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RUN FOR IT: And they’re off! Children hunt for Easter eggs at Hillview Preschool in Burnaby. Roughly 150 children came out for Hillview Preschool’s ninth annual Easter egg hunt. There was facepainting, crafts, two Easter egg hunts and a visit from the Easter bunny. For more photos of the Easter egg hunt, go to www.burnabynow.com. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Mayor says AG woes ‘predictable’

‘I always hope against hope that what I’ve said in the past wasn’t true, but it just comes to fruition too often’ By Janaya Fuller-Evans

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If Mayor Derek Corrigan has an “I told you so” dance, he’s breaking it out right now. More than three years ago, Corrigan spoke out against B.C.’s plan to create a municipal auditor general position, saying it would be a waste of money. “I always hope against hope that what I’ve said in the past wasn’t true, but it just

comes to fruition too often,” he told the NOW. “These things are pretty predictable when you think about it. As I’ve often said, when you make a decision in haste, you get to repent at leisure.” The auditor general for local government, Basia Ruta, was fired in March after refusing a government audit of her own office, saying it should be done by B.C.’s auditor general instead. She is seeking a judicial review of the firing. Ruta took the position in January of

2013, promising 18 audits of municipalities that year. Thus far, the office, which has cost $5.2 million since it was established, has completed three audits. “I think setting up an auditor general’s office is very complicated and getting the level of expertise you need to be able to do that job is very, very difficult,” Corrigan said of the position. “Having highly trained municipal specialists who can assess municipalities is not an easy job description to fill. “It’s not exactly an attractive job to be going off to do audits on municipalities from Spuzzum to Trail, to be put in the position where almost invariably you’re an interlop-

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er, coming in to try to understand a municipal system that probably is unique from others,” he added. The problems faced by the ofﬁce were systemic and not simply due to one individual’s shortcomings, Corrigan said. “From what I hear anecdotally, they were spending all their time hiring consultants from as far away as Nova Scotia to come in and do work for them, because they just didn’t have the resources available and couldn’t hire the staff that would be necessary,” he said. “Trying to place the blame on one individual, which is what they

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Home invasion, wounded man may be linked A man found suffering from gunshot wounds Friday afternoon has police believing there is a connection between him and a home invasion earlier that day. Shortly before 3 p.m. on Friday, police were called to the 1000 block of Augusta Avenue for reports of a home invasion. According to Staff Sgt. Maj. John Buis, multiple suspects forced their way into the home, possibly armed with a ﬁrearm. No one was injured. About 20 minutes later, around 3:20 p.m., Burnaby RCMP received another call, this time about a man with a gunshot wound in

ON THE SCENE: Investigators with the Independent Investigations Office and the Integrated Homicide Investigations Team were in

Burnaby near Willard Street and 14th Avenue on Sunday, collecting evidence after a fatal stabbing and subsequent police shooting earlier that morning. The suspect shot by police died a short while later in hospital. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Suspect dies after shooting This was the third police ofﬁcer shooting in Burnaby in March By Cayley Dobie

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Investigators with B.C.’s independent police watchdog were back in Burnaby Sunday morning after a suspect was shot by Mounties responding to a fatal stabbing. At about 5:50 a.m. on March 29, Burnaby RCMP was called to the 6100 block of 14th Avenue near Willard Street following reports of a stabbing. When officers arrived on scene, there was a confrontation with one of the alleged suspects, and shots were fired, hitting the suspect, according to a media release from the Independent Investigations Office. Both the injured suspect and stabbing victim were taken to hospital – neither survived their injuries, according to the Independent Investigations Office. At this time, B.C. Coroners Service is conducting an investigation into the suspect’s cause of death, the release added. “Due to the preliminary stages of the investigation and the significant concurrent investigation, no other information will be provided at this time,” stated the release.

Second shooting: B.C.’s independent police watchdog was in Burnaby on March 20, after local RCMP shot a suspect outside the Lougheed Village apartments. PHOTO FILE

No one else was injured during the incident. A second suspect was arrested at the scene and taken into custody. This is the third time the Independent Investigations Ofﬁce has been called to Burnaby for a police-involved shooting this month. On March 1, a suspect was shot by Burnaby Mounties following an alleged attempted robbery at the 7-Eleven at Canada Way and Edmonds Street. Nineteen days later, on March 20, another man was shot by ofﬁcers outside of the Lougheed Village apartments on Salish

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the 3800 block of Hastings Street. “He was transported to Royal Columbian Hospital, and we’re still trying to ﬁnd out what took place,” Buis said. Investigators are looking into the possibility that the two incidents are related but can’t conﬁrm anything at this time. “Given the circumstances over the weekend and all the things that have taken place, we’re still in the initial portion of our investigation on this matter,” Buis said. – By Cayley Dobie, staff reporter

