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Reconciliation at heart of new proposal

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A portion of Burnaby with a troubled past is poised for a refresh centred around urban rejuvenation and reconciliation with local First Nations.

Council was briefed Dec. 6 on the status of redeveloping the Willingdon lands located at 3405 Willingdon Ave., which is owned by the Musqueam Indian Band,Tsleil-Waututh Nation, and Aquilini Development.The 40acre parcel is envisioned as a “contemporary Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh urban village,” should the necessary land-use changes be approved by council next year.

Last week’s presentation from staff and members of the Musqueam Indian Band brought council up to speed on the planning process and vision for urban renewal.

Council unanimously approved the staff presentation to move forward to public consultation and future land-use changes next year.

“It’s nice to see what has been a dark corner of the city – a former mental health facility [and] a for-

mer youth detention centre – is actually going to blossom into economic development and housing and some growth and reconciliation between the community and the Native people,” said Coun. Dan Johnston.

Located between Brentwood Town Centre and Metrotown, the site will accommodate more than 5,200 residential units, including 20% rental and 300-plus non-market units. Almost four million square feet of residential land is planned.

A further breakdown of the proposed residential land use includes: 3.3 million square feet of leasehold strata; 385,000 square feet of market rental; 70,000 square feet of moderate rental and 151,000 square feet of affordable rentals.

The area is tapped in planning documents to become a rapid transit hub in the future.

In order to accommodate the incoming growth, city planners are calling for 17 mixed-use buildings in the range of 14 to 20 storeys, four “landmark buildings” between 22 and 25 storeys and a series of other low-to-midrise,

Future housing: A rendering for the Willingdon lands proposal. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

mixed-use buildings.

A 450,000-square-foot film studio will serve as the commercial anchor of the redevelopment and is estimated to create more than 3,000 jobs.

“This project is an exciting, amazing and modern example of how you can go beyond land acknowledgements and return the land to their rightful owners,” said Coun. Alison Gu. The plan is based

around four guiding principles: respect the past, embrace future; connect with land and water; nurture a sense of place and advance reconciliation and accommodation.

Four districts will highlight the redevelopment.

Located at the centre of the site, the park district will feature large, open spaces, child care, cafés, an outdoor hearth, cultural centre and potentially some housing for seniors.

The trade district will serve as the commercial hub for the entire neighbourhood and will include restaurants, grocery stores, cafés and the potential for other large-scale commercial developments.

Staff also suggested certain streets in the area could be temporarily closed to allow for street festivals and other events.

The storytelling district will be focused around the 450,000-square-foot stu-

dio and serve as the major area for jobs generation.

The northwest corner of the site will be a quieter area focused exclusively on residential.

“Each of these districts contribute to a rich public realm which consists of four elements: gathering spaces, portals, natural places and character streets,” said city planner Karin Hung.

City staff will now gather community feedback beginning next year, along with bringing proposed land-use changes forward to council that are necessary to get shovels in the ground.

“This is a real change in process for our people. It’s very important for our members as owners of this property, this land, the history and what we stand for to be established there,” said Musqueam Indian Band member Johnna Sparrow, who serves as an aboriginal relations advisor with Aquilini Development. “In the time of reconciliation, this truly is something we can reconcile and work forward to build a brighter future.”

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City sees surge in non-market rental construction John Kurucz

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“If only” have to be two of the most popular words circulating in council chambers across southwest B.C., if not the entire province.

As in, “if only other levels of government would step up.”

That was the prevailing sentiment in Burnaby council chambers Dec. 6, when councillors got an in-depth snapshot of the rental activity – uptick, construction, approvals and occupancy – across the city.

The report covered how many units are in place, how many are being built and others moving through the approval process throughout developments on city lands, non-profit-led housing developments, both market and non-market rentals and other rental units achieved through the city’s Rental Use Zoning Policy (RUZP).

The report reflects statistics up to the end of September.

