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Maggots at work

Stefania Seccia staff reporter

There’s maggots in Burnaby Hospital, but don’t worry, they’re meant to be there. An antiquated and seemingly strange medical application of maggots for nonhealing wounds popularly used at Burnaby’s hospital is now becoming a product two private companies are trying to commercialize. Superna Life Sciences and Monarch Labs have applied for regu“Every now and latory approval then we get an to make Medical Maggots, a preescapee.” scription-only medical therapy LISA HEGLER nurse used to clean non-healing wounds. Lisa Hegler is a registered nurse and wound-care professional at Burnaby Hospital, and she spearheaded the maggot debridement therapy where she works, and says she’s benefited from using maggot therapy on more than 100 patients. “It’s an old way of doing things,” Hegler told the Burnaby NOW in a phone interview. “It dates right back to the Napoleon civil wars.”

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Creepy-crawly healers: Registered nurse Lisa Hegler has led maggot therapy for non-healing wounds at Burnaby Hospital, where she works. Hegler hopes Health Canada will recognize the therapy as a valid medical treatment that she says is very successful. The therapy involves a sickly wound open to infection that is grey, green or brown, and two millimetre in length maggots. “They’re little larvae,” Hegler explained.

“Very, very tiny. It’s not what you see in the movies.” However, the maggots do get bigger after 48 hours in the wounds – growing up to 10 or 15 times in size.

“Wounds are painful to begin with,” Hegler added. “The 48-hour period can be uncomfortable.” Maggots Page 8

Advocate says slow process leading to tree cutting Stefania Seccia staff reporter

By January, Burnaby’s tree bylaw will have a bigger bark, but the two years it took to get to this point is worrying a local tree enthusiast. In 2011, local resident Donna Polos presented to council and called for stricter rules around cutting down trees in the city.

This past summer, the city came back with amendments, including bigger permit fees and guidelines around tree cutting. “I’ve been waiting two-and-a-half years,” Polos told the Burnaby NOW. “I wish it had been done in six months to a year. I kept phoning the city and asking city hall, and it was really frustrating.” Polos said since the summer, two properties near her home in South Burnaby

went on a tree-cutting rampage: one home cut down about 70 per cent of its tree, while the other cut down all of them. Polos speculates it was done to avoid the stiffer fines and process outlined in the bylaw amendments. “The thing is, my concern is when people caught wind of this whole thing – when city hall put out the changes to the bylaw – people were clear cutting,” she noted.

“I’m worried people are going to get wind of this now, and between now and January we’ll have a multitude of people taking them down.” Despite the wait, Polos said she’s happy with the changes being made. “I am very pleased with what they had proposed,” she added. “I’ve lived in this Bylaw Page 4

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City council is concerned what the backlash will be following an ambulance service shift in responding to different emergency calls. At its last meeting, Burnaby council rang the alarm over protocol changes to B.C. Ambulance Service’s resource allocation plan announced in late October. The major change is that more calls have been designated as rou-

tine and medically do not require a lights-and-siren response or first responder assistance. But ambulances will still attend every call. “Seventy different services that were previously code three, that’s lights and sirens and ambulance get there right now, have now been downgraded to code two, which is referred to as a cold response,” said Coun. Colleen Jordan. Calls for a suspected aortic aneurysm and abdominal pain are now considered code two, accord-

ing to a report from Burnaby’s fire chief Doug McDonald. “So 75 of those (services) have been downgraded, and so the ambulance service doesn’t have to go there, zoom, fast, lights and sirens, but the fire still does,” she noted. “Our people have to go. In speaking with the (fire) chief ... we already have some of our fire (services) sitting at a call waiting for an ambulance for more than an hour.” Jordan noted that while the fire-

fighters are waiting for an ambulance they may be missing other important emergency calls. “This is a horrible mess,” she added. “We’ll have to start tracking and making sure we have a log of what implications this is causing for the fire service, if it’s already starting to impact us and then have some kind of report from staff on what the implication can be. “I’m really frightened what it Ambulance Page 9

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Eva Liu attends a Remembrance Day ceremony held on Nov. 9 at Edmonds Community Centre. The New Westminster pipe band opened the service, and Royal Canadian Air Cadets No. 637 were in attendance. Burnaby MP Peter Julian spoke at the event, and BurnabyEdmonds MLA Raj Chouhan laid down a wreath. The ceremony was well attended and also included a choir service and a few musical acts by locals. Remembrance Day services continued on Nov. 11 with two parades in both North and South Burnaby and observances at the cenotaphs.

