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Burnaby could get 40 new teachers

By Cornelia Naylor

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As many as 40 new teaching jobs could open up in the Burnaby school district in the next few days after the provincial government announced $50 million in new money last week to hire about 1,100 teachers provincewide.

The announcement is be-

ing described as a first step in responding to a November Supreme Court of Canada ruling that sided with the B.C.Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) in a battle over contract language related to the size and composition of classes.

Local school district officials will meet with the Burnaby Teachers’ Association (BTA) this week to sort

out details, according to local teacher union president Frank Bonvino.

“It’s kind of a big scramble to get this out as quickly as possible,” he told the NOW. Schools already submit requests for extra staffing every spring, vying for money from the district’s Education Fund allocation, according to Bonvino, and he

said those requests could now help guide the union and school district in determining where extra teaching positions are needed.

“A small fraction of those requests were met,” he said, “but a lot of them weren’t because there’s not enough money in the system, but it identifies schools’ needs, so that would be a document that would have some value

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tant for the district to get the hiring process going as quickly as possible since it will be competing with districts across the province for teachers.

“You’re trying to attract the best people as quickly as possible,” he said. “It’s going to be very intense.”

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Bonvino would also like the schools consulted to see if any new staffing needs have arisen since the spring.

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City biz owner says he was hacked Owner of Canadian Telescopes says people were paying, but payments were being diverted to someone else

By Cayley Dobie

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The owner of a once popular telescopes distribution company is speaking out following a flurry of online complaints since the fall.

According to Babak Sedehi, owner of Burnaby-based Canadian Telescopes, the trouble began in the summer when for about a month-long period, online orders weren’t going through properly. Instead, when anyone bought something off the website, the order would be placed with Canadian Telescopes but the payment would be directed to another group.

Sedehi said he discovered the problem in late September and by October, he confirmed payments made online weren’t being processed.The website had been hacked, he told the NOW. “After that, … we kind of managed to go back on track and everything was looking good.We tried contacting customers; we tried to reduce the damage as much as possible and it was looking fine, but then suddenly, towards the end of November, our processor contacted us and said they’re cutting us off,” he

said.

That meant Canadian Telescopes could no longer process online orders.

The processing company told Sedehi his customers would have to contact their credit card companies directly to get refunded for orders that hadn’t arrived.

“They practically killed our business this way because processors are like insurance companies; when one goes down the others won’t take it,” Sedehi said, adding he and his staff tried to contact customers to tell them how to go about getting their money back.

Unfortunately, by then, the damage was done.

Sedehi had to lay off his staff and move the remaining inventory into the production facility for his other business, NexDome personal observatories.

Sedehi said he has done his best to keep customers informed. Right after the hack, he posted a lengthy explanation of the situation on the Canadian Telescopes Facebook page that included ways for customers to get their money back.

According to Sedehi, more than 95 per cent of people who placed orders but didn’t receive their items have been refunded through their credit card

LOST IN SPACE: Canadian Telescopes owner Babak Sedehi, pictured here in 2012 when he first opened his shop in Burnaby. The telescopes distributor was forced to close his doors after hackers stole thousands of dollars from his online store. PHOTO FILE PHOTO companies.

“The other four or five per cent, they don’t get it,” he said.

That’s because not all customers believe Sedehi’s story about the hack.

Search out Canadian Telescopes online and

it’s easy to find dozens of posts made by disgruntled customers who’ve tried to get more information from Sedehi, but couldn’t.

It doesn’t help that he had to remove the company’s Facebook page or that emails are going unan-

swered.

“I personally had to answer the few hundred (emails) one-by-one, but then after a while you just can’t do anything,” he said.

Sedehi also can’t refund people through Canadian Telescopes because the

company never actually received the payments in the first place.

“Now, if I want to refund them, I have to cut them a cheque, which we don’t have the money for, or Continued on page 5

TAUGHT AT CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Teacher leaves $600,000 to help others Winnifred Richmond asked that money go to helping Burnaby high school students become teachers

By Cornelia Naylor

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Burnaby students looking to become teachers will get a boost this year thanks to one former Burnaby teacher’s dying wish.

Long-time local elementary teacher Wynn (Winnifred) Richmond, who taught at Armstrong, Confederation Park and Clinton between 1964 and 1985, recently bequeathed more than $600,000 to the Burnaby Retired Teachers’ Association Scholarship and

Bursary Foundation.

“I’m sorry to say that we don’t know very much about Winnifred Richmond,” association president Rennie Maierle told the NOW. “We’ve reached out to discover more about her and no one has gotten back to us.”

A Vancouver Sun obituary prepared by Richmond herself described her as “an independent, dignified, compassionate and loving lady, who valued a good education and high morals and ethics.”

The obituary gave special thanks to those carrying out her wishes and quoted Sentimental Journey – Doris Day’s first No. 1 hit in 1945: “Gonna take a sentimental journey. Gonna set my heart at ease. Gonna make a sentimental journey to renew old memories.”

Richmond, who died at the age of 89 on Jan. 3, 2015, asked in her will that the retired teachers’ association provide a scholarship in her name to Burnaby high school students who plan to study at a B.C. uni-

versity and become teachers.

Burnaby’s retired teachers established their bursary and scholarship foundation in 1994.

Since then, money has been collected through raffles, draws and donations, and the interest income has been enough to provide one student at each Burnaby secondary school with a $600 scholarship.