Teacher blasts B.C.’s new bill By Cornelia Naylor

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If B.C.’s education minister wants to improve professional growth among teachers, he should adopt the Burnaby school district’s model instead of turning to legislation, according to a local teacher. Burnaby North science teacher Donna Morgan wrote a letter to the NOW last week, saying she was “affronted” by Bill 11– a proposed amendment to the Teachers Act that would give the ministry power to set professional standards for teachers. The veteran educator, who has worked in the district for 25 years, said the move casts doubt on existing professional development and the use teachers currently make of their Pro-D days. “The way this is framed is that there’s some need to control [professional development] because we’re all off getting massages or something during those days,” Morgan said in an interview. “It really couldn’t be further from the truth.” Morgan said the majority of teachers put much more into professional growth than the ﬁve mandated Pro-D days: buying books, taking online course and attending conferences – often

on their own dime. There may be slackers, but Morgan said the Burnaby district has a good process in place to keep them accountable. Every November, teachers are required to give their school administrators a professional growth plan that outlines how they aim to improve their teaching over the coming year. “How we do it is that the teacher, himself or herself, gets to determine the direction they want this growth to go,” Morgan said. “We all will do the growth, but what exactly it is will depend on what we teach and who we teach and where we teach.” For Morgan, the key is collaboration – something she says is missing in the province’s approach. “Burnaby has been a model for years of how to do it in a collaborative fashion,” she said. “And I just think this government is doing things in a conﬂict-developing kind of way. Every time they make an announcement, instead of making us feel better as teachers, that we want to go on and do a great job educating British Columbia’s students, it develops conﬂict and bad feelings, and I don’t think it has to be that way.” Continued on page 4

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Mayor: ‘It’s being handled in a ham-handed way’ Continued from page 1 appear to be doing, to blame the municipal auditor general for everything, I think it’s pretty foolish.” The situation is being handled poorly, he added. “It’s being handled in a ham-handed way as one might expect from (Community Development Minister) Coralee Oakes,” he said. “She’s not the strongest cabinet minister to begin with, and now she’s been put in a position where she has to make tough decisions, and she’s not doing it well.” Corrigan was against the ofﬁce from the beginning, but not because of the way it was established – he said he felt the position was not necessary at all. And it wasn’t because the municipalities were afraid to be audited, he added. “None of the municipalities are hesitant about being audited at any time,” he said. “We all have open books, I mean, much more so than the provincial and federal governments. “It’s not something I want to give the press the impression we were afraid of, it’s just that we thought it was unnecessary,” Corrigan added. He also questioned why municipalities were the focus. “TransLink is not subject

to audit by either the provincial or municipal auditor general,” he said. “And that was one of the major complaints we brought forward.

Why would you not include them in this net you’re casting? But they didn’t.” Corrigan still thinks municipal audits should be

done through the existing B.C. Auditor General’s ofﬁce, he said.That’s the provincial NDP’s position, as well.

Overall, he said he wants the province to come up with a solution that works with the municipalities. “For all of us, it’s to our

advantage to ﬁnd a way to work with the provincial government,” he said. “If the province wants to play nice, I want to play nice.”

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Continued from page 3 Bill 11 was introduced last week, with Education Minister Peter Fassbender saying it was time to put teachers on the same footing as lawyers, accountants and nurses, whose professions have detailed standards for ongoing learning. There are currently no detailed requirements for certiﬁed teachers to maintain currency of practice, and the proposed legislation would give the minister the authority to “establish a more robust framework” for professional development. B.C.Teachers’ Federation president Jim Iker, meanwhile, said the biggest problem facing public education is underfunding and called the proposed legislation a diversion. Burnaby Teachers’ Association president Rae Figursky echoed his sentiments. “If government concern is really about improving public education, the funding cuts announced in February would be reversed,” she told the NOW. “…Mandating the constant professional development already done by teachers does not improve anything.”

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Mayors unite against NEB pipeline process Jennifer Moreau

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The region’s mayors are banding together to call on the federal government to halt Kinder Morgan’s pipeline plan until the National Energy Board addresses complaints about the public hearing process. Mayors from Burnaby, NewWestminster,Vancouver, the City of NorthVancouver,Victoria, Squamish and Bowen Island have all signed a mayors’ declaration they will send to the provincial and federal governments. “We know that our concerns are shared by communities throughout the province,” said Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan in a media release. “This ﬂawed hearing process disallows review of aspects of the proposal that could cause the most signiﬁcant damage. It is critical for this project – and for all projects that can harm communities and the environment – that we have

federal review processes that are rigorous and transparent.” In the joint declaration, the mayors express their “non-conﬁdence” in the NEB process. “It has become apparent that the NEB process does not constitute a ‘public hearing’ and is completely inadequate to assess the health and safety risks of a proposed pipeline through major metropolitan areas, and the potential risks of shipping bitumen oil to Burnaby and through Burrard Inlet, the Salish Sea and along the coastline of British Columbia,” the statement reads. “It is no longer a credible process from either a scientiﬁc evidentiary basis, nor from a public policy and public interest perspective.” The declaration alleges the NEB is not independent from the oil industry it regulates.The mayors also raised concerns the board is not holding oral cross-examinations in the Kinder Morgan pipeline hearing and said

