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Ambulances are taking too long Jacob Zinn staff reporter

The release of the Burnaby Fire Department’s annual report was as good a reason as any for council to criticize ambulance response times in the city.

At Monday’s council meeting, Coun.

Colleen Jordan highlighted the types of calls that the fire department responds to, and noted that more and more of them are medical emergencies.

“The 2013 annual report … shows that 59.2 per cent of the calls that our fire department responds to are classified as medical emergencies, and that doesn’t include another 1,500 motor vehicle incidents,” she said.

“In total, that’s 70 per cent of the callouts that our fire department responds to. The fire service is becoming much more of a rescue service than a fire service.”

Jordan noted proper paramedic service was a hot topic at the recent Union of B.C. Municipalities conference and said that in Ambulance Page 10

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Hometown welcome: Burnaby native and Grammy award winner Michael Bublé poses for photos with RCMP officers at the Burnaby RCMP open house on Saturday. Bublé showed up at the open house with his grandfather Demetrio Santanga to pay a call on Const. Michael Kalanj, whose father was a longtime family friend of Santanga. For more photos from the open house, see page 21 and check out www.burnabynow.com.

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NEB will hold hearing on pipeline access Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

The National Energy Board is holding an oral hearing on Oct. 8 in Calgary to resolve the legal imbroglio between the city and Kinder Morgan over the Burnaby Mountain conservation area.

While Burnaby is arguing Kinder Morgan is breaking the local bylaw by cutting trees in a city park, the pipeline

company maintains it has the federally sanctioned right to work on the cityowned property, whether Burnaby grants permission or not.

The NEB wants the two parties to weigh in on the issue at the Calgary hearing and answer questions on whether the board has the legal authority to strike down Burnaby’s bylaw, so Kinder Morgan can work on the mountain.

“We’ll hear arguments from both sides

and any attorney generals, should they choose to participate,” said NEB spokesperson Sarah Kiley.

Mayor Derek Corrigan took issue with the Calgary location, pointing out that the distance makes it difficult for Burnaby residents to attend.

“We requested that the hearings take place here,” Corrigan said in a media release on Monday.

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palities already granted intervenor status in the pipeline hearing, plan to back Burnaby in the Oct. 8 hearing, and the city’s lawyer expects more to come forward.

“The big issue here is whether the NEB has the power to strike down municipal laws,” Greg McDade told the NOW. “This is a really important constitutional

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GOVERNMENT RECLAIMS MONEY SAVED DURING STRIKE

District forced to rethink budget Cornelia Naylor staff reporter

Burnaby school officials are concerned a government clawback of teacher-strike savings will leave a hole in this year’s budget.

In a memo sent to school districts about two weeks ago, the Education Ministry announced it will reclaim all strike savings

from September.

The problem, according to Burnaby secretary-treasurer Greg Frank, is that, while the district has saved money on teacher salaries and benefits since the beginning of the fiscal year, which started in August, it has also lost revenue from things like summer school and adult education and incurred extra costs for things like fieldtrips for international students

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Budget uncertainty: Burnaby school district secretary-treasurer Greg Frank, pictured here

at a school board meeting in the spring, said a government clawback of teacher strike savings could mean changes to this year’s budget.

during the days the strike held up the beginning of the school year.

“If they’re just looking at savings, and we’ve got all these extra costs or lost revenues, we’re concerned with this year’s budget,” Frank said.

Unlike the total clawback of September strike savings, the province only took back $5.2 million of the $9.6 million the district saved during job action in May and June, according to audited 2013/14 financial statements Frank presented to the board of education last week.

School officials had hoped to use the remaining $4.4-million surplus to cover a significant budget shortfall projected for next year.

But now they’re working to find out if it will even be enough to cover extra expenses and lost revenue this school year.

“Part of our concern is, the surplus that we had from last year, is that going to be sufficient to help cover off some of these other funding shortfalls that we’ve got in the current year?” Frank said.

The district will provide the Education Ministry with details on all strike-related savings, he said, along with information about additional costs and lost net revenues, but the government has made no promises about pitching in extra money to make up for the latter.

“At this point, the ministry has indicated that they’ll be taking back the savings, and they’re going to consider the additional costs,” Frank said, “but they haven’t yet made a commitment to allow us to retain enough funding to cover those off, and that’s what our concern is.”

