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HISTORY: The Ichiki family of Burnaby (top left) check out the displays as they visit Burnaby Village Museum, which was open for a special spring break period.

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Anti-gang team scoops up suspects at the border Cornelia Naylor

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Burnaby RCMP’s gang enforcement team scooped up a pair of suspected armed robbers earlier this month after a call for help from their Surrey counterparts. Police were called to a

report of a robbery near 57th Avenue and 148th Street in Surrey shortly before 8 p.m. on March 21, according to a Surrey RCMP news release. Two men had reportedly flagged down a stranger in a passing vehicle under the pretense of needing help, the release

said, but the pair then allegedly pulled a weapon and stole the victim’s personal property. The suspects then took off in a nearby vehicle, according to police, but Surrey RCMP’s gang enforcement team broadcast details about the incident to colleagues across the

Lower Mainland. One hour later, at about 9 p.m., the two men were arrested by the Burnaby RCMP’s gang enforcement team in the 7700 block of 18th Avenue in Burnaby. The incident was “distressing” for the man who’d allegedly been

robbed, but he was physically unharmed, according to police. “We are very appreciative of the cooperation we received from the Burnaby RCMP,” Surrey RCMP Supt. Manly Burleigh said in the release. “With their assistance. we were able to apprehend the suspects

within a few hours of the occurrence.” Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Surrey RCMP at 604-599-0502. To remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or www. solvecrime.ca.

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Charges ﬁled in woman’s death Cornelia Naylor

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A 21-year-old man and 15-year-old youth face charges of first-degree murder and indignity to human remains in connection with the death of a New Westminster woman whose body was found in Burnaby on March 18. First responders were called to Greentree Village Park off Garden Grove Drive for reports of a fire, assistant fire Chief Greg Young told the NOW. “The engine arrived to a bush and grass fire along with a body fully on fire,” Young said. Police and ambulance were already on site, according toYoung, and firefighters left the scene in the hands of police after putting out the flames with a fire extinguisher. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team later revealed the body was that of 49-year-old Maria Cecilia Loreto of New Westminster. IHIT said 21-year-

Murder victim: Maria Cecilia Loreto PHOTO SUBMITTED

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Growing memorial: A memorial is growing in Burnaby at the site where the body of Maria Cecilia Loreto was found. PHOTO CHRIS CAMPBELL

old Carlo Tobias and a 15-year-old youth had been arrested and each charged with first-degree murder and indignity to human remains in connection with Loreto’s death. All involved knew each other, according to IHIT. Loreto was likely killed at her New Westminster residence earlier in the

evening of March 17 before being brought to the area of the park where her body was found, said IHIT spokesperson Sgt. Frank Jang. “Our deepest condolences go out to everyone affected by the death of Ma Cecilia, who was known to her friends and colleagues as Maricel or

Mycel,” Jang said. “IHIT also recognizes the important contributions made by its partners from the Burnaby RCMP, the New Westminster Police, and the Richmond RCMP over these past few days. Long hours and long days were put in by everyone to speedily and efficiently gather evidence.”

A GoFundMe campaign has been started to raise money to help the family of murdered New Westminster resident Maria Cecilia Loreto, also known as Maricel or Mycel to friends and family. Meanwhile, a memorial is growing at the spot in Burnaby where her body was discovered on March 18. ”She knows a lot of people. She’s very famous in the Filipino community because she’s serving the community and has a lot of friends. So, she will be dearly missed,” her brother Armand Perez told CTV News in an

interview. A large number of flowers have been placed under a tree in Greentree Village Park, as well as lit candles in lanterns and written messages remember Loreto. The NOW visited the site on Sunday and spoke with one of Loreto’s friends, who didn’t want her name used. “She was like my sister,” said the friend. “We danced together in a group that is part of our (Filipino) community. She was so full of life; she worked hard to provide for her family. I can’t believe this has happened.”

