberals had a similar program in the 1990s that was very popular with small business.

The idea of developing

more pathways toward citizenship for temporary foreign workers who want to make Canada their home will, if done well, provide some relief to businesses who are finding it extremely challenging to find employees.

The least popular idea for small business relates to increasing mandatory Canada Pension Plan taxes.The Liberals have committed “to gradually phase in an expansion of the core CPP.” The small business objection, shared by the general public in at least one poll, is that a mandatory CPP increase is not the best way to help Canadians save for retirement. In fact, to pay the additional mandatory taxes, many say they will have to reduce contributions to voluntary plans like RRSPs or other forms of retirement savings such as paying down a mortgage.

The intention to run deficits is in the “worrying” category. Small businesses tend to be pretty pragmatic about the need for deficits on occasion but are also very mindful of the reality that, as Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall once quipped, “Deficits are like potato chips: It’s hard to eat just one.”

Whatever decisions are made going forward – good, bad or worrying – the electorate knows exactly who to hold accountable four years from now.

Laura Jones is executive vice-president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

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Opinionnow An open letter to Mayor Corrigan

Dear editor An open letter to Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan: I am writing to you today with housing on my mind. As you are no doubt aware, we now have a new federal government here in Canada. So it is probably a good time to consider the housing opportunities that are available to you and the renters of Burnaby who you represent. As you may recall, Prime Minister Trudeau, in his platform, said that he wanted to have “a national action plan on housing that would produce affordable safe housing for Canadians at all income levels.” This is to be financed out of his $20 billion pledge to provide social infrastructure. Therefore, it would appear an ideal time for you to reconsider your current housing strategy here.

For a moment think, about the renters in this town who live in three- or four-storey buildings, wondering if theirs will be the next building chosen for rezoning, demolition, and reconstructed as a luxury condo development (a.k.a. demovictions). This gentrification has always been a wrong approach for an NDPer like yourself. I say this as a lifelong NDPer myself. Rather than make life easy for big developers to further enrich themselves here, you would do better to take a look at Kennedy Stewart’s private member’s bill M-547. It is a good affordable housing plan, it is a real NDP document. Notice how newly elected Burnaby South MP Mr. Stewart affirms that access to safe, adequate housing is a fundamental right of all Canadians, as guaranteed by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. And Mr. Stewart goes on to recommend that this basic housing should not “compromise an individual’s basic needs, including food, clothing, health care and education.”

In so many words, Mr. Stewart is saying social housing. But somehow you don’t get it.

Why don’t you pick up the phone and give the new prime minister a call? Here in Burnaby we need fairly priced basic housing as much as any city in Canada.

For some reason, instead of trying to help lower-income citizens with housing needs, you pretend they aren’t here. Not everyone can afford luxury condos. But instead of you and your elected group using your powerful one-party council to enact standards of maintenance legislation to protect renters from landlords who allow their premises to deteriorate as they wait for a gigantic payday after demoviction, instead of helping lower- and moderate-income renters, you put Burnaby on the map as one of the most facile and compliant cities in the entire Lower Mainland.

The proof is freely available in New Homes and Red Tape, the Fraser Institute study that came out on Aug. 25. Regarding regulatory costs per new dwelling unit, it shows that Abbotsford levied the lowest price to developers: only$14,357 per dwelling unit. Following in second place is Maple Ridge, which charges $17,500 per dwelling unit. Burnaby was close behind in friendliness to big developers, charging only $17,542 per dwelling unit. However, dollar for dollar and unit for unit, the City of Burnaby allows the developer to make far more money than the other two cities, owing to the value of real estate here.

So perhaps it is time for you to begin governing like the good NDPer I still want to believe you are. It’s up to you. But sooner than later a new political group is going to rise up in this town and challenge you and the BCA where you are most vulnerable, on your left flank. Please take my advice.

Ric Erb, co-chair A.C.O.R.N. Burnaby

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Stoney Creek mess could hurt salmon John Preissl The city’s story seems to be changing every day and different stories with different newspapers. The work never should have been done in the rainy season. They know better and have been warned many times by us stream keepers and their own head planner of the city to not do any heavy work on the steep slopes of the mountain or near the salmon creeks during spawning and the rainy season.

Glen Porter I was puzzled to see this kind of work being done during spawning season. I thought the city would have had greater sensitivity or had some amazing plan to avoid getting sediment in the creek, but I guess not.

John Preissl Pretty sad response from the city! The site is still a mess and looking not too good before the rains come.

It’s time for arrogant politicians to go

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The time change and early sunsets don’t just signal the looming winter months, they can make the roads around Metro Vancouver and Burnaby deadly for pedestrians.

It’s no secret the number of pedestrian-related crashes spikes through November, December and January.

Pedestrians have to be more safe about it.

So Tuesday, Burnaby Mounties and community volunteers in partnership with ICBC were out in force for a pedestrian safety blitz, including handing out yellow safety reflectors to SkyTrain users at the Lougheed station in an effort to get the message out.

RCMP Cpl. Daniela Panesar said the event

was a way for police to raise awareness about pedestrian safety as the winter months approach, adding it gets darker and harder for drivers to see people walking on the roads.

“Drivers have to be more aware, and pedestrians have to be more safe about it,” she told the NOW. “Unfortunately accidents happen, at least we’re doing our part to keep people safe.”

Also unfortunate for pedestrians are the stats related to crashes.

According to numbers from ICBC, there are on average 150 crashes involving pedestrians in Burnaby each year based on stats between 2009 and 2013.

In B.C., 75 per cent of crashes involving pedestrians happen at intersections, while almost one in five people killed in car crashes are pedestrians.

The intersections around the Lougheed station were chosen for the safety event because they are some of the hot spots for pedestrianrelated crashes in the city.

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Continued from page 1 should never have happened.

“This place is such a mess.”

Preissl suggested if heavy rains hit again Friday (today), the city won’t have the staff to deal with the fallout.

However, Lota said any further rainfall shouldn’t be an issue.

He said the slope is stabilized and Kinder Morgan crews are off the mountain, while work on the culvert rehab is finishing up.