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Following the final stamp of approval on Brentwood Town Centre’s conceptual master plan in September, the first phase of it is going to public hearing. The phased approach for the mixed-use retail, office and multiple family redevelopment of the Brentwood mall site is expected to span about 20 years.

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in front of the SkyTrain entrance into a central plaza. Also up for discussion at the Nov. 26 hearing is a rezoning application for two highrise apartment towers with a low-rise commercial podium near Metrotown. “The creation of town centres at Metrotown, Brentwood, Edmonds and Lougheed have served the Last week’s question Will you be attending Remembrance Day ceremonies? YES 56% NO 44% This week’s question Would you let a health professional use maggots to clean your wound? Vote at: www.burnabynow.com

city well in protecting single and two-family residential neighbourhoods from pressures to accommodate new growth, and have also allowed the city to preserve a significant component of its land base for park and open spaces,” Lou Pelletier, director of planning and building, states in his report. – By Stefania Seccia

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report, which will lead to bylaw amendments coming forward. Final approval for the bylaws is expected for January. Mayor Derek Corrigan

said he was torn making a decision on the bylaw but supported it in the end. “I’ve always been one who really believed in people’s property rights and

the ideal someone should, within bounds, be able to do what they wanted on their property, but I’m persuaded that this is a pretty reasonable approach.”

we can and the grounds for which trees can be taken down are fairly extensive and we cover reasonable issues that … for a homeowner.”

Corrigan said the city has a responsibility to protect more than trees in parks. “With the density we’re expecting in some areas, protecting the trees where

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All hugs aside, pipeline is in the NEB’s hands

Last Tuesday afternoon, B.C. Premier seemed to announce that “progress” had been made. Christy Clark and Alberta Premier We do know that one of the five conAlison Redford got down to some serious business of smiling for the cameras. ditions – the one demanding a share of royalties to compensate B.C. for taking Previously, Clark had famously said on the environmental risk– is that no pipelines would even still a non-starter for Alberta. be considered in B.C. until But apparently, staff for Alberta and the proponents Burnaby NOW both premiers put on their had satisfied her governbeer goggles Monday night ment’s five extremely vague and concluded that impasse doesn’t conditions. stop B.C. from demanding money from Though it did not contain a single the pipeline companies themselves. detail, Tuesday’s press conference

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Presto, the deal was back on – along with one of Clark’s treasured photo ops. We don’t know if Clark and Redford really are besties now or if they ever were the frenemies they appeared to be. But all of this lends credence to the cynics who predicted the “five conditions” were all just talk – with plenty of wiggle room. Neither premier actually has a veto in whether the pipeline gets approved. It’s the National Energy Board that

gets to decide whether the Northern Gateway will become a reality. And we really have to wonder if the NEB will approve a pipeline that the vast majority of B.C. citizens oppose. The biggest X-factors in all of this are still the dozens of First Nations who will have their territories bisected by a pipeline they are so far dead set against. We’d bet the Clark and Redford love-in will not be the end of the pipeline debate. Not by a long shot.

Too much talk, too little action IN MY OPINION

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he notion that aboriginal communities are like black holes when it comes to government funding was strengthened considerably with the release of the latest scathing report by B.C.’s Children and Youth Representative. Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond’s investigation of governmentfunded services for aboriginal youth was highly critical but not particularly shocking. Her main finding was that almost $70 million was given to aboriginal organizations over a dozen years without a shred of evidence that any of it was actually spent on services for young people. The money was, instead, largely used to pay people to go to meetings and conferences and to do a lot of talking. TurpelLafond’s report is entitled When Talk Trumped Service, and many people presumably made a lot of money talking about young people without helping them. She is characteristically blunt in her assessment of what she found, as in this: “There could not be a more confused, unstable