Teen pedestrian dies after brutal hit-and-run incident A 19-year-old Burnaby South Secondary School grad has died of injuries sustained in a hit-and-run after a possible confrontation between people in three different vehicles last week, according to Burnaby RCMP. Emergency crews were called to Macpherson Avenue and Marine Drive at about 12:20 a.m. on Friday for a report of a pedestrian-involved collision, according to police. At the scene, they found a 19-year-old male who had been hit by a car. He was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries but later died, according to Burnaby RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Brett Cunningham. A GoFundMe campaign has identified the victim as Damien Seguin,

a recent Burnaby South Secondary grad who had just turned 19, according to the post. “He had so much more life to live,” read a statement by his mother, Nicole Seguin. “He graduated, had just got his first job, he was doing so well ... until tragedy struck.We had so much hope for him to come back to us, but he couldn’t endure any more.” In a news release last week, Cunningham said investigators believe there had been a confrontation between people from three different vehicles before the crash. “At one point, pepper spray was deployed. Shortly thereafter, our 19-year-old victim exited one of these vehicles, at which point he was struck

by the suspect vehicle,” Cunningham said. That vehicle immediately fled the scene, according to police. Cunningham said investigators believe the confrontation between the three vehicles had begun elsewhere and ended near Macpherson Avenue and Marine Drive. He said police recovered a golf club at the scene. “We’re still trying to determine exactly how that played into this whole confrontation,” he said. Cunningham said there was no information at this time to suggest the incident was gang related. Police believe the suspect vehicle is a silver or champagne-coloured Nissan Altima, 2002 to 2006 model, with possible damage from the crash.

Hit-and-run: A male pedestrian has died after being struck last Friday. PHOTO RYAN STELTING

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Citynow CRIME

Police debrief residents about murder Cornelia Naylor

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COVID-19 gave local police a new way to allay the fears of a Burnaby neighbourhood after it became ground zero for a grisly murder investigation earlier this month. When police descended on Garden Grove Drive on March 18 and taped off GreentreeVillage Park and surrounding streets, rumours swirled among local residents. Accounts payable manager J. Magas, who lives right across from the park, was eating breakfast when she got an email from a neighbour saying police had taped off the area, so she joined a few others outside to find out more. “There was talk among us that there was a burning body,” Magas said. “I was shocked. It was very scary

because it’s a quiet neighbourhood, and things like that don’t happen.” It would be days before the body was identified as that of 49-year-old New Westminster resident Ma Cecilia Loreto and first-degree murder charges were laid against 21-yearold Carlo Tobias and a 15-year-old youth. In the meantime, the neighbours had questions. “We were just trying to figure out, was it someone from our neighbourhood?” Magas said. “Was it a homeless person?Why? That was the main question – why was it there? Why us?” The Burnaby RCMP came up with a new way to get them answers and hear their concerns. The detachment’s community response team and bike squad hand-delivered flyers to homes all over the

area, inviting residents to attend a Zoom conference with police and victims services personnel. At two sessions on Friday and Saturday, neighbours got to talk about their concerns. Magas said residents felt better after hearing Integrated Homicide Investigations Team spokesperson Sgt. Frank Jang say the pair charged in the killing had no connection to the park and might never even have been there before taking Loreto’s body there. She said residents also got the chance to raise questions about the growing memorial that has sprung up near the playground and concerns about how that might impact neighbourhood kids. Victims services manager Aman Gill urged parents struggling with how to have conversations about

the incident with their children to reach out to victim services for help. “Kids will hear about it from a different person, so sometimes it’s best that it come from a person that they trust, which is their parent or family member,” she said. Insp. Kathy Hartwig said the online sessions were the result of some quick brainstorming at the Burnaby RCMP detachment. “We really liked how it felt from a policing perspective and the response we got from the public,” she said. In all, 46 neighbours logged on Friday and another 12 participated Saturday. Staff Sgt. Maj. David Douangchanh said the approach may end up being replicated after other major incidents in the future.

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Opinion now MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

B.C. issues lost in pandemic worries

The B.C. legislature is taking a two-week break but I am not sure the public is even paying attention to what has been going on there since it resumed sitting a month ago. Nine pieces of legislation have been passed so far – none of them particularly controversial, except, perhaps, the supply act that was passed last week only after the NDP government brought in a form of closure on debate. Supply bills are routine business and give the government the legal ability to spend tax dollars even though the specifics of the spending (i.e. the budget) have not been debated and passed by the legislature - that comes after the expiry of the fiscal year on March 31. This year’s supply bill was unusual in that it arrived before the actual budget itself was tabled. That is because the NDP government changed the timing of the budget’s introduction, pushing it out to April 20, instead of the usual early February date. The bill gives the government the legal authority to spend $13.5 billion, which should cover the bills until the budget is approved by the legislature in mid-June. An unprecedented situation, but again I ask: is the public even paying attention? The endless pandemic and all that it has become continues to overshadow everything. With dire warnings from various infectious disease experts that the variants of COVID-19 may yet overwhelm our hospitals and ICU wards – not to mention more deaths – it is easy to see how the virus tops politics in gaining the public’s interest. The daily Question Period at the legislature has largely been a non-event. The legislative chamber is nearly empty because of social distancing rules and

