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Cornelia Naylor

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Alcohol and speed are suspected factors in a single-vehicle crash that saw a car smash a hole in the front of a Burnaby sign business Dec. 16.

Emergency crews were called to Galaxie Signs at 5085 Regent St. just after 9 p.m. for reports of a car that had crashed into the building.

Firefighters found a black BMW a short distance from the front of the business and a fair-sized hole in an exterior wall, according to assistant fire Chief Gavin Summers.

A man had fled the scene on foot, he said.

He made his way into a commercial yard, and firefighters cut the locks to the gates to let police in, according Burnaby RCMP. The man, who turned out to be the vehicle’s registered owner, was then found, arrested and ticketed for failing to remain at the scene of an acci-

Hitting the wall: Burnaby firefighters inspect a vehicle that crashed through a wall (inset) on Dec. 16. PHOTOS RYAN STELTING

dent and driving without due care and attention, police said.

The man had sustained minor injuries but declined medical help, according to

police.

Burnaby RCMP is investigating the crash, according to spokesperson Cpl. Mike Kalanj.

He said speed and alco-

hol are suspected factors, but that has not yet been proven.

At this time, police also can’t confirm that the man was the vehicle’s only oc-

cupant or that he was behind the wheel when car hit the building, according to Kalanj.

ENVIRONMENT

Protest resumes after TMX halted Someone re-occupied a forested Burnaby area in the way of the Trans Mountain pipeline project on Sunday, just days after all work on the project was stopped due to safety issues.

On Dec. 9, a protest treehouse called the Holmes Creek Protection Camp was cleared out of a wooded area just west of North Road and south of Highway 1 in Burnaby.

According to that protest camp’s organizers, Timothee Govare, with the help of a small crew, has now climbed to a 20-metre-high perch near the same area and that he plans to remain.

Many of the trees in the area are slated to be cut down and there are con-

cerns about Trans Mountain impacts along the Brunette River.

“I am here in the canopy of the trees of Lost Creek to prevent their imminent logging preceding the installation of the Trans Mountain pipeline,” said Govare, in a news release.

“I see the urgency of acting on the climate crisis. Even though they took down our first two treehouses, we’ll keep coming back because our commitment to delay construction of this disastrous project remains unchanged. Our future depends on it. My future depends on it.”

Trans Mountain suspended all work in Burnaby and across the entire pipeline route starting Fri-

day, Dec. 18 until Jan. 4, 2021.

The move came after a worker with a contractor at the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby was seriously injured on Dec. 15.

Another worker in Edmonton died after an accident.

In a statement, the company admitted it needs to “improve” safety.

“Trans Mountain is proactively taking the step to temporarily stand down construction on the Expansion Project to review, reset and refocus our efforts, and those of our contractors and their workers,” said Ian Anderson, president and CEO of Trans Mountain, in a statement. “We are committed to a strong culture

of safety above all else and insist that our project contractors and subcontractors are equally committed.The critical success of any organization is its ability to self-reflect – to honestly and courageously ask the question, ‘where can we improve?’.This is non-negotiable, we must improve the safety culture and performance on our project.”

The accident follows revelations that federal regulators recently found “systemic non-compliances” of COVID-19 mask rules at Trans Mountain worksites in Burnaby and the Lower Mainland.

Four workers were sent home following an inspection that found more than three dozen violations by

contractors in three days.

Canadian Energy Regulator staff conducted a compliance inspection at the Westridge Marine Terminal (Dec. 1) and the Burnaby Terminal (Dec. 2) on Burnaby Mountain.

The inspection also focused on “Spread 7,” the section of the pipeline expansion construction being done in the Lower Mainland, on Dec. 3.Work at each of these sites is contracted out to Kiewit-Ledcor Trans Mountain Partnership (KLTP).

Over the course of those three days, the inspector found 37 violations of three COVID protocols set out by Trans Mountain’s COVID-19 response plan.

CRIME

Tires slashed before fire at hospital Police are investigating a tire-slashing spree at Burnaby Hospital days before an arsonist set fire to part of the north wing of the health-care facility last month.

Police were called to the hospital just after 1 a.m. on Nov. 8 after hospital security discovered tires had been slashed on four vehicles in the underground B parking lot.