Lota pointed out that

backup pumps are in place and once the grouting is complete, the risk of another situation is a “non-issue.”

As for why the city decided to carry out the work at this time of year, Lota said the municipality tried to get the project finished earlier, but crews were busy with other projects.

“The culvert was in bad shape, which was compromising the slope stability, which is why the urgency for the project to happen as soon as possible,” he said.

Plenty of work to be done on gallery plan Continued from page 3 there is agreement that a new art gallery is needed, there is no consensus in the community on issues like the location.

“There’s a lot of work still to be done,” he said. “I’ve heard a good message here and I’ll be taking it back to council.”

The issue of a new gallery has been going on since the

early 1970s, when a new art gallery was a priority and plans were made up.

In 1987, a proposed art gallery and performing arts theatre in civic square were part of the original plans beside the Bob Prittie library.

Then in 1998, there was another plan for an art gallery expansion, and a feasibility study was completed, along with public support.

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Burnaby RCMP Chief Supt. Dave Critchley was also on hand to give out reflectors to the public, noting that people continue to be distracted behind the wheel.

“This (the yellow reflector) is important, you might get that one glimpse, or you might see a pedestrian and if this helps save a single life or an injury, it’s all worth it,” he said.

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The Burnaby school district is piloting a homegrown online tool to track the behaviour of students on the autism spectrum.

Designed to help teachers decide what’s working for the students and what’s not, the program makes gathering and analyzing information about student behaviour easier.

“We’re already doing an amazing job of collecting a lot of behaviour data on students daily and weekly, but what’s happening is it’s sitting in binders and it’s sitting in notebooks,” Nadine Trottier, the district’s behaviour analyst behind the project, told the school board recently.

Even when educators get the information into graphs and reports,Trottier said, it usually isn’t until the end of a week, two weeks or a month.

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Taking a little time at the end of each day,Trottier said, teachers and education assistants can now log on to the district website,

The feedback we’re getting is really positive open a student’s account and record the information they want to track, like how many times the student kicked or punched someone during the day or how long the problem behaviour lasted.

Using a graphing tab, all the latest information can then be plotted instantly on

a variety of graphs to show trends and patterns.

“The feedback we’re getting is really positive,” said Trottier, who worked with programmers Costa Dedegikas and Kostas Poulakidas at the SFU New Media lab for two years to develop the program. “People are finding that it’s a lot more user-friendly.There’s decreased time spent entering the data, graphing the data.

The instant graphs, they said, have been wonderful to go into team meetings and be able to show information that’s from the day before and even the day of.”

The district started piloting the program, which cost about $10,800 to develop, on the first day of school, and there are now 16 students from five schools on the system.

Others are lining up to get on board, but Trottier said the Behaviour Profiles team is still working out some bugs in the system.

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Home sweet home: Geraldine Knibb near the creek on her family’s property at Dawson Street and Willingdon Avenue in 1944. The creek is gone today, and Costco’s parking lot is located where it used to run.

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Hearing the echoes of a city’s past The Brentwood Town Centre of today is a far cry from the neighbourhood Geraldine Knibb remembers Janaya Fuller-Evans

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Before Brentwood mall moved in, before houses sprouted up, before the streets were even paved, the Brentwood neighbourhood was a place of woodlands and creeks, according to former resident Geraldine Knibb.

“It’s just unbelievable what they’ve done in that area,” she says of the neighbourhood today, adding the SkyTrain is right where she used to turn up Alpha Avenue to get to her home.

“It seems like it’s up in the heavens.”

Nowadays, Knibb lives in White Rock, where she retired with her husband. But in 1946, her father gave her husband an acre of property in the area between Willingdon and Alpha avenues, right where Brentwood Town Centre is today. Back then, there were only three houses in the area between Alpha and Beta avenues, she says – the red shack originally on her property, the house her husband built, and her sister’s home near-

by. Otherwise, there was no one around, she says.

“It was all bush,” she adds.

The shack was originally owned by a First World War veteran, a bachelor, who willed it to her father, according to Knibb.

“In those days, there were all kinds of old bachelors living in that area,” she says, adding they all had an acre of land.

In 1959, developers came knocking. Brentwood Mall opened two years later.

“In those days, they didn’t tell you what they were going to develop.

They just knocked on our door one night and said, ‘We don’t want your house, we just want your property,’” she says. “We were able to live in the house to ’60.

By this time, the bulldozer was starting to come down, so we decided to move the house.”

The family had the house loaded on a truck and transported to Duthie Avenue and Broadway, she says.

The red shack was moved to Spring Avenue and Hastings Street, and her sister’s

Another era: Herb Knibb, Geraldine’s husband, built their first home near Alpha Avenue, where Brentwood Town Centre is now. The home was moved to Duthie and Broadway in 1960. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

home was moved to Grandview Highway.

Her husband was involved in developing the area. He worked as a carpenter building houses in Willingdon Heights, as well as homes and apartment buildings in Vancouver, Knibb says.

Knibb first moved to Burnaby with her parents when she was five. Born over the border in Washington, she first lived in Vancouver, and moved alongside Still Creek in 1929, she says.

“We had a little yellow house, a two-room house, and my mother and father and five children,” she says. “Our little house was right on the creek between Willingdon Avenue and the Burnaby Lake trestle.”

The children hauled water from the creek on Willingdon Avenue up to the house so their mother could wash clothes, she says.

“We had quite a time down on our creek,” she adds.

But living beside a waterway wasn’t all fun and

games.

“I was there when we had the flood.The creek flooded up, and it came up as high as the train tracks, and Burnaby Lake, and over as far as Douglas Road,” Knibb says. “In fact, there was a Chinese gardener who lived over on Douglas Road, and the people that got off the Burnaby Lake tram, he had to row the ones that lived down on Grandview Highway.”

The family had to move after five years because the area wasn’t good for their

health, she says.

“I had a sister that died at the age of 13, and a sister that had a bad heart, and the doctor said we had to move,” Knibb says. “It was damp down there, it was all peat moss.”

