Burnaby Now - May 22, 2013

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Forest fairies visit burnaby lake park

Sharing tales from far away City community project highlights the stories of newcomers to Burnaby Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

The Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table is organizing a storytelling project so refugees and new immigrants can share their tales with the community. “It’s like a living legacy, an oral piece that supports the work we are doing,” said Jody Johnson, the table’s project coordinator. “Every single time we can give our newest residents a voice, it supports them and their attachments to the community.” The storytelling project includes training for new immigrants and refugees living in Burnaby, with an intermediate to advanced level of English. The storytelling training lasts 12 hours, and participants must be able to conduct two public performances over the next 10 months. The Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table is a consortium of groups and agencies that coordinate help for local refugees and immigrants. According to Johnson, the project participants will be invited to share their stories, where appropriate, at future planning table events, either as individuals or as a panel. There will also be chances for the public to hear the stories, but times and locations haven’t been decided yet. She said the stories may also be translated and shared with ethnic media outlets. People interested in the storytelling training can attend one of two Stories Page 5

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Fun in the forest: Burnaby Lake park interpreter Caitlin Kobitzsch hands a fairy to Allie Nordal at the Forest Fairy Gathering at the Burnaby Lake Nature House on Saturday. There were costumes, free face painting, and visitors made their own fairy and gnome homes.

Burnaby gym shuts its doors Nova Fitness and Health closed down its centre in Burnaby earlier this spring Stefania Seccia staff reporter

Another gym in Burnaby has shut its doors less than a year after Fit City for Women closed down. Nova Fitness and Health on 7012

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Rudolph St. opened last year and closed operations on March 7, according to the Better Business Bureau, but members were not able to access the gym since the end of February. Juliette Geddes said she originally joined the gym because she thought it was a good deal for a fitness centre with top of the line equipment, instructors and had a nice website. She was a Nova member before it officially opened, after receiving a flyer in the

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mail that said membership cost $19.80 a month, including all classes offered such as yoga, zumba and others. But now she’s out several hundred dollars and is left with nothing except an email, stating it was from the “former management,” apologizing for the closure. In the email sent to all members, and obtained by the Burnaby NOW, it states that a shareholder and physiotherapist Gym Page 5


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