“This has been obviously our biggest donation,” Maierle said of Richmond’s gift.

With her bequest, the

association now has two funds.

Its regular Burnaby Scholarship and Bursary Fund has grown enough for the organization to boost its annual scholarships to $1,000 each this year.

Also starting this year, a new Burnaby Retired Teachers’Wynn Richmond Fund will enable it to hand out an extra $2,000 to one student at each high school as per Richmond’s wishes.

“We’ll be giving away in the neighbourhood of $32,000 this year,” Maierle

said. “We’re very excited.”

The retired teachers’ foundation is a registered charitable organization able to give out tax receipts for donations.

To find out more or to donate, write the Burnaby Teachers’ Association Scholarship and Bursary Foundation care of the Burnaby school district at 5325 Kincaid St., Burnaby, B.C.V5G 1W2; call 604434-0486, or email rmaierle@telus.net.

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Continued from page 1 Niccoli-Moen agreed, calling the situation a “human resources crunch,” but she doesn’t expect the district to get its actual allocation from the $50 million until the end of January.

She said the district will likely use a process like the Education Fund requests to fill gaps with the new money, but the Ed Fund requests themselves have mostly been filled, she said, and new needs have arisen in the intervening months.

New curriculum initiatives, the recent influx of refugees, and hard-to-fill positions for mental health and English language learning (ELL) supports are some

of the “pressure points” the district will be looking at, according to Niccoli-Moen.

One thing the district won’t be tackling this school

We’re actually adding and making the system better

year, however, is class size, the superintendent said.

“We’re not looking at reconfiguring or dividing classes,” she said. “Instead, we’re taking a lot more opportunities of team teach-

ing, of sort of district helping teacher model, resource, non-enrolling teachers, supporting programming.We won’t be looking at class size and dividing classes.There won’t be any disruption to existing classes where students are moving from one to another, no.”

To board chair Ron Burton, meanwhile, the $50-million announcement last week was some much welcome good news.

“It’s an exciting time for education,” he said. “We’re actually adding and making the system better.”

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‘Sad ending’ for owner of local telescope business Continued from page 3 directly pay them back through the system, but because we don’t have access to the system, we can’t do that either,” he said.

Because of the problems, Canadian Telescopes no longer exists as an e-commerce business.The once popular source for telescopes, with buyers across the country, has been reduced to an amazon.ca storefront, which Sedehi is

using to sell off his remaining inventory.

This was not the future Sedehi, who fell in love with astronomy when he was 14 years old, had planned for Canadian Telescopes.

“As successful as it was, it had a sad ending,” he said.

Canadian Telescopes continues to be available for consultations. Sedehi is now focused on his NexDome personal observatory business, also based in Burnaby.

The Better Business Bureau of B.C. confirmed Canadian Telescopes’ accreditation is under review following multiple complaints.The Canadian AntiFraud Centre has no record of allegations of fraud filed against Canadian Telescopes or by Sedehi for the hack.

The NOW contacted the Burnaby RCMP to find out whether anything had been reported to the local police but has not heard back yet.

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Time to start ranting about poor kids

It was an easy prediction.We knew that Christy Clark was going to raise the homeowner’s grant ceiling – the only question was by how much.

Clark had already given young voters an election campaign present, now she’s playing to what she hopes is her base – folks who mostly sit squarely in the comfortable middle class.

Her recent announcement that the province will

provide an interest-free down payment for firsttime homebuyers may have been met with skepticism by political pundits and economists, but for young people who are desperately looking for a way to get into the housing market, it drew cheers.

The high price of housing in the Lower Mainland is hitting both young families and established older families. For the younger ones, they are looking to

get a foothold in the market, while older folks are just trying to stay in their homes despite rising taxes and sundry other costs.

The high cost of housing has become the topic du jour at water coolers everywhere in the Lower Mainland.To not tap into the angst when you’re running to keep your premier’s seat would be political malpractice. And Clark is no amateur where politics is concerned.

So let us just consider for a moment if the topic du jour became children living in poverty.What if the fairly comfortable middle class stopped whining about paying $200 per year more in taxes, or why their side street hasn’t been plowed, and considered kids who don’t get three good meals a day in B.C., one of the richest provinces in Canada?

What if everyone simply said, like they have about

housing, that something must be done about kids in poverty?

Poverty has unfortunately become labelled as an NDP supporter’s concern and one that is left to social worky activist types.

Clark understands that a campaign with promises to help poor kids might just remind people of how little the province has done. And then there’s the cold political fact that not a lot of poor kids vote.

But if we all raged on about children living in poverty as much as we rage about our taxes and snow and TransLink, perhaps Clark would act.

And, yes, we know, it’s not always so black and white.

But it’s sure worth a try, and now that the snow is gone, we really need something new to whine about, so let it be poor kids.

MY VIEW KEITH BALDREY

Schools are set to grow again

Coming soon to a vacant school field near you: portables, lots and lots of portables.

While much attention has been paid to the $50 million that will hire more than 1,000 teachers as a result of the interim agreement between the B.C. government and the B.C.Teachers’ Federation, the fact that more classroom space will have to be created to accommodate those new hires is getting less ink.

As part of the agreement, classroom sizes will have to be smaller. Simply put, more teachers mean more classrooms.