The damage had been done sometime between 7:30 and 11 p.m. the night before, according to police.

Several of the vehicles belonged to hospital staff, police said.

“Burnaby RCMP serious crimes section is investigating this incident to determine whether this is related to the hospital arson,” said Burnaby RCMP Cpl. Brett Cunningham. “At this time, no evidence has been gathered to suggest they are related.”

Police are now asking any staff who were working at the hospital on Nov. 8 and may have seen anyone or anything suspicious or unusual to come forward.

Burnaby RCMP announced that the Nov. 15 fire at the hospital – which did extensive damage to the Cascade building and worsened an active COVID outbreak at the hospital as patients were evacuated into other parts of the facility – had been deliberately set.

The fire was started on the Cascade building’s second floor, which houses the hospital’s inpatient and outpatient mental health and substance use services.

Police set up a dedicated tip line (604-6469522) and email (bgh fire@rcmp-grc.gc.ca) to gather leads during the arson investigation.

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Burnaby eyes new rules for short-term rentals Dustin Godfrey

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Twelve years after Airbnb was founded and swept in a revolution in hospitality, the City of Burnaby has introduced a set of bylaw amendments set to enforce regulations and licensing for shortterm rentals.

In July, council approved a report setting out a regulatory framework, giving city staff the go-ahead to develop bylaws for enforcement and licensing.

Staff returned to council earlier this month with a set of amendments to the zoning bylaw, business licence bylaw, the business licence fee bylaw and the bylaw notice enforcement bylaw.The amendments are expected to go to a public hearing late next month.

The framework recommended the four objectives for the city to focus on in its regulations: protecting long-term rental supply; maintaining and improving neighbourhood livability and stability; supporting economic opportunities, including for tourism and for local businesses and residents; and providing a clear set of regulations that can easily be complied with.

The proposed regulations would limit shortterm rentals to principal residences; ban short-term rentals in long-term rental units, secondary suites and flex units; limit rentals to 90 nights per calendar year, including 28 in which the owner can be absent from the home; limit rentals to four unrelated people or six related people; and require short-term

rental operators to get a $250 annual business licence from the city.

These regulations, according to the city, would protect housing stock for both tenancy and ownership, reduce the impacts of short-term rentals on the surrounding neighbourhoods, and allow the city to track and enforce regulations for short-term rentals in Burnaby. At the same time, it would allow homeowners some opportunities to rent out their home for additional income.

Depending on the violation, operators found not to be in compliance with the regulations would face fines of $200 to $500, with discounts for those paying their fine within 15 days.

“This should put an end to people buying condos for speculation be-

cause they can make a lot of money renting it on Airbnb, and obviously such things are needed for longterm accommodations for Burnaby residents or Greater Vancouver residents,” said Coun. Pietro Calendino, with the Burnaby Citizens Association, who is also chair of the city’s planning and development committee.

Coun. Colleen Jordan, an independent, said she didn’t see how the city will be able to enforce the bylaws “without a little cadre of bylaw officers scanning the internet and checking people’s houses to see who’s living there this weekend.”

“I get that Airbnb is a problem, and I think we should have focused on that, but getting down to this level … is something that’s just going to be a

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least some of those units, according to a Canadian Press report.

Dhaliwal said the province should have been doing this work years ago.

“In the absence of the province not doing their jobs, local governments are doing the best they can to provide housing, which is what this is all about.This has been about a real affordability issue about housing,” Dhaliwal said. “This is one way to really (deal with) that.”

The city anticipates holding a public hearing on Jan. 28, 2021 for the zoning bylaw amendments, along with an opportunity for public submissions on the regulations.

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nightmare, and I think it’s gone way, way, way too far,” Jordan said.

Coun. Sav Dhaliwal, with the BCA, said it’s “about time we brought this in,” pointing to a recent Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation report that indicated 11,000 condos were added to Vancouver’s rental market in the last year.

On Nov. 26, the CMHC released its report, which found nearly 2,300 new condos were added to the rental market, while more than 8,800 were being used by owners for another purpose prior to becoming long-term rentals.

