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Baby Maximus’ birth rings in the new year Cornelia Naylor
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Burnaby’s NewYear’s baby should have been Burnaby’s Christmas baby – and even eight days past his due date he was reluctant to make his big entry into the world. Maximus Tam was the first baby born at Burnaby Hospital this year, at 9:52 a.m. to mom Lena Zheng and dad Kevin Tam. The eight-pound, five-ounce infant’s original due date had been Christmas Eve, and Zheng had been induced on NewYear’s Eve to help him along. Even after 18 hours of labour, though, it finally took an emergency C-section to bring him into the world. The last thing on his parents’ minds at that point was that their first-born would be this year’s NewYear’s baby. “It’s odd, though,” Zheng said. “When we went in on NewYear’s Eve, there were a lot of ladies in there; they were in labour as well, but all of them had their babies before midnight.” Maximus’s mom and dad, both 26 years old and living in Burnaby’s Highgate neighbourhood, were still a little tired Monday but happy with how things turned out for their new baby boy. “We’re just glad he’s out and there’s no problems with him,”Tam said. “He’s out safely and he’s cute.”
OH, BABY!: Kevin Tam and Lena Zheng pose with their new baby boy, Maximus Tam, the first baby born at Burnaby Hospital this year.
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PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS
Most valuable house in Burnaby?
An $11.8-million, 14,000-square-foot home with a pool and tennis court tops the property assessment rolls By Jeremy Deutsch
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Indoor racquetball court, wine cellar and an English rose garden? Sure, why not, when you’re living in a nearly $12-million home.
That’s just some of what you get in the most expensive home in Burnaby based on assessed value. The home, located at 7629 Burris St. in the Buckingham Heights neighbourhood, topped B.C. Assessment’s roll in
Burnaby for 2017 at $11.8 million. It was Burnaby’s most expensive home last year as well, with an assessed value of $10.5 million in 2016. The 14,000-squarefoot home with a 60,000-square-foot lot
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made the pages of the NOW back in 2012, too, when it went on sale for a cool $12.8 million. While the home on Burris Street is No. 1 this year, it may not be able to hold on to the title for long. The second most valu-
able home in the city is currently under construction and belongs to worldfamous crooner and Burnaby native Michael Bublé. The home, located at 7868 Government St., had an assessed value of just over $10 million. But, with
the home expected to be 27,000 square feet, including two cellar levels, that value will likely head further skyward once it’s complete.The home, or at least a wall out front of the
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