To see the district’s audited financial statements for 2013/14, visit sd41.bc.ca and click on the Budget and Policies button.

Burnaby wants New West to put brakes on Jacob Zinn staff reporter

The City of Burnaby has some issues with New Westminster’s draft transportation plan and is calling on the neighbouring municipality to review the proposed traffic strategy.

Last week, council voted in favour of authorizing city staff to “engage in a detailed review of the various cycling, truck route and road classification issues arising from New Westminster’s draft master transportation plan,” highlighting concerns with cross-border cycling connections and the

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removal of regional truck traffic.

Coun. Nick Volkow, a former truck driver, took issue with the idea of creating a three-kilometre tunnel near Third Avenue to divert truck traffic under most of New Westminster.

“I think most people in Metro Vancouver are aware of New Westminster’s desire to have no truck traffic on their streets, which is an admirable goal,” he said. “I dare say that truck traffic is probably not compatible with most cities’ aspirations in the Lower Mainland, but the reality is in a major metropolitan area, truck traffic is part of the scenery.

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“As much as I would like to accommodate New Westminster in shutting down all truck traffic going through there, I don’t think that can happen.”

Coun. Paul McDonell expressed similar concerns, namely with the proposed closure of several streets in New West’s truck network, including Front Street.

“Traffic is an issue in every municipality,” he said. “I think in Burnaby, we’ve handled this as well as we could. We have five different routes through our city for traffic flow.

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or Hastings, a lot of those are traffic commutes in the morning and afternoon. There are people just commuting through our city.”

He likened closing off one of those routes to plugging a leak, only to have another spring up elsewhere.

“The trucks are going to traffic, and every time you shut down one route, it just means they’re going to blow up another one.”

Mayor Derek Corrigan said for New West to close parts of its truck traffic network, the big rigs would detour through Burnaby Traffic Page 4

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Pipeline: Can the National Energy Board override municipal bylaws? continued from page 1

principle with ramifications beyond this particular fight. If the NEB is going to seize the power to strike down (these) laws, then we’re all in trouble.”

As part of the larger, $5.4billion Trans Mountain expansion, Kinder Morgan wants to build a pipeline through the conservation area. However, when crews started clearing the land in September, the city issued a stopwork order and tickets for cutting down trees. Kinder Morgan

Meanwhile, Kinder “We have the jurisMorgan has stopped diction to rule on a work on Burnaby constitutional issue. It Mountain but has alertsays that in the NEB ed Westridge residents Act, we have that right, that survey work will but generally speaking continue in their neighwe would want to hear bourhood, which was from both parties, and the original plan. Kinder the attorney generals,” Morgan opted for the she said.

Burnaby Mountain After the hearing, the route to avoid crossing three-person panel han- Derek Corrigan four private properties dling the Trans Mountain mayor and backlash from local expansion will make a residents. decision.

then asked the NEB for an access order to force Burnaby to cooperate, but the board rejected that, asking instead for a “notice of constitutional question” since granting the request would mean overriding Burnaby’s bylaw.

Kinder Morgan filed that notice Friday, and the NEB has been quick to respond, as promised.

While the city has applied to the B.C. Supreme Court to rule on the conflict, Kiley said the board can handle constitutional questions.

The current pipeline, in place since the 1950s, runs through the Westridge area, but Kinder Morgan would like to decommission it and run it through Burnaby Mountain, along with the new pipeline.

Last week, the city’s anti-pipeline motion at the Union of B.C. Municipalities conference was narrowly defeated, but Burnaby’s emergency resolution calling for NEB hearing reform was passed.

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putting added stress to the city’s roads.

“Even within the report, it’s indicated traffic, trucks particularly, may have to go through Burnaby from New Westminster to access other places in New Westminster, which takes it to the point of absurd,” he said.

“WhileIoftensidewithNewWestminster on issues like the Pattullo Bridge … there’s a point where you’ve got to have a goodneighbour policy to ensure we’re all able to deal with the implications of decisions you’re making in your own municipality.”

On Monday, New Westminster city council approved the city’s master transportation plan.

New West Coun. Jonathan Cote, who co-chairs the city’s master transportation plan committee, said Burnaby council’s stance may be “a bit of an overreaction” and assured changes to truck traffic routes in New West would have a minimal impact on neighbouring city streets.