and bizarre area of public policy than that which guides aboriginal child and family services in B.C.” Or this: “This story may read more like fiction than truth, but the numbers speak for themselves. Nearly $66 million has been spent without any functional public policy framework, no meaningful financial or performance accountability, and without any actual children receiving additional services because of these expenditures.” No beating around the bush here. A fundamental problem she uncovered was the B.C. government’s decision to treat aboriginal-run care agencies on a “nation-to-nation” basis. As she points out, B.C. is not a “nation,” and neither are these agencies. The government opted to simply send “staggering expenditures” out the door to organizations that lacked resources or the expertise to fulfil service obligations. She found that nearly $35 million alone was spent “discussing” something called Regional Aboriginal Authorities. Essentially, a bunch of meetings were held and reports were done. But problems facing aboriginal youth – parental addiction, domestic violence, poverty, neglect, mental health, etc. – were not dealt with.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Regional oversight is needed Dear Editor:

Re: Too many cities, too much money, Burnaby NOW, Opinion, Nov. 8. With respect to Mr. Travis’s opinion piece, it is open for debate whether our elected officials are paid too handsomely for the work they do as part of Metro Vancouver or how much power this regional body of governance actually possesses. We do need to cooperate regionally on many issues including development, transit, policing, food security and so on. Sometimes the aspirations of the region and local municipalities will be at odds, and those are times when real leadership is needed. Last week, Delta city council approved the rezon-

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ing of 530 acres of farmland near Boundary Bay and Beach Grove to build 950 homes and approximately 80,000 square feet of commercial space. This was done despite intense opposition from local residents. It was also done knowing that the region has designated the area in question as a green zone. Consequently, the final decision rests with Metro Vancouver’s regional planning and agriculture committee, which is chaired by Mayor Derek Corrigan. The voting on this committee is weighted, so larger municipalities like Burnaby have more influence on decisions than smaller ones. I hope the mayor uses his votes and influence to stand up for the local residents of Delta who were ignored by their council. The need of the region

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But why this report is not particularly shocking is that this disconnected relationship between governments of various levels and First Nations is evident in other areas. The lack of accountability, the maddening pace of improvements and a political cautiousness are ingrained in the relationship. For instance, billions of dollars have been spent on treaty negotiations, with precious little to show for all that spending. Again, lawyers and consultants and bands make money via governments but can’t point to many accomplishments. The aboriginal communities receive huge amounts of government funding, yet many of their members are mired in a state of chronic poverty. Health outcomes among aboriginal people are among the worst in the country. There is a tendency

among governments to simply write large cheques for aboriginal groups, as if that assuages any guilt that stems from taking vast tracts of their ancestral lands away from them. There is little followup to ensure money is spent properly or in ways that actually improve things. But the First Nations must share in the responsibility for this situation. First Nations themselves insist on being treated as quasi-independent nations capable of managing their own affairs, albeit with significant amounts of government funding. Some can and do just that, but in many instances there is a complete failure of leadership among their leaders. And so we are left with scandalous findings like those uncovered by Turpel-Lafond. She talks about the need to stop directing money into “the big theoretical fixes” and concentrate more on the front-line services.

As she points out, those front-line services have suffered because so much money was rerouted from them in favour of all those meetings and discussions. There have been many troubling and outrageous reports on various government entities over the years, but this one has to rank as one of the most outrageous. I’m told things have improved on this front in the last couple of years, and I hope that’s true. But I have a hard believing the basic system of handing government funding over with no accountability or followup will change in any significant way. Hopefully I will be proven wrong, but given the shameful history of the treatment of First Nations by governments and by some of their own leaders, I’m not betting on it. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C. Email him at Keith. Baldrey@globalnews.ca.