Burnaby planned to dredge Still Creek at the time, so they traded her father for an acre of land on Dawson Street and Willingdon Avenue, according to Knibb.

Today, the Keg and Costco sit on the property her family owned on Dawson Street, and a creek that divided the property is gone, she says.

But it’s not just the homes and waterways and woods that Knibb misses from her childhood – it’s the people, she says.

“I find it really sad because there’s not one soul. … I just love to talk about when we lived down on the creek, and there’s not one soul living that I can laugh and say, ‘Remember the good days,’” she says. “Nobody’s left.”

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IT’S YOUR LAST CHANCE TO CATCH I AM THE BASTARD DAUGHTER OF ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Inspired by true stories, the play features a 10-year-old girl harbouring a secret obsession for the singer, while her mom helps with an Engelbert Humperdinck fan club.The one-woman play’s final showings are on Saturday, at 8 p.m. and on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 2 p.m.

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GET INVOLVED WITH THE STONEY CREEK ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE, as members walk Stoney Creek on Saturday, Nov. 7 to count the spawning salmon. If you’re new to streamkeeping, make sure to dress for the weather; think gum boots, warm clothes and rain gear.To get involved, meet Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Jennifer Atchison Environmental Centre, at

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Remembrance Day Lest We Forget

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Flag tribute: A pair of Armstrong Elementary students plant a Canadian flag on the grounds of George Derby Centre Thursday. Students from Cariboo Hill Secondary and Armstrong placed the flags for Remembrance Day to honour the many veterans who live at the centre. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

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Burnaby’s George Derby Centre is hosting its annual flag fundraiser for Remembrance Day. Visitors to the centre can make a donation for a small, Canadian flag to stick in the centre’s lawn, in honour of Canada’s veterans.

The campaign kicked off Thursday, Nov. 5 with students from Cariboo Hill Secondary and Armstrong Elementary helping place the flags on the lawn.

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On this November 11th take a moment to pause, reect, remember.

R E M E M B R A N C E DAY S E RV I C E S i n BU R NA BY The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #148 North Burnaby Cenotaph, Confederation Park Willingdon Avenue and Penzance Drive Wednesday, November 11TH, 2015 11:00AM

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The Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #83 South Burnaby Cenotaph, Bonsor Park Imperial Street at Nelson Avenue Wednesday, November 11TH, 2015 11:00AM

For more information, please call 604-294-7400, or go to www.burnaby.ca/remembers

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LEST WE FORGET

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Phone: 604.775.0778 • Fax: 604.775.0833 richard.lee.mla@leg.bc.ca • www.richardleemla.bc.ca

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Procession: Rain or shine, the annual Remembrance Day procession makes its way through North Burnaby to the cenotaph at Confederation Park, where the ceremony begins at 11 a.m. PHOTO NOW FILES

Procession, ceremony set

North Burnaby residents can set aside some time to remember this Wednesday.

There will be a Remembrance Day ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 11, start-

ing at 10:30 a.m., with a procession leaving from the Safeway parking lot at 4440 Hastings St. The march ends at the North Burnaby cenotaph

in Confederation Park at Willingdon Avenue and Penzance Drive.

The ceremony begins at 11 a.m.

– Jennifer Moreau

Burnaby Public Library www.bpl.bc.ca

Remembrance Day 2015 Teachers and students will be honouring sacri;ices of the past and working for peace in the future.

Burnaby Remembers

On this November 11th, take a moment to pause, reflect and remember.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICES IN BURNABY: The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #148 - North Burnaby North Burnaby Cenotaph, Confederation Park Willingdon Avenue and Penzance Dr. Parade begins at 10:30 a.m. from Safeway parking lot, 4440 Hastings Street Ceremony begins at 11:00 a.m.

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #83 - South Burnaby South Burnaby Cenotaph, Bonsor Park Imperial Street and Nelson Avenue Parade begins at 10:30 a.m. from Fire Hall #3 – 6511 Marlborough Ave. Ceremony begins at 11:00 a.m.

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Take time to remember at the cenotaph South Burnaby residents can take time to remember this Nov. 11.

There will be a Remembrance Day ceremony starting at 10:30 a.m. at Firehall No. 3 at 6511 Marlborough Ave.

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Poppies pay tribute and also help veterans

Tribute: The Ambassador of Peace Korean War Memorial will be the site of a special ceremony on Remembrance Day at 3:30 p.m. PHOTO NOW FILES

Remembering Korea There will be a wreath laying ceremony at the Korean War Memorial in Burnaby’s Central Park on Wednesday, Nov. 11, from 3:30 to 4 p.m.

The Korean War Com-

memorative Alliance organizes the annual event.

Participants will have a chance to place a poppy on a wreath during the ceremony.

The memorial is on the

west side of the park, close to Boundary Road.

The memorial, known as the Ambassador of Peace, was established in 2007.

– Jennifer Moreau

It’s a visible symbol of remembrance – and a practical way to help veterans.

Each year, the Royal Canadian Legion conducts its poppy campaign in Burnaby and across the country, accepting donations in return for poppies to be displayed on lapels.

The money collected is held in trust and used to provide financial assistance to serving and former Canadian Armed Forces members and their families who are in need.

Grants are available for food, heating costs, clothing, prescription medication, medical appliances and equipment, essential home repairs and emergency shelter or assistance. Comforts for veterans and their surviving spouses who are hospitalized and in need may also be provided.

Be sure to wear your poppy this year, with pride.

– Source: Royal Canadian Legion website, www.legion.ca

Tribute: Poppies adorn the wreaths at Confederation Park cenotaph.

The poppy remains a symbol of remembrance, and the Legion’s poppy campaign helps veterans across the nation. PHOTO NOW FILES

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Remembering and Honouring our Heroes Paying tribute: Senator Yonah Martin is seen laying a wreath at the Korean War Memorial in Central Park during a ceremony in 2012. Senator Martin is expected to attend a Remembrance Day ceremony at the George Derby Centre this year.

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The George Derby Centre is hosting its own ceremony for residents, many of whom are veterans and seniors, who may not be able to get out to the cenotaph

ceremonies.