“Our plan still recognizes that New Westminster plays a role for a goods movement strategy, but we do have some routes that are going through neighbourhoods that are just not appropriate for major truck routes – and some that don’t even have a major demand,” he said, calling the tunnel a creative solution to the city’s truck traffic problem.

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Four charged in vehicle thefts Cayley Dobie staff reporter

Four people are facing charges following a joint investigation by Burnaby RCMP and neighbouring New Westminster Police Department.

The suspects are allegedly responsible for dozens of vehicle thefts across the Lower Mainland, including Burnaby, Coquitlam, New West, Richmond and Vancouver. Police allege commercial vans were being targeted by this group to transport stolen property during other crimes, according to a media release from Burnaby RCMP. During the summer, a spike in auto thefts and theft from vehicles was identified – in a three-week period, 20 vans were stolen in Burnaby, according to the release.

Burnaby’s prolific offender suppression team determined the thefts were being committed by a group of suspects known to police, and on July 15 the team arrested 31-year-old Robert Karajaoja in connection to the alleged thefts. He was

charged with 11 offences but later released.

Last week, Karajaoja was once again arrested, this time by Burnaby RCMP and New Westminster police during a multi-jurisdictional investigation.

Around 3 p.m. on Sept.

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A short while later, three people returned to the truck and drove away. With help from the Air 1 police helicopter, officers were able to arrest the suspects without incident, the release added.

Robert Karajaoja and Kevin Richard Montemurro, 21, are both charged with one count of theft of a motor vehicle and possession of stolen property. Thomas Karajaoja, 26, is charged with one count of theft over $5,000 and possession of stolen property over $5,000, and Monique Andreasen, 33, is facing one count of possession of break-in instruments.

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Tories need to back apology with action

Dealing with non-answers is a comIt was the exchange that launched mon frustration for journalists, which a thousand face palms: NDP leader only partially explains why Calandra Tom Mulcair questioning Conservative is getting scorched by the media.

MP Paul Calandra last week on the Regular folks are also finding the nowgovernment’s plan for Canada in Iraq. infamous Mulcair-Calandra exchange Calandra continually evaded the quesannoying as a video of the tions and responded with a incident makes the rounds on non-sequiturial criticism of Burnaby NOW social media. the NDP’s position on Israel Calandra delivered a tear– over and over again. ful apology in the House last Friday, It was awful, it was embarrassing, and CBC reported that a senior staffer it made a mockery of respectful debate in the Prime Minister’s Office put him among adults at the highest level of up to the non-answers. (Make no mispower in Canada.

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number of key First Nations leaders have adroitly realized the best way to kill the Site C dam project may be to hitch their potential support for building LNG pipelines to the dam never being built.

Getting First Nations’ support for any major economic development that involves land use or the extraction of natural resources has been the reality in recent years and will only become more critical in the years ahead.

The strong opposition of First Nations is a major reason why Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline will likely never be built. Premier Christy Clark’s government faces a number of challenges towards getting an LNG industry up and running in this province, not the least of which is ensuring First Nations don’t decide to block any pipelines or projects.

So when three key B.C. First Nations leaders travelled to Ottawa last week to send a message to the federal government that they strongly oppose the

Site C dam – but might be open to supporting other forms of energy, including LNG pipelines – it’s important that everyone sit up and take notice.

Chief Roland Wilson of the West Moberly First Nation, which would be most directly affected by the massive flooding that would occur if Site C dam is built, made it clear he won’t support any LNG pipelines if Site C proceeds. His band is one of the few bands to have signed a treaty with the provincial government, having done so back in 1899. As such, it’s not entirely clear how the recent Supreme Court of Canada landmark decision conferring aboriginal title will affect treaty bands’ opposition to Site C. Nevertheless, Wilson’s support for LNG pipelines is likely needed, and so is that of other First Nations. This is not going to be an easy thing to secure, given that not all First Nations share the same views on resource development.

Public opposition to LNG does not appear to be anywhere near the level attached to oil pipelines like Northern Gateway or Kinder Morgan’s proposed twinned pipeline project. A “spill” from an LNG pipeline simply dissipates into the atmosphere, instead of fouling creek beds or coast lines.

The main concern over natural gas extraction is the practice Site C Page 7

take, his apology was likely scripted by senior bureaucrats as well.)