The CMHC credited the B.C. government’s vacancy tax,Vancouver’s empty homes tax and new regulations from the City of Vancouver around short-term rentals for at

AMENDMENTS TO THE BURNABY BUSINESS LICENCE BYLAW 2017 AND THE BURNABY BUSINESS LICENCE FEES BYLAW 2017 RELATED TO SHORT TERM RENTALS In accordance with the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that Burnaby City Council is considering amendments to the Burnaby Business Licence Bylaw 2017 and the Burnaby Business Licence Fees Bylaw 2017, related to Short Term Rental operations. Further detail is available in the report to City Council that may be obtained from the City Clerk’s Office at 604-294-7290 or in the 2020 December 7 Council reports at burnaby.ca Those persons who consider they are affected by the proposed bylaw amendment may provide written submissions to Council. Address all correspondence to: Office of the City Clerk 4949 Canada Way, Burnaby, BC V5G 1M2 Email: clerks@burnaby.ca All correspondence must be received before noon 2021 January 26.

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Hospital fire was arson: police Cornelia Naylor

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A fire at Burnaby hospital that caused serious damage and contributed to a deadly COVID-19 outbreak was deliberately set, according to police.

“After a thorough examination of this extensive scene, the Burnaby RCMP fire investigators have determined this fire was a deliberate act of arson,” stated a news release Thursday.

Burnaby RCMP have now set up a dedicated witness phone line (604646-9522) and email (bghfire@rcmp-grc.gc.ca) to gather leads.

They are urging all staff who were working at the hospital on Nov. 15 who may have seen anyone or anything suspicious or unusual to come forward and speak to police.

Any member of the public with information related to the fire is also asked come forward.

“You might think your observation is minor or unimportant, but it might be the piece of information that our investigators need,” said Burnaby RCMP Cpl. Mike Kalanj.

“We are asking for your help.”

Burnaby RCMP have released a photo of one person investigators would particularly like to speak with.

“The person in the photo is not a suspect,” states the release. “If you recognize the person in the photo or you recognize yourself as the person in the photo, please contact the Burnaby RCMP via the telephone number or email provided … We ask that you leave your full name and contact infor-

mation so we can speak to you directly.”

The north wing of the hospital sustained extensive damage during and forced the evacuation of patients and staff.

Firefighters were called to the hospital shortly after 10 p.m.

Many patients inside had been evacuated to the south side by staff, according to assistant fire Chief DaveYounger.

“They took the ball and were running with it before we got there.They did a beautiful job,” he said at the time. “They had people in all the hallways and shoved into all over the place is what I’m told.”

Later, health officials would say the fire contributed to the spread of an active outbreak at the hospital that had been declared on Nov. 9.

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Opinion now MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Topic: Do COVID cases at stores impact your shopping habits?

Now that the first COVID-19 vaccine has started arriving in this country, the end of the pandemic is starting to come into view.

We will be wearing masks and keeping our physical distance for a long time, even when we get to the point of establishing herd immunity.Too much remains unknown about the COVID-19 virus and much about it has yet to be learned.

The rollout of the vaccine in B.C. started slowly – fewer than 4,000 doses arrived in the first shipment – but it will ramp up quickly. Almost 30,000 doses are expected to arrive in the next two weeks and doses are expected to steadily climb in number through the spring.

In B.C., the public health goal is to vaccinate about 380,000 people before the end of March.

Those at the head of the vaccine line include about 37,000 long-term care workers, 30,000 long-term care residents and 17,000 residents of assisted living facilities.

Also near the head of the queue: people over the age of 80 (about 240,000 in B.C.); about 20,000 other front-line healthcare workers (those who work in ICUs, ERs and COVID-19 treatment hospitals); and about 35,000 people who live in rural Indigenous communities and places where people congregate in numbers, such as homeless shelters and encampments where transmission of the virus is problematic.

Starting in April, other groups will join the queue.

These will include some essential-service workers, such as first responders, teachers and those involved in transportation, manufacturing and supply chain needs such as groceries.

In addition, the age requirement for receiving

“Helps me to reinforce staying away from crowded stores. I look for the ‘slow times’. It also highlights the vulnerability of the front-line store staff.”