the company’s responses to information requests from hearing intervenors were inadequate. The mayors’ statement comes on the heels of resolutions passed at the Union of B.C. Municipalities and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, which called into question the NEB’s hearing process. No one from the NEB was available for immediate comment, but spokesperson Tara O’Donovan told the NOW earlier this month that the public hearing process is open and fair, and the board decides if there will be oral cross-examinations or not on a case-bycase basis. According to the NEB’s code of conduct, board members and employees are not allowed to be involved “in any way with a business that deals in hydrocarbons or electricity.” The code also forbids holding shares in energy companies, which employees may be forced to sell when working for the NEB.

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Earth Hour: a great idea that ﬁzzled What did you get up to in the dark on Saturday? We’re referring of course to Earth Hour, the 60 minutes starting at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night when everyone was supposed to turn their lights out in the name of energy conservation and – by extension – saving the planet from climate change. Did you look down the street to check out which of your neighbours had

managed to tear themselves away from Netﬂix for an hour of candlelight conversation? Thought not. Chances are, if you’re like most of the population, the event passed with little notice. Earth Hour was once a “thing.” Cities competed for the darkest skyline. It was socially shameful to be the one house on the block with your lights on.

Earth Hour was a laudable effort, reminding us of how much energy we use, how dependent we are on it and how individual choices can make a difference. The problem is that the larger changes needed fall not to individuals but to the collective. And government policy has not followed suit.While they may be happy to dim the lights for an hour, not only has

The feds have scaled back environmental regulations

our federal government failed to take action with policies that would curb climate change, they are

either ignoring or actively dismantling most of the past progress in this area. The feds have scaled back environmental regulations, ignored Canada’s commitment to international greenhouse gas reduction targets and sent a chill through groups advocating for more attention to climate change by sending in the auditors – and spies. And, to top it off, they

have continually allied themselves with big oil companies and refused to support calls for more open public hearings on projects such as pipelines and a process that takes climate change into consideration. In Parliament, the lights are on, but the trouble is nobody’s home. COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE

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MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Another swipe at teachers? The introduction last week of yet another education reform package is further evidence the B.C. Liberals remain on a collision course with school trustees and teachers. The latest education reform package takes a direct shot at both teachers and elected school trustees. Last week’s innocuously entitled Education Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 11) took an easy swipe at one vulnerability of B.C.’s teachers: professional development days.The government wants teachers to be “accountable” for their activities on Pro D days. Fair enough, I suppose, but one has to wonder why it takes legislation in the newly introduced form to do this. The new legislation simply creates a two-year consultation process with the BCTF to come up with some ground rules. But why not establish the rules and guidelines ﬁrst, and then put them in legislation? Doing it this way simply pokes teachers in the eye needlessly and implies Pro D day privileges are somehow being abused (which teachers vociferously deny). But the fuss over Pro D days is window dressing compared to the real meat of Bill 11, which amends the School Act to give the education minister far more authority over how school boards opt to spend money. Bill 11 will allow the minister to effectively force school boards into “shared

service” funding arrangements with other school boards and other public entities, such as health authorities and municipal governments. Critics will no doubt view this potential power grab in rather sinister terms and portray it is as a step closer to abolishing school boards altogether. That seems a bit of a stretch, although it is clear the B.C. Liberals are throwing a lot of things at the public education system right now – curriculum overhauls, huge funding cuts, the wielding of an increasing large stick at all the players etc. – that one has to wonder what is really going on. With a growing list of school districts projecting budget deﬁcits of alarming proportions, the stage is being set for Education Minister Peter Fassbender to directly step into the activities of school boards and wrest control of their budget-making powers.This will no doubt be denounced as anti-democratic by many, although the government may view school boards as public bodies that are elected by a small portion of the electorate and are in many cases controlled by public sector union members. In any event, there are lively times ahead for the public education sector. Last fall’s teachers’ strike and eventual contract appears to have settled little. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

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Hospital has been neglected by province

Gen X is voting Yes? Here’s what one boomer had to say

Dear Editor Why is Burnaby Hospital not good for your health? The hospital was initially built in 1952 with additions in 1973 and 1977. A 2013 seismic assessment review (Bush, Bohlmah & Partners) reported weak lateral systems prone to high risk of failure and deemed the buildings a priority for upgrade or decommissioning. Burnaby Hospital reports a patient infection rate that is three to four times the national average. Surrey Memorial Hospital has 606 beds to serve 490,000 patients – Burnaby Hospital has 289 beds to serve 465,000 patients. In an effort to win votes (not improve health outcomes) Liberal MLAs Harry Bloy and Richard T. Lee, along with paid Liberal operatives created a committee that advised the Liberal government to announce plans to replace/upgrade the hospital. No such plans existed, and the report was exposed as a crass attempt to garner votes. The above-mentioned Burnaby Liberal MLAs were also part of the “quick wins” scheme to try and attract “ethnic” voters by having the premier apologize for the head tax on Chinese immigrants. Burnaby Hospital is not good for your health because it has been neglected by our provincial government and one MLA who should be speaking out on behalf of citizens of Burnaby (Richard Lee) does not seem to appreciate that his first job is to represent the citizens of his riding. Larry Myers, Burnaby