However, the authenticity of an apology is measured by action. You can cry all you want and you can say sorry, but are you willing to change your behaviour?

The Conservatives had a chance to do just that, thanks to an NDP motion that would give the speaker more power to stop irrelevant questions and answers during question period.

The vote was Tuesday night, and as we were going to press, Burnaby-New

Westminster MP Peter Julian was trying to get a minimum of 12 Tories to support the motion to get it passed.

When the NOW last spoke with Julian, he had one. The speaker already has the power to quash irrelevancy in other areas of the house – it’s just question period where this silliness still happens. If Calandra is truly sorry for his performance in the house, we expect him to not only support the motion but lobby his fellow Tories to back it.

Otherwise, his apology is just more empty theatrics.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Is writer living in a glass house?

Dear Editor:

Re: Letters to the Editor: Protesters help terrorism, Burnaby NOW, Sept 24 and Put conspiracy theories away, Burnaby NOW, Sept. 26.

Letter writer Ziggy Eckardt wrote about what might happen if we stop developing Canada’s natural resources: “The world is not going to stop using oil. Canada’s potential customers will simply keep buying it from their old suppliers in the Middle East.” He also pointed out that “Islamic terrorists are for the most part financed by oil producing Arab states.”

It is obvious that subsequent writer Lou Kaiser does not like these statements. But, instead of offer-

ing a rational rebuttal, Kaiser uses the age-old tactic of those who have nothing of substance to contribute to any given debate. He simply resorts to name calling and attacking the messenger.

He starts by calling Eckardt’s common sense statements “conspiracy theories.” And then he proceeds, while oblivious that it could be more fittingly applied to Kaiser himself, to drop the bombshell: “It seems to be outside his grasp to see that there are other points of view out there besides his own.”

Kaiser’s lack of tolerance for different opinions goes so far that he accuses “these folks,” meaning anyone who disagrees with him, of being financed

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter attack unwarranted continued from page 6

fully 153 words to this kind of ad hominem innuendos.

And then, at the end of his letter, perhaps to justify his lack of reasoning, he tacks on 22 words of platitudes about “clean air, clean water” and “future generations” as if to accuse those of us who support responsible resource development of not valuing these motherhood-and-applepie concepts.

Kaiser’s conduct is reminiscent of the old adage about people who live in glass houses.

I respectfully suggest that he search Google Web and Videos for the phrase “foreign-funded environmentalists.”

Eva Derton, Burnaby

Are your concerns more important than others’?

Dear Editor:

With regard to the letter by Jim Ervin, How Is MLA spending her time? (Burnaby NOW, Sept. 26) with regard to smart meters, may I submit the following: Jane Shin gets hundreds of letters requesting her to take action on some individual’s personal complaint.

She doesn’t run the legislature.

She is fortunate if she gets an opportunity to address even one or two contentious problems since she is only one of 85 members with a right to address the house.

Furthermore, if the problem area is not within her portfolio, she would forward it to the member that is involved for his/her consideration.

In the meantime, she did tell the complainant that she would discuss this with Sharon Stone of the Anti-Smartmeter Coalition when they meet at the end of October.

So she is taking his request seriously.

As for the newsletter that went out last spring, that was probably in final draft long before the request by the complainant was made.

At that time, as of right now, there was nothing to report.

I would humbly suggest that the person who wrote this letter to the editor is not well apprised of parliamentary procedures, wrote in ignorance of any actions that may have already happened within the party and the legislature, or erroneously believes that his concerns outweigh the concerns of others.

When there is something to report, it will be reported in the newsletter of the NDP minister responsible for such concerns, not Jane Shin.

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of fracking, which involves injecting huge amounts of water laced with chemicals deep into the ground in order to loosen gas deposits. But so far, at least, there is not much evidence of a groundswell of opposition to this practice.

But the opposition, from both the general public and First Nations, towards the Site C dam project will likely increase substantially in the years ahead. Chief Wilson argues that his territory is already abuzz with all kinds of industrial activity – fracking, gas wells, windfarms – and to add both LNG pipelines and a massive hydroelectric dam is simply too much, and that’s an argument that will likely gain more traction with the public.

So don’t be entirely surprised if the B.C. government loses enthusiasm for

building Site C if it realizes doing so may jeopardize a more prized part of its economic and energy strategy – getting an LNG industry firmly established in this province. !

