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Fire razes city pub Cayley Dobie staff reporter

A South Burnaby neighbourhood pub is no more after a “suspicious” three-alarm blaze tore through the building early Saturday morning. Firefighters were called to the Marine Pub and Brewhouse at 5820 Marine Dr. around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10. By the time crews arrived, flames were shooting 60 to 80 feet into the air, according to Burnaby assistant fire chief Rick Weir. Investigators with both the Burnaby RCMP and fire department are now looking into what caused the three-alarm blaze that gutted the local pub. Marine pub owner Pal Singh told the NOW on Saturday that surveillance footage allegedly shows an unknown man walking around the pub’s patio and setting fire to two patio chairs before the alarm was tripped at 2:28 a.m. Investigators are trying to recover evidence from the pub’s surveillance system, which was damaged in the blaze. Weir wouldn’t comment on why the blaze was considered suspicious at this time, and he confirmed Singh was cooperating with investigators. This is about the fifth suspicious fire in the Fires Page 8

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Aftermath: Marine Pub and Brewhouse owners Pal Singh (in black coat) and Jasmine Saini (in blue) survey the damage following a three-alarm fire that destroyed the pub early Saturday morning.

Burnaby tops restaurant closures list Jacob Zinn staff reporter

Forty-one Burnaby restaurants were shut down by Fraser Health last year for reasons ranging from poor hygiene to unsafe preparation of food to ongoing issues with pests, making Burnaby the

biggest offender in the health authority’s report. In 2014, Fraser Health reviewed the conditions of restaurants throughout 12 Lower Mainland municipalities, including Abbotsford, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley (city and township), Maple Ridge, New Westminster, Pitt Meadows,

Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Surrey. Burnaby garnered the most shutdowns of all the cities, edging out Surrey by five establishments. The city’s worst offender was Mrs. Vanelli’s in Metrotown, racking up a dozen violations, including failure to protect food from contamination, a lack of a

written sanitation procedure and improper storage or labelling of chemicals, cleansers or similar agents. Under the direction of Fraser Health, they were permanently closed on Jan. 10, 2014. “We spend our inspections doing education with the operators, and when

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Dog days: Kim Gramlich and her sidekick Caber. Gramlich is the coordinator for the Delta Police victims services program, and she takes Caber with her to help crime victims deal with trauma.

The making of a trauma K9 How a Burnaby organization is training dogs to help vulnerable victims of crime Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

Caber just has a special way of knowing. About two years ago, Kim Gramlich, coordinator for the Delta Police Department’s victims’ services program, was dispatched to help a family who had just lost a son to homicide. As always, Gramlich brought one of her most important tools: Caber, a golden Labrador retriever, trained by Pacific Assistance Dogs Society in Burnaby. During the visit, the mother broke down on the living room floor, sobbing and gasping for breath. That was Caber’s cue. He walked over and laid his head on her shoulder. The weeping mother broke down even more, put her hands on his furry head and hugged him.

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“He just knows, doesn’t he?” she said. After a few minutes, her breathing slowed, but Gramlich didn’t know what to say. “I never know how to reply to that question, because there is nothing that I have said or done to cause Caber to respond to a victim like this,” Gramlich says. “He just does it, … he just knows.” Caber is a six-year-old trauma assistance dog, brought in to help soothe victims of crime and make it easier for them to tell their stories. He has a very mellow, docile personality, and he seems to have a keen sense of knowing who’s suffering. He’s brought in for all types of crime: fatal car accidents, suicides, sudden deaths, break-and-enters, sexual abuse (especially with children) and homicide. Caber is one of two trauma dogs from PADS, which mostly trains assistance dogs to help people with hearing and mobility challenges. Caber’s counterpart is Hawk, a four-yearold black Lab placed with Calgary police. Like Caber, Hawk works with victims of

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Gaming grants offer help for the helpers in Burnaby The provincial government has handed out several gaming grants to Burnaby community organizations. In all, the province gave $700,000 to nine local groups that focus on providing social services. The organizations include the Kidney Foundation of Canada, the Neil Squire Society, the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion and the Dixon Transition Society. “Social service is one of the key elements to sustain a healthy and energetic community,” said Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee in a press release. The grant money comes from gambling revenue. Any groups interested in applying for gaming funds can visit pssg.gov.bc.ca/ gaming. Here are the Burnaby organizations who received money in the latest ground of grants:

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Is red tape sending startup money down the drain? said, adding that the wider pipe is needed to handle to large quantities of liquid. “Because of the potential volume of water that would flow from those sinks, you would have to upgrade from 1.5-inch pipe to a twoinch pipe,” he said. But here’s the kicker, according to Roller: The two-basin sink, which can be installed on 1.5-inch pipe, has more water capacity and greater flow output than the three-basin sink. “It’s absolutely mindboggling,” said Roller. Perhaps most aggravating for Roller is how much dealing with the city has cost him. Between the lease, maintenance fees, licences and paying his employees minimum wage, he said he’s spent nearly $25,000. “The more we’re being delayed, … the more of that money that we’re hemorrhaging out to absolutely no cause,” he said. “That money is just evaporating away.” Roller said he hopes to open his doors by the end of