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It is predicting that raising the employer CPP “payroll tax” by as little as 1.5 per cent will have a negative impact on job growth as well as depress wages. Moreover, it is advancing the argument that employees themselves can ill afford a matching 1.5 per cent increase. In the first place, it is misleading to represent CPP contributions as a “payroll tax.” Both employer and employee pension contributions represent a portion of earned wages and are more properly described as salary set aside (or deferred) for payment at a future date in the form of pension income. So, for the record, this is not about increasing taxes. It’s about employers participating in a plan to provide an affordable retirement for their employees. Secondly, it seems to me that arguing that today’s employees cannot afford to contribute more of their earnings to CPP is a tacit admission that wages are already depressed. Will the federation agree to support raising the minimum wage laws to help correct this inequity? Or lobby for a general wage hike so everyone will have more money to put towards retirement? Of course not. Its mandate is to keep employer costs down, not increase them. In fact, it can be expected that when it comes to labour costs the federation will continue to pursue a race to the bottom philosophy. So let’s recognize the self-serving nature of its position on CPP enhancement and give it the short shrift it deserves. And let’s hope this is exactly what the finance ministers of this country will do when they sit down together next month.

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Woman dedicates Legion’s donations to Christmas Bureau, decades after someone helped her family Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

For Barb Walter Venne, Christmas giving has come full circle. The Vancouver resident has a childhood memory of someone helping her family during the holidays. “My mom had become a single parent. There were two Christmases where somebody brought a box of goodies to us, and I obviously never forgot that,” she recalls. She can’t remember who that person was, but she does recall the impact the gesture had on her as a child. “It just felt like a little bit BURNABY of extra COMMUNITY SERVICES Christmas. BURNABY CHRISTMAS BUREAU It was really exciting to get this box, and there were things in there that my mom would not buy. It was special,” she says. Decades later, as the second vice-president of the Royal Canadian Legion’s Branch No. 44, Walter Venne oversees the thousands of dollars the group donates to community causes every year. And each Christmas, Walter Venne makes sure the Burnaby Christmas Bureau is on the list of recipients. The bureau, facilitated by Burnaby Community Services, makes sure children from low-income families have toys under the tree for the holidays and seniors are provided with hampers of food and gifts. This year, Walter Venne signed the Legion up to sponsor three local seniors. Once the bureau matches her with the seniors, Walter Venne is responsible for calling them to find out their food preferences and wishes for Christmas. (The Christmas Bureau recommends spending $100 per person, or $200 per couple.) Last year, she filled the hampers with fruit, nuts, gloves, socks, chocolate, and gift certificates to Starbucks and a grocery store.

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Giving spirit: Barb Walter Venne remembers the kindness someone showed her family at Christmas years ago, and now she donates on behalf of the Legion to the Burnaby Christmas Bureau.

“It’s wonderful. I love doing the shopping, it’s really fun for me, and I really put a lot of time and thought into it,” she says. Walter Venne also delivers the hampers a few days before Christmas, and the seniors are always happy and grateful. “It’s really a big deal for these people, and a lot of them feel alone, and when something like this comes it’s really heartwarming,” she says. For Walter Venne, she’s passing on the Christmas kindness someone shared with

her family, years ago. “It’s really great to know that there’s someone out there thinking about you and the tough time you might be having,” she says. “Now, with my position at the Legion and being in charge of community donations, I have that ability to give back as well.” Last year, the Burnaby Christmas Bureau helped 75 seniors. “This year we hope to do more, but it’s not always easy to connect with those seniors most in need,” says Stephen

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urnaby resident Peter Cech sent us a note about local elementary students who decided to turn their

trick-or-treating opportunity into a philanthropic endeavor. The leadership club at Confederation Park Elementary spent Oct. 31 collecting donations for the food bank. The students delivered notices to homes on three different blocks in the Heights neighbourhood, alerting people that they would be collecting non-perishable items for

the food bank, instead of candy for themselves. Cech said the response was overwhelming, and the students collected roughly 215 items weighing 185 pounds.

Donations for dry grad sought

Parents of students at Burnaby Mountain Secondary are looking for

donations to help their kids raise money for an alcohol-free graduation party in 2014. The students have opted for a boat cruise, and the parent committee is seeking items for prizes in their raffle draw. The raffle ticket sales will help fund the boat cruise. The parents are also looking for local businesses to donate goods, cash or services (think gift cards,

experience packages or coupons), and the committee can issue tax receipts for $20 or more. To help the cause and support student sobriety, email bmssdrygrad2014@ gmail.com.