The influx is unlikely to cause much chaos and confusion through the rest of the current school year, but starting next September, look out.

The magnitude of what lies ahead can be seen in the affidavits more than a half dozen school superintendents filed as part of the long-running court case over the B.C. government’s arbitrary decision to strip language dictating class size and composition from the teachers’ collective agreement.The superintendents estimated what it would take to meet the classroom requirements should the language be restored in the contract.

The superintendent of Surrey, for example, said it would take the construction of 51 more portables (at a cost of $4.75 million) to meet the class size and composition standards set out in the old language.

The final numbers of portables (or school expansions, or even the reopening of closed schools) won’t be known for some time yet, as talks continue between the government and the union on how to accommodate the old language.

The fact an interim agreement was reached so quickly after the Supreme Court of Canada’s embarrassing smack down of the government’s case speaks volumes of the strength of the BCTF’s position here.

The BCTF estimates about 3,500 teaching positions (which includes classroom teachers, librarians, counsellors, special education teachers, etc.) were eliminated across the province when the old language was scrapped.The interim deal restores almost onethird of those positions. It’s unclear whether all of the rest will be restored, but it’s likely the lion’s share of them will be.

And there will be a final deal, although it may take some time to reach one.

In the meantime, I expect the government to include funding for the final agreement (probably around $300 million, not including the costs for portables) in the spring budget (although hidden in contingencies and the like).

This all adds up to a winwin situation for teachers, and for students.

Too bad it took so long for the government to be brought to heel.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global B.C.

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SMS suzanne Taylor The owners should have raised their pitbull properly. Any dog can get vicious when it is not raised properly. So, if we can not put down the owners, let us put down the pitbull. How does that sound? suzanne Taylor SMS Oh really, any dog can kill another if not raised properly???Nope,i’ve had second hand,poorly raised dogs all my life.

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Worrying about oil going into the Fraser is a legitimate concern, but it is most likely going to happen from a derailment, not a pipeline break. Oil from Alberta is moving by rail on a regular basis on CNR and CPR lines and increasing daily.

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Lara Graham has been appointed publisher of both the Burnaby NOW and New Westminster Record effective Jan. 1, 2017.

Graham had been serving as associate publisher since 2014 and prior to that had been director of sales and marketing since 2008.

She is active in both the New Westminster and Burnaby communities and serves on the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce and Burnaby Board of Trade.

She has been working in advertising and marketing since she graduated from BCIT’s marketing management program

Lara Graham: New publisher at the helm of both the Burnaby NOW and the Record.

in the mid ’90s. Her first job was as marketing and promotions coordinator with the B.C. Lions, where she experienced a Grey Cup win. She then moved to media and joined the North Shore News, where she excelled in sales.

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They are great products with terrific employees serving strong and vibrant communities, and I will thoroughly enjoy expanding our connections and helping to build on our past successes,” Graham said.

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Peer counsellors help Burnaby seniors Tereza Verenca

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One could argue Elizabeth Black’s volunteerism has come full circle.

The Burnaby resident first volunteered at the age of 16 as a gardener for seniors. She would help the elderly with weeding, with tidying up flower beds and anything that required getting her hands – and clothes – a little dirty.

“That was eye-opening,” Black said of her first volunteer gig, adding she also volunteered in a home of senior Catholic nuns. “It was hard to see older people. By that time, they were physically and mentally not well.

I didn’t really understand it. I didn’t understand what was going on. I remember feeling quite sad about it.”

Today, Black volunteers as a senior peer counsellor through the Burnaby Seniors Outreach Services Society.The program offers free, confidential, oneto-one counselling services for people 55-plus who may have anxiety, are coping with the loss of a loved one, or are simply lonely.

Counsellors direct seniors to community services and help them find solutions to their problems.

Volunteers must first go through 54 hours of training in communications, listening and counselling skills before taking on clients.

Black, who had a 30-year career as a mental health nurse at Coquitlam’s Riverview Hospital, took the courses four years ago.

“I was looking for something that would make personal connections with people,” the 61-year-old said. “I didn’t know what it would

involve, but I knew it was an opportunity (to help).”

Black recalled she was “a little apprehensive” with her first client.

“You’re going towards a house, a doorway, and you’re not sure what the person’s going to be like,” she said. “I was surprised how meaningful it was to both him and myself, our get-togethers. By the end of the experience, he really looked forward to me coming because his wife already passed.”

More than 10 seniors die by suicide every week in Canada and around 1,000 older adults are admitted to hospitals each year as a consequence of intentional self-harm, according to the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention.

Seniors are the most atrisk demographic, with men over the age of 65 the most at risk.

“I think for some seniors, they may experience different things as they get older, loss being one of them; loss of some of their own abilities, loss of family members, friends, loss of their career; they’re no longer working. Maybe their family has moved away, maybe there are problems within the family,” explained Black.

One of the biggest rewards so far, according to Black, has been the training she’s received.

“We’re always getting speakers in every month; you’re always learning something,” she said. “I always had pretty good listening skills, but I think I’ve sharpened those, really tuning into what people are saying and trying to get the meaning behind the words.”

Lori Rank, the peer coun-

Reaching out: Longtime Burnaby volunteer Elizabeth Black, left, with Lori Rank of the Burnaby Seniors Outreach Services Society. Black, 61, has given back to her community her whole life. The retired mental health nurse has been a senior peer counsellor with Burnaby Seniors Outreach Services Society for four years. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

selling program manager, couldn’t agree more. She, too, also had to take the course.