MLAs tell me the atmosphere in a virtual setting – with most folks engaged via Zoom – is almost lifeless. This is no one’s fault, of course.The BC Liberals and the BC Greens are trying their best, but it is hard for opposition parties anywhere in Canada to make many dents in a government (with the possible situation in Alberta) right now. In normal times, such issues as the huge cost overruns on the Site C dam, the disappearance of the tourism sector and the ongoing cratering of the provincial economy would put considerably more heat on a government. Instead, the daily COVID-19 case numbers, various public health restrictions, and the rollout of the vaccines continue to dominate public discourse. As our case numbers steadily climb, one has to wonder whether more and more people are choosing to ignore some of these restrictions and raises the possibility we may see even more restrictions. Of course, public interest in legislative proceedings will eventually return, but not until this all-encompassing, pandemic ends or enough of use are vaccinated to bring more and more normalcy back into our lives. We likely will not be in that situation until late summer at the earliest. Perhaps the legislature’s scheduled fall sitting will signal a return to old times to the legislative precincts. Between now and then, however, there is a throne speech (April 12) and a provincial budget. If our COVID-19 situation continues to deteriorate, neither will rank as a major event with a public understandably distracted by something else. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Opinionnow Protect these herons Editor: An open letter to Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley and council: The Deer Lake heronry is well-known to members of city hall and to many Burnaby residents. Breeding has just recommenced at the colony, but the birds remain very vulnerable to disturbance. I am writing to urge council to authorize some very simple, low-cost measures to provide much-needed additional protection for this significant colony for which the city is the de-facto protector. Great blue herons are blue-listed in B.C. and identified as a species of special concern. We are very fortunate to have such a prominent and spectacular part of the city’s wildlife, breeding and raising their young right in our midst. Great blue heron colonies are, however, extremely sensitive to disturbance, and colonies may be abandoned at any time during the March to July breeding season. Unfortunately, over the past three years our Deer Lake heronry has seen significant distur-

bances during the critical time of year and the numbers have declined. Construction adjacent to the colony has repeatedly coincided with the herons’ nesting season. Outside the March to end of July period, heron colonies are unoccupied, which leaves the rest of the year for construction. The construction projects involved were the storm water/sewer upgrades, forest removal to create additional RCMP parking, and the 2020 upgrade of Deer Lake Avenue roadway itself. If it wasn’t for the vigilance of Burnaby citizens who have ... alerted city staff and B.C. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy personnel to active construction work on Deer Lake Avenue, we might have already lost the heronry at this location. Let’s work to keep it there. I urge city council to undertake the following simple measures: Designate Deer Lake Avenue, from the art gallery access road to its intersection with Deer Lake Parkway, a no-construction zone for March to end-July period. This restriction would include large construction projects, but

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and co-workers. For medical reasons, a few may, legitimately, not be able to be vaccinated. Fair enough, but for while the pandemic persists, they must self-quarantine. The science from the overwhelming global majority of medical professionals and scientists definitively supports the safety, personal protection and disease spread limiting effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines. Admittedly, they may not be 100%, but still overwhelmingly better than not being vaccinated. Let them refuse only if they go into total isolation (including from work, family and social and religious gatherings). If they do go out, make them wear signs showing that possible disease carrying status. I hope some enterprising lawyer launches a law suit against the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers who have refused vaccination and public safety measures for everything have. They have spread death and disease to those with ineffective vaccinations or who are unable to be vaccinated. This is not about “rights” – as in no one has the “right” to drive impaired. It is about overriding me-first selfishness and protecting and caring about others. Ian C. MacLeod

also such small jobs as road sign placement, and vegetation removal and control. This information should be distributed and given emphasis to all city hall departments. Send reminders annually to the home owners and tenants along Rowan Avenue and Price Street of the sensitivity of the heronry and ask for their cooperation in restricting very noisy activities during the critical period. Build a split rail fence, of the type now used in the park, to surround the colony on its north and west sides. This work should, of course, be completed outside the colony’s critical period. George Clulow, Burnaby

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Holdom Overpass Phase two public engagement