It’s time to assert our Canadian values Dear Editor One recent day in the SFU cafeteria, somebody had a seizure. Within seconds, some students and security guards were providing him assistance. Within minutes, the fire department had arrived, and shortly after that, the paramedics. Taking care of people who need assistance, no matter who, no matter where. This is a Canadian value. TRIUMF is a world-class sub-atomic particle research facility. It’s right here in Vancouver doing cutting-edge research: this is a Canadian value. William Shatner, Lorne Greene, Shania Twain, Roberta Bondar, David Suzuki, Norman Bethune, Terry Fox, Tommy Douglas, Romeo Dallaire, and so on and so forth. There is no shortage of great Canadians. People who gave everything they had. People who made a difference. People who added to the legacy that we all matter. This is a Canadian value. So why is it that, when we start to talk about the really important issues, such as climate change, Canada falls so far behind the rest of the world? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the federal Conservatives believe that the only way to run our economy is to ship natural resources overseas as fast as they can be dug out of the ground. I say, apply Canadian values to the issue of climate change. Invest in sustainable systems and renewable energy. Right here, right now, we have a big opportunity. In the urban areas, we need to stop relying on individual vehicles; we need to invest heavily in public transit. The funding model in the plebiscite may be flawed, but the project is not. Let’s send a strong message to the future: This generation will invest today for their benefit. Victor Finberg, Burnaby

Kathy Clark You wrote: “the system is broken (thanks a lot, baby boomers).” It would be prudent to expand on what was on your mind rather than make a generalized statement. Which system and how did I break it? And: “the planet is heading downhill rapidly (thanks again, baby boomers). Again being specific would have been helpful. I expect that drinking out of a water fountain as opposed to buying water in plastic containers and washing diapers instead of filling the landfill with disposable items started the planet heading downhill. Also: “minivan-driving Gen Xers like ourselves.” As best as I can remember most families did not have a car so we walked or took public transport. I respectfully suggest that your minivan is causing more problems to the planet than I did. But one enormous difference between you and me is that I was taught to respect my elders and I taught my children to do so as well. I guess the Gen Xers I see sitting in seats for elderly and infirm on Skytrain would definitely agree with your article. Articles like this and those written by the prof at SFU and more recently in the Georgia Straight are very revealing regarding how this generation thinks. How sad. I could write more but I must have another look at my car just to make certain it is a luxury model

Recall campaign stirs up discussion Propitious1 While this campaign had to start with someone in the current Liberal government, it is far from just about one individual. This is about citizens holding our elected officials responsible finally. No other tool, outrage or what have you has changed the way politicians do whatever it is they want and get away with things the rest of us would be thrown in jail for ... Corruption and bad faith deals done by the very people that have “honorable” used as an introduction, have been the norm for a long, long time.… Many of my peers in their thirties and early forties don’t even bother to vote anymore because of this same story. Not because we are apathetic and just don’t care but because it doesn’t do a damn thing. The next government is formed and the same old toothless system chugs along doing whatever it pleases, through police investigations, scandals, environmental disasters, the sale of Publicly paid for assets for pennies, farming out BC tax dollars to foreign firms because the Auditor General can’t check their books for payoffs etc etc etc. But our vote WILL be tallied in actions that make a difference like this one! I for one WILL be signing and using Recall as the only accountability tool to ever get something accomplished.

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Elsie Dean is known for many things – her activism as a feminist, senior and environmentalist, to name a few. Now she can add Burnaby’s Outstanding Citizen of theYear to that list. While Dean has received awards in the past, she didn’t expect this one, she said. “I couldn’t imagine it,” she told the NOW. “It’s quite an honour.” The news had not yet settled in for Dean, who suggested she was likely nominated by BROKE – Burnaby Residents Opposing Kinder Morgan Ex-

pansion. She’s a founding Voices of Burnaby Seniors member of the local group. task force, won the city’s “I really appreciate it,” Local Hero Award in 2010. Dean added. “I happen to have worked Dean has lived in Burnwith Ms. Dean on Voices of aby since 1970 and bought Burnaby Seniors,” Coun. a home here in Pietro Calendino 1974, she said. said, adding she “I’ve always is “very energetic, been active in the very active.” community,” she Mayor Derek added. Corrigan said he Coun. Sav Dhaapproved of the liwal announced choice. Dean was the win“I’ve known Elner of the 2014 sie Dean for, gosh, Kushiro Cup at 35 years,” he said. Elsie Dean Monday night’s “She’s a very dediKushiro Cup winner council meeting. cated volunteer.” The city received about The Kushiro Cup is 10 applications this year, ac- awarded annually to comcording to Dhaliwal. munity volunteers. Dean, who is also a Dean will receive her founding member of the award on May 1.