ment for food establishments without dishwashstaff reporter ers. However, if he had a A Burnaby business dishwasher, he would be owner is fed up with the City allowed to install a twoof Burnaby after months of basin sink on the existing jumping through hoops to pipe. He tried to negotiate open his tea shop. the city, but he says they Chris Roller has been try- wouldn’t budge. ing to open his Mad Hatterz “No grandfathering, Tea House in Lougheed no exceptions, no waivVillage. He ers,” he said. aimed to open “The more we’re “I know there in December, are exemptions being delayed, … out there, … but he said he’s been in a the more of that but of course, lengthy backBurnaby money that we’re the and-forth with plumbing the city over hemorrhaging out inspector is the building’s very to absolutely no being plumbing. obstinate about cause.” “I went to that.” get my plumbJohn Cusano CHRIS ROLLER ing permit, and of the city’s Mad Hatterz Tea House that’s when planning and everything building department said started to fall apart,” he told the need for two-inch the NOW. pipe on a three-basin sink Because he opted not to is a requirement of Fraser install a dishwasher, Roller Health, not the city. said he was told he’d have “We don’t enforce or to upgrade his pipes from determine what’s required 1.5-inch diameter to two- in terms of handling food inch diameter to allow for a – that’s strictly a Fraser three-basin sink, a require- Health responsibility,” he

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No one wants to see seniors on the streets

and who can cost the government more How homeless do you have to be to money through increased demand on qualify as homeless? social services. And, moreover, it’s effecThat’s the no-win question facing tive; a recent study by the Mental Health those who help seniors, after a new Commission of Canada found federal funding model was that the funding model works. introduced to combat senior So what’s the problem? homelessness. (See our story on Burnaby NOW Well, the funding is comthe front of the Jan. 9 NOW or ing out of the regular pool of at www.burnabynow.com.) In principle, the Housing First funding money available for homelessness programs, which means there may be less model is a good one. It’s meant to help money available to help those who aren’t the chronically homeless – who often chronically homeless but who might be have mental illnesses and/or addictions,

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facing life on the street for the first time. And, sadly, the prospect of life on the street is a very real one for many seniors – those for whom low, fixed incomes simply aren’t keeping up with the cost of living. The problem is particularly acute in cities like Burnaby, where development in areas like Metrotown is pushing out older, more affordable apartment buildings in favour of high-priced highrises. Sadly, the New Westminster-based Seniors Services Society – the only group in the Lower Mainland that specifically

helps seniors who are homeless or at risk of being homeless – foresees senior homelessness as being on the rise in 2015. What’s needed is pretty simple: funding. For affordable housing and for programs to help vulnerable people – seniors and otherwise – to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place. Here’s hoping Stephen Harper and his government are listening to those who are advocating on this issue. Because no one wants to see our seniors sleeping out in the cold.

LNG may have a future after all IN MY OPINION

Keith Baldrey

rying to gauge whether a liquefied natural gas industry is going to finally establish a toe-hold in this province remains a risky endeavor, more so now that oil prices have plummeted to near-record lows. While LNG is not oil, the price of oil determines so many things that all industries are affected by it. When oil prices deteriorate like they have in recent weeks, they send a ripple effect through the world economy. One of the impacts is that banks and capital financiers become more conservative in backing short-term capital investments, and some companies begin to nervously watch their cash flow situation and contemplate reduced spending. Aside from the wild volatility in the energy sector right now, B.C.’s would-be LNG industry is already facing other challenges, not the least of which it is trying to enter an intensely competitive sector, and countries like Australia, Russia, Qatar and the United States have been in the game longer.

Still, B.C.’s cabinet minister responsible for LNG, Rich Coleman, last week reiterated his never-dying optimism that one of the more than dozen companies with LNG terminals on the drawing board for B.C. will make what is called the final investment decision sometime this year. While it’s easy to dismiss Coleman’s enthusiasm as a case of political delusion, there are some clues out there that, behind the scenes, things are happening that may indeed see at least one of the LNG companies finally make the call to set up shop in this province. First of all, there has been a sudden and steady increase in the number of key First Nations bands that have inked revenue sharing agreements with LNG companies, to share in any potential windfall from their projects. At least eight northern First Nations have made such deals, and the money involved is substantial. Some bands will be guaranteed a substantial annual revenue stream, which could have an enormous positive impact on the economic health of their members. Wet’suwet’en First Nations chief Karen Ogen told The Vancouver Sun: “Do we want a better life for our people? Yes, we do. How are we going to get it? Not by sitting here waiting LNG Page 7

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Site C will lose major money Dear Editor:

Re: Site C a no-brainer, Letter to Editor, Burnaby NOW, Jan. 9. The B.C. Liberals refuse to allow the B.C. Utilities Commission to review the financial viability of the $8.8 billion Site C, despite such a recommendation from the dam’s Joint Review Panel. Is that because a Quebec government commission recommends that the half-built $6.5 billion Romaine dam project be halted because it will never pay for itself? Yet that dam’s power cost of $60 a MWh is cheaper than Site C’s $100. But the current market price is $30 due to the glut of cheap natural gas in North America that will last for decades. The fact that the water is “free” is a red herring. Hydro says the dam will lose $800 million in the

first four years of operation. Interest on a $10 billion loan would be $500 million/year. Compare that to $100 million/year fuel cost for a gas plant producing Site C’s power. Calgary is building such a gas plant for $1.5 billion in half the time it would take to build Site C. Critics say that fuel costs can rise, but so can interest rates. I guess ignorance is bliss. Martin Cavin, Port Moody