I see the Ministry of Children and Family Development is once again displaying its trademark tone-deafness, as it has apparently decided to deduct post-secondary bursaries from any financial aid foster youth receive from the province.

Mary-Ellen TurpelLafond, the B.C. Representative for Children and Youth, blew the whistle on the scheme last week, calling it “petty” and “embarrassing.”

She had led a successful campaign to provide free tuition for foster youth, who statistically face tougher challenges when it comes to education,

employment and avoiding poverty.

A number of B.C. financial institutions stepped up to the plate, and provided free tuition or bursaries.

But now the ministry is “clawing” them back from these vulnerable youth.

Turpel-Lafond disclosed one case that saw a foster youth have a $1,300 bursary deducted from her support payments, and she says she has heard from a number of other foster youth over the summer who reported similar stories.

Turpel-Lafond has demanded the problem be “fixed” immediately.

Given her track record of winning these kinds of battles, I can only assume it will be. But as of this column’s writing, it had not. Get on it, MCFD. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

WATERMAIN FLUSHING The City Engineering Department will be commencing its annual program of flushing and cleaning watermains on October 1st to December 19th, 2014.

This activity may cause pressure fluctuations, some discoloration and sediment in the water supply reaching your home or business.

These conditions should be of short duration and do not pose a health hazard.

If your water appears discolored after our crews have finished flushing, clear your water by running a cold water tap.

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Priority is given to letters written by residents of Burnaby and/or issues concerning Burnaby. Please include a phone number where you can be reached during the day. Send letters to: The Editor, #201A-3430 Brighton Ave., Burnaby, B.C., V5A 3H4, fax them to 604-444-3460 or e-mail: editorial@burnabynow.com

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Has question period gone off the rails?

NDP motion would give the House Speaker more power to block irrelevant exchanges Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

The NDP is attempting to keep question period in the House of Commons on track with a motion to give the House Speaker more powers to block irrelevant questions and answers.

The party used its “opposition day” to put the motion forward, however, the majority-holding Conservatives could very likely vote it down unless at least 12 Tories support it. The vote takes place Tuesday night, after NOW deadlines.

NDP House leader Peter Julian, the MP for Burnaby-New Westminster, is working

on bolstering Tory support.

“Canadians expect question period to actually include answers,” Julian told the NOW. “Other jurisdictions, other parliaments, like the United Kingdom and Australia, already give their speaker this ability.”

The NDP motion followed a recent exchange between NDP leader Tom Mulcair and Tory MP Paul Calandra. When Mulcair asked Calandra Peter Julian about the government’s Burnaby MP plan in Iraq, Calandra responded with an unrelated criticism on the NDP’s position in Israel – repeatedly. jmoreau@burnabynow.com

Dhaliwal named UBCM prez

The Union of B.C. Municipalities has a new president, and it’s Burnaby Coun. Sav Dhaliwal.

As the UBCM’s annual conference wrapped up in Whistler last week, the City of Burnaby announced Dhaliwal’s acclamation as the head of the presidents’ committee. Previously, he held the position of first vice-president on the committee, and he currently sits on the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ B.C. board of directors.

“I look forward to representing Burnaby and all other UBCM local government members to maximize the many benefits UBCM membership affords us as we work to ensure local government voices are heard by provincial and federal governments and agencies as they develop and implement policies that will affect our citizens,” Dhaliwal said in a statement.

– Jacob Zinn For more on this story, see www. burnabynow.com.

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Ambulance: Councillors say wait times aren’t good enough exacerbated when, in fact, it the past four years, there’s takes a half-hour for a parabeen no increase in para- medic vehicle to arrive,” he said, calling on the promedic service in Burnaby.

Mayor Derek Corrigan vincial government to step up the service clarified that the levels for B.C. Burnaby Fire “I hate to be municipalities.

Department complaining “I hate to be is happy to respond to nonabout the level of c o m p l a i n i n g the level fire emergenservice by another about of service by cies but stressed order of govern- another order that inadequate of government, ambulance serment, but this but this just vice, paired just isn’t isn’t satisfacwith backups tory, both in at Burnaby satisfactory.” the sense of the Hospital that hospital being may delay paraDEREK CORRIGAN mayor able to service medics from properly and in getting to their next call, can be a matter of the sense of the paramedics being available to us.” life and death.