The George Derby event is on Wednesday, Nov. 11, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Residents’ friends, family members and nearby neigh-

bours are welcome to attend.

SenatorYonah Martin is expected to attend. – Jennifer Moreau

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today’sdrive 20 16 Mazda MX-5

Your journey starts here.

The car stays small, the fun stays big

BY BRENDAN McALEER

brendanmcaleer@gmail.com Tweet: @brendan_mcaleer

Raffi sang it best: everything grows. Higher beltlines, swelling curb weight, ballooning footprints; from the once-tiny Honda Civic to the Mini Cooper, every single car on the road these days just keeps getting bigger and bigger – with the exception of one.

After a quarter-century, the Mazda Miata (or MX-5, if you prefer) enters its fourth generation with one big surprise: it’s still small. The recipe remains the same – modest power, lightweight, rear-drive, opentopped – and really, that’s most of the shock. How, when everybody from BMW to Porsche seems to be making more and more complex vehicles, does Mazda manage to keep it simple?

This new MX-5 is actually shorter than the original, and just a few kilos heavier. How’ve they done that?

Remember how tiny the original 1990 version was?

You could have delivered them to the dealership in a Tic-Tac box.

There’s no turbo. There’s no clever torque-vectoring differential. The cupholders are flat-out terrible. But it’s as wonderful as ever.

Design:

Some of the MX-5’s diminutive size is thanks to its compact LED headlights. Mazda’s best-selling roadster still has a “face,” but it’s much less cutesy than before, almost snake-like.

Or maybe make that cat-like as from some angles the MX-5 looks an awful lot like the Jaguar F-Type. You could do worse for a car to emulate, especially since the original Miata did such a good job at translating British-style open topped motoring into Japanese dependability. That the mid-level GS is just over $35K – about half the F-Type’s price – doesn’t hurt either.

The nose is extremely low, giving the driver a better sense of the road, even as the arches over the wheels make it easy to tell where the corners of the car are. 16” alloys are standard on the basic GX model, with 17” seven-spoke rims on the GS and GT models.

Environment:

One of the more interesting details is the way the sheetmetal seems to wrap around the doors, with body colour continuing into the cockpit of the car. It’s a neat tweak to the recipe, and sets off the small cabin with a splash of colour.

Besides that small design tweak, the rest of the MX5’s interior is function first. Weight has been saved almost everywhere, with the result that the detachable cupholders are right where your elbow goes (you can move one down to the passenger-side of the transmission tunnel if you’re flying solo).

Further minimalism can be found with the seats, which exchange foam padding for a supportive web. The seats don’t have height adjustability, but are instead mounted on an inclined track – shorter drivers will gain height the closer they sit to the steering wheel.

It’s an elegant solution, and while the MX-5 has occasional ergonomic oddities (volume knob between the seats, infotainment screen just stuck to the dash), it’s overall a nicely-executed effort. The small steering wheel with its compact airbag feels light and lively, and the shifter is perfectly positioned. Never mind the cupholders, this thing’s for driving.

Performance:

When Mazda revealed a 2.0L four-cylinder powerplant for their new car, many pundits raised their eyebrows.

What, no forced induction? And it makes less power than the outgoing model?

Now making essentially the same 155hp at 6000rpm and 148lb-ft of torque at 4600rpm as the regular Mazda3, the MX-5’s new engine requires premium fuel and is down 10hp versus the previous model.

Not the kind of thing to get a gearhead’s pulse racing.

However, there’s so much more going on here,

it’s hard to know where to start.

Every inch of this little car has had the impurities hammered out of it; from chassis to suspension to the first electronic power assisted steering that actually has some feedback. It’s the result of an endless amount of tiny engineering tweaks, ranging from an obsession over the way the manual shifter slots into gear to hanging microscopic weights on the rear differential to get the right harmonics out of the engine sound.

It’s not about the power, it’s not about the seats, it’s not about the stereo, its not about the absolute cornering grip. The MX-5 isn’t dominated by one element – instead, it’s the blend and balance of everything all at once.

There’s no sport button, you just go. Flop the top down with a single arm motion, press it once to latch, then let out the clutch and scamper off the line with that little four-pot fizzing away merrily. If you can drive this thing with a straight face, you’re doing it wrong.

Turn in is sharp, and body roll allows a sense of motion and speed. Speaking of which, the MX-5 is actually really quite quick. Like the original car, it’s a momentum machine, losing little speed between the corners. String up a couple of apexes right, and it’s an absolute thrill.

And then there’s the whole open-topped fall motoring aspect of it. In the MX-5 you smell the coffee roaster as you pass, hear the dry leaves crackle under your wheels, see the clouds whipping by overhead. Sure, it’s got a trunk and a seat for a friend, but the MX-5 is still all about the elemental experience of driving.

Features:

While the dedication to light weight must be praised, it’d be nice to see an optional power folding hardtop back for folks who’d like to street-park their sprightly Mazda roadster without worrying about security (maybe on the loaded GT models only). In terms of safety features, everything from blind-spot monitoring to lanedeparture is here, and the navigation system is quick and easy to use.

As mentioned, premium is required with official figures rating 6.9L/100kms on the highway for manualequipped cars, and 8.8L/100kms in the city. Like most current Mazdas, flogging the little MX-5 doesn’t seem to hurt real-world economy much.

Green Light:

Great new look; still provides an elemental drive; very well balanced; fun!

Stop Sign:

No more optional hard-top; some wonky ergonomics; no Mazdaspeed version any time soon

The Checkered Flag:

The car stays small, the fun stays big.

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Kudos to Connor Stefanison, the Burnaby photographer and winner of the Royal B.C. Museum’s rising star portfolio award.

Stefanison beat more than 42,000 entries from nearly 100 countries in the museum’s Wildlife Photographer of theYear 2015 contest.

The winning photos will be on display at the museum in Victoria from Dec. 4 to April 6.