“Anyone who stops shopping somewhere because there was a COVID case definitely has something wrong with them.”

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the vaccine will gradually lower in five- to 10-year increments. Essentially, the older you are the sooner you will get your shot.

The goal is to have everyone vaccinated by September.

Nevertheless, of course, not everyone will get the vaccine and therein lies a significant problem.

A recent Angus Reid poll suggested 13% of British Columbians did not intend to get vaccinated, while 41% wanted to “wait and see” how things turned out for those who went first.

This is somewhat alarming, given that we need at least 70% of the population inoculated in order to stop the virus from spreading with such virulence and for it to potentially die out.

Hopefully, as literally tens of thousands of people get their shots in the coming weeks that “vaccine hesitancy” will subside and we can make that September target of neartotal participation.

Of course, it is not unusual for people to be suspicious of something new or largely untried, even when it comes to vaccines.

For example, the introduction of the polio vaccine in the mid-1950s was not without its challenges (the U.S. temporarily shut down its vaccination program after some botched vaccinations in California).

However, few of us (other than the fringe anti-vaxxers) would argue the polio vaccine was a failure or dangerous in any way.

So get ready to roll up your sleeve. Depending on your job and your age, you will be able to receive the vaccine sometime in the coming nine months.

If enough of us get those shots (a second shot at least three weeks after the first is also required) we may finally be able to get some sense of normalcy back in our lives.

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Opinionnow More enforcement of mask rules is needed Editor: By the time vaccines do their job, many will die.

To waste the BC NDP mandate would be an incalculable tragedy. If Thanksgiving and Diwali aren’t indicators to this spike, then what is?

Finding new ways of enforcement before Dec. 25, Boxing Day and New Year celebrations is a responsible answer. The messaging that health care is free is misleading and promotes a false sense of entitlement and a cavalier attitude.

Trickle-down vaccinations is no panacea for a defiant minority refusing to follow temporary restrictive health directives. With limited quantities of vaccine arriving, it seems reasonable to inoculate the hot spots spreading the virus while protecting LTC centres and frontline staff.

Freedom without restraint is ignorance and ignorance is the original sin of mankind.

Because ignorance doesn’t understand, it must be subdued by enforced laws for the greater good of society.

Now that we have an absolute NDP majority government, it’s time to enforce face masks in public places and restrict travel and social gatherings temporarily.

When understanding reaches the level of a disobedient child, it’s incumbent on the

lawmakers to establish absolute ground rules until a definite remedy is at hand to resolve this pandemic that’s affecting the vulnerable.

On a wider scale, the idea of testing 7 billion of the world population, with a positivity rate around 2%, and about 40% asymptomatic carriers spreading Covid-19 seems futile. Transmissibility begins days before the onset of symptoms. Random large-scale testing without rationale is a waste of resources. So is contact tracing during widespread breakouts. Face masks, distancing and hygiene are effective and economical. The clear message during a pandemic crisis – stay home.

We love our freedom and freedom thrives with responsibility.

Those opting not to wear a face mask, have to face the burden of irresponsible behaviour.

The cost of not wearing a face mask, enforced by law should be more dollars for each irresponsible behaviour.

Systemic structural problems evidenced by high mortality rates in ethnic groups working in poorly paid essential services without easy access to proper health care and benefits, results in developing higher co-morbid conditions. Funding additional staff in LTC centres, in the absence of livable salary and benefits, forebodes history to repeat itself.

Pandemics are inevitable in this jet age.

Antony Francis, Burnaby

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City wants to raise tax on hotel rooms

Dustin Godfrey

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Hotel rooms and Airbnbs in Burnaby are set to get ever-so-slightly-more expensive – but the extra charge will go toward building affordable housing and promoting the city as a tourist destination.

The City of Burnaby is seeking a one percentage point increase to its municipal and regional district tax (MRDT), which currently sits at 2%. If approved, hotel rooms will be taxed at 3% under the MRDT, a special municipal sales tax that was originally conceived as a collective tax for the hotel industry that would specifically be earmarked to promote local tourism.