Can we protest the protesters? Dear Editor:

Re: Fighting for the right to protest, Burnaby NOW, Jan. 7. Finally – a face to go with the name! Mr. Dutton, an inveterate opinion page correspondent, has been Protester Page 7

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“protesting” for as many years as I can remember now. We learn that he is now retired, and I must say he seems quite young to be able to do so, but then, as a member of academe, we should not be too surprised, as they seem to be generously looked after (pensions wise) and although I too worked in a union industry, we were informed by our representatives that we did not make enough money to be accorded a pension! (Meditate on that a minute.) It seems that Alan (if I may be so bold) believes that he has the inalienable right to protest Kinder Morgan even though they were only going about their legitimate duties as a Canadian business is wont to. According to his mantra, everyone has a Charter right (oh, blessed document) to protest the attempts by private industry to go about their business. But, I too, surely have the right to protest their protestations? To picket their pickets, as it were? You see, I think that those of us who do not get their salary paid by the taxpaying public should be able to go and earn a decent buck, working at a real job, in the woods, the mines and other pursuits that make the country rich! More and more unions are beginning to see the value of such pursuits, especially given the demise

of good union jobs in the private sector, and the huge growth of same in the public sector. Mr. Dutton is on a winning streak otherwise, in that I have failed to agree with any of his many letters in the past, and that has not changed – he can’t be accused of being overly changeable. Larry Bennett, Burnaby

City’s comedy of errors Dear Editor:

If you ever want to be uproariously entertained, pack a sandwich and watch the intersection of Bainbridge and Winston for about 20 minutes while playing the Benny Hill soundtrack. No one single person seems to know where to turn left onto either street from either direction, and the painted triangle in the centre is mere fodder for 90 per cent of vehicles to drive right over. Also watch the lone vehicle who actually uses the intersection properly and see others (usually professional driver in work trucks) leer at them thinking the correct driver is an idiot. I’ve left a message with some sort of traffic person with the City of Burnaby, but I’m assuming there has to be some awful accidents for anyone to do anything about it. But still, seriously, no one knows what to do there. Stace Dayment, Burnaby

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for government handouts.” According to the Sun, her community will get almost $3 million (if the Shell LNG plant actually goes ahead), to be used to increase education and skills for its 242 members, as well as being invested in housing, health and culture. While a number of First Nations bands remain firmly opposed to LNG projects and pipelines, this spate of agreements may signal that opposition may be waning in the face of being able to partner in lucrative agreements for First Nations members. Another important development on the LNG front occurred just before Christmas. Australian LNG giant Woodside Petroleum Ltd. bought out Apache Corp.’s 50 per cent share of the proposed LNG project near Kitimat (Chevron has the other 50 per cent). A number of analysts

have noted a financial transaction of this magnitude (almost $3 billion, which includes Apache’s interest in an Australian LNG terminal) doesn’t occur as a mere whim, and may indicate the Kitimat project is closer to a final investment decision than many may have thought. Finally, the head of the B.C. LNG Alliance, David Keane, has pointed out a decision to invest in LNG is not going to be based on the price of energy today. He told me these are longterm investment decisions, and that “supply gaps” of energy need to be filled over the next 30 or 40 years. He says he is very optimistic at least one final investment decision will be made this coming year. The Asian demand for LNG over the next few decades will only grow, no matter what the price may be today, he says. The proposed LNG proj-

ects for B.C. aren’t slated to come on stream for at least several years, so the spot energy market today could be long forgotten by the time any of those terminals are up and running. Nevertheless, the great guessing game will continue for some months yet. We should know by the end of the year whether the B.C. Liberal government’s allin strategy for developing LNG in B.C. will begin to pay off, or whether it ends up holding a losing hand. The way things look right now, I’d be surprised if at least two or three terminals don’t go ahead. That’s nowhere near as many as Premier Christy Clark envisioned in the last provincial election campaign, but even two or three LNG terminals would provide a healthy revenue stream for a provincial government. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

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area in the past year, beginning just over one year ago when the site of the old Globe Foundry, on Willard Street, was nearly razed. More recently, there have been a handful of suspicious fires at several empty or abandoned properties in the neighbourhood, including the old Riverside Elementary School, an abandoned residence in the area and at an organic farm on Willard Street and 14th Avenue. Burnaby RCMP is trying to sort through the different files to figure out which ones are truly suspicious, Staff Sgt. Maj. John

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Buis told the NOW. “Certainly the pub is,” Buis added. “That one really stands out because it’s significant.” Burnaby RCMP is meeting with fire investigators sometime this week to discuss both the Marine Pub fire and any other fires deemed to be suspicious. Buis said investigators will now determine how many fires there have been in the area and of those, how many are suspicious and need further investigation. – with files from The Province Follow Cayley Dobie on Twitter, @cayleydobie