REFUGEES TALK What are the myths and challenges of hosting refugees in Burnaby? That will be the subject of a panel discussion, on Thursday, Nov. 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Maywood Community School, hosted by Burnaby Family Life.The panel features Chris Friesen from Immigrant Services Society B.C., a refugee sponsor and sponsored refugee. Chris is ISS’s director of settlement services, and he will talk about Canada’s humanitarian pro-

gram and what refugees experience.

I will be moderating the Nov. 12 dialogue to help get the series rolling. Chris is one of my go-to sources for refugee stories, and I can attest that he’s knowledgeable and passionate about the issue. So if you are concerned about the world’s ongoing refugee crisis, don’t miss this opportunity to hear from Chris. Maywood Community School is at 4567 Imperial St., and admission is free.

SAVE THE DATE Popular Burnaby NOW columnist Davidicus Wong will be in Burnaby Wednesday, Nov. 25 to talk about diabetes.Wong, who authors the Healthwise column in our paper, will talk about things people can do to prevent diabetes. For those already diagnosed with the disease,Wong will cover all the basics on managing the disease and avoiding complications.

The talk is at the Bonsor Recreation Complex, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at 6550 Bon-

Winning shot: This image was one of six by Burnaby photographer Connor Stefanison, who just won the Royal B.C. Museum’s rising star portfolio award. Stefanison’s work will be on display at the museum in Victoria from Dec. 4 to April 6. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY CONNOR STEFANISON

sor Ave. Admission is free, but pre-register by emailing lcullen@divisionsbc.ca or phone 604-259-4450.

SAVINGS PLAN WORKSHOP Just a reminder:The Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion is

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Meet your neighbours and learn more about the Neighbourhood House: that was the focus of the night at last week’s wine and cheese networking event at Burnaby Neighbourhood House’s north location.

The centre’s quaint and inviting space was quickly filled with warm smiles and handshakes, as many community members made it out to the event.

The night featured a beautiful spread of tasty treats, with fruit, different kinds of cheese and crackers. The event was sponsored by G&F Financial Group, and Cioffi’s Meat Market & Deli supported the food.

The event was held in partnership with the Heights Merchants Association. The focus was to bring businesses together to learn about the Neighbourhood House in North Burnaby.

Antonia Beck, the executive director, spoke about how the group’s Burnaby North location is now a year-and-a-half old and how vital the support of the community is to Burnaby Neighbourhood House.

For more information on the Burnaby Neighbourhood House, see www.burnabynh.ca.

Neighbourhood House chair Christopher Gordon and Sabine Schreiber, career facilitator with ISS of B.C., enjoy the evening.

Michael Prodanovic and program director Kimberly Barwich enjoy the festivities.

Tim Begley of Positive Shift, Alyssa Farthing of Positive Shift, Lana Shparberg of Deer Lake Law Group and Antonio Simoes of Deer Lake Law Group chat with Burnaby Neighbourhood House executive director Antonia Beck.

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Fall in love with art this weekend at Shadbolt Cayley Dobie LIVELY CITY

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Looking for something to really wow family and friends this Christmas? Stop by the Shadbolt Centre this Saturday for the fall classic art show hosted by New West Artists.

The second annual event features artwork made by a group of artists from neighbouring New Westminster.The show and sale will include watercolour and acrylic paintings, mixed media, fabric art and photography.

The fall classic art show runs from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave. For more info, including a list of featured artists, visit www.facebook. com/newwestartists.

NEW EXHIBIT EXPLORES LAYERS WITHIN ART Japanese culture is the influence for the Burnaby Art Gallery’s next exhibition, coming to the local gallery.

LAYERS: Print & Beyond, which runs from Nov. 20 to Jan. 24, 2016, features works by three artists from the Vancouver area – Gillian Armitage, Kim Mi Hyang and Marie Price.

All three women are accomplished artists and printmakers whose work has hung in galleries around the world.

“The artists have been strongly influenced by their time in Japan as lecturers, visiting artists and exhibitors,” notes a press release.

The upcoming Burnaby exhibit has strong ties to Japan, with each artist incorporating traditional Japanese practices into their artwork.

“Armitage is inspired by the story of Sadako Sasaki and her thousand paper cranes,” the release notes.

Price, meanwhile, uses Washi papers, which literally means “Japanese paper” and are made from long inner fibres of three plants.

“The layering of the Washi papers is a physical gesture that mirrors the layering of experience that

each human absorbs over their individual lifetimes,” notes the release.

Korean artist Mi Hyang, who divides her time between Vancouver and Seoul, uses Hanji paper, a Korean paper made of mulberry, to create her pieces.

“Mi Hyang creates prints that explore her relationship to the natural world and to her daily experiences through her unique printing process that combines woodcut engraving and paper casting,” the release notes.

The exhibition is being curated by guest curator Susan Gransby, an independent curator, artist, writer and editor who sits on the Burnaby Art Gallery board. Join Gransby, Mi Hyang, Price and Armitage for an opening reception at the Burnaby Art Gallery on Nov. 19 from 7 to 9 p.m.

The evening includes opening remarks and is open to the public. Admission is free.

The Burnaby Art Gallery, at 6344 Deer Lake Ave., is open Tuesday to

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Coming soon: Left, Kim Mi Hyang’s piece, For Her; centre, Letters from Japan, an original work by Gillian Armitage; and right, artist Marie Price’s Outside of Time.

Works by Hyang, Armitage and Price will be featured in the Burnaby Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, LAYERS: Print & Beyond.

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For more information on this exhibit and other happenings at the gallery, visit www.burnabyartgallery.ca.

MORE AT THE GALLERY Expand your understanding of printmaking with a little help from your friends at the Burnaby Art Gallery.

Through the month of November, the gallery is hosting several free and low-

cost workshops and events to get residents to learn more about the current exhibit, LAYERS: Print & Beyond, and its artists.

On Saturday, Nov. 28 stop by the gallery at 2 p.m. for a free tour. Hosted by guest curator and professional printmaker, Susan Gransby, visitors will learn more about the complex prints on display and the techniques used to create them, including chine collé and origami made from

etchings and woodcuts on cast paper.