Police considering assault charges in alleged spitting at mall McDonald’s Cornelia Naylor

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Police are investigating whether assault charges are warranted in the case of an unmasked man who allegedly spat in the face of another man at a Burnaby McDonald’s last week. Officers were called to the Metropolis at Metrotown McDonald’s shortly after 11 a.m. on March 22 for a report of an assault, during which a man allegedly spat in the face of another man, according to a Burnaby RCMP news release. Mounties arrested a 48-year-old West Vancouver man and charged him under the Emergency Programs Act for failing to wear a face covering, the release said. A video of the incident posted on Reddit shows three men standing in line at the McDonald’s inside the mall. Two construction workers, both with masks on, stand by another man who is not wearing a face covering. At one point, the un-

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Confrontation: A video posted on Reddit captured an alleged spitting incident at the Metrotown mall McDonald’s last Monday.

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masked man turns toward one of the construction workers, and an altercation suddenly ensues. The construction worker can later be heard telling a security guard that the unmasked man had spat at him. Burnaby RCMP is aware of the video, according to media spokesperson Cpl. Brett Cunningham. “Our investigators are gathering additional evidence and will determine whether assault charges are appropriate,” he said in the release.

The unmasked man was released from custody shortly after his arrest, according to Cunningham, and the investigation is ongoing. “This incident is an example of how quickly a situation can escalate. If you encounter someone who is not abiding by the laws, please contact the police and avoid any confrontation,” Burnaby RCMP Supt. Graham De la Gorgendiere said in the release.

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How to participate As part of this phase of public engagement, we want your feedback to:

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Citynow Fire department back at public safety table Changes proposed by mayor took fire service off city advisory committee for more than two years vises city council on public safety matters, according to the city’s website. Along with collaboratEveryone seems to ing with local police, city agree it was great to have departments and external the Burnaby Fire Departstakeholders to “implement back at the pubment and promote public lic safety committee this month after a two-year ab- safety programs and initiatives,” it gives the public a sence – but no one’s quite chance to “have input into sure why it stopped comcommunity safety prioriing in the first place. ties and the public safety Committee members and community services who spoke to the NOW last week were unanimous department,” the website says. in saying the fire departFire Chief Chris Bowment, which took up 8.8% cock said the depart(or more than $48 milment was “honlion) of the city’s oured” to be at operating budthe March 17 get last year, bemeeting before longed on the presenting the committee. fire department’s “I just think first report to it’s really importhe committee in tant that fire be more than two part of public years. safety,” said resiHis report dent representasummed up mative Anne Harvey, James Wang committee chair jor incidents who joined the the department committee two has dealt with since Janmonths ago. uary and some stats for “Having them on the the 12-month period becommittee really allows tween February 2020 and members of the commuFebruary 2021, as well as nity also to bring their some updates on the acconcerns forward and tivities of the department’s have them heard by folks fire prevention and trainthat are involved in the ing divisions in January fire department,” said Aki and February. Ediriweera, who has been “I didn’t want to go all attending meetings since the way back to our last January 2018, when he presence here,” Bowcock was still a high schooler. said during the online The committee adCornelia Naylor

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meeting. “I just thought it hasn’t reported to the would be too much inforcommittee for more than mation.” two years. Public safety committee Wang and Johnston said chair Coun. James Wang they thought it had somesaid it was “very good” to thing to do with a shortsee the fire chief back at age of administrative staff the meetings. after the last fire chief, “I think (the Joe Robertson, fire department) went on leave in should be there,” April 2019 and he said. “I think then departed in that’s very imMarch 2020 afportant to pubter more than 30 lic safety and the years of service committee as without any exwell.” planation from Vice-chair the city. Coun. Dan JohnBut Wang and Dan Johnston ston concurred. Keithley were vice-chair “I think it’s both at a Jan. 28, good,” he said. “I 2019 city coundon’t think they should cil meeting when Mayor have been taken off in the Mike Hurley presented a first place.” report on the city’s comJohnston called the fire mittees, commissions and department “integral” to boards, and proposed community safety and changes to them. said the committee allows Hurley said the public community members to safety committee should have input. “focus completely on pub“The public have ideas lic safety issues related to that staff that sit at city policing matters and sehall or the fire hall or pocurity,” and, as such, fire lice department don’t nec- services should “report diessarily come to,” he said. rectly to council.” Coun. Joe Keithley, who Hurley later told the also sits on the committee, NOW he had made the agreed as well. move because three dep“It makes sense to have uty fire chiefs were sharing them back on, but I’m not acting chief duties in Robsure why it went off in the ertson’s absence and he first place,” he said. had “tried to relieve them” Harvey and Ediriweera as much as he could. said they also didn’t know All the changes in his rewhy the fire department port were adopted unani-

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mously without any questions or discussion – and the fire department hasn’t reported to any public meeting since. Given how important they said it was to have the fire department on the public safety committee, Wang and Keithley were hard-pressed to explain why they hadn’t raised any objections or even asked any questions about the committee changes they had approved.