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BBOT MEMBERSHIP LUNCH AND LEARN Join us for this special session to ﬁnd out why businesses, entrepreneurs and organizations have decided the join the Burnaby Board of Trade. Enjoy a complimentary light lunch and get a concise overview of all services and beneﬁts available for BBOT members. April 7 – noon to 1:00pm BBOT Offices (201-4555 Kingsway)

HIGH TEA DIM SUM NETWORKING EVENT Hear from the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service about how they work with businesses to help them succeed in foreign markets at this month’s High Tea Dim Sum event. Build new business relationships and enjoy a great assortment of delicious dim sum! April 22 – 3:00pm to 4:30pm Fortune House Seafood Restaurant

BBOT MORNING MEMBERSHIP INFO SESSION Join us for coffee and muffins to find out why businesses, entrepreneurs and organizations have decided the join the Burnaby Board of Trade. Get a concise overview of all services and benefits available for BBOT members and what you and your business can get from membership. April 16 – 8:30am to 9:30am BBOT Offices (201-4555 Kingsway)

STATE OF THE CITY LUNCHEON Join the Burnaby Board of Trade as we toast our great city at this annual event. Hear from Mayor Derek Corrigan on City Hall’s plans for Burnaby over 2015 and the coming years. This exclusive luncheon event attracts over 200 of Burnaby’s top business and community leaders! April 28 – 11:30am to 2:00pm Delta Burnaby Hotel & Conference Centre

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This is the second in a twopart series about shop classes in the Burnaby school district. Cornelia Naylor

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When he was 13 years old, John Clarke remembers his woodwork teacher gathering students around a workbench in Burnaby’s old MacPherson Park Junior High. The man took a hand plane to a piece of pine, and the wood came off in long curly chips. “He would take a cut and he would hand it to somebody,” Clarke said. “I remember that curly piece of pine to this day. I thought that was so cool. I loved the smell of it, the texture, the feel of it.” Clarke had little interest in school back then, but, from that point on, shop classes gave him an anchor. By the time he graduated from the old Burnaby South ﬁve years later, he had designed and built award-winning furniture and even his own acoustic guitar. Clarke went on to become a tech-ed teacher, with a master’s degree, a 33year career in the Burnaby school district and four years training B.C.’s tech-ed teachers for UBC. He might not even have stayed in high school if it weren’t for those early shop classes. “They kept me sane,” he said. “And that is a vein that runs right through the school system – still does. Kids have not changed.” What has changed, he said, are today’s shop classes. Overcrowded and underequipped, Clarke calls them “deplorable.” CRITICAL MASS Many of today’s tech-ed teachers blame inadequate provincial funding and classsize limits. Before the province barred teachers from negoti-

“We’re all stressed by Dad’s illness.”

ating class-size limits in their contracts in 2002, Clarke – who retired in 2000 – averaged about 20 students in his senior shop classes and 24 in junior classes. Today, Alpha secondary tech-ed teacher Russell Evanisky told the NOW it’s unusual to have fewer than 30 students in any of his shop classes. He and other tech-ed teachers also have more ESL and special needs students in each class, according to Clarke. “I have been back in the classroom,” said the retired teacher, who worked as a substitute in the district until 2013, “and I’ve seen what it’s done to the programs. Class size went up, and it just made it horrible in the classroom.There is what I call critical mass. Safety is a huge issue when you have 30 students instead of 20.” If the province is serious about preparing for a looming labour shortage in the skilled trades, Clarke said, it needs a government willing to invest in school programs. But not everything wrong with School District No. 41’s shops can be laid on the provincial government’s doorstep, according to Clarke. He said Burnaby school ofﬁcials in the 1990s – determined to become provincial leaders in computer education – gutted school shops without any help from the province. THE LEADER AND LOSER The tale begins in the early1960s, right after Clarke graduated from Burnaby South and headed off to university. From 1960 to 1966, the federal government – under the 1960 Technical andVocational Training Assistance Act – injected $1.5 billion into technical and vocational education across the country, including the construction of gleaming new “technical” wings at Burnaby’s high schools, stocked

Golden age: Retired Burnaby shop teacher John Clarke poses in Alpha Secondary’s metal shop in 1975 before much of the equipment in the background was auctioned off by the school district in the 1990s. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

with top-of-the-line, industrial-grade shop equipment. “They were wonderful,” Clarke said. “We produced people that were proud of what they did.They became tradespeople.They are – a lot of them – people that are now running your local, very successful businesses.” As the 1990s approached, however, things changed. Enrolment in shop classes dropped, Clarke said, as more academic courses became mandatory and more electives came on line. With the rise of computers, he said, senior school ofﬁcials opted to take the lead in computer education, largely at the expense of shop classes. “I call them the leader and loser on that basis,” Clarke said. Across the district, shops were closed, and money was poured into computer technology. Sudents increasingly learned design and construction on computers and through what Clarke calls “toilet-paper engineering.”