On Sunday, Nov. 29, visitors 16 years old and up can try their hand at lifting prints and chine collé with artists Gillian Armitage and Marie Price.The workshop runs from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and costs $15 per person.To register, call 604297-4422 and quote barcode 381928.

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Not long ago, SFU student Shazia Nanjijuma was in a tough spot.

The 2011 Burnaby North grad had switched from sciences and plans to work in health care to international relations and economics and dreams of helping solve world problems, like poverty.

But traditional models of development, she soon learned, don’t work.

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own solutions out of extreme poverty.

Working in the slums of Kampala, the group encourages local community leaders to teach youths at workshops how to supplement their household incomes by activities like making charcoal briquettes or candles.

For Nanjijuma, the work was hope inspiring.

“It was interesting to see a side of development that is positive and optimistic and achieving results,” Nanjijuma.

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debate, formulate and share innovative solutions for pressing world issues.

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Native berry-producing trees and shrubs are among the most beautiful, useful and entertaining plants you can have in a garden. Once birds arrive to feed on them, they’ll often stay to do pest control – and in unusually long dry summers the extra food can actually save their lives.

First of the year is Indian Plum (Oemleria cerasiformis), which leafs out at the beginning of March.

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shaped flowers.The blueblack berries that follow in late summer can be turned into jams or jellies if the birds don’t get there first.

The red elderberry (Sorbus racemosa) has a spectacular spring presence with flat clusters of lacy white flowers followed by fiery clusters of red berries. By summer’s end, birds have stripped the lot.They’re reputed to be poisonous for people.

As June begins, salmonberries are opening beautiful, single pink flowers which are quickly followed by deep red juicy raspberrylike berries. Birds gorge on the few that the bears leave behind.

At the same time, the white flowers of thimbleberries quickly develop into mid-red, rather dry berries which don’t last long in bear country.You have to value the immense wildlife value

of salmonberries and thimbleberries to tolerate them in a hedge. Salmonberries have some deterrent value because of their prickles, but both have wandering invasive roots like raspberries.

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It’s a three-season plant with brilliantly red stems in winter, flat heads of lacy white flowers in spring and eye-catching white berries in summer.Very easy to grow.There’s also a yellowstemmed version.

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European rowans are just one of the plant immigrants finding a welcome from wildlife in B.C. If it’s food and tastes good, birds and

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One of the enclaves that has been attracting many young families, as well as downsizers, is the Willoughby Heights neighbourhood.

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After a busy day, residents can unwind on the generous decks and patios or meander through the lush landscaping.

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“There’s also a great children’s playground right on the premises,” adds Szeto. “In addition, Lotus Living has an excellent location, close to the freeways, golf courses and much more, yet tucked away off the busy roads.”

This is an opportunity to own a townhome in the Willoughby neighbourhood, starting from $329,900.

Nicely appointed new homes, with timeless beauty and lush greenery, at such value are rare today. The Lotus Living presentation centre and display home, located at #4-20856 76th Avenue, Langley, are open daily from noon to 5 p.m. (except Fridays). There is still a great selection of homes available that are move-in ready.

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Community now EVENTS CALENDAR FRIDAY, NOV. 6 Be Fraud AwareInvestRight, Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch, 6100 Willingdon Ave., 7 to 8:30 p.m. B.C. Securities Commission presents critical thinking skills to protect yourself from fraud and scams. Learn to identify warning signs. Registration: 604-436-5400.

THURSDAY, NOV. 12 Reclaiming Canada’s Humanitarian Heart, presentation featuring Chris Friesen, from Immigrant Services Society of B.C., and real stories from a refugee and refugee sponsor, 7 to 9 p.m. at Maywood Community School, 4567 Imperial St. First in a threepart dialogue on myths and challenges for welcoming refugees to Burnaby. Hosted

by Burnaby Family Life.

FRIDAY, NOV. 13 The African Children’s Choir, 7 p.m., at New Westminster Christian Reformed Church, 8255 13th Ave., Burnaby. Free.

SATURDAY, NOV. 14 Knit2gether, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Tommy Douglas Library, 7311 Kingsway. Registration is not required. All ages and skill levels are welcome.

Christmas craft sale, 2 to 3:30 p.m., Fair Haven United Church Homes, 7557 Sussex Ave. Crafts, tea and prizes.

The Burnaby Potters’ Guild, winter market at Capitol Hill Community Hall, 361 South Howard St., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Apple cider and cookies served. Free admission.

TUESDAY, NOV. 17 Have you considered becoming a foster family?

There are children and youth in Burnaby who require skilled, caring, foster parents. To learn more, the Ministry of Children and Family Development invites you to attend an information session from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at #200-906 Roderick Ave. in Coquitlam. For information or another session date, call the North Fraser recruitment team at 604-764-8098.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 Knit2gether, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., McGill library branch, 4595 Albert St. Come knit, crochet and stitch with friendly, helpful people. A limited supply of yarn and needles are available for beginners to try. All ages and skill levels welcome.

THURSDAY, NOV. 19 Knit2gether, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Tommy Douglas library branch, 7311 Albert St. Come knit, crochet and stitch with friendly, helpful people. A limited supply of yarn and needles are available for beginners to try. Everyone is welcome – all ages, all skill levels.

FRIDAY, NOV. 20 Women’s Enterprise Workshop, Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch, 6100 Willingdon Ave., 7 to 8:30 p.m. Follow your passion and become financially independent as you launch your business.

Registration: 604-436-5400.

Rosewood St. offers a great selection of used clothing and household goods. Open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Phone: 604-527-6226.

Donations of quality adult clothing and household items are appreciated.

Funds raised in the boutique support special programs for the care home elders.

Burnaby & New Westminster Newcomers’ Friendship Club welcomes women who are new to the area, as well as longtime residents. Meet women of all ages and cultures to make new friends. Dinner

meeting on the second Wednesday of each month, plus various events, including book club, craft group, social Saturdays, etc.

For info, contact Doris at dorisfriend39@gmail.com, or 604-544-3525 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Website: www. burnabynewwestminster newcomers.com.