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everything else fails, we close facilities down,” said Gordon Stewart, Fraser Health’s manager of health protection in Burnaby, adding that numerous violations are a sign of problem restaurants. Not far behind in infractions, the New Starlet Seafood Restaurant on Kingsway was written up for 11 violations, including unsanitary food contact surfaces, inadequate hand washing stations and storage of potentially hazardous hot and

cold foods and inappropriate temperatures. New Starlet was closed for 11 days, from Oct. 27 to Nov. 7. Given the similarities between certain violations, Stewart explained that different codes may refer to more severe conditions, or may indicate that previous violations have not been addressed. For example, “premise is not free of pests” may be used as an initial violation, and “failure to ensure premise is free of pests” may be used as a follow-up vio-

lation if measures aren’t taken to rid a restaurant of pests. “It’s at the discretion of the inspector,” said Stewart. “If they’ve coded it one way and need to code it a different way to get a different correction done… there may be specifics around the violation code they use.” The longest closure for health violations lasted 24 days at the Rabbit Canteen, which had nine infractions, the most notable being failure to obtain approval to operate a food premises. Other lengthy shutdowns included

Himalayan Peak Indian Cuisine (10 days), Lee Garden Seafood Restaurant (10 days), El Comal Mexican Food (nine days) and Alvin Garden (eight days). Technically, the longest overall closure occurred at the Tim Horton’s at 4191 Lougheed Hwy., but its six-week shutdown was due to a kitchen fire in September, not health code violations. About half of the restaurants were closed no more than a day, with several closing and reopening the same day. Additionally, not all restau-

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Burnaby groups get grants for work with youth MOVERS & SHAKERS Jacob Zinn

wo Burnaby groups are being acknowledged by Coast Capital Savings with sizeable grants for their work with youth in the city. The Burnaby MoreSports Society and the Neil Squire Society each received grants worth $7,500 as part of the credit union’s $550,000 investment in 53 Metro Vancouver youth-focused not-for-profit organizations. The grants will be invested in MoreSports’ YELL program – which stands for Youth Engage Learn Lead – and the Neil Squire Society’s Youth EmployAbility program. Grant recipients are determined by Coast Capital’s Young Leader’s Community Councils, regional teams of eight young volunteers who review and deliberate all grant proposals.

Small business owner in top 10

One lucky Burnaby business is one step closer to the Small Business B.C. Awards. Out of 17 Burnaby businesses, Chez Christophe Chocolaterie Patisserie – owned by Christophe Bonzon – is the sole entrant to make it into the top 10 for the Best Immigrant Entrepreneur Award. The awards ceremony, heading into its 12th year, recognizes the contributions of more than 400,000 small business owners and entrepreneurs throughout B.C. The Best Immigrant Entrepreneur Award is meant to honour an outstanding new Canadian who has started a successful business in the province. A panel of five judges will review the applications of the top 10 semifinalists before ultimately cutting the competition in half. The top five will be invited to give a Dragon’s Den-style pitch on why they should be named the best in B.C., with the winner being honoured at the Small Business B.C. Awards ceremony in Vancouver on Feb. 26.

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Five interior design students scored big with one of Burnaby’s most prominent developers. Appia Development – the company behind SOLO

District in North Burnaby – gave away $3,000 in prizes to a handful of postsecondary students from BCIT for their entries into a design contest related to the four-phase development.

In the summer, Appia asked students of the interior design program to create plans for a two-bedroom/two-bathroom unit for the SOLO District. They were challenged to use local materials with three

demographics in mind: two BCIT roommates, a go-getting couple in their mid to late 20s, and a young family with one or two kids. Eighteen students submitted concepts, which were put on display at

SOLO’s sales centre for one month. Visitors voted on which designs they liked the most. Katelyn Gall, Irene Lun and Cindy Wang each received prizes of $500 in the People’s Choice cate-

gory, while Gall and Wang also won additional prizes worth $500 in the Faculty Favourites category. Jillian Beaudoin and Jessica Myroon were also recognized for their designs, with both receiving $250.

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Help wanted: Wanda Mulholland from the Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness is starting a new society but is seeking quality candidates for the board of directors.

Advocates work to form new society Society to End Homelessness is looking for volunteers to serve on the board Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

Advocates for the homeless are hoping to form a new society in Burnaby, but they need volunteers to be on the board first. Wanda Mulholland from the Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness is starting the Society to End Homelessness in Burnaby, but she’s looking for quality candidates for the board of directors before filling the application. The new society will carry on the work of the task force but with more stability and opportunities to apply for funding, Mulholland explained. “As a society, you are your own entity and are able to be secure in a way you’re not as an informal group. It’s more formal with a board of directors,” Mulholland said. The task force is a group of local organizations – including Progressive Housing, the Burnaby RCMP, Lookout Aid Society and Fraser Health – that meets monthly to share information and strategize on how best to help the homeless. The new society’s main goal is to reduce and ultimately end homelessness in Burnaby. Mulholland is hoping many of the active participants on the task force will continue working with the new society. The volunteer commitment for board members is two to three years minimum, with approximately eight hours a month attending meetings and doing other work. To apply, email info@burnabyhomelesstaskforce.org. According to the 2014 Metro Vancouver Homeless Count, there are 58 homeless people in Burnaby, and 61 per cent have been homeless for more than five years. However, Progressive Housing Society, the main group that helps local homeless people, meets 30 to 40 new people in Burnaby who are homeless or at risk of homelessness every month. twitter.com/JenniferMoreau

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Birds of all feathers flock to Burnaby Christmas Bird Count shows good news for local birders Jennifer Moreau staff reporter