I think the situation is a little cozier than it should be.

Keithley said he “can’t change the facts about that.” And Wang said simply, “I cannot comment.” The public safety committee chair said there was “no big issue” with the fire department’s two-year absence. Keithley, meanwhile, said the department’s absence would have been significant “if something major had been missed,” but he didn’t believe anything had. “People have the chance

to have their input now, and that’s really the bottom line,” he said. Johnston, who wasn’t at the council meeting where the committee changes were approved, suggested another factor that might have played a role in the mayor’s decision to take the fire department off the committee. “From talking to (late councillor) Paul McDonell, who was on the committee, I think that there was a clear indication that the fire department didn’t want to be active on the committee, which is unfortunate,” Johnston said. When asked if Hurley’s ties to the fire service (he is a former longtime Burnaby firefighter and union president who got full support from the local firefighters’ union during the 2018 election) might have played a role in the changes to the committee, Johnston said: “I don’t want to go too far down that path, but I think the situation is a little cozier than it should be.” Unlike Wang and Keithley, Johnston said the fire department’s two-year absence from the committee has been significant and that the priorities of the fire department have “drastically changed” in the last two-and-a-half years.

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Jammed gears

ave Ellenwood has a friend who remembers when biking on Burnaby Mountain was a less-refined sport. It’s a sign of how far things have come in the last half-century. “As a kid they used to take the trails.They used to put construction helmets on and strap flashlights to them and go down the trails at night on their mountain bikes when he was a kid,” Ellenwood, the City of Burnaby’s parks, culture and recreation director, told the NOW in January with a laugh. “That’s – not to mention exceedingly dangerous – that’s decades ago, probably 40, 50 years ago.” A lot has changed since then. For one, the city now has a plan, inked in 1999, that guides management of the mountain. And beyond that, the city has also entered into an agreement with the mountain biking community. In 2005, the Burnaby Mountain Biking Association formed to coordinate trail maintenance with the municipal government. While mountain biking long predates Ellenwood’s time with the parks department, his tenure in senior management in parks – about 18 years – runs a bit longer than the city’s agreement with the mountain biking association. “The relationship (between the city and mountain bikers) is good, I hope. … I have been biking on the mountain with Ron Burton, who was the longtime president of that association. And Ron, of course, is very close to our council as being the (former) school board chair,” Ellenwood says. “So we’ve had a close relationship, and I think it’s been productive at times, and of course there’s been conflict at other times. … Generally, I think their interests are recognized as one of the major uses of the mountain. So if we don’t have a close relationship with them, then I consider that something that needs to be fixed.” A WRONG TURN n July 22, 2020 city staff put up new maps on Burnaby Mountain, sig-

In the final of our four-part series, Jammed Gears, we discover how mountain biking trails were decommissioned – a move that was quickly reversed by the city after pushback from the local mountain biking community.And we look at the efforts being made to mend a broken relationship.

a special report by Dustin Godfrey

CARETAKERS: Burnaby Mountain Biking Association president Judy Garren is flanked by volunteers Brian Berg (left) and Brent Wilson with tools of their trade – maintaining the mountain’s trails – in hand. PHOTO DUSTIN GODFREY nalling the closure of downhill mountain biking trails, a move that has since been reversed. The staff involved in the move expected the backlash – apparently without their boss’s knowledge. “And it starts,” wrote superintendent of parks operations John Callaghan to other parks staff on July 23, as emails opposing the changes began rolling in. Internal emails, obtained by the NOW through a freedom-of-information request, show parks officials intended to close the trails, but they didn’t have the approval of their department director or city council. When local radio station News 1130 contacted the city for comment on the new maps that indicated the downhill biking trails were being decommissioned, Ellenwood confirmed to the city’s communications department