In April, Burnaby Fire “We don’t mind that we’re the closest to the Chief Doug McDonald scene, but the program is criticized B.C. Emergency continued from page 1

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That incident prompted Burnaby-Deer Lake MLA Kathy Corrigan, then the NDP critic for Public Safety and Corrections, to call on Health Minister Terry Lake to order an investigation into the incident.

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hat was Burnaby Heights like in the 1960s and `70s?

Local resident Jack Bramhill, 60, spoke at a Burnaby Historical Society gathering recently, giving us a glimpse back in time through the eyes of a child.

The city has changed from a sleepy suburb to a hub of construction activity, but Bramhill recalled when the Bosa brothers, now major development magnates, were still attending Burnaby Heights Secondary.

Like now, the Heights was the place to shop. Hastings was lined with billboards and empty lots, where kids played commando. Hastings Street was paved, but the rustic side streets were covered in gravel, and if you fell off your bike, you’d be covered in the oil used to keep the dust down.

Every home with a television had an antenna on top, and people would often have to re-jig them after windstorms.

If you wanted to see TV in colour, you could go to the Golden Horseshoe restaurant for dinner. Glenburn Dairy was the place to go for ice cream, before it was torn down and replaced by a Smitty’s pancake restaurant. Valley Bakery, still a popular shop today, was up and running at the time. Ray’s Associated Grocery, on Oxford and Gilmore, was the place to buy baseball cards and candy, like licorice pipes and cigarettes made of sugar now considered inappropriate for children.

If you went bowling in the Heights, in the days before automation, there were “pinboys” who set up the pins you knocked over.

“These are the memories of Burnaby I have as a child,” Bramhill told the audience, while flipping through a slideshow of black-and-white photos from the city’s archives.

Bramhill wasn’t the only one sharing memories.

Audience members brought photos and relics from days gone by, sharing their memories of the Heights.

See page 12 for more

Then & Now:

At left, Hastings Street in 1968, looking east from Gilmore Avenue. Signs for Wosk’s and the Admiral Hotel are visible across the street.

Below, the same spot on Hastings Street today.

Below left, a scene from the Popular Cafe in 1976 at 4010 Hastings, now the site of Chad Thai Restaurant.

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From left, some of the billboards along Hastings Street in 1976.

Smitty’s replaced the old Glenburn Dairy, the place to go for ice cream in the Heights.

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Prevention

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A Message from Burnaby’s Fire Chief:

As part of the Annual Fire Prevention week, the Burnaby Fire Department will be hosting information displays related to Fire Prevention and Safety Awareness at Lougheed Town Center and at Home Depot (3950 Henning Drive) on Saturday October 4th.

The 2014 theme is:

“Working Smoke Alarms Save Lives. Test Yours Every Month!”

Properly functioning smoke alarms provide an early warning of smoke and fire. A smoke alarm becomes your “Nose at Night”.

Since most fatal fires occur during the night when people are sleeping, a smoke detector can be the difference between getting out safely and not getting out at all! Remember to test the batteries in your smoke alarms at regular intervals and ensure your family has a fire escape plan. To escape safely you must make sure that everyone in the home knows about, and has practiced the plan.

We will have information pamphlets on hand regarding smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. As well, we will be teaching everyone how to properly use a fire extinguisher by holding demonstrations and allowing those in attendance to use our fire extinguisher simulator!

Children can also enter to win: • Fire Chief for a Day • Deluxe Pedal Fire Truck (Donated by the Burnaby Fire Fighters Association Local 323 I.A.F.F.)

Please come out and join us at Lougheed Town Center or Home Depot on Henning Drive on Saturday October 4th to learn how to be fire safe.

We hope to see you there!

Fire Chief Doug McDonald

Come by and meet some of your local firefighters. Learn how to stay safe and prevent fires in your home. Lots of pamphlets and take away information on fire safety will be available all day.

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Cooking Safety Cooking brings family and friends together, provides an outlet for creativity and can be relaxing. But did you know that cooking fires are the number one cause of home fires and home injuries? injuires? By following a few safety tips you can prevent these fires.

COOK WITH CAUTION • Be on alert! If you are sleepy or have consumed alcohol don’t use the stove or stovetop.