“They decided kids could be building bridges on a table top out of Popsicle sticks,” he said. The new Burnaby South, which opened in 1993, was the crown jewel of the new regime. Shop space and equipment were cut drastically to make way for Tech Lab 2000. “Students were voting with their feet and leaving

I call them the leader and loser on that basis. the shop empty,” said thensuperintendent Elmer Froese, explaining the changes in a 1993 Tech & Learning Magazine article. Meanwhile, much of the top-of-the-line equipment once housed in wood and metal shops around the district was auctioned off for pennies on the dollar as those programs were cut, Clarke said.

He and his tech-ed colleagues at Cariboo Hill fought back by collecting some of the equipment and stashing it behind a false wall in an alcove of the school’s shop wing. “We knew we couldn’t take it off the premises,” Clarke said. “That would have been theft, so we thought, well if they can’t ﬁnd the God damned stuff, they can’t take it.” Rod Ramage, another retired shop teacher whose career spanned the same era as Clarke’s, was one of the group. He said some good things were added to teched with computers, but the district’s approach at the time was lopsided. “We were concerned about what was being given up,” he said. The Cariboo Hill teachers added the equipment back to their shops some years later, and, to this day, the school has the bestequipped shops in the district, according to Clarke. A CAUTIONARY TALE For Clarke, district deci-

sions about shop classes in the 1990s were disastrous. “They followed false gods,” he said, “and it’s come full circle because now people are saying, ‘Why don’t we have the equipment and the facilities to train tradespeople?’” Clarke has nothing against computers, he said, but the district’s pursuit of computer education at the expense of shop classes hasn’t turned out to be the best move for all grads. As an example, he points to the many computerbased jobs now outsourced to developing countries. That’s harder to do with trades jobs, according to Clarke. “You cannot export a construction site,” he said. Clarke said the administrators – all since retired – who steered the district single-mindedly towards computer education in the 1990s kept elected school ofﬁcials in the dark about the effect on shop classes and shop equipment. His colleague, Ramage, said trustees should have paid closer attention. But Clarke said the tale should be a lesson to parents too. For too long, he said, they have focused on getting their kids into university and ignored the beneﬁts of trades careers, both in terms of employment and personal satisfaction. After spending plenty of time at both, there’s no contest for Clarke. “What am I the proudest of? The things I can do with my hands and the equipment and the machinery,” he said. “It is that tactile thing that most human beings need and a lot of us cannot live without. And a lot of kids are totally frustrated in school because they don’t get that opportunity now.” See an extended story at www.burnabynow.com.

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APRIL 2, MAUNDY THURSDAY, 6:00 PM Table Eucharist with simple dinner, Foot Washing and Stripping of the Altar APRIL 3, GOOD FRIDAY, 10:30 AM REFRESHMENTS, 11:00 AM Family Stations of the Cross APRIL 4, HOLY SATURDAY, 7:00 PM The Great Vigil of Easter APRIL 5, EASTER SUNDAY, 10:00 AM Holy Eucharist APRIL 12, 10:00 AM Easter Festival of Readings and Music, and Sunday School ALL ARE WELCOME

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Communitynow Nesting Remember that story about the mama pigeon at Burnaby Hospital that ran March 27? Well, this is where it began! Reader Juanita Michael was kind enough to share this shot with us and let us know about the pigeon brood. Thanks, Juanita! If you have a photo to share with NOW readers, email it to editorial@ burnabynow.com. Put ‘Snapped’ in the subject line.

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Face of the past: David Gray and Bob Wood, from May 1927 (copied 1986) is part of the People With Cameras exhibition at the Bob Prittie library branch. PHOTO CITY OF BURNABY ARCHIVES

Printmaking, photography in new exhibits Printmaking and photography are in focus in two new exhibitions at Burnaby’s public libraries. The Burnaby Art Gallery is offering two new off-site exhibitions at Burnaby Public Library branches. At the McGill library branch (4595 Albert St.), visitors can check out Laura Widmer’s Face to Face. Widmer is an award-winning Canadian printmaker based in Kelowna, who has earned recognition from the Open Studio National Printmaking Awards. Her first prize-winning work from the 2010 competition, One of the Daves I Know, is part of the exhibition at the library – as is Pearls, which earned honourable mention in the same competition last year. “My work is a quiet act of defiance in a digital age,” Widmer says in a statement. “I wish to draw attention to the tactile, sensual subtleties of our world at a time when the word ‘touch’ frequently references a finger-swipe across a flat, rectangular

screen. I use a deliberately physical process and emphasize the handmade mark in creating works that explore the subtleties of expression; I hope that the lines, textures and accumulation of marks in my work suggest a process, a history and a sense of presence that will invite the viewer to pause, if even momentarily.” Face to Face is on until June 8. At the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) library branch at 6100 Willingdon Ave., visitors can take in People With Cameras, an exhibition of photographs from the City of Burnaby Archives – historic photographs that show the rise of photography as a leisure pursuit, especially after 1900 when the Kodak Brownie Box roll-ﬁlm camera was introduced. It’s on until June 7. Check out www.burnaby artgallery.ca for more about the exhibitions.