Of the roughly 2,700 non-market units on city lands or offered via nonprofits, 287 are occupied;

265 are under construction; 207 have been approved and close to 1,900 units are under review. A further 330 units will be offered as “Burnaby Affordable,” or at least 20% below Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation median rents.

Those units sit on multiple properties across the city with a cumulative assessed value that ranges into the tens of millions of dollars.

“I have to say that the dollar amount that the city is providing, when you include the land, the (development cost charges) and

the construction costs, it’s a heck of a lot more than what the other levels of government are providing,” lamented Coun. Pietro Calendino. “If we had to depend on the other levels of government for funding, there wouldn’t be any affordable housing or rental, no market rental being built in Burnaby.”

Most of the non-market units built or proposed on city lands prioritize low-income families or individuals, seniors, people with disabilities, or other groups who have particular housing needs that are not met through the pri-

vate market.

“These rental projects may advance with or without senior government funding support. Government funding is required to achieve deeper levels of affordability,” notes a city staff report from planning and building director Ed Kozak.

Numbers for non-market rentals under the RUZP include 304 units under construction, 108 approvals and more than 4,800 units under review.

The stats also point to the inclusion of 1,700 others categorized as “Burnaby Affordable” along with

at least 2,400 replacement units. In the event of redevelopment of existing rental buildings, city guidelines require replacement of existing rental units in the redeveloped building.Those tenants receive the right of first refusal for the replacement units provided to eligible tenants under the city’s tenant assistance policy.

Market rental stats, meanwhile, saw 407 units occupied, 816 under construction, 12 approvals and more than 1,200 other units in the review process.

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Season’s Greetings

FROM MAYOR MIKE HURLEY

Tuesday, December 21 8am-4:45pm

There is a popular Christmas carol that includes the phrase, “Tidings of comfort and joy.”

Wednesday, December 22 8am-4:45pm

As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular I want to recognize the dedication and selflessness of the essential staff and frontline healthcare workers who have helped keep our community safe. I also want to recognize the many individuals, service providers and businesses that have stepped up to provide support to people in need.

I wish comfort and joy for all of you this holiday season. You deserve it.

Thursday, December 23 8am-4:45pm

As challenging as these last two years have been, I’ve been inspired by the collective action we’ve taken to keep our community safe.

Friday, December 24 8am-12noon (Christmas Eve)

Looking forward, our strong financial foundation means the City is well equipped to respond quickly to the most urgent issue facing our world – climate change. We are committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 – and we will work diligently to achieve that goal ahead of schedule.

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One project I’m excited about is a partnership with the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and Vancity called the Urban Resilient Futures Initiative. This innovative three-year program will advance climate action work in Burnaby by engaging the community to create a shared vision and priorities to accelerate Burnaby’s course towards a zero-carbon future. We’ll be sharing more about that with you soon.

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We’ve also got some outstanding new recreation facilities to look forward to. In South Burnaby, we anticipate opening Rosemary Brown Arena in 2022. We are also finishing design work on the new Burnaby Lake Sports Complex, which will include an aquatic centre and arena, to replace the existing C.G. Brown Pool and Burnaby Lake Arena.

Thursday, December 30 8am-4:45pm

In Confederation Park and Cameron Park, detailed planning is underway for new community centres that will add new amenities for our residents to enjoy, with construction slated to begin on Confederation in 2023 and Cameron in 2024.

Friday, December 31 8am-4:45pm (New Years Eve)

Just this month we finalized HOME: Burnaby’s Housing and Homelessness Strategy. This strategy lays out a 10-year plan to ensure housing affordability and accessibility. We are also moving quickly to provide more affordable, quality child care to families in our city. Since 2020, through our partnership with Burnaby School District, we have opened four new child care centres on school sites throughout Burnaby, and three more will open in early 2022.

Monday, January 3 Closed (In Lieu of New Years Day)

I know 2021 has been a challenging year, but I also know that brighter days are ahead of us. I hope you’ll join me as we continue to build a welcoming, compassionate and sustainable city.

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On behalf of City Council, I wish you all a happy and safe holiday season.