that the new signs had not been approved. “I have not authorized any decommissioning, nor has parks commission or council.We will have to see the results of our assessment before any changes can be considered to the trail network,” Ellenwood responds, later adding: “It is true that council, commission and I did not see the signage before it was posted.” But inside Ellenwood’s own department, staff had been bracing for the pushback. “Really looking forward to the feedback here. It may be a bumpy ride to start, however, the more that we get the word out regarding the city’s efforts regarding the conservation area, it should swing in our favour,” reads a July 10 email from Steve Bruneau, assistant director of parks, toVince Reda, a parks designer and project manager with

the city. There are hints in the internal emails within the parks department that indicate the point of contention – the balancing of conservation and recreation. Rick Sporns, assistant manager of parks design, points to “an entire industry of bike shops around Burnaby Mountain.” “I couldn’t help thinking, what better proof how much things have gotten totally out of control as far as mountain biking taking over what should be a balanced conservation area,” Sporns says in a July 24 email to Reda. “Some of the complaint talking points may provide a lot of insight.” In an interview with the NOW, Ellenwood says he doesn’t want to throw his staff under the tires, but he acknowledges the error made in his department regarding the trail decommissioning signs.

“We had one piece of information.We posted a sign that said, ‘Well, this is what we are thinking of doing,’ and that generated quite an understandable and vigorous reaction,” Ellenwood says. “My reaction was to say, ‘OK, I don’t think that was a great idea to have done that, and we’re going to say that to people.’ And that’s how it happened, and staff got the message.” ERODING TRAILS n their deluge of emails to the city over the reversed trail decommissioning, many bikers indicate they believe the issue of erosion is being unfairly pinned on them. In fact, the mountain biking community typically takes the lead on dealing with erosion. Each year, since 2005, the Burnaby Mountain Biking Association has submitted a list, Continued on page 13

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Relationship status? It’s complicated

Continued from page 12 to be approved by the city, of things for volunteers to work on – landscaping to redirect water flow here, bolstering the trail to better handle users there, repairing erosion on various trails. The city currently permits mountain bikers to work on trails for four days per year.The association details where volunteers will be working on each of these four trail days and what they will be doing. More than a dozen volunteers show up, tools in hand, to do the necessary work, while materials – such as wood to build features or bolster a trail – are provided by the city. But Burnaby Mountain Biking Association president Judy Garren says four days aren’t enough to get everything done – and the city has, until recently, shown no sign of budging on the number of trail days it offers mountain bikers. “We’ve asked for more. At our previous (parks) commission presentation, we asked for more trail days, citing (water) drainage and erosion issues and all the work that had to be done, except we can’t get much done with only four days of seven hours,” Garren says. “We’re told categorically no.” By comparison, the Tri-Cities association gets trail days about once a month, and the North Shore group was working on trails multiple times per week before the pandemic. (Both associations also have more trails to work on than the Burnaby group.) “The need for more trail maintenance is paramount,” Garren says. “It’s pretty bad. And that can be easily taken care of.” Ideally, for the mountain bikers, some of that trail work

would include creating parallel trails to separate mountain bikers from other trail users, like hikers and runners, to avoid the other problem the cycling community feels has been pinned on them: conflicts between user groups. Perhaps more importantly, however, Garren says her group wants two trail days a month from March to September or October – not including July and August when the soil is dry and less malleable – for a total of 10 days. NOT SURPRISED he mountain bikers’ request isn’t new. Garren says she and the mountain biking association have been asking for more trail days for years, but they feel that request has gone unheard in the city. Ellenwood says that doesn’t surprise him. “You could argue that they’re not doing their job properly if they’re ever satisfied with the level of infrastructure that’s on there.They’re always striving for more,” he says. Pushing for more, Ellenwood says, is the sign of a healthy level of interest from the group, which is intended to advocate for ever-greater infrastructure for the people it represents. “At the same time, with the balance we have to achieve and the resources we have at our disposal, sometimes that objective, from their perspective, can’t be met by us,” Ellenwood says. “We do want to address (that).” But he says it’s a complicated issue that will take some time to implement. “It’s not a matter of making a phone call to increase trail days,” he says. Trail days require several staffers with the city to be present,

Taking to the trails: Judy Garren, in front, and Brian Berg are among the local mountain bikers who ride and volunteer with the Burnaby Mountain Biking Association. PHOTO DUSTIN GODFREY