Introduction to Speed Skating, hosted by Burnaby Haida Speed Skating, at Kensington Arena, 6159 Curtis Ave., $25 for unlimited sessions within a two-week period, on Wednesdays from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. and Saturdays

from 3 to 4 p.m. Fee includes the use of club speed skates.

Info: bbyspeedskating@ gmail.com.

Monday evening dances, for 55+, Confederation Seniors Centre, 4585 Albert St., 6:30 to 9 p.m. $5 for members, $6 for guests. With music by G7 and refreshments. Info: 604-294-1936.

Thrift shop sale, every Thursday until Dec. 10 at South Burnaby United Church, 7591 Gray Ave., from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. There will be clothing, household items, collectibles, books, toys, and more. Donations

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25 Presentation on diabetes, with Burnaby NOW columnist Davidicus Wong, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Bonsor Recreation Complex, 6550 Bonsor Ave. Dr. Wong will discuss diabetes prevention, effects and management measures. Register by emailing lcullen@divisionsbc. ca or call 604-259-4450.

FRIDAY, NOV. 27 Knit2gether group meets 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Bob Prittie Metrotown library branch, 6100 Willingdon Ave. Bring yarn, needles, scissors and supplies. There will be a limited number of needles and yarn available for newcomers.

SATURDAY, NOV. 28 Girl Guides of Canada, Holly Tea and Fair, from 1 to 3:30 p.m., at the South Burnaby United Church Hall, 7551 Gray Ave. Donations for the Food Bank will be collected at the door. There will be kids’ games, a silent auction, home baking, tea, crafts and a garage sale.

ONGOING Telespeakers Toastmasters, meetings on Friday mornings from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Burnaby room in the Telus building, 3777 Kingsway.

Telespeakers provides a safe atmosphere where you can improve your speaking skills.

We have many members with various experience levels from beginners to distinguished Toastmaster designations. We welcome new members and guests and encourage you to learn at your own pace. Info: www. telespeakers.com.

Basic Computer Course for beginners at Confederation Seniors’ Centre,4585 Albert St. For info, call 604-2941936.

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Burnaby International Folk Dancers meets every Tuesday night, 7 to 9:30 p.m., until Dec. 8, and then from Jan. 5 to June, 2016. at Charles Rummel Centre, 3630 Lozells Ave. Learn folk dances from around the world in a friendly club environment. New dances taught every night; all levels welcome, no partner needed, drop-ins welcome.

Info: 604-436-9475.

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Wildcats slide past Aztecs Dan Olson

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Perfection has put Burnaby Central Wildcats at the top of the heap – prognostics wise.

The senior AAA boys soccer team, recently ranked No. 1 by the Province newspaper, capped its local season Wednesday with a 1-0 win over the Alpha Aztecs to advance to the playdowns against West Vancouver as the Burnaby-New West top seed.

Brady Hughes’ goal midway through the second half proved to be the difference, and gave the undefeated Wildcats two chances to earn a B.C. berth.

“It was a very tough opponent because we’ve played (Alpha) before but we knew we could take them. It was a well-played match between us but they came out flying,” said Hughes, a Grade 11 striker.

Neither team mustered much of an attack in the first half, as both clubs came out more aggressive in the second side.

The feeling was that one goal may be all a team needed.

“For the first 20, 25 minutes (Alpha) had more chances and more possession and I didn’t think we really woke up until the half,” noted Burnaby Central assistant coach Anto Steko. “Coach (Ibrahim) Adamu talked with the boys and we made some adjustments, responded and settled down to our game.”

The Wildcats came close in the 50-minute mark on a goal that was called back due to offside. But they kept at it, and got a perfect opportunity when midfielder Nathan Graziano laced a perfect feed up from midfield to Hughes at the 20-yard line, who turned past the defender and stared down Aztec netminder Oliver Morrison-Harding, depositing the ball after a quick deke. “(Graziano) slipped the ball to me and I turned, there was nobody around me so I could be patient and go around the keeper rather than just shooting,” recalled Hughes. “It worked perfect, but (Morrison-Harding) tipped it a little so I was a little nervous.”

As play evolved, the Wildcats went into defensive mode and Alpha pushed forward.The defence and Central netminder Savo Bogicevic responded to each challenge.

“In that instant the game changes on a lucky chance, for us unlucky,” said Alpha coach Antoni Salov. “It was a good through ball and there was some miscommunication, but we still had a chance to get it back.”

Salov pointed to strong efforts from Marcello Caporale and Grade 9 midfielders Ben Beaulieu and Marco Consiglio.

For Burnaby Central, midfielders Boubecor Diarai and Stefan Cuk were impressive, said Steko.

Hughes, who missed the semifinal 2-1 shootout win over Cariboo Hill, leads the district with nine goals on the year.

In that encounter, the two teams entered the second half in a scoreless game Continued on page 42

A bushel of balls: Burnaby MoreSports program coordinator Maria Bamba, left, and South Burnaby Metro Soccer Club’s equipment manager/administrator Stan Leong show off the bounty donated to the non-profit program. South Burnaby and the Burnaby Girls clubs combined to donate nearly 200 balls for MoreSports. PHOTO

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Clubs unite to help Burnaby kids Local soccer clubs’ donation to Burnaby non-profit will be put to good use

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They’ve got more balls than they need – thanks to the generosity of some local soccer clubs.

Burnaby MoreSports, which provides free after-school sports programs for children in the community, put out a call recently seeking soccer balls to help in a program that reaches hundreds of children.

MoreSports program coordinator Maria Bamba said what was an urgent need became a fun surplus as the Burnaby Girls

Soccer Club and South Burnaby Metro Club responded to the donation request of used balls and equipment for the program.

“There were tonnes (of balls), more than we expected,” said Bamba. “We’re so grateful and really appreciate their support.”

Currently offering a basketball program in southeast Burnaby community schools, MoreSports continues to meet the demand of offering free after-school sports to young children.

“It’s a free program for Burnaby kids, and our focus is to ensure children who may not nor-

mally get to participate in sports, whether due to economic status or transportation barriers, a chance to play and learn the skills that sports teach us,” said Bamba.