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Burnaby residents will be able to pay taxes, obtain licences, and attend council and committee meetings in person in the new year. Those who are not comfortable or able to attend City Hall in person will still be able to access services online and by phone.

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School board hears ‘powerful’ update on anti-racism efforts

Responses to district survey bring trustees to tears Cornelia Naylor

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“I want the adults to know that racist remarks made me not want to be who I am; it made me want to change the way I was born.”

This and other comments from students, staff and parents talking about how racism in the Burnaby school district has impacted them got an emotional response from school trustees last month.

In June 2020, amid worldwide protests against anti-Black racism and police violence, the school board passed a motion directing staff to develop a district anti-racism action plan after consulting with community members, especially from Black, Indigenous and racialized communities.

“Nothing is off the table.We need to hear from everybody what the challenges are and what the issues are,” trustee Jen Mezei said at the time.

Since then, the district has heard from thousands of students, staff and parents in a community survey.

A summary of themes from that survey and direct quotes from responses were presented at a public online school board meeting on Nov. 23.

Among the themes that emerged in comments from staff were a lack of diversity in the district’s leadership and the challenges of speaking out against racism in the system.

“You can get a reputation for being an angry BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour), and this impacts your career prospects,” said one com-

menter. versity and inclusion Beth Some students pointed Applewhite told trustees. to a peer culture that norThe survey responses malizes racism, including were later read and anaignoring or disregarding lyzed by teams made up of racist jokes and slurs. teachers, support staff, adThey also said staff ministrators, parents and brush off and ignore racist students. incidents and sometimes The highlights were then even contribute to racism presented to the board. in schools.

Applewhite acknowlAmong parents, there edged some of the mawere many personal acterial was “heavy,” but she counts of racism and disended her presentation on crimination, according a hopeful note. to the report, including “Equity is attainable; people with accents feelracial healing is possible; ing “unheard” and “disrehope will help us reimaggarded.” ine,” she said.

In all groups, Trustees gave however, there the presentation were also those an emotional, who said raceven tearful reism doesn’t exsponse. ist in local schools Mezei, who is and that “talking now board chair, about racism is told the NOW making it a bigger the board had problem.” not seen the maJen Mezei “Anti-racism terial ahead of means anti-white board chair time. at its core,” wrote “It was pretty one student. powerful,” she said.

“The most recent sigMezei said she was “imnificant impact was feeling pressed at how staff and uncomfortable during Pro students felt safe enough D around being deemed to be vulnerable and to white supremacist for share their stories.” teaching the curriculum,” Not all reflected posisaid one teacher when tively on the district and asked what impact racism local schools, but Mezei had had on them. said all the feedback will The district got more help school officials work than 11,000 responses. toward solutions.

The survey, which “We need to be open to closed on June 3, was hear the good, bad and the completed by 4,328 stuugly so that we know how dents, 1,440 staff memwe can move forward tobers, 2,478 parents and gether as a system and as a 574 community members. board,” she said.

There were also 3,155 The next step in the disstudent and 1,177 staff re- trict’s anti-racism consulsponses to open-ended tation will begin in Janquestions. uary, with a third-party “We really wanted to organization engaging hear from people we don’t smaller community groups normally hear from, so we for a deeper dive into did a lot of promotion, a themes raised in the surlot of reaching out,” disvey. trict principal of equity, di-

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Opinion now MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Many parents are vaccine hesitant

First, some good news to share as we have crossed the 40% threshold when it comes to registering children aged five to 11 to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

Now, some bad news: we are only at 40% and the pace of new registrations is sluggish.

There are about 350,000 children in this age cohort in B.C. As of the end of last week, a little more than 140,000 of them had registered to be vaccinated.

However, while we reached the 100,000 mark within just a few days after Health Canada gave the green light for this age group to be vaccinated in late November, it has been a slow grind to get the numbers up since then.

For example, in the first 10 days of this month, just 20,500 kids were registered.That is just 2,000 registrations a day.