Bird-watchers in Burnaby have counted the highest number of species in the past 15 years for the annual Christmas Bird Count. The Dec. 14 count at Burnaby Lake and Deer Lake found a total of 69 species – that’s 10 more than the average over the past decade. Burnaby resident George Clulow, organizer for the local count, said perfect weather, experienced birders and good luck all played a factor. “Some years you miss stuff. Even relatively common birds just don’t show up for whatever reason, but this year we got them all,” he said. Every year, citizen scientists across the continent spend a day counting and logging various species of birds. Overall, the Burnaby results reflect a stable local winter bird population, Clulow said. “We’re not seeing any great surprises. We’re not seeing any crash and declines, although some of the birds are low,” he said. “If we keep our parks intact and not too tailored, if we have the habitat for our birds, we’ll maintain our birds.” Count highlights include seven pileated woodpeckers, which Clulow said was simply unprecedented. Ring-necked ducks are on the rise (66 were counted), which is part of a North American trend. In a separate count on Burnaby Mountain, birders found a flock of pine grosbeaks, a red-feathered finch, close to Horizons Restaurant on Centennial Way. Pine grosbeaks are rare in these parts, and photographers from all over the Lower Mainland have been flocking to the mountain to see the bird, according to Clulow. “And these birds have been so cooperative, it’s just been stunning,” he said. Anna’s hummingbirds are continuing their upward trend in the area, with nine counted this season. The count at Burnaby’s crow roost, however, was off this year with only 8,000 corvids. Counting crows is not an exact science, but volunteers usually tally their numbers as they fly towards the roost at Burnaby’s Still Creek. “They fooled us this year, they came in early, and they are extremely hard to count when they are in the roost,” Clulow said.

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Feathered finds: George Clulow, seen at top in a file photo, organizes the annual Christmas Bird Count in Burnaby. This year’s count showed unprecedented numbers of pileated woodpeckers, at left, and a rarely seen flock of pine grosbeaks on Burnaby Mountain (one seen above).

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y tradition with my children at the start of a new year is to walk through the old calendar and remember the year past. What did we do? Where did we go? What days did we celebrate? What events did we survive? We ask ourselves, “What acts of grace did we receive through the love and kindness of others?” and “What did we ourselves do for others?”

What were our best experiences and what were our most challenging? What did we learn? How did we grow? I’ve taught my children to seize each day – to be open to spontaneity and the beauty of each day, and to grasp the fleeting moments we have to help others and make a difference. My children are now old enough to recognize that we seem to accelerate in our passage through time. Each year passes more quickly as does each and every day. To use our time most wisely, we must be more deliberate, consider what matters most and walk in the direction of our dreams. The holidays were a time for celebration but

track and make it social, also an opportunity to she’s going to go with a reflect. friend. What are your goals for Another wants to the coming year? What is improve his relationyour strategy to achieve ships, and them? his strategy My friend is to express wants to eat “Ask yourself, his positive more healthily, ‘What brings thoughts and and his stratgreater value to feelings about egy is to eat a others. salad each day. my life and the He plans To keep it fun people around to follow the and interestexample of the ing, he will me?’” Dalai Lama, use a variety DAVIDICUS WONG who said that of ingredients, Family physician he may still including nuts, get angry but beans and he won’t hold a grudge. fruits. Not everyone is keen My patient wants to on new year’s resolutions. improve her cardiovasIn elementary school, I cular conditioning. Her had to make a list each strategy is to start aquatic year. Many grownups fitness classes at our comhave given up this ritual munity pool. To stay on

because of memories of failed resolutions. But I still make my list of priorities after considering the most important areas of my life. Because our time each day and week is precious, for everything we add to our list, we must remove something else. How can we decide what to do and what to stop? Ask yourself, “What brings greater value to my life and the people around me?”, “What must I do?” and “Of my current activities, which are really a waste of my time?” Consider four questions: 1. What should I do more of? Stretching? Strengthening? Cardio exercise? Calling old

friends? 2. What should I do less? Eating out? Snacking? Driving? Drinking with friends? Watching TV? Working and playing on the computer? Looking at my phone? 3. What should I cut out? Smoking? Napping after supper? Hanging out with bad friends? 4. What should I add to my life? Language lessons? Meeting new people? Creating art or music? Writing? This is your life. This is your year. This is your day. What will you do with it? Dr. Davidicus Wong is a family physician. For more on achieving your positive potential in health visit david icuswong.wordpress.com.

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n January’s wet, gloomy days, plants visible near windows give more pleasure than anything else in the garden – and the ones close to the shelter and warmth of a house wall always flower earlier than they will elsewhere. These include rosemary, Californian tree poppy, the winter iris (Iris unguicularis), wintersweet and Camelia sasanqua. None find it easy to survive winter without the shelter of a wall. That’s why many gardeners are tempted to create a wall-side garden right up against the side of their home. But eventually, the wall needs maintenance and the plants below must handle trampling, smothering, cutting-down or rippingapart. Branches make painting impossible and roofers

low roots of cedars absorb excess water so that cyclamen gain the drainage they need. Tap-rooted plants are also survivors. For wall-side gardens in winter, this includes the Hellebore orientalis hybrids most of which are remarkably droughtresistant. The Christmas roses (Hellebore niger) are fussier, especially in their first few years after being planted. Other perennial, tap-rooted survivors include Lungwort (Pulmonaria cultivars), Astrantia and Papaver orientalis People who like to have a big hit of colour near their windows might enjoy winter heather (Erica carnea), which flowers in many shades of pink from pale to intense over a very long blooming period. Meanwhile, fragrance is the special gift from the white flowers of Sarcococca humilis, an evergreen, winter-blooming, low-growing shrub. Anne Marrison is happy to answer garden questions. Send them to her by email, amarrison@shaw.ca. It helps if you can mention the name of your city or region.