However, in its 2018 budget, as it was seeking ways to alleviate the province’s housing crisis, the provincial government expanded the allowable uses of the MRDT, giving cities permission to use the funds to fund local affordable housing initiatives.To

do so, however, cities require an exemption from the province.

It’s up to the municipality and the independent destination marketing organization – in this case, Tourism Burnaby – to determine what portion of the taxes will go toward affordable housing.Typically, according to a city staff report, it’s the MRDT revenue coming from shortterm rental apps, like Airbnb or VRBO, that is earmarked for housing.

Burnaby’s current MRDT rate, at 2%, was re-approved in June 2019 on a five-year term ending in June 2024.That was approved despite the province moving in 2015 to increase the allowable MRDT rate up to 3%.

In 2019, the 2% MRDT rate generated $1.69 million, including $1.38 million from hotels and motels and $316,000 from short-term rentals.That’s a roughly $600,000 surplus, with Tourism Burnaby’s 2019 expenditures at $1.09 million. Coun. Pi-

etro Calendino said the tax hike will allow the city to attract more events and tourism to the city.

Further, with a 3% tax, the short-term rental tax revenues would have been just under $475,000, according to the city staff report.That funding could “provide impactful program funding for housing in both the short and long term,” reads the report.

That funding, however, will be significantly reduced this year, with COVID-19 seriously curbing tourism. Most tourism promotion organizations similar to Tourism Burnaby have laid off staff or even shut down entirely, according to the city.

Tourism Burnaby, which employs an executive director and four specialists, has not laid off any staff, according to the report. But income this year is expected to be roughly a third of the totals seen in 2019.

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Two BC Liberal candidates were busted by city bylaw officers for sign violations more than any other candidate – by far.

Glynnis Hoi Sum Chan and Tripat Atwal – candidates for Burnaby-Deer

Lake and Burnaby-Edmonds respectively – were each fined $9,600, with both having 32 sign violations.

By comparison, Tariq Malik, the Liberal candidate for Burnaby-Lougheed, had the next highest number of violations caught by the city,

with a total of four violations and no fines.

Raj Chouhan, the BC NDP candidate in Burnaby-Edmonds, had two violations caught by the city with no fine, and Katrina Chen and Janet Routledge, the NDP candidates in Burnaby-Lougheed and Burn-

aby North, had one violation each, with no fine.

No other candidates were caught violating the city’s election signs bylaw.

In an email, Chan’s election team emailed the NOW to say they were “disappointed” by the city removing lawn signs.

“They took mostly

those on private properties, saying it’s still on ‘city’ area,” the campaign team wrote. “It is just unfair that, until today, most of the NDP’s signs are still up and were never taken down by them.”

The election campaign provided the NOW with several photos of violations

they believed the NDP had committed in the riding.

But in an email statement, the City of Burnaby said enforcement of the bylaw is done based on complaints, meaning the city doesn’t actively seek out election sign violations.

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Citynow Burnaby students create a very special book Cornelia Naylor

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When local teen Aaron Robins Waddingham addressed the Burnaby school board during an online meeting last month to talk about a picture book he and his classmates at Burnaby North Secondary School’s Access program recently published, his parents were just off screen.

In an Zoom interview with the NOW a few days later, there’s some debate about what they were doing.

“My mom was sobbing,” Aaron says with a grin.

“I wasn’t sobbing,” his mom, Sue Robins, says.

“Dad and I got a little welled up.We weren’t sobbing, though.We were proud of you.”

Aaron wasn’t the only

student from the Access program to speak at the meeting, and his parents weren’t the only ones to shed tears, according to Access teacher Judy Chiao.

The presentation was about a student project two years in the making – 1,2,3 Count With Me: A Bug Can Count IfYou Believe.

It’s a children’s picture book that everyone in the Access program – a kind of homeroom for students with different levels of cognitive delay – had a hand in.

It started with a lesson on rhyming more than two years ago, according to Chiao.

She says the education of students like hers often tends to lean toward the functional or vocational and less toward the purely academic.

“But part of school is

Special book: BNSS students created a book.PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

just being enriched, having light bulbs go off, having our interest piqued and figuring out where our interests are,” she says.

“That’s why we started doing rhymes.”