“I speak to my friends differently; I speak to my daughter differently.You learn to be much more empathetic,” she told the NOW. Rank said by giving the society’s volunteers the proper training, clients are left empowered.

“They say, ‘Oh, I’ve now been validated. Somebody’s actually heard what I’m saying, and I can do something about this.’”

The training also includes lots of problem solving and role play, tools Rank said

are important when dealing with vulnerable seniors.

“We don’t have to sit there and wipe their face all the time.We can show them this is a resource

I was surprised how meaningful it was to both him and myself

that is great for them, and we can actually help them make the call. It’s empowering them and letting them

know they’re still a valued citizen and that they’ve got something to give,” she said.

“Knocking on a stranger’s door isn’t a normal thing, but we prepare ourselves, we know what we want to do.We want to reach their heart and tell them somebody cares.”

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED The program manager said the outreach society is in need of 10 new senior volunteers for its peer counselling program.

Up to 11 new files land on her desk every month, and not everyone can be paired up.

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one sitting there (on the waiting list) for a couple of months,” said Rank.

She added Black is an exception to the rule (Black takes on multiple clients), and her volunteer cohort of 23 often take just one or two seniors.

“Not everyone is like Elizabeth,” Rank said with a smile.

To learn more or to get involved with the senior peer counselling program, visit www.bsoss.org or call 604-291-2258.

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Life as it should be A Special Feature of the Burnaby NOW in partnership with the Heights Merchants Association

Artisan shop takes shape in Heights

L’Atelier Sandie Bell is set to offer craft workshops Sandie Bell always had a hand in making arts and crafts, learning some of those skills right from her mom when she was a child.

Though she made a fulltime career out of being a graphic artist, she continued to dabble in crafts on the side in markets each season.

That was until life events gave her the push to go out on her own. And what resulted was L’Atelier Sandie Bell, an arts and crafts gift shop in the

Do you make most of your product?

I have a graphic design background, I also have a sewing and knitting background because my mom did all that stuff, so pretty much everything in the store is either made by me or other artisans.

I have ordered stuff from a couple of companies from the UK… just to `ll in the gaps until I get a full repertoire of artisans, but my goal is to have the store fully functional with mostly artisan work as opposed to anything ordered.

It’s local artisans, people in the Lower Mainland making things.

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The store opened up in November, and big plans are about to get underway.

Besides selling mostly her own, or local artisan crafts, the space will be turned into a studio and workshop for people to come and learn how to create their own crafts.

The NOW recently spoke to Bell about her new venture.

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be Jan. 22 and Jan. 29. Those will be cookie-decorating classes for Valentines cookies.

After that I’ll be doing a class on Feb. 5 on Valentine’s cards, and then I’ll just keep adding classes. The workshops will be anything from learning how to do old mason jars; people like to paint old mason jars, someone has asked how to sew. They’ve asked me for classes on painting, collage painting, acrylic painting. I’m just going to see how it goes, see what people are asking for and then offer the classes.

Where did you learn how to make crafts?

My mom always made beautiful birthday parties for us, so I picked up things from that. I’m an avid magazine buyer. I learned a lot just by myself. I have the graphic background, which leads in to all sorts of other things. I pick things up, I either Google to learn how to do it, or I `nd out from a friend or I take a class.

So I just picked up all these different things from different

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Sandie Bell Shows off some of the crafts in her new store. Located in the back of Oui Coffee House at 4092 Hastings St., she opened L’Atelier Sandie Bell in November. The artisan gift shop sells mostly her own, or local artisan crafts.

Later this month, Bell will be hosting workshops out of the store for people to come and learn how to create their own crafts. people. The cookie decorating I learned by myself.

What are you hoping your clients get out of these workshops?

Well, I want them to come into the shop and feel comfort-

able that they can ask me and talk to me about different things they’re interested in, and hopefully, if it’s something I don’t sell, I can bring it in, `nd someone who makes it, or if it’s something they want to learn how to do, I can

possibly source out someone to teach them how to do it. In that neighbourhood, there’s a need for people who want to get out of their apartment or their condos. People don’t have enough space to do craft or art. If I have a work table

in there, I could possibly have a drop-in kind of thing where they can use the supplies and pay a drop-in fee. I want them to feel comfortable coming in and being able to do something with me.

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Life as it should be

Craft workshops just the beginning for L’Atelier From page 13 …

Is there a strong interest in people wanting to learn how to make crafts?

Oh yes, there’s tons of interest. People have come in and ask if I would make necklaces, because I make earring and sell the earrings, and I said yes they’re coming. I do want to change up what I make and what I supply in the shop. You can’t have stagnant things in the shop, because then people won’t come back. People have asked me how to make the jewelry and I’ve said ‘Yes, I

make them here, sure I can do a class on that. Would you like to come?’ I de`nitely think there’s a want for that kind of activity.

What do you get out of creating these crafts?

I love it. I’m just doing what I love doing. It’s so much better than working for somebody else.

I get to make whatever I want. I get to choose all the fabric. I get to pick all the paint colours. I can label how I want. It’s kind of nice that I

get to see the people’s reaction face-to face with the things I’ve made.