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Calling Central’s Class of 1975 be taken off the “missing persons” list. Organizers are also looking for donations of door prizes. For more information or to register and pay online, visit burnabycentral75. weebly.com.

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Cornelia Naylor

f you graduated from Burnaby Central Secondary when Captain and Tennille’s Love Will Keep Us Together topped the charts in Canada, you have until Feb. 15 to register for your 40th reunion. Central’s Class of ‘75 will celebrate its fourdecades reunion May 23 at the Executive Inn in Burnaby. The cost is $50, and tickets purchased by Feb. 1 will be eligible for an early-bird draw. Tickets and space are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis Grads who can’t make it are asked to let organizers know by emailing burnabycentral75@ hotmail.com, so they can

Students help school go green

Burnaby North Secondary’s Enviro Club got a head start on Metro Vancouver’s ban on organic waste in regional landfills that took effect Jan. 1. Before the new year, the group rooted through a day’s worth of their school’s garbage, sorting it into different categories and weighing it. “We want to establish a baseline of the waste Burnaby North students make before we implement green bins in the school,” said Owen Yin, a Grade 11 student and Enviro Club executive. “After the green bins are introduced to classrooms, we can conduct another audit and then we’ll be able to

determine how much food waste we were able to divert from landfills.” The students collected a total of 55.5 kilograms of waste from the school’s North building and concluded 63 per cent of it was compostable. “If we were able to compost all our food-scrap waste, we would divert almost a tonne of waste every month,” said Dalton Woo, a Grade 11 student and club executive. To see an online interactive display of the waste the club collected, visit audit.silk.co.

Gaming grants help schools

Burnaby school parent advisory councils (PACs) got more than half a million dollars in gaming grants to play with this year. Every year, all B.C. independent and public school PACs are eligible to receive $20 per student to enhance extracurricular activities, and local schools took in $506,600.

That’s down $5,920 from last year because of lower enrolment. How the money is used is up to individual PACs. At Seaforth Elementary, for example, parents helped pay for an annual Santa Breakfast, as well as other fun classroom extras, like games and puzzles for “inside days,” Grade 7 graduation activities, and Thrilling Thursdays – lunch events for primary student that have featured everything from Zumba dancing to exotic animal exhibits. Seaforth parents are also saving up for a playground upgrade. “Unfortunately it takes a long time to raise $50,000,” PAC chair Cheryl Healey said. As the district’s biggest school, Burnaby North Secondary got the largest grant at $37,800, while Marlborough Elementary topped elementary schools at $19,520. Do you have an item for Class Act? Send ideas from Burnaby schools to Cornelia, cnaylor@burnabynow.com.

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TO SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Cory Collins: Re-Mappings, an exhibition at the McGill branch of Burnaby Public Library, 4595 Albert St., part of the Burnaby Art Gallery’s outreach exhibitions, featuring the work of the Newfoundland-based artist. Info: www.burnabyart gallery.ca.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14 Artist and curator’s talk and tour, with artist Eli Bornowsky and assistant curator Jennifer Cane, at Burnaby Art Gallery, in conjunction with the gallery’s ongoing All is Unmentionable, Up in the Air exhibition, 7 to 9 p.m. at the gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Free, no registration required., www.burnabyart gallery.ca, 604-297-4422.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 Mandarin language tour, at Burnaby Art Gallery, with

gallery guide Dong Yue Su leading an exploration of the current Eli Bornowsky exhibition, 6344 Deer Lake Ave., noon to 1 p.m. No registration required. Suggested donation $5, www.burnabyartgallery.ca, 604-297-4422.

MONDAY, JANUARY 19 Writing for Kidz, a writing group for adult writers in any genre related to children, led by Max Tell, meets 10 a.m. to noon at Renaissance Bookstore, 43 Sixth St., New West. Info: www.rclas.com or call 604525-4566. Drop-in fee $5 per person.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22 International Guitar Night, featuring Brian Gore, Maneli Jamal, Diego Figueiredo and Andrew York, 7:30 p.m. at Massey Theatre, 735 Eighth Ave., New West. Tickets $26 regular, $16 students and seniors, plus service charges, www.ticketsnw.ca.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Used Kidstuff Sale, Edmonds Community Centre, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bargains on maternity clothes, used children’s items and clothes, toys, etc. Admission is free. Anyone interested in selling items can register in person at the centre on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. One table rental is $19.65 (max two tables). Edmonds Community Centre is at 7433 Edmonds St.

Succulent Society, meets once a month at Bonsor. For more information, call Pat at 604-921-7042. Computer course, for beginners at Confederation Centre, 4585 Albert St. Classes on Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to noon. Contact Eric: 604-299-3335 for information. Burnaby and New Westminster Newcomers’ Friendship Club, welcomes women new to the area, as well as longtime residents. Dinner meetings on second Wednesday of each month, plus various events including book club, craft group, social Saturdays. Info: email dorisfriend39@gmail.com, call 604-492-4638, or visit www. burnabynewwestminsternew comers.com.