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• Keep a lid nearby when you’re cooking to smother small grease fires. Smother the fire by sliding the lid over the pan and turn off the stovetop. Leave the pan covered until it is completely cooled.

• For an oven fire turn off the heat and keep the door closed.

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MAKE SURE A FIRE NEVER STARTS BY FOLLOWING THESE SIMPLE TIPS:

• If you smoke use large, deep ashtrays. If anyone in the home smokes, smoke outside. Never smoke in bed.

• Don’t reach for danger! Wear tight-fitting or rolled-up sleeves when cooking and don’t reach over a hot burner. Always stay in the kitchen when you are cooking.

• Always blow out candles before leaving the room.

• Ensure items that can burn are one metre away from space heaters.

• Avoid overloading the electrical outlets. Extension cords should be used only as a temporary connection.

• Avoid running cords under rugs, which can damage the cord and cause a fire.

• Install a smoke alarm on every level of your home and outside all sleeping areas. Test smoke alarms once a month and replace the battery once a year, or whenever the low-battery warning sounds.

• Know exactly what to do and where to go if there is a fire. Plan and practice your escape! Develop a home fire escape plan or refer to your building’s fire safety plan.

• Once you’ve escaped the fire, call the fire department from a neighbour’s home.

Canadian adults 65 years and older are at higher risk of dying by fire than any other age group.

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On the ropes: Robert Couzens (in white and black) spars with a fellow boxer as Rosalia Calla watches from the sidelines at Burnaby North Boxing Club. Couzens and Calla are heading – along with three other fighters from their club – to the World Boxing Council amateur Canadian championships later this month.

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At first blush, boxers Rosalia Calla and Robert Couzens, of the North Burnaby Boxing Club, seem like yin and yang.

She is like a humming bird. She is a five-foot-two, 33-year-old spark plug who laughs easily, seems to never stop moving and speaks as fast as she swings.

Her weekly schedule includes working as a nutrition expert at a grocery store, coaching other boxers and training more than the average football team fits into a month.

Couzens, 22, works out just as much, but is five-foot-eleven, soft-spoken, serious, shy unless he is talking about boxing and speaks carefully, as if considering the importance of every word.

Despite their differences, the pair have a lot in common besides their shared club.

They are both experienced, accomplished boxers heading – along with three other fighters from their club – to the World Boxing Council (WBC) amateur Canadian championships, in Mississauga later this month.

Calla’s list of accomplishments in the ring include 2006 and 2009 B.C. Bronze Gloves Champion, 2007-2008 B.C. top female boxer of the year award, 2008 Tacoma Golden Gloves champion (first Canadian woman to win it) and five-time bronze medallist at the Boxing Canada Nationals, to name a few.

Asked how she will do in the 115-pound Calla, whose grandfather was a boxer back in his day, started boxing in 2004 as a category in Ontario, Sobral answered way to cross-train with the goal of being a quickly, “She’ll win.”

In spite of her many years of dedication, fitness model, but once she got started, she training and personal achievements, surcaught the boxing bug.

“I lost my first two matches back-to- prisingly Calla said her proudest achieveback and everybody was like, ‘Oh maybe ment came ringside, last year.

“A boxer I train by the name of Remy this isn’t the sport for you,’ and I was like, Lavoie won the Western ‘Hell no, this is the sport for Canadian Championships and me. I am totally going to keep “Once I step was voted top male boxer of doing it,’” she said, with a through the 2013,” she said. “It’s great to hardy laugh. ropes, that is it. share the same enthusiasm I Calla said boxing is a great for the sport [with] future sport for building confidence, It is like my alter have athletes.” something she lacked as a ego steps in and I Couzens was one of the young girl who was someyounger athletes Calla gave times bullied. am the boss.” her time and energy.

“Once I step through the Calla was Couzens’ first ropes, that is it. It is like my Rosalia Calla North Burnaby Boxing Club sparring partner, when he first alter ego steps in and I am the began boxing when he was 12 boss,” she said.

Her trainer is full of praise for the now years old.

“Robert is like my little brother,” she veteran boxer. (According to Calla, most women box competitively until they are said.

Couzens, a middleweight boxer, is as between 34 and 36 years old.)