Why did you choose the Heights?

I live in New Westminster and I was looking for store front, and I looked for about three years now.

I couldn’t `nd anything that was affordable, and I was getting really frustrated by it.

It just so happened we were walking past this place.

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There’s a lot of little shops but not a lot for gift places.

I was looking for a niche where there wasn’t something I was doing, so I ended up looking further a`eld than New Westminster.

Being behind the Oui Coffee House is nice. There is a nice rear entrance and people can walk through the front.

We’re almost helping each other out by bringing in customers both ways.

I’m hoping it will grow

into a following so when I’m ready to move on, I can `nd a store front that will be my own space.

It’s more affordable and I really do like the area.

What do you see for the future?

I would like to stay in the same area, just have a storefront.

That’s what I would like to have, but still with a workshop, with a studio space, where I can teach classes and just have more artisans.

Right now I’m working on getting more artisans. A lot of artisans I had gone to to see if they would like to put their product in my shop, were so busy with their Christmas craft fairs; they couldn’t even think about supplying me with stuff. Which is understandable, because I’ve been in the same place.

Hopefully in the next few months I’ll be able to get more and more artisans to join me, which is great.

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How many times have you heard the phrase ‘new year, new me?’ Probably a lot lately, considering it’s that time of year when everyone commits to being reborn as `tter versions of themselves.

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The West Coast is wellknown for being home to many yoga enthusiasts, and the Heights is no exception.

If you’re looking to start off 2017 by becoming a little more serene and a lot more _exible, Moksha Yoga offers _exible scheduling with many different hot yoga classes.

If you are more inclined to kick your way through 2017, you should try visiting Budo Mixed Martial Arts, Met-

… the Heights features many health and fitness businesses that can help incorporate wellness into your everyday life. ro Performance Taekwondo Studio and Sport Kickboxing Federation.

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a rainy city.

That’s why I head to my local gym. If getting or staying `t is one of your goals this year, the Heights is home to many gyms offering all kinds of workouts.

Dyer Fitness provides group

classes and personal training experiences while Cross`t Burnaby brings the globally renowned `tness phenomenon to the Heights. Fit Xpress and Anytime Fitness both offer a traditional gym experience.

To relax after working out, try _oating at FloatSense.

There you can _oat your cares away in a soundless chamber that will leave you feeling refreshed.

If eating healthier is part of your plan, too, swing by the local grocers like Triple A Market and Red Apple Market

with deliciously ripe and local produce to get you started.

Then, visit Best Choice Health Food Ltd. or Health Natural Foods for natural supplements to keep you going.

As a well-rounded and walkable community, Burnaby Heights is the perfect place to live happier and healthier.

We wish you success and wellness in 2017.

Lizzy Ojo was the summer 2016 marketing and communications assistant with the Heights Merchants Association.

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Shaheen Nanji remembers experiencing “very subtle” acts of racism throughout her life.

Sometimes it was an eye roll, other times it was someone overlooking her opinion.

Nanji, who grew up in Kenya and is currently the executive director of SFU International, recalls one incident in particular when she was working for a real estate company.

“I remember chatting with one guy, and he was like, ‘All the Indian Realtors are moving, and good riddance.’ I’m sort of looking at him. He goes, ‘But you’re OK, you’re one of us,’” she said.

Anecdotes like hers are the reasons behind the creation of Burnaby’s new antiracism and anti-hate table, which met last week for the first time.

The Ministry Responsible for Multiculturalism expanded its Organizing Against Racism and Hate program late last year to include four urban centres – Burnaby, Richmond,Vancouver and Surrey. Until that point, the program had only been available to rural communities.

The provincial government doled out more than $217,000 to 33 organizations, including Burnaby Family Life, which received $4,500. Burnaby Family Life was tasked with bringing community partners together who could develop protocols should a racist incident or hate crime occur.

“I think it’s a good start,” executive director Michel Pouliot told the NOW after the Jan. 5 meeting. “We have the right people at the table.”

Those in attendance included representatives from SFU, Burnaby Public Library, the local school district, the Burnaby Board of Trade, Burnaby Commu-

nity Services, Douglas College, the City of Burnaby and Burnaby Neighbourhood House. Pouliot noted he has received a commitment from the Burnaby RCMP as well.

The inaugural get-together got everyone on the committee familiar with the table’s mandate.

“Everybody has a vision of what more could be accomplished and what the bigger impact could be,” Pouliot said.

The table will be writing a list of protocols at its next meeting in February, he added.

“We don’t have to reinvent the wheel.There are some protocols out there from other communities,” he said. “Realistically, this table is not going to change the world of Burnaby. It’s going to have a very narrow focus, but at least there’s going to be a community response should any hate crime or major racism incident take place. ... Everything from when should we contact (with) the media to make sure we make everybody in Burnaby aware of what’s happened, and why it’s an issue, or when do we work with the RCMP and the school district to talk to parents.”

Some of the provincial funding will also be used for a community event.

“It could be as simple as making sure we engage the community in a dialogue around what racism looks like, and the fact that the table exists as well, so that they know that if anything comes up, there’s a vehicle they can go through,” Pouliot explained.

Stephen D’Souza, executive director of Burnaby Community Services, wants to see Burnaby as welcoming as it can be.

“When we talk about issues, like the foreign ownership of housing, there’s sort of this undertone of racism.