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Forest Grove Elementary has partnered with a nearby pizza restaurant to raise money for the

school’s garden program. The program, which has been running for roughly three years at Forest Grove, teaches kids about seeds and how to grow their own food and cook it. Restaurant owner Zakir Somani has a son in Grade 5 who attends Forest Grove. “I saw the kids working in the garden,” said

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Somani, who owns Canadian Pizza Plus. “I came up with this little idea: If I could get (food) from them, and in return, give it back to the community, that would be a wonderful idea.” As part of the pizza partnership, parents with children attending Forest Grove should have received a membership card from the school. For every menu item sold at the local restaurant, 10 per cent of the price will go to the garden program,

as long as the parents show their card or mention it on the phone for takeout orders. “All these parents, they are always ordering from us,” Somani said. “It’s a cashless donation, without any effort, parents are automatically giving.” The family-run restaurant is also using garlic and oregano from the students’ garden, and Somani’s mother makes the pizza sauce. “It comes from the garden, from the sweat of the little kids,” he added,

laughing. Forest Grove students can also sign up to learn how to make a pizza at Canadian Pizza Plus. If any parent did not receive a card, there are more available at the restaurant. Canadian Pizza Plus is at 8650 Cinnamon Dr. ◆ Do you have some interesting news about schools or local students to share with the community? Email education reporter Jennifer Moreau at jmoreau@burnabynow.com with the details. Follow her @JenniferMoreau on Twitter.

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Entertainment at this year’s event will Burnaby Community Services is hosting a fundraising gala to raise money for include Burnaby crooner Stephen Scaccia. There will be wine and other items up for the Christmas Bureau. The annual Burnaby Christmas Bureau auction, as well as a raffle, with proceeds going to the bureau. Tickets provides toys for local children are $65 and include a buffet from low-income families and BURNABY dinner. The event is schedChristmas hampers for seniors. COMMUNITY SERVICES “This event is really about BURNABY CHRISTMAS BUREAU uled for Thursday, Nov. 21, from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Grand bringing the community togethVilla Hotel at 4331 Dominion er to celebrate the work the Christmas Bureau does. It’s a big part of St. in Burnaby. For more information or our fundraising,” said Stephen D’Souza, tickets, call 604-299-5778 or go to www. executive director of Burnaby Community burnabycommunityconnections.com. jmoreau@burnabynow.com. Services, which facilitates the bureau.

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The RCMP has done it again. Six-year-old Keian Blundell became the second youngster to join the ranks of the Mounties, and to make it all official, the RCMP presented the youngster with a custommade red serge. “It’s really heartwarming and gives (you) that sense of community and family that extends beyond blood ties,” said Ryan Blundell, Keian’s father. Keian was diagnosed with leukemia in 2012 and since then has been in and out of hospital for chemotherapy treatments, bone marrow transplants and radiation. As a way of brightening the spirits of the brave boy, family friend and RCMP cadet Mark Peterse suggested the Mounties do something special for Keian. Earlier this year, the RCMP named 13-year-old Casey Wright an honorary Staff Sergeant Major. Casey, whose father is a staff photographer

at the NOW newspaper, was the guest of honour at the RCMP’s musical ride performance in Burnaby, and as the guest of honour he was given a custom-made red serge. Peterse, a family friend of the Blundells, saw the story on Wright while he was training with the RCMP in Regina and asked his instructor if they could do something similar for Keian. The RCMP agreed, and a plan was set into motion to have an old red serge fitted for Keian. “I was absolutely floored. It was a complete surprise,” Blundell said about learning Keian was going to get a red serge. Last week, Keian and his family – on their way to an appointment – drove by RCMP headquarters. As they passed the office, Keian turned to his parents and said one day he’d like to meet an RCMP officer. “Obviously we didn’t know this was going to happen, so it was just funny how it worked out,” Blundell said. Burnaby RCMP’s Staff Sgt. Maj.

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Stories We Tell, screening of the award-winning documentary film by Canadian actress and director Sarah Polley, 7 to 9 p.m. at the McGill library branch. Event is free, but space is limited. Register online, by calling 604 299-8955 or in person at the McGill library branch at 4595 Albert St. For more info: www.bpl.bc.ca/events/storieswe-tell-documentary-filmscreening.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Estate planning for seniors, workshop at the Edmonds Community Centre from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Estate planning is an essential task for seniors, regardless of wealth or assets. The workshop is $2. To register, call 604-2974838.