Right off the bat, the class bug expert, Leo Yamamoto, steered the lesson toward his favourite

topic, according to Chiao, and the project was off and running.

Since then, every student has had a hand in it, whether it was finger-painting backgrounds, sketching various B.C. landmarks (the provincial legislature is featured on a page that counts nine bugs

who “decide to lead”) or putting the images together using Photoshop.

Aaron, who was in charge of using Photoshop to place the studentdrawn bugs on various backgrounds, told school trustees that everyone in the class “worked together as a team.”

“I feel it’s a great book,” he said during the meeting. “Many people with big hearts made this book possible.We hope people will feel excited about this book and impressed with us.We also want to show that creativity and teamwork is more important than making money and being smart.The message we want to send out is Access students can do it.With excellent support, anyone can make something special.”

For Chiao and her team, the project was

about including everyone – and about giving parents something to brag about.

“As a parent you’re not supposed to brag about your kid,” she says, “but I think a lot of parents forget that, when we say ‘Oh, I choose not to brag,’ that’s a privilege for those of us who have typically functioning children.We choose not to brag, but our kids have lots of opportunities that they can access. A lot of times my diverse learners, not all doors are open to them and not all opportunities are there.”

Find out more about all the students involved https://bns-access.myshopify.com.

1,2,3 Count With Me is available for purchase for $15, with all proceeds going back into the Burnaby North Access program.

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Community now

Care networks launch ‘Say Hello’ campaign Dustin Godfrey

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Stop and say “Hello.”

That’s what a Burnaby initiative wants you to do when you encounter fellow community members.

“Say Hello Burnaby” is a campaign being run by the Burnaby Primary Care Networks (PCNs), a collaboration between Fraser Health and the Burnaby Divisions of Family Practice. In a presentation, organizers sought support from Burnaby city council.

The PCNs, so far set up in Metrotown, Edmonds and Hastings/Brentwood, are intended to enhance primary care in those communities, including mental health.With physical health taking the front

We have, in some ways, become less connected than we already are.

seat during the pandemic, mental health has been set aside, as COVID-related measures leave people feeling isolated.

“We have, in some ways, become less connected than we already are,” said Jeff Malmgren of the Burnaby PCNs. “This process hasn’t simply created these issues – it’s shone a light on them, or it’s exacerbated them.”

Malmgren said the community needs to come together and enhance its social connections now “because the need is now.”

“The mental health issues that we’re seeing around our lack of connection are clear and obvious.

The number of overdose deaths is an indicator of that,” he said, adding that despite bolstered mental health services, demand has still pushed the system

to capacity and beyond.

The PCN’s social isolation working group is seeking to develop a strategy to deal with the issue, and Malmgren cited annual Vancouver Foundation surveys showing Burnaby residents tend to feel less connected than in neighbouring communities.

“They understand this to be a long-term issue,” Malmgren said of the working group. “But in the meantime, they wanted to do something that could really help at the moment, that could overcome the reticence that we’ve all developed to just reach out to one another.”

Malmgren said the challenge with masks and physical distancing has been that it often also means social distancing – “we don’t connect in any kind of meaningful way, and we’re becoming more and more distanced.”

“Issues around racism and racial diversity just multiply it and add to that,” he said.

The “Say Hello” campaign is intended to bridge those gaps to “encourage simple connection,” according to Malmgren’s presentation to council.

The idea has “been a bit of a revelation” even for the people in the working group planning the campaign, Malmgren said.

“A couple of the people (in the working group) said, ‘You know, ever since we’ve been talking about this, I just say ‘hello’ to people, and it’s amazing how well they respond to that.’ And I think it just comes down to: it’s such an easy thing to do,” Malgrem said. “And at the end of the day, nobody ever went to bed saying ‘I wish that person hadn’t been kind to me.’”

The campaign is “collecting hellos” – videos of people just saying “hello” – to be distributed online.

The group is planning an “online gala” to launch the campaign on Jan. 28, 2021 to fundraise for necessary technology for the

campaign. Excess money will be going toward the Coldest Night of theYear

event, an annual event that raises money for charities serving the homeless

community.

Mayor Mike Hurley told Malgrem council and

staff would be looking at ways the city can participate in the campaign.

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