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Saturday, May 2, 2015 Culinary delights prepared in partnership with members of the Rotary Club of Burnaby and students from the Burnaby School District’s Professional Cook Training Program Net proceeds earned from this event will be donated to: • Bursary to students of the ACE-IT Professional Cooks Program • Roxy Relief Program to support Pet Guardians who are homeless, low income and /or elderly http://pawsforhope.org • Rotary’s Legacy Foreshore Park Project for fitness facilities at Fraser River Foreshore Park

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Adults $35 • Children 6-12 $20 Children 5 and under free

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Communitynow Volunteers restore habitat at Deer Lake Brook

A band of volunteers put the ﬁnishing touches on a restoration project at Deer Lake Brook on March 21 and 22. About 15 volunteers came out on the Friday and Saturday to plant native species along a stretch of the small waterway that serves as important habitat for many species at Burnaby Lake.The crew also removed invasive blackberry bushes, cleaned up the site and set up a fence to keep dogs and beavers out.

“I think it went really well. It was fun and people had a good time, and we were able to talk to people about the importance of this kind of work,” said Ann Green, a volunteer coordinator with the Burnaby Lake Park Association. The project, which started last summer, was a joint effort between the Burnaby Lake Park Association, the Fraser Valley Conservancy, Fisheries and Ocean Canada and biologists from the Coastal Painted Turtle

Project. Deer Lake Brook is the main connecting waterway that ﬂows from Deer Lake into Burnaby Lake.The brook is a habitat for many species, including the endangered Western painted turtle and the Paciﬁc water shrew, the red-legged frog and great blue herons. Chum, pink and coho salmon were also trying to travel through the brook but were blocked by an old weir, which was removed in July with a large excava-

tor.The team then added rocks, large tree trunks and wads of roots to create a more natural ﬂowing brook

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Douglas soccer nets top awards

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Soccer players scored the top prizes at the annual Douglas College Royals awards banquet. All-Canadian Spencer DeBoice and Canadian Colleges’ Association women’s player of the year finalist Marni McMillan were named this year’s athletes of the year winners at the Anvil Centre last Thursday. DeBoice finished runnerup in league scoring and the tournament MVP for the PacWest provincial champions. He was also named a PacWest first team all-star. DeBoice beat out AllCanadian volleyball player George Thompson, a second-year player who was the only player to finish in the top eight in all four major offensive categories in the PacWest this season. The PacWest player of the year was third in the league in total offence, fourth in kills, fifth in blocks and sixth in service aces. Also shortlisted was soccer goalkeeper Marc Mincieli, who over the last three seasons has crafted a stingy 1.2 goals against average in the PacWest. Mincieli was named the top goalkeeper at the provincial championships. McMillan earned the women’s athlete of the year award over softball’s Hilary Strelau and Nanaya Miki from women’s basketball. McMillan earned the PacWest player of the year award and All-Canadian honours. She led the Royals in scoring and was named the player of the game in both matches at the PacWest provincials, helping Douglas win its first provincial medal in women’s soccer in 15 years. Strelau was a big reason for Douglas winning its first-ever Northwest regional softball title last season. Strelau was named the

North Region player of the year and a Northwest conference All-American. She led the conference in stolen bases and hitting percentage, while the team placed third in average runs per game. Miki was a PacWest first team all-star, finishing the regular season 12th overall in league scoring and 11th in rebounding. At the provincials, Miki was named to the all-tournament team. Men’s volleyball coach Brad Hudson, who was recently named the Canadian Colleges’ coach of the year, was also named coach of the year at the Douglas College awards. Hudson, who led the men’s volleyball team to a 21-3 league record and No. 1 in the nation, earned the award over women’s basketball coach Courtney Gerwing and men’s soccer coaches Robby Toor and Paul Bahia. Gerwing led the basketball team to back-to-back silver medals at the PacWest provincials, while Toor and Bahia upset No. 1 seed Vancouver Island University in the PacWest provincial final. Academic athlete of the year awards went to men’s volleyball player Lucas DeCoste of New Westminster and soccer’s Ashley Melvin. TEAM AWARDS: Thompson earned the men’s volleyball team’s impact player award, while Angus Ireland took the pride award and Matt Santema received the set-the-bar award. Julianna Penner was named the MVP for women’s volleyball. Lynnea Carr was the most improved and Georgia Hurry was the team’s rookie of the year. In soccer, DeBoice was the men’s most outstanding player. Devin Phelan was named the unsung player Continued on page 16