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Central to B.C.s, Cariboo out on PKs Tom Berridge sports editor

Vuk Erbez made good on Burnaby Central’s last chance at a B.C. high school berth into the AAA boys’ soccer championships. Erbez assisted on two goals by Wildcats’ teammate Parker Ellis and also scored off a second-half free kick to lead Burnaby Central to a 3-0 victory over Handsworth in the North Shore/BurWest zone provincial qualifying match last Thursday. Earlier last week, Central lost 21 to Sutherland for the No. 1 zone berth into the upcoming B.C. high school championships in Burnaby Nov. 21 to 23. “(Central) realized they missed an opportunity,” said Wildcats head coach Anto Steko. “I saw it in their faces, they really, really wanted to play.” Ellis gave the Burnaby league champs a 1-0 lead in the first half on a goal set up on a Erbez steal in the midfield. Ellis received the ball from his teammate and deked the Handsworth keeper, slotting the ball into the net from a tough angle. The North Shore runner-up came out in the second half and took the play to Central, but with just seven minutes left in the contest Ellis took a ball from Erbez and scored from just inside the 18-yard box. Erbez capped the win with a classic free kick from outside the box, putting the ball past the defensive player wall and into the bottom corner. “It’s the worst part trying to weather a 1-0 game. I think they realized that, and took the advantage,” Steko added. Trevor Hughes recorded the shutout in goal from the ’Cats. In Burnaby, BNW runnerup Cariboo Hill Chargers were unlucky following a 3-2 shutout loss to St. Thomas Aquinas in a AA boys’ soccer qualifier at Cariboo Oval on Thursday. The arguably more skilled Chargers were victimized on two

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In and out: Burnaby Central, in red, qualified for the B.C. high school AAA soccer championships, while Cariboo Hill, in blue, lost a shootout in the AA zone provincial qualifier.

long goal-scoring shots on goal but battled back on both occasions to equalize, but they could not manage to put the go-ahead goal past STA keeper Sam MacDonald. The High Performance League Fusion FC keeper made a number of key stops and also had some luck on his side to record the win. But in the shootout, it was all MacDonald, making huge stops on Kirk Menezes and Scott Duncan to help the North Shore independent

school to a 3-1 advantage on penatly kicks. David Genet tied the contest 2-2 late in the second half on a pretty play, taking a short pass on his left foot and firing a low shot past the STA keeper from 20 yards out. With Cariboo pressing, Menezes just missed the goal with a low, hard strike. Alberto Pincelli also had a couple of fine crosses go wanting,

including a ball to Manraj Sidhu that wound up in a red card to the Charger player, despite the appearance of a possible foul by a North Shore defender. Down a man, Cariboo’s Duncan had a header off a long free kick by Menezes, glance off both the post and crossbar from close range in the dying moments of the match. In overtime, both Menezes and Soccer Page 24

Tackling will be key to stopping Mt. Doug Tom Berridge

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The St. Thomas More Knights will need their stoppers and more when they face the No. 1-ranked Mt. Douglas Rams in B.C. AAA varsity football this week. The Knights put up big defensive numbers following a 35-21 win over Belmont in the first round of the varsity football playoffs at Burnaby Lake

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Sports Complex-West last Friday. STM’s Drew Belgrave made a dozen individual tackles, and had a fumble recovery for a touchdown, while free safety Anthony Carteri added 11 stops to slow down the Belmont running attack. On the offensive side of the ball, STM quarterback Malcolm Lee rushed for 193 yards and three touchdowns. Shane Noel also rushed

for more than 100 yards and a score, while Andrew Flett had 84 yards on the ground and one TD. Early in the second half, Belmont appeared to have tied the game 13-13 on a short run, but the play was ruled no touchdown on what appeared to be an apparent error on the part of the line official. Following the ensuing turnover on downs, Lee engineered a 98-yard scoring drive, including a 60-

yard run that increased STM’s lead to 21-7. “Our offence did a great job of putting up points fast, and our defence did a good job of getting good field position,” said Belgrave, who picked up a fumble in the Belmont backfield in the final quarter and raced into the end zone from 30 yards out to make the score 35-14 for the Knights. But Belgrave is under no illusions about what it

will take to stop offensive MVP Marcus Davis and the No. 1 Rams. “Open field tackling will be the difference,” said Belgrave. “Man on man, you can’t beat their offensive line. We have to outsmart them on defence. “If we can cause turnovers, we can win the game.” The Knights must travel to Victoria for a Friday matchup with the defending B.C. champion Rams.