We want to be able to call it out when we see it; to say,

Open discussion: Michel Pouliot, executive director of Burnaby Family Life, led the conversation during the inaugural meeting of the Organizing Against Racism and Hate table on Jan. 5. PHOTO TEREZA VERENCA

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Burnaby moms are pumping out a steady stream of donated breast milk, but the B.C.Women’s Provincial Milk Bank still desperately needs more.

The donated breast milk processed by the milk bank is shipped to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in hospitals around the province in a recent push to give fragile premature infants human donor milk instead of formula if their mothers

They had the most serious shortage of milk … can’t produce their own.

“They had the most serious shortage of milk that they have ever had last fall,” said Sidney Harper, baby friendly initiative project lead for Fraser Health. “We have spread out to other NICUs in the province.Way

back in the day, B.C.Women’s was the only hospital using it. As we want to expand the program further to other NICUs, we’re going to need more and more.”

So far this year, Burnaby moms have donated more than 227 litres of breast milk, up from a total of 192 litres last year.

The precious fluid provides babies with antibodies to fight disease and infection.

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Just breathe.

That’s what Brentwood Town Centre wants you to do at its weekly yoga sessions, which resumed last Sunday.

Hosted by Brentwood Town Centre, stop by for a relaxing yoga session led by the folks atYoga Spirit and Wellness, a Burnaby-based yoga studio.The community event is by donation and runs every Sunday from 10 to 11 a.m. on the mall’s upper level across from SoftMoc. “Stretch, strengthen and revitalize your body to feel good heading into your week,” read an event notice.

No experience is necessary; all you need is a yoga mat and an hour to spare.

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OTHER BRENTWOOD HAPPENINGS Speaking of Brentwood Town Centre, the north Burnaby mall runs several weekly events that are completely free.

On Fridays, stop by the shopping centre for Feel Good Fridays from noon to 2 p.m. DJ Juice plays old school beats and Top 40 hits while you enjoy a neck or shoulder massage, located on the second level next to Koodo. Each week, the folks at Brentwood Town Centre also throw in some extra surprises, so be sure to drop by.

On Wednesdays from 11 to 11:30 a.m. head over to Brentwood mall for the Groovin’ Babies dance class.

The class is for toddlers and parents, and you can expect

to dance and have fun while listening to music.

Registration is required.

You can do so at www.run nersandbootiesfitness.com or by calling 604-492-3688.

Meet at the children’s play area on the lower level by Sears.

BOARD OF TRADE FUN IS BACK After some much-need-

ed family time, it’s time to get back into business mode, and to get kick things off this year, the Burnaby Board of Trade is inviting members to join them at the regional board of trade’s NewYear’s mixer.

This event is for members only – in fact, because of limited space, organizations can only reserve one seat each. Organizers expect rep-

resentatives from 13 other boards of trade and chambers to be at the event, so come ready to mingle.

The event takes place Thursday, Jan. 12 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the Hard Rock Casino in Vancouver, 2080 United Blvd. in Coquitlam.

Tickets are $20.To register, call 604-412-0100 or email admin@bbot.ca.

KUDOS Burnaby-based Sparrow Fitness and Rehab raised $750 for the food bank over the holidays.The money was raised through Sparrow’s third annual fitness bootcamp and brunch.

Folks were invited to attend an hour-long fitness class and then take part in a charity brunch with a minimum donation of $20.Way to go!

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RBC Foundation extends a hand to local group TerezaVerenca HERE & NOW

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A shout-out goes to the RBC Foundation, which recently gave $10,000 to the Down Syndrome Research Foundation.

The money will go towards the organization’s adult education programs and one-to-one reading initiatives.

“We are so grateful for their support,” wrote events and community relations coordinator Maria A. Marano in an email to the NOW. The Down Syndrome Research Foundation’s mandate is to empower people with Down syndrome to reach their full potential throughout life by pioneering and providing educational programs and services, grounded in foundational research, according to a press release.

“Working with researchers, professionals and families, we are a bridge between

research and practice not only on the Lower Mainland, but in British Columbia and Canada as well,” Marano said.

Programs offered by the foundation include reading and communication, speech therapy, music in motion and summer school.

We are so grateful for their support

A BEARY GOOD CAMPAIGN It looks like B.C. Liquor Stores’ annual Share-a-Bear program had another successful season.

The initiative, which ran in November and December, offered customers a teddy bear for $12.50.

Its “twin” was then donated to a local shelter, hospital or worthwhile charity to brighten the holiday season for a child.

Burnaby’s eight B.C. Li-

quor Store locations sold a combined total of 358 bears. Across the province, 22,000 bears were sold.

The Willingdon and Kingsway store chose Burnaby Family Life as its charity, which gave the stuffed animals to moms in its preand post-natal programs.

“This year’s campaign was another success for us,” said Dixon Tam, spokesperson for the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch.

More than 625,000 of the plush toys have been donated to B.C. non-profits since the Share-a-Bear program started 27 years ago.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUDAN! Celebrate the 61st anniversary of Sudan’s Independence Day by attending a cultural show at the Slovenian Society Hall on Jan. 28.

The full-day event, from noon till 9 p.m., will have entertainment, including live music, dancing and drumming.There will also be door prizes, crafts and children’s activities.Vendors

Giving: From left, RBC’s Sonya Reginato, Chris Sayer, a Down Syndrome Research Foundation student and employee, and Dawn McKenna, the foundation’s executive director. PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

will be on site for anyone interested in doing a little shopping.