Flying tackle: Joe Dolesau, in blue, helped the Burnaby Lake Rugby Club come from behind to eke out a 19-19 draw with UBC Old Boys Ravens in premier men’s spring league rugby action at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-East on Saturday. Burnaby Lake outscored the Ravens three tries to one with Kimi Vunituranga, Ryan McHolister and Andrew Lackner touching down with five-pointers. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Burnaby skater at world’s door Fourth-best free skate vaults Nam Nguyen into top ﬁve at worlds

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Former Burnaby resident Nam Nguyen posted personal best scores to finish in fifth place at the International Skating Union World Figure Skating Championships this weekend. The gifted 16-year-old landed his quadruple jump and recorded the fourthbest free skating program at the worlds, leaping up from ninth place after the opening short program to finish fifth in the men’s final in Shanghai, China on Saturday.

Nguyen finished with a personal-best 242.59 score following a 164.86 PB score in the long program. Javier Fernandez of Spain won his country’s first-ever men’s gold medal in figure skating, overtaking defending world and Olympic championYuzuru Hanyu of Japan in the free skate. Both Fernandez and Hanyu share the same Canadian coach as Nguyen – two-time Olympic silver medalist Brian Orser. “In the long program, I needed to be more aggressive. I achieved that, and I’m really happy with

myself,” said Nguyen in a Skate Canada press release. Nguyen won four national ﬁgure skating titles before the age of 13. He is the youngest Canadian athlete to date to be crowned a national champion in all ﬁve divisions he has competed in, including national juvenile champion at eight years of age. After winning the juvenile title, Nguyen achieved a rarely seen triple, winning three national gold medals in a row, taking top spot the following year in men’s pre-novice and the novice title in 2009. Nguyen also became

the youngest-ever junior men’s champion at age 12 in 2011 and recently became the youngest senior men’s champion this year at 16 following a phenomenal free skate, including a perfect quad Salchow and eight triple jumps to score 256.88 overall points that vaulted him into the world’s elite skaters. Nguyen left the Lower Mainland for Toronto in 2012 to train with Orser. Nguyen won the world junior men’s championship last year. Burnaby’s Jeremy Ten placed 22nd overall in the men’s free skate program.

EDC FC Burnaby falls in Cup ﬁnals

Premiers lose 1-0 toWestVan, u-21s beaten in extra time Tom Berridge

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It was an unpleasant Saturday on a number of fronts. Not only was the weather characteristically uncooperative, but the decisions EDC FC Burnaby was looking for in both Imperi-

al and under-21 Cup ﬁnals also failed to materialize. The premier men lost 1-0 to Vancouver Metro Soccer League regular season leader West Van FC in the Imperial Cup ﬁnal at Trillium Park East on Saturday, while the Burnabybased club’s grad team also fell to West Van 3-2 in over-

time earlier in the day. “The men’s game … could have gone either way, (West Van) really only had one clear chance and scored in the second half,” said EDC coach Claudio Ramirez. EDC had two glorious chances at goal, but the West Van keeper was stellar

on both attempts, Ramirez added. “We pressed the last 25 minutes hard, but they were solid in the back. It was a great run for our club,” Ramirez said. In other results, Guildford FC clobbered Twin Arrows 5-0 to take the Div. 2 Cup ﬁnal.

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No consolation: Burnaby Girls SC Rush lost 1-0 to Wickham FC in the dying minutes of the Metro Women’s Division I consolation soccer final at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex-West on Sunday. Rush leading scorer Bianca Bertelli, in red, scored 10 goals this season. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

More team honoured Royals Continued from page 15 and Mincieli best defensive player. McMillan was the women’s soccer MVP, while Nicole Fraser was named the best allaround player. Melvin was the Royals’ most consistent player. Steven Hayes and Danielle Dewar were selected as golf’s respective MVPs. Christine Con was the most improved player. Andrew Baron was the MVP on the men’s basketball team. Bradyn Norris was named the most improved and Dustin Popoff earned the coach’s award. Chloe Kennedy was the women’s basketball MVP. Ellen Fallis was the most improved and Garaline Tom most inspiration-

al player. Strelau was the winner of the rising star award in women’s softball. Jenna Holm took home the purple heart award and Sydney Brown was the team’s golden glove winner. In baseball, Jeff Bouchard was the Northwest league’s all-conference hitter.Taylor Lawrence won the dedication and leadership award, while Cory Duggan was the top sophomore pitcher. Julianna Hodanic was the top female on the Douglas College running club. Diego Arellano was named best junior athlete and Chris Raeside top achieving senior athlete.

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Skaters win Jr. B hockey ﬁnal Three Burnaby hockey players are on their way to the Cyclone Taylor Cup following a ﬁrst-ever Pacific Junior Hockey League title for the North Vancouver Wolf Pack last weekend. Connor Pasco, who

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in the playoffs, including one game-winning goal. Ambrosio had four goals and three assists in post season play. The Cyclone Taylor Cup gets underway on April 3 in Mission.

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