The Moscrop Panthers capped an undefeated B.C. high school football season, winning their first-ever provincial Tier II title. The Panthers ran away from Howe Sound in the opening half en route to a 34-6 victory over Howe Sound in the championship final at Burnaby Sports Complex-West on Friday. “I’m just so excited for the guys,” said Moscrop head coach Craig Bymoen. “We set some goals this year. It was about finishing each and every play as well as we could and let the scoreboard take care of itself. “I was happy they met those challenges and they worked out.” Hamed Ghias scored two rushing touchdowns in the first half, while Andrew Jones tallied his first of two scores on a 35-yard pitch pass from Abdinasir Abdi with just five seconds left in the second quarter. Andrew Johnson also tallied, keeping possession of the ball off the back of a prone Howe Sound defender on a 15-yard toss from Panthers’ quarterback Ari Ali into the end zone for what turned out to be the game-winning score. The win was Moscrop’s first provincial grid title and second trip to a Tier II final. In 2009, the Panthers lost to Timberline in the championship game. Earlier this season, the Panthers also defeated Argyle’s AA football team 35-7 in an exhibition match. But moving up to AA ball isn’t in Moscrop’s future plans, said Bymoen, owing to traditionally low turnout numbers and the lack of minor feeder programs. This season Moscrop put together a winning season with just 27 players, including six juniors. “It was more about stepping back and watching their happiness and how it unfolded,” said Bymoen of the win. “We’re trying to build football into something boys want to play at Moscrop.”

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Four women named all-region in NCAA national qualifier Lindsey Butterworth led the Simon Fraser University women to the upcoming NCAA Division II crosscountry championships. The Clan senior ran with the lead pack, finishing fourth overall in the women’s six-kilometre final in a time of 22:03. Butterworth’s finish, along with three of her teammates, Kirstin Allen, Kansas Mackenzie and freshman Rebecca Bassett, all earned West region all-team honours after the Clan’s third-place finish in Spokane. Bassett finished 16th overall in a time of 22:41, Mackenzie and Allen placed 20th and 25th, respectively. Emma Chadsey rounded out the SFU team scoring with a 29th-place finish. “It was a great performance, exactly what we wanted,” said Clan head

coach Brit Townsend in a prepared release. “I’m really proud of the girls. They were determined to make up for last year and there was no doubt that we were one of the top teams.” SFU finished just behind winner Alaska Anchorage and runner-up Chico State. Clan freshman Oliver Jorgensen was also selected to the all-region team, following an 18th-place finish with a time of 32:32 in the men’s 10km. Jorgensen missed qualifying for one of the three available individual berths to the nationals by just five seconds. The SFU men, including Cameron Proceviat of Burnaby, Brendan Wong, James Young and Austin Trapp, improved as a team by three places from last year with a 10th-place finish.

Proceviat placed 37th with a 33:12 clocking. Wong was next best at 34:02, good enough for 53rd overall. Chico State won the men’s team title. Prior to the cross-country regionals, eight SFU runners were named to the conference all-academic team. Senior James Young was the only repeat winner with a 3.76 grade point average. Proceviat made the squad with a 3.73 GPA in molecular biology. Lorenzo Smith topped the men with a 4.22 GPA in biomedical physiology. Wong also earned a spot. Allen made the women’s roster for a third time with a 3.80 GPA in kinesiology. Peggy Noel, Emma Chadsey and Tanya Humeniuk also made the all-academic team in their first year of eligibility.

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Genet had chances on Pincelli attacks. “I felt like we controlled the game more than they did. We played with more skill. We were just unlucky,” said Lucas Nadiu, who had to leave the field late in the game

following a hard tackle from behind. The B.C. high school championships will begin with the AA finals on Nov. 18 at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West. The AAA tournament starts on Thursday, Nov. 21.

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