The evening will feature local politicians and an award ceremony that will recognize the “outstanding

contribution” by Sudanese youths to the community, states a press release.

And come hungry. A diverse collection of Sudanese and North American food and drinks will be available

for purchase.

Admission is free.The hall is at 5762 Sprott St. For more information, call 778788-5735.

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We also offer a wide range of additional services. At the pharmacy, patients are able to: • Receive a flu shot and other general and travel vaccinations such as shingles, pneumonia, hepatitis A and B, and others; • Have their blood pressure and blood glucose checked; • Receive a full medication review; • In certain instances, have their prescriptions renewed or adapted; • Be fit for compression stockings; • Learn useful strategies for quitting smoking/sign up for our quit smoking program; • Obtain an asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, or cardiovascular assessment and action plan; and many other services.

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Communitynow EVENTS CALENDAR SATURDAY, JAN. 14 Early childhood dental health, 3:30 to 5 p.m., McGill library branch, 4595 Albert St. Presenter Dr. Edward Chin, who specializes in pediatric dentistry, will discuss the steps you can take to prevent childhood tooth decay and dental disease transmission. Free but space is limited. Register online at bpl.bc.ca/events, by calling 604-299-8955 or in person at the library.

Knit2gether, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tommy Douglas library branch, 7311 Kingsway. Info: 604-522-3971 or www.bpl. bc.ca/knit. Come join us for a longer knitting session where all are welcome. We have needles and yarn for people to try knitting or crocheting for the first time.

Experienced knitters are available to help. This is a free, drop-in program.

MONDAY, JAN. 16 Bonsor Health Alert program, 9 to 10:45 a.m. on the second floor at Bonsor 55-plus, 6533 Nelson Ave. Drop-in blood pressure, weight and height checks, massage, fitness fun, etc. A presentation and try out will be done at 9:45 a.m. on the health benefits of Nordic pole walking. Info at 604-297-4956.

TUESDAY, JAN. 17 Heads Up: An introduction to brain health, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., McGill library branch, 4595 Albert St. This workshop presented

by the Alzheimer Society encourages participants to actively engage in protecting and maintaining their brain. Learn strategies and set goals for improving the health of your mind, body and spirit. Anyone interested in brain health is welcome to attend. Free but space is limited. Register online at bpl.bc.ca/events, by calling 604-299-8955 or in person at the library.

THURSDAY, JAN. 19 Knit2gether, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Tommy Douglas library branch, 7311 Kingsway. Info: 604-522-3971 or www.bpl. bc.ca/knit. All ages, genders, languages and skill levels are welcome. We have needles and yarn for people to try knitting or crocheting for the first time. Experienced knitters are available to help. This is a free, drop-in program.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25 A Sharing Cultures Community Dinner put on

by Burnaby Neighbourhood House. The theme is Colombian night. Come out and join BNH and other members of the community for an evening of food and activities, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Tickets cost $5 for adults and $3 for children aged four to 18 (free for kids three and under); tickets must be purchased in advance at Burnaby Neighbourhood House, at 4460 Beresford St. For more info, call 604431-0400 or visit www. burnabynh.ca.

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For more information, call 604-297-4838.

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 604-2974838.

Compassionate Friends meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m.

This sharing circle is a grief support group for parents and grandparents who have experienced the loss of a child at any age, from any cause. For location information, call 778-222-0446. For chapter information, go to www. tcfcanada.net.

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 safe atmosphere where you can improve your speaking skills. We have many members with various experience levels from beginners to distinguished Toastmaster designations. We welcome new members and guests and encourage you to learn

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Monday evening dances, for 55-plus, Confederation Seniors Centre, 4585 Albert St., 6:30 to 9 p.m. $5 for members, $6 for guests.

With music by G7 and refreshments. Info: 604294-1936.

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 Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Burnaby Multicultural Society, 6255 Nelson Ave. For more information, call Carol at 604-431-4131 ext.27 or email carol.ha@thebms. ca.

East Burnaby Family Place, 9887 Cameron St. Free parent/caregiver and child drop-in every Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with circle/story time at 12:30 p.m. Come and meet others in a supportive and friendly environment while children aged zero to five explore large and small motor skill toys, arts and crafts, outdoor play area, outreach, circle-time, etc. For parents we have a, resource rack, ECE-qualified teacher, special surprises, support/health workers, etc.

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Multicultural seniors’ knitting circle. MOSAIC Burnaby Centre for Immigrants, 5902 Kingsway, Tuesdays, 1 to 3 p.m. Learn to knit or share your knitting skills with new friends. Free admission. Registration: 604-438-8214.

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Knights hold off Bulldogs

Morris named MVP as STM takes Chancellor crown Dan Olson

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The St.Thomas More Knights were good as gold on Saturday.

The No. 2-ranked team among B.C. senior boys Triple-A basketball, the Knights rode a hot first half and held on when it counted, beating the cross-town rival Byrne Creek Bulldogs 65-56 to claim the STM Chancellor tournament title.

STM coach Aaron Mitchell hopes it’s a sign of things to come, where the Knights appeared confident in establishing a lead early with eight of its first 13 field goals coming from beyond the arc.