A NEW PATH: Members of the Burnaby Mountain Biking Association hope they can move into a new future with the city, but the trail forward could be complicated. The relationship between the two groups has long been fraught with tension. PHOTO DUSTIN GODFREY supervising and assisting with the work, which means the city needs to look at its staffing and fit several more seven-hour days of work into its schedule for each trail day. That’s not to say the city hasn’t looked at adding more trail days in the past. Ellenwood points to a now-retired staffer, Henry De Jong, who previously organized trail days and who “expressed some frustrations on both sides of the spectrum.” Ellenwood says De Jong was frustrated when trying to get the necessary staff in place or to even earmark his own time for the trail days. MENDING THE RELATIONSHIP ountain bikers presented to the parks, recreation and culture commission in September, seeking a “champion” to represent cycling issues, but Garren says it didn’t go so well.The group left without any indication the city was prepared to work with them – in fact, quite the opposite. “I’ve been wondering if we even have a relationship with the city, given how dismissive the chair was of our organization,” Garren said in an email shortly after the meeting. But Mayor Mike Hurley notes a discrepancy between how the mountain bikers have seen their conversations and how the city has seen them. “There seems to be some frustration on their part about

how much they were allowed to a year, Garren says a few issues be part of making new trails on still need ironing out, including the mountain and repairing trails when to hold the trail days. and keeping trails and … looking Garren calls the November after the environment up there,” meeting’s results “promising,” Hurley says. but she’s less optimistic than “From our side, we felt that Hurley, still skeptical of the city’s that door was always open.” intentions and whether it will Hurley told the NOW in Ocuphold the offer of 10 trail days tober, before his meeting with a year. mountain bikers, that his under“However, I am doing my best standing was that mountain bikto remain optimistic,” she said ers and the city were coming to late last year. an agreement to do more work Ellenwood says he has dion the mountain, including up rected his staff to get in touch to one trail day per month. with Garren to plan the trail But an increase days for the year, in trail days came including schedThe pandemic uling the days and as news to Garren when the NOW determining the isn’t going asked her about number of volanywhere, Hurley’s comunteers and staff and I’ve heard needed. ments, raising questions about But despite the trails are communication that, as of late continuing to February, Garbetween the city and the mountain deteriorate. ren says there still bikers. has been no con“We have had tact at all from the zero discussion department since with the city since the November our last presentameeting, which tion to the parks commission in she said is “not surprising but September,” Garren said in Ocvery disappointing.” tober. “Our group is in limbo (and Despite seeing firsthand the under constant criticism from frustrations from the mountain the general public). It’s really bikers, Hurley retains his opfrustrating not being able to protimism, calling the November vide concrete info to people,” meeting a “good meeting” but Garren wrote. “The pandemic noting more work needs to be isn’t going anywhere, and I’ve done. heard the trails are continuing to Indeed, while there appears to deteriorate.” be an agreement on 10 trail days

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Community now Hats Off nixed again

The Burnaby Heights Merchants Association has decided to cancel Hats Off Day for 2021, in keeping with current provincial health restrictions. Isabel Kolic, executive

director of the association, said now wasn’t the time to hold the event, which was also cancelled in 2020. “Based on what the health authorities and the City of Burnaby have

communicated to us, and we certainly agree, now is not the time to be hosting a party for 50,000 visitors,” Kolic said. “Our Burnaby Heights merchants, who are so dedi-

cated to our community, have been bending backwards to keep our public safe, while keeping their businesses afloat. Organizing a festival is not only impossible under the cur-

rent health guidelines, but is also very difficult for businesses to focus on at this time.” For up-to-date information on Heights news, see www.burnabyheights.com.

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Burnaby Now THURSDAY, April 1, 2021

Thursday, April 1 to Thursday, April 8 From Apr 1 to Apr 8

WHEN YOU SPEND $250 OR MORE in-store or through

when you buy any fresh whole beef tenderloin** in-store or through the PC express™ online pick up

PC Express online pick up ™

Colgate oral care essentials pack Up to $24.98 Value

That’s $10 in rewards.

21376659

AD MATCH

897

LIMIT 2

AFTER LIMIT 17.98

Broccoli

Product of Canada or USA 20145621001

197

LIMIT 4

AFTER LIMIT 2.48

Cryovac, cut from Western Canadian AAA beef 20820500

LIMIT 2

1088 .