“She’s busy and she thinks,” said humble outside the ring as he is fierce in Manuel Sobral, Calla’s trainer and a for- it. He works by day as a youth program mer Olympic welterweight (1988 Summer worker for the City of Burnaby and studOlympics in Seoul, South Korea). “She ies criminology at Douglas College. (He feints, she moves around instead of just said he isn’t sure what he wants to do once he graduates, but will keep working with staying in one spot all the time.”

More than anything, Sobral said, what youth.)

Born and raised in Burnaby, Couzens makes Calla a great boxer is her tenacity.

“She sticks at it … and she works hard. is a recent Golden Gloves Champion You have to go through the good and the (August 2014), four-time WBC Canadian Super Middleweight Champion, and 2012 bad times,” he said.

North Burnaby Boxing Club light-heavyweight champion – and those are just his most recent accomplishments.

Even though he has enough victories to make the average person arrogant, Couzens isn’t taking anything for granted in his preparation for the Ontario bout where he will compete in the 160-pound category.

“The training style I am doing now is generally working on all the angles that I should be looking out for from all the players and just preparing for any style that I am going to encounter: big guys, small guys, fast, slower, counter-puncher, that kind of thing,” he said.

Couzens, a Burnaby North Secondary grad, started boxing 10 years ago, when his dad took him to a boxing club to encourage his pre-teen son to be more physical. Couzens said he wasn’t sure he would like it, but after one session, like Calla, he was hooked.

“Since I started to now one thing that attracts me … is the glory of winning, it is really addicting,” he said. “The other factor [that attracts me] is learning new things. I don’t get frustrated easily, if I get something wrong I like to keep working and working at it, until I get it. There’s satisfaction that I have finally worked at something so hard that I learned how to do it, and I am good at it now.”

Couzens’ coach, and a former Romanian champion, Mihai Afloarei tells a story to Fight Page 24

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touchdown.

Running back J.J. DesLauriers also wracked up two receiving touchdowns.

Supporting the Knights’ offence were Spencer Moore, who had 36 yards receiving and Smigel with 44 yards.

By halftime, it was 39-0.

“Having eight different players score touchdowns is a great team statistic. I was very happy with the play of our offensive and defensive lines. They are key in terms of us creating opportunities for our athletes,” added Kully.

Speaking of defence, Ben Steele had four tackles, which resulted in lost yards for the Voodoo. Steele also added three sacks. Moore had three tackles and three sacks. Kieran Janes had three tackles.

“Having two shutouts in a row is a credit to the play of our defense. Especially our front seven who are at their best when they get some penetration,” said Kully.

STM takes on West Kelowna’s Mt. Boucherie on the road at the Apple Bowl Oct. 3 at 5 p.m.

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Fight: Championships start Oct. 15 continued from page 23

illustrate the natural ability his student has in the ring. Six months ago, a friend of Afloarei, who knew little about boxing, came to the gym.

“Inside the ring were Robert and another boxer from our club, they were doing shadow boxing, when my friend saw Robert he asked me, ‘Who is that guy, Mihai, he is a good [boxer].’ Even though he is not a specialist, he recognized that Robert is very technical, very hard working and very dedicated,” said Afloarei.

“Robert is the most beautiful, technical guy in our gym.”

Afloarei said between now and the championship, Couzens will be training six days a week to prepare. His dream is that Couzens makes the Olympics one day.

Couzens isn’t sure that will ever happen, but knows no matter what the future holds, he will be in the ring.

“I will probably box as long as I can move,” he said. “It is just a lifestyle now.”

The World Boxing Council amateur Canadian championships, in Mississauga, run Oct. 15 to 18.

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The St. Thomas More Collegiate (STM) Knights blanked Kelowna’s Rutland Voodoo 53-0 at home at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex on Friday.

The win marks the second shutout in a row for the Knights after beating Coquitlam’s Centennial 42-0 at their homecoming game on Sept. 19.

One of the standouts of the game against Rutland was Terrell Jana who rushed for 102 yards, including one touchdown run.

His passing stats were 160-yards which included three touchdowns.

“Terrell is growing into his role as a quarterback this year,” said STM head coach Bernie Kully.

After the first quarter, the score was 33-0.

“It was a great first quarter for us as a team today. We started strong and were able to carry the momentum throughout the course of the game,” said Kully.

The power of the Knights’ offence was also seen in the rushing touchdowns by Andrew Flett, Jordan Stewart, Matt Smigel and Shane Noel, who also got a receiving

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