“I don’t think nerves are an issue, I think it’s just about being anxious,” Mitchell said of his team.

“We knew Byrne Creek was coming after us and that they wanted to beat us… Win or lose we knew this doesn’t make our season.”

But it certainly made their day.

The Knights’ shooters got plenty of long-distance looks, with treys from E.J. Escobedo, Cam Morris and Richard Galicia starting the day. Morris capped the quarter with a layup to make it 17-9.

In the second frame, STM kept up the pace and added five treys, including two more by Morris, to lead 36-19 at the half.

But Byrne Creek regained the form which saw them outlast Robert Bateman in a thrilling 74-73 semifinal win, and chipped away at the Knights lead.They had a 19-15 edge over the third quarter, then narrowed the gap to within six points when Abdul Bangura lead an eight-point run in the final period.

Martin Djunga sank one of the Bulldogs’ two treys on the night and added a free throw to make it a four-point gap, but STM’s Ryan Yuen cooled the comeback with a big bucket with under three minutes to go, followed by a big trey from Morris a minute later.

“We just wanted to come out strong, we wanted to build some momentum early… It was very physical but it feels good,” said Morris, who was voted the tourney MVP. “My wrist had been hurting for some time, but today I just didn’t feel it. I just took my shots and they were falling in.”

Morris counted a game-high 20 points, while Escobedo and Galicia chipped in 13 apiece. For the Bulldogs, Djunga tallied 19 points – including the team’s first 11 points – and Bithow Wan contributed 11.

While the result wasn’t what they aimed for, co-captains Wan and Continued on page 25

Crashing the crease: Members of the Langley Thunder bantam C girls hockey team apply pressure to the Burnaby C1 Wildcats goal during last week action at Burnaby 8-Rinks. Langley improved its first-place numbers with a 4-1 victory, while the Wildcats’ record fell to 2-12-1. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

Yee an impactful addition at Capilano

Moscrop alum makes freshman transition from setter to right side hitter for Blues Andy Prest

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The resurgence of the Capilano University men’s volleyball program is a work in progress.

While the men’s team lags in the overall PacWest league standings, at 6-8, it has posted a respectable 6-5 record since the start of November – including winning both sides of a homeand-home this past weekend against Burnaby native Curtis Stelzer’s Columbia Bible College (CBC).

And where does Burnaby play a role in Cap’s improved fortunes?

The addition of Moscrop alum JustinYee is part of a large freshmen contingent which has the North Vancouver school’s coach Emmanuel Denguessi pleased with the progress, which was spot-

lighted in a win against then-undefeated Vancouver Island University six weeks ago.

“In terms of numbers, it’s not what we want,” Denguessi said about the team’s record prior to sweeping CBC. “[The win over VIU] shows us something: that we can compete with all of the teams.

On a good day, we can beat anyone. But I think we need to be able to repeat this kind of performance, which is very hard when you have a lot of freshmen.

“But our goal right now for the players is to have that game as a reference, but not just as ‘we have done that,’ but ‘we should do that every single day.’”

Yee’s contributions have been impressive for a first-year collegiate player.

Coming from a high school that was a solid challenger at the pro-

vincial level,Yee has an intensity which is an easy fit for Denguessi’s gameplan.

Listed at 5-foot-11, he has emerged as a team leader in kills and total offence despite starting the year slotted in as back-up setter.

At an early practiceYee asked the coaches if he could try out at right side hitter, and made that transition easily.

“He’s been able to surpass our expectations,” said Denguessi.

“We said we were going to give him a chance to show off what he could do, and we found out that he has been one of our most consistent power hitters, with a very good serve.”

Prior to this past weekend,Yee stood eighth in the league in digs, averaging 2.26 per set, ninth in kills, and 11th in aces, good for

eighth in total offensive stats.

CBC’s middle hitter, 6-foot3 Stelzer, is ninth overall in blocks.

Under Denguessi, the bar has been raised for the Blues not only on the court but off it, as well.

The former Cameroon national team member, who launched his college playing career at Capilano while at the same time learning English, wants his team to reach a 3.0 GPA. It’s an important part of the student-athlete balance, said Denguessi.

“It’s feasible,” he said about excelling on the court and in the classroom, “and I want to encourage my athletes to do the same. …

They have been selected purposely because they were academicoriented guys in high school.The message wasn’t hard to sell, and they have embraced that.”

SFU sets sights on improving on first half

The holiday break was extremely satisfying for members of the Simon Fraser University men’s hockey team – but that satisfying feeling comes to an end now.

The Clan jump-start into the second half of the B.C. Intercollegiate Hockey League schedule in Castlegar this weekend, taking on fourtime defending champion Selkirk College.

For first-place SFU, the ultimate satisfaction comes when the season ends with a win.

“I thought we played really well,” said SFU coach Mark Coletta, reflecting on the first half of the season. “We had a game plan going in

that we were going to bring in some fresh faces at the beginning of the year, and that’s a mix of some speed and some grit, and I think we showed that in the first semester.”

The Copeland Sports Complex-based squad proved to be an offensive dynamo over the first 13 games, scoring a league-best 67 goals and surrendering the second-lowest, 30 goals.

Veterans Adam Callegari, Mitch Crisanti and Brendan Lamont provided vital leadership up front, while newcomers Daniell Lange and Scott Patterson fit in well.

On