23.98/kg

We match prices† so you can just shop Every week, we actively check our major competitors’ ﬂyers and match the price on hundreds of items. Look for the Ad Match message in store for the items we’ve actively matched. Plus, we’ll match any major competitor’s ﬂyer item if you show us! Since we Ad Match, we may not have sold at the After Limit price (and may not in the future).

Mitchells Heritage Thick Slice bacon 1 kg 21201521

Whole beef Tenderloin

Mini watermelon

Product of Mexico or Guatemala 20145379001

397

LIMIT 2

AFTER LIMIT 4.98

Campbell’s broth

Selected varieties, 900 mL 20322348002

LIMIT 3

AFTER LIMIT 2.00

McCain Deep ‘n Delicious frozen cakes

Fresh turkey

Selected varieties, 510 g 20310132002

Grade A 20145891

4.34/kg

Pepsi soft drinks

Selected varieties,

24x355 mL 20306687003

797

LIMIT 4

AFTER LIMIT 9.48

397

LIMIT 2

AFTER LIMIT 5.78

Philadelphia dips Selected varieties, 900 mL 20297818002

197

LIMIT 2

AFTER LIMIT 3.48

Retails in effect from Thursday, April 1 to Wednesday April 7, 2021. *Spend $250 or more in-store or through PC Express online pickup before applicable taxes in a single transaction at any Real Canadian Superstore location and receive a free Colgate Oral Care Essentials Pack. Excludes purchase of tobacco, alcohol products, prescriptions, gift cards, phone cards, lottery tickets, joefresh.com, all third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners, etc.) and any other products which are provincially regulated. The retail value of up to $24.98 will be deducted from the total amount of your purchase before sales taxes are applied. Limit one coupon per family and/or customer account. No cash value. No copies. Coupon must be presented to the cashier at time of purchase. Valid from Thursday, April 1st until closing Thursday, April 8th, 2021. Cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotional offers. No substitutions, refunds or exchanges on free item. **When you buy any fresh whole beef tenderloin cut from Western Canada AAA grade beef, cryovac package in the meat department in-store or through the PC express online pick up before applicable taxes and after all other coupons, discounts or PC Optimum™ points redemptions are deducted, in a single transaction, at any Real Canadian Superstore location, [excludes purchases of tobacco, alcohol products, prescriptions, gift cards, phone cards, lottery tickets, joefresh.com, all third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners, etc.) and any other products which are provincially regulated], you will earn the points indicated. Product availability may vary by store. We are not obligated to award points based on error or misprints. No cash value. Miniumum redemption 10,000 points. See terms & conditions for redemption restrictions. †We match prices Applies only to our major supermarket competitors’ flyer items. Major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us based on a number of factors which can vary by store location. We will match the competitor’s advertised price only during the effective date of the competitor’s flyer advertisement. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES (note that our major supermarket competitors may not). Due to the fact that product is ordered prior to the time of our Ad Match checks, quantitiesmaybelimited.Wematchidenticalitems(definedassamebrand,size,andattributes)andinthecaseoffreshproduce,meat,seafoodandbakery,wematchacomparableitem(asdeterminedsolelybyus).Wewillnotmatchcompetitors’“multi-buys” (eg.2for$4),“spendxgetx”,“Free”,“clearance”,discountsobtainedthroughloyaltyprograms,oroffersrelatedtoourthirdpartyoperations(postoffice,gasbars,drycleanersetc.).Wereservetherighttocancelorchangethetermsofthisprogramatanytime.

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HAPPY EASTER! Prices Effective April 1 - 7, 2021.

100% BC OWNED AND OPERATED

Choices Whole Turkey

Organic Hot House Peppers

Choices’ Own Easter Delights: Cookies and Cupcakes Assorted Varieties and Sizes

159-179 449-539

Free Range Raised Without Antibiotics

399/lb

Orange, Red & Yellow from Mexico

Individual Cookies

8.80/kg

398/lb

Shortbread & Cupcakes

8.77/kg

Choices’ Own 9" Pies

Organic Strawberries

Apple, Peach Medley & Berry Rhubarb

Imported

598

99 10 each

454g

Choices Festive Easter Side Dishes:

Grimm’s Ham Original & Honey

Including Sauces, Relish & Turkey Demi-Glace

119-599 449-699

1499

/100g Side Dishes

800g

each Sauces, Relish & Demi-Glace

Very Good Butchers Stuffed Beast

Alexis D’Portneuf Brie & Camembert Cheese

999

2999

300g

1.4kg

Lesley Stowe Raincoast Crisps

499

150g

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