East Burnaby Family Place, offers a parent-and-child drop-in Tuesday and Friday mornings only from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come and meet others in a supportive and friendly environment while children from birth to five years old explore large and small motor-skill toys, arts and crafts, circle-time (at 12:30 p.m.), etc. For parents, we have a clothing exchange, resource rack, ECE qualified teacher, support/health workers, parenting workshops, etc. Call Andrea at 604-4441090 or visit www.ebfp.ca for more info.

ONGOING Old age pensioners’ organization branch 12, is holding an event the first Monday of each month from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Edmonds Community Centre. Learn what’s happening to social security programs. For more information, call 604-297-4838. Telespeakers Toastmaster, meetings on Friday mornings from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Burnaby room in the Telus building, 3777 Kingsway. Telespeakers provides a

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puter. Access the Internet, send email and upload your photos from your camera to the computer. No experience necessary. Part of the Confederation Computer Club at the Confederation Seniors Centre. For information, call Eric Kitson at 604-299-3335. Drop-in English conversation class, at the Burnaby Multicultural Society. Anyone welcome for socializing while practising English. Class accommodates all levels. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon, and Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. at the Burnaby Multicultural Society, 6255 Nelson Ave. For more information, call 604431-4131 ext.27 or ext. 29. Salsa Speakers Toastmaster club, Do you want to improve your public speaking and leadership skills? Do you want to build your confidence and have some fun, too? Then visit us every Monday evening from 6:45 to 8:15 p.m., 3605 Gilmore Way.

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19 Clan reach century

19 Former Knights clash

19 Newcomer helps in win

SECTION COORDINATOR Tom Berridge, 604-444-3022 • tberridge@burnabynow.com

Knights bounce back to fifth at Chancellor Tom Berridge sports editor

St. Thomas More Knights finished at 3-1 and in fifth place at the annual varsity boys’ Chancellor basketball tournament. The No. 7-ranked Knights rebounded from quarter-final defeat to eventual runner-up and No. 5 Sir Charles Tupper and went on to post a workman-like 72-55 victory over the Delta Pacers in the final placement game on Saturday. Junior forward and honourable mention all-star Cam Morris led the Knights with 17 points. Second team all-star J.J. DesLauriers added a dozen points for the host team. Jas Singh, another tournament honourable mention had a game-high 20 points for the Pacers. STM guards Terrell Jana and Edward Ju finished with 15 and 14 points, respectively. “We’re learning we have to just keep our foot on the pedal and take over a game when we have the chance,” said Jana, For who helped the Knights more photos, stave off an attempted Delta scan comeback with 10 secondwith half points. Layar STM started the opening quarter with a 22-5 advantage, but Delta closed the gap with a 23-point second quarter to make the rest of the game interesting. The Pacers got the deficit down to single digits in both the second and third quarters, but STM had the depth off the bench to hold off the Delta school that lost a one-point squeaker to AAA No. 4 and eventual bronze medalist Fleetwood Park in the quarter-finals on Jan. 8. Pitt Meadows won the Chancellor final 8272 over Tupper. Following the loss to Tupper in the quarters, STM overwhelmed No. 2 McMath 73-49 in the consolation semifinal of Friday. DesLauriers led the way with 21 points, while Morris chipped in with 20, including six three-pointers. In the loss to Tupper, Jason Zhang came off the bench and put up 14 fourth-quarter points, including four treys, for the Knights. DesLauriers led STM in the tournament opener with 18 points in the Knights’ 58-44 victory over Maple Ridge. “The kids have to realize that last year was last year. But everyone remembers, and we have to understand that,” STM head coach Aaron Mitchell said of STM’s AAA provincial title last season. Charles Tupper, which defeated the Knights

Tom Berridge sports editor

Jumpin’ junior:

Honorable mention all-star Cam Morris, in air, helped the St. Thomas More Knights to a fifth-place finish at the annual varsity boys’ Chancellor basketball tournament.

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in last year’s Lower Mainland final but fell short in the provincial, obviously remembered that fact in its quarter-final matchup with STM at the Chancellor, added Mitchell. “We’re still growing a lot,” said Mitchell.

Bulldogs place 11th

Byrne Creek wound up in 11th place at the Chancellor following a 73-47 win over St.

Gymnast tops in NCAA debut Tom Berridge sports editor

Briannah Tsang of Burnaby had a super start in her NCAA Division I debut with the Penn State women’s gymnastic team. The defending Canadian national championship gold medalist in the vault won her specialty event, tied for top spot on the balance beam and took the women’s all-around in Penn State University’s season-opening quad meet on Saturday. The No. 16-ranked Nittany Lions also claimed the team event over Cornell, New Hampshire and Rutgers universities. Tsang won the all-around with a competi-

Rebels runner-up at Raven tourney

tion score of 39.225, edging Penn State teammates Krystal Welsh and Lauren Li for top spot on the podium. The Flicka Gymnastics Club product won the vault with a 9.850 score and shared first place on beam with Welsh, both with 9.800 scores. Tsang also scored a third-place score of 9.800 on the uneven bars, while claiming a share of third in floor exercises at 9.775 with teammate Lexi Carroll. Following her successful debut, Tsang was named co-freshman of the week in women’s gymnastics in the Big 10 conference. Penn State will meet No. 9 Nebraska next Saturday, Jan. 17.