The minor clubs also donated numerous jerseys to the program.

The soccer balls will be used when the indoor soccer season starts in the spring, with the extra balls being provided free to the kids following the seasonending Soccer Festival.

“The sports are offered in a non-competitive environment,

with a focus on teaching life skills, like working together, conflict development and exercise.”

MoreSports, in its seventh year, relies upon donations, fundraising and grants to provide free sports experiences for local kids.

“Sports is universal language.

We have so many new families with children from all over the world, who may not speak English.When you hand them a soccer ball, they know what to do.”

For more information on Burnaby MoreSports, visit www. burnabymoresports.ca.

Burnaby Lake clinches premier rugby spot

Surrendering the first points on the day didn’t faze the Burnaby Lake Rugby Club’s premier men’s side.

Instead, the premier team erased an 8-0 deficit with a commanding performance that finished 22-8 over the University of B.C. Old Boys Ravens in their qualification round match.

The Old Boys’ lone score came against the flow of play and off a knock-on in their own end, resulting in a long sprint that position UBC ahead 5-0 eight minutes into the contest.

They would add to that lead off a three-pointer after 21 minutes.

The Ravens’ defence had at

that point done a stellar job of mustering turnovers, but the Lakers settled down over the next dozen minutes and put the rally in place.

But it was much less a hole than a motivator, as Burnaby counted tries by Jack Caithness and Nolan Shelley, three minutes apart, to go ahead 10-8 at the half.Their first score was created by flanker Fuku Vikilani, who fed Caithness for a dash down the sideline.

Then another Vikilani – this time, 18-year-old Taitusi – picked up the ball from the backend of a scrum, offloaded to Caithness who after some me-

tres passed to Shelley who gave Burnaby its lead.

Fuku Vikilani, who would cart off man-of-the-match honours, delivered another try at the 50-minute mark, and Adam Timler’s score 11 minutes later, followed by Shelley’s convert, capped the offence.

The win locks up another season in the premier ranks for 2016, and sit third overall with a 3-2 record.

In Div. I action, Burnaby Lake climbed back over the .500 mark with a polished 20-6 win over the UBC Old Boys Ravens.

Backline standouts Mike Goodall and Tomasi Vaitaki put

in stellar efforts and accounted for all the BLRC points, with Goodall counting 15 points off his boot, nailing a number of penalty kicks.

Turning in top-notch performances were the back row trio of Riley Fergus, Nat Hight and Trent Shelley.

• In under-18 girls rugby, the Burnaby Lake-Capilano team blasted Surrey 32-5.

In the 10-aside match, Burnaby Lake proved too powerful for the cross-Fraser rivals.

Outstanding performances were delivered by centre Melissa Froese, outside centre Cynthia Martin and prop Liz Wright.

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Clan glad to be home

Simon Fraser University’s men’s hockey team returns home Saturday to play the Eastern Washington Eagles for the third time this year.

Coming off a split last week, the team will be looking to deliver a more consistent effort.

SFU defeated the Eagles in their second matchup 3-2 a week ago.The next night, the Clan were blanked 5-0 by the reigning B.C. Interuniversity Hockey League champions Selkirk College Saints.

“It was a tale of two games,” said head coach Mark Coletta.

Mike Sandor, Brandon Tidy, and Jesse Mysiorek all tallied against Eastern Washington. Goalies Jordan Liem and Lyndon Stanwood split the duties.The season series now sits at 1-1.

SFU lost the home opener to Eastern Washington 5-3, despite goals from Tidy and Tyler Basham. Last season, SFU won the season series against the Eagles 3-2.

The loss to Selkirk was a case of done and forgotten.

Eastern Washington currently sits last in the BCIHL with a 2-4-0 record across six games, but the coach isn’t taking them lightly.

“They’re a good team, they’re a well rounded team that’s definitely much improved over last year, so I don’t think they should creep up and surprise anybody,” said Coletta of the Eagles rematch, 7 p.m. at the Bill Copeland Sports Centre. “We’ve got to utilize our cycle, our team speed down below the hashmarks, and generate our offence off our cycle like we did the other night.

“I think any time you play a team a couple times in a week, it’s going to get rough, and we have to be ready for the task.”

Wildcats head to West Van

Continued from page 41 before Graziano gave Central the lead. Cariboo tied it up on a brilliant individual effort by Rahid Rahiem.The Wildcats pushed back and had a handful of good scoring chances but Chargers’ netminder Earl Domalanta was sharp. In the shootout, Central counted two more goals.

The next step will be the best gauge yet to their No. 1 status, said Steko.

“We have to change our formations a bit

as we were using some players out of position (in the league final),” he noted. “We expect a very strong challenge and we don’t expect anything to come easy.”

The Wildcats now face West Vancouver on Tuesday at Ambleside, while Alpha plays Sutherland at Burnaby North. Cariboo Hill, meanwhile, will host a North Shore team in a battle for a AA provincial berth, while Burnaby North ventures to the North Shore.

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Making his pitch: Burnaby Lakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paul Murphy, centre, dishes off the ball during Div. I action at Burnaby Lake. The Burnaby Lake Rugby Club Div. I team defeated the UBC Old Boys 20-6, getting a try from Tomasi Vaitaki and five penalty kicks by Mike Goodall. PHOTO PJ CARR IMAGES

Sheardown scores pair in Chiefs win

Burnabyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jonny Sheardown pocketed his first two goals of the season in leading the Vancouver Northeast Chiefs past the Vancouver Northwest Giants 5-3 on Sunday in B.C. Major Midget Hockey League action.

The 5-foot-10 defenceman gave the

Chiefs a 2-0 lead midway through the first period, then counted a powerplay tally midway through the second that stood up as the winner.

The Chiefs built up a 4-0 lead before the Giants rallied. Also scoring in the win were Chong Min Lee, Sho

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• Each cart has 4 solid cast corners, where oak stakes would have set in to steer cart.

• Dimensions: 27” wide x 48” long x 16.5” tall • Each unit weighs approx: 180 lbs • The two center wheels feature the popular daisy pattern and are 12” in diameter.

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