While registrations have slowed, the number of kids actually getting the jab is growing steadily, now reaching more than 5,000 a day (they totaled about 60,000 heading into this week).The way the program works is thus: a child is registered, then receives an appointment and then gets vaccinated when that day comes due.

You can see the problem that potentially lies ahead.

Unless registrations dramatically pick up in number, the number of those actually vaccinated will soon catch up and we will hit a bit of a wall.

A geographic breakdown of those registered shows that, as we saw in older age groups, there is a greater “buy-in” to the vaccination program in urban areas compared to rural ones.The highest registration rates among the health authorities are in Vancouver Coastal Health (52.5%) andVancouver Island (47%).

Northern Health (24%)

and Interior Health (32%) both have low vaccination rates. About 80,000 kids in this age cohort reside in these two giant health regions and fewer than 25,000 have registered to be vaccinated.

Fraser Health has seen the most registrations (more than 55,000) but its rate is just 38% because it is by far the most populous of all the health authorities.

There seems to a higher level of vaccine hesitancy among parents when it comes to this age group.

Obviously, tens of thousands of parents who are fully vaccinated have yet to register their kids to follow suit.

An Angus Reid poll back in October showed B.C. would likely get to the situation in which it now finds itself when it comes to vaccinating kids.

That poll suggested 20% of parents would “wait” an undetermined amount of time before getting their children vaccinated while about 10% were not sure. About half said they would act quickly to get their kids the jab.

A combination of factors may convince hesitant parents to sign up.

First, there is a steady accumulation of “real world” data in the U.S., which got started on vaccinating millions of youngsters earlier than Canada did. It is showing positive results there.

Second, the Omicron variant of concern may sweep through the country (as it is threatening to do around the world) and that may inject a new element of worry into the conversation.

In the days and weeks ahead, look for B.C. health officials to redouble their efforts to convince hesitant parents to get their kids registered and vaccinated.

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COVID-19 vaccines are safe for children and help stop the spread Editor: Vaccination, along with other preventative measures, can protect children from COVID-19 using the safe and effective vaccines already recommended for use in adolescents and adults in B.C. The first clinical trial study based on children less than 12 years old, published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows very promising results. More than 2,200 child volunteers were involved in this clinical trial for the vaccines to understand the efficacy and the adverse events.

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old in B.C. have been fully vaccinated. The preliminary data on the vaccine’s effectiveness in this age group is astonishing, and this evidence can be useful and can be very well a strong motivator to inoculate our younger children.

A recent vaccine real-world data-based evaluation study demonstrated that two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were highly effective in preventing COVID-19 hospitalization among persons aged 12 to 18 years.

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The Burnaby school district has gotten a little extra cash from the provincial government to try to keep local kids out of gangs.

The province announced last week it is providing more than $486,000 in grants to fund mentorship programs in 24 school districts around B.C. Burnaby’s share will be $10,500, according to Nick Christofides, district principal of safe and caring schools.

“This funding allows for flexibility for us to augment programs, both during and outside of school time, for students who are vulnerable and at risk of being recruited,” he said

in an emailed statement.

Uses for the new funding will include workshops for youth on things like managing difficult emotions, as well as food and transportation for various clubs, according to Christofides.

“These groups and clubs are working and creating positive connections at school for kids,” he said.

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Citynow ‘Shocking’ dashcam video chronicles drunken trip Cornelia Naylor

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Burnaby RCMP have released “shocking” dashcam video from inside the vehicle of a drunk driver who narrowly missed head-on collisions, crashed into vehicles and

sheared off a fire hydrant before being arrested and charged.

The video, seized during the investigation, shows several, harrowing close calls as the Cadillac Escalade makes its way from Richmond to Burnaby on Jan. 8, 2021, according to

a police news release last week.

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It also shows the Escalade blowing through a stop sign and a red light.

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But the Escalade kept going – on the wrong side of the street – before crashing into a stop sign near Gilley Avenue and Marine Drive just after midnight, according to the release.

By then, the SUV was badly damaged and missing a tire, the release said.

Burnaby RCMP have released the video ahead of the holiday season, hoping it will deter people from drinking and driving.

“Driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs is a criminal offence and can severely alter your life and the lives of others,” stated the release.

The driver of the Escalade, 62-year-old Siu Wei Leung of Burnaby, was charged with dangerous driving, impaired driving and failing to stop for police.

He was sentenced to six months of probation and handed a $1,000 fine and one-year driving prohibition after pleading guilty to impaired driving on Aug. 28.The other two charges were stayed.

Things could have ended much worse, according to Burnaby RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Mike Kalanj.

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“This driver made a decision to put himself and others at risk when he got behind the wheel that night and drove through three cities.”

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Citynow Man who fled Taliban ready to help other refugees Cornelia Naylor

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Before he and his family fled Afghanistan four months ago, Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar was giving up to 10 media interviews a day.

As a founder of Nai, a leading media advocacy and training organization in the country, he was a sought-after speaker on freedom of expression and the Afghan media landscape.

He was also a Taliban target.

“In their press releases and their statements, they were always saying that Mujeeb and Nai – me and my organization – it was against Islam what we were saying.”

After Kabul fell on Aug. 15, there were reports of Taliban soldiers going door-to-door, searching for journalists.

A ‘SEA JOURNEY’ I met Khalvatgar in the community room of a Burnaby elementary school.

He and his family have been in the city for less than three months.

He hasn’t even had a chance to get his Canadian driver’s licence yet, but he is already eager to help other families in the school district who’ve made the same journey he has.

He translates an Afghan proverb about how those

who have journeyed on the sea know best what a sea journey means.

“I learned something, and I think it is something that I can share with others,” he says.

Khalvatgar’s journey started not long before the fall of Kabul.

He and his family had already been granted Canadian visas, he says, but nobody predicted how quickly the government would collapse.

He snaps his fingers three times, indicating how quickly three main cities around Kabul were taken by the Taliban.

On the day they entered Kabul, he was at work and had to hide out at an uncle’s house for days because soldiers were searching for him, he says.

Even with visas in hand, it took two days to find a way through the thousands of people blocking the gates to the Kabul airport.

“It was a queue of thousands,” he says.

Finally, early on Aug. 22, he, his wife, his oldest son and daughter and two nephews decided to form a tight circle around the younger kids and push their way through.

It took them three hours in 40 C heat to reach the gate, Khalvatgar says.

Inside, they spotted a Canadian soldier and were eventually put on a flight to Kuwait.

Another flight took

A NEW START: Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar, a veteran journalist who fled Afghanistan with his family in August, sits outside of his children’s new school in Burnaby. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER them from Kuwait to Germany.

“Both flights were military flights, the biggest military planes with more than 600 people in them.

There was not a place to even sit,” he says.

They arrived in the Lower Mainland after quarantining in Toronto.

A NEW BEGINNING The Khalvatgars now live near Brantford Elementary School, where the three youngest children go to school.

Another attends Byrne Creek Community School.

The family has settled in with help from Leila Nemati, a Burnaby school district settlement worker with the Settlement Workers in Schools (SWIS) program, an Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada-funded program that helps newcomer students and their families with everything from finding a doctor to opening a bank account.

Last week, Nemati

got one of Khalvatgar’s daughters and a group of other girls, all newly arrived from Afghanistan, to decorate the Byrne Creek community room for Christmas.

“They were around 10, 15 girls, and they were all from Afghanistan, brand new here, and they were so excited, and they had no clue what they were doing,” Nemati says with a laugh. “I’m sure it was one of their first experiences of things doing in Canada, and they were doing a

great job,” Khalvatgar has already started to help Nemati support other new Afghan families, acting as translator at a recent parent meeting and helping one single mother find housing.

“It’s really important to have somebody beside you who’s been through the same new way and process and speaks the same dialect,” Nemati says.

The school district currently doesn’t have a Continued on page 13

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Citynow He came with nothing – just hope for his children

Continued from page 11 SWIS worker who is fluent in both of Afghanistan’s two major languages, Pashto and Dari.

And with more people fleeing the country, Khalvatgar hopes he might be able to parlay that experience into a job as a SWIS worker himself.

“I love this,” he says.

With his educational background, experience, passion and language skills in English, Dari, Pashto and Farsi, he feels he’d be a good fit.

He’s already applied in Vancouver, but that position required a driver’s licence. But the Burnaby program will soon be hiring as well, according to Natalya Khan, the SWIS coordinator in this district.

She says the IRCC has already agreed to fund another SWIS position in the district to help with the in-

flux of Afghan refugees, nearly half of whom (48 or 102) have been schoolaged children.

HERE TO STAY Like so many recent arrivals from Afghanistan, Khalvatgar and his family fled with only what they could carry, leaving everything else behind.

“Forty years of my life left there,” he says. “I came with nothing. Believe me, I did not bring even my driving licence. I had two master’s degrees. I left all the documents there … my library, I had a library in my house, friends, my mom. My mom still lives in Afghanistan.”

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In one way, the escape from Afghanistan has taken a big burden off his shoulders, he says.

All his adult life, the Taliban has threatened, creating uncertainty in everything he did there.

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Christmas in Burnaby

• THURSDAY, December 16, 2021 15

Merry & Bright

Burnaby students reach out to share holiday cheer Burnaby students are rolling up their collective sleeves to help their flood-ravaged neighbours to the east.

Grade 4 and 5 students at Gilmore Community School sprang into action after a class discussion about the recent Fraser Valley floods. Demonstrating their own lesson in kindness and helping others, they rallied to collect items to bring to the Archway Food Bank in Abbotsford to support families in need.

Students and staff at University Highlands Elementary are collecting

food, toiletries and toys to donate to flood-relief efforts.They are joining their partners on Burnaby Mountain as part of broader efforts by the Simon Fraser University community.

Leadership students at École Alpha Secondary are collecting blankets, coats and clothes for people impacted by the floods. Burnaby Mountain Secondary raised financial contributions by supporting donations via their School Cash Online site and directly to the B.C. andYukon branch of the Red Cross.

Parkcrest Elementary School students, meanwhile, are raising money for the Abbotsford SPCA Branch to help them support animals that were displaced or are in need of veterinary care.

The holiday season has both students and staff thinking closer to home as well.

Leadership students at École Inman Elementary partnered with a local business, putting together nearly 300 dental kits for the Burnaby Homeless Task Force.They will be included, along with handmade cards, in comfort

kits that will be distributed to Burnaby’s most vulnerable citizens.

Kindness and creativity are also on offer from students, such as those at Burnaby North Secondary who are creating 2,400 holiday cards in one week for seniors in Burnaby.

What they’re calling “Operation Elf” is being put on in partnership with Intentional Acts of Kindness

and Citizen Support Services.

Many schools, such as Lyndhurst Elementary, are also holding holiday drives for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

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ognized by Sikhs around the world: Gurpurab, also known as Guru Nanak Dev Jayanti, which celebrates the birth of the first Sikh guru.

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Spirit of the season: Gilmore Community School students sprang into action to help with flood relief efforts in the Fraser Valley . Their efforts are among many holiday giving initiatives undertaken by schools around Burnaby. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

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The Royal CityYouth Ballet will offer a limited run of performances of The Nutcracker Dec. 18 and 19 at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster.

The shows come after the troupe was forced into a one-year pause.

This year’s triumphant return includes two Burnaby residents in Madelyn Ng and Jocelyn Hoshizaki.

Three New West and Burnaby dance studios – Royal Principal Ballet Academy, HZ Ballet Classique and Dance Collective – will also be a part of

Holiday classic: Royal City Youth Ballet’s Nutcracker, seen here in 2019, returns this weekend. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

the teamwork that makes the dream work.

Collectively, they’ll pirouette and jeté their way through a storyline that’s a holiday essential complete with the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Snow King and Queen, duelling mice and,

of course, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’ score.

“The time is Christmas Eve 1890, the place is Clara’s home, where Clara’s parents are entertaining family and friends with a wonderful party,” notes a press release from the ballet company.

“Into the party comes Clara’s favourite magical grand-uncle, Herr Drosselmeyer who presents Clara with the enchanted Nutcracker. The party ends, the guests depart, Clara falls asleep … and dreams, and dreams, and dreams …”

Show times are 1 and 4 p.m. on both Dec. 18 and 19. For tickets and details, see www.royalcityyouth ballet.org/buy-tickets or www.ticketsnw.ca.

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• THURSDAY, December 16, 2021 17

Christmas in Burnaby

FESTIVE FEELING: Eleven-year-old Evan and eight-year-old Sammy make a donation at the Burnaby Firefighters Charitable Society’s toy drive at Metropolis at Metrotown. The one-day toy drive gave folks a chance to come to the Grand Court and drop of toys or money in support of the Burnaby Christmas Bureau. The bureau provides holiday assistance for families, children, at-risk individuals and seniors with low income. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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Community now Scammers spoof Burnaby RCMP phone number to target victim

Burnaby RCMP is warning the public that one of its detachment phone numbers was recently “spoofed” and used to scam a local resident out of $6,000.

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Citynow Teachers’ union president seeks nomination for council run Cornelia Naylor

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A local high school social studies teacher and teachers’ union president is looking to parlay his experience into a spot on Burnaby city council.

Daniel Tetrault was elected president of the Burnaby Teachers’ Association in early 2020, after eight years on its executive.

Before that he taught at Moscrop Secondary School.

On Dec. 8, he announced he is seeking the Burnaby Citizens Association nomination for city council in next October’s municipal election.

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him to throw his hat in the ring has been watching the city become less affordable.

“I have seen first-hand friends and neighbours leaving Burnaby because it has increasingly become an unaffordable place to live,” he said in a press release. “We need to protect what we love about our community and make sure that those that live in Burnaby can afford to stay in Burnaby.We also need to strengthen neighbourhoods to provide ready access to the services we all rely on – whether you are a senior who has lived in Burnaby your whole life or someone looking to raise a family, like me.”

Tetrault believes his background as a teacher and as a union president working with the major-

ity Burnaby Citizens Aslot of the good, progressive sociation school board will work the BCA has done, translate well into work as and I also want to provide a city councillor. a sense of renewal for the “The biggest thing is BCA,” he told the NOW. you learn how to advocate Tetrault, who currently for an issue,” he lives in theWillsaid of his 10 ingdon Heights years with the area, has been a teachers’ union, member of the “but also what Burnaby commuI’ve learned as nity for the past a teacher would 20 years, accordtranslate well ing to his news into this new release. job.Teachers are He gradusolution-oriented ated from SFU, people. I feel like Daniel Tetrault teaches in the I could bring that in the BCA race Burnaby school solution-oriented district and will mindset to city council.” welcome his first child Tetrault said the BCA into the world at Burnaby has been a “progressive Hospital “any day now,” voice in Burnaby for a he said. long time” and that’s what The BCA will pick its drew him to seek its nomcandidates at a nominaination. tion meeting March 27.

“I want to continue on a

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Leo was a hero to us all and taught us to enjoy every moment life has to offer.

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LYON, William W. 1928 - 2021 Bill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He started working at age 15 in a coal merchant’s office, then did his National Service in the Palestine Police Force. On his return he joined the Edinburgh City Police. Bill emigrated to New Westminster in 1957 with his wife Betty and daughter Kathryn (deceased).

He worked for AIM Steel then the Justice Institute at Jericho Hill. Bill loved to travel and explore new places. He was an active member of the Scottish Country Dancing, Sons of Scotland and Century House.

He will be dearly missed by his wife of 68 years Betty, son Ian (Karen), granddaughter Karen (Remo), great-grandchildren Emma and Matteo and his family and friends, here and in Scotland. At his request there will be no formal service but a family gathering will be held later.

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