Mary’s. The Bulldogs were led by Body Geoffrey with 23 points. The Bulldogs lost their Chancellor opener 63-58 to eventual fourth-place finisher Handsworth. Malik Holmes led Byrne Creek with 27 points. Holmes also scored 22 points to put Byrne Creek into the final placement game against St. Mary’s with a 63-48 win over Maple Ridge.

The Burnaby South Rebels will lose their No. 1 provincial ranking following a 79-71 loss to host Terry Fox Ravens in the final of the annual Legal Beagle boys’ basketball tournament on Saturday. The Rebels’ first-of-theseason defeat came in what proved to be an unlucky 13th game of the season for now 12-1 South, which led 37-35 at halftime and 55-54 at the third-quarter mark. It was also the first time in 18 years since the Ravens last won the Beagle. But in the final quarter and with the lead in hand, Terry Fox was near-perfect from the charity stripe, making good on 16 free throws to keep the Rebels’ attempted comeback at bay. First team all-star Jermaine Haley scored a game-high 27 points in a losing cause for the Rebels. Tyus Batiste was also named to the all-tournament team. South defeated Alberta No. 1 Harry Ainlay Titans from Edmonton 92-83 in the semifinals behind Haley’s 32 points and nine rebounds. Earlier in the day, Haley tore it up with 44 points in South’s 83-74 victory over Heritage Woods from Port Moody. Burnaby South faces the New Westminster Hyacks in BurWest high school regular season play today (Wednesday) in the Pearson Gym. Tipoff is at 6:45 p.m.

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Burnaby’s Briannah Tsang won the all-around for Penn State University in her NCAA Division I gymnastics debut. File photo courtesy of Gymnastics Canada

St. Thomas More Collegiate will be holding its annual junior girls’ and boys’ Chancellor basketball tournament, beginning Thursday. Byrne Creek boys and New Westminster girls are among the 16 teams taking part in the tourney, which runs until Saturday. STM girls open against Pitt Meadows at 11:30 a.m. The Knight boys play G.W. Graham at 7 p.m. The junior girls’ final is scheduled for Saturday at 5:30 p.m., with the boys final set to follow at 7 p.m.

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College friends Clan hit NCAA century for first time face off on PacWest hoop court Tom Berridge sports editor

Bruce Langford moved to within one win of hall of fame coach Allison McNeill with Simon Fraser University’s first-ever 100point win in NCAA women’s basketball. The Clan poured in 62 second-half points to defeat Northwest Nazarene 10386 in the first of a twogame NCAA Division II Great Northwest conference road swing on Jan. 8. The victory was also the first 100-point win in more than five years, when SFU defeated a University of Calgary team 110-73. Clan senior Erin Chambers scored 23 of her 28 points in the second half, while SFU shot more than 61 per cent from the floor in the win over Nazarene. “Offensively we put all of the pieces together tonight and played as well as we hope we can on any given night,” said Langford in a press release. With the win, SFU improved their record to 3-1 in the Great Northwest conference, while Langford chalked up win No. 362,

Former Burnaby independent school teammates were adversaries in men’s PacWest basketball last week. Andrew Morris won the scoring battle between the former St. Thomas More Collegiate athletes, but Denzel Laguerta went home with the spoils following Quest University’s 86-81 overtime win over Capilano University in a men’s basketball showdown on Jan. 8. Morris scored 22 points, including seven-of-nine from the free-throw line, Lisa King/burnaby now

Hail Marys: Katie Loewen nailed seven three-pointers in a 28-point outing in Simon Fraser University’s 103-86 win over Northwest Nazarene last week.

leaving him just one victory shy of McNeill’s career win mark set when the Clan played in the NAIA. Senior guard Katie Loewen nailed seven threepointers in the game, tying Chambers with 28 points for the game-high. Freshman Rachel Fradgley and junior Meg Wilson both tallied double-

doubles with 12 points and a game-high 13 rebounds apiece. On Saturday, SFU lost its scoring touch in the second half in a 66-54 loss to Central Washington. The Clan made just five buckets and scored only 17 points in the second half, allowing the 3-3 Wildcats to snap a four-game losing

streak and move within a percentage point of the fourth-place Clan. SFU will play two conference games at home this week. On Thursday the Clan will take on Saint Martin’s College before playing host to Western Oregon on Saturday. Both games tip off at 7 p.m.

for Cap, while Laguerta chipped in with three points off the bench for the Squamish school. Reese Morris, the B.C. high school AAA MVP last year, had six rebounds, two assists, one blocked shot and a steal for the North Shore team. Burnaby South grad Martin Bogajev also had a strong outing for Capilano, scoring 20 points, including four three-pointers, four rebounds, four assists and three steals in the loss. Twitter @ThomasBerridge

Newcomer aids in comeback Newly acquired forward – Adam Rota – assisted on the game-winning goal to help lead the Grandview Steelers to a comeback 4-2 win over the Port Moody Panthers in Pacific junior B hockey on Sunday. Rota, acquired from Port Moody for future considerations on Dec. 22, shared an assist with Timothy Chow on Austin Campeau’s game winner in a three-goal Grandview middle period at the Burnaby Winter Club on Sunday. He also drew a second assist on Lucas Mercer’s lone power-play marker in the final frame. Grandview improved its regular-season record to 1713-0-3 with the win. tberridge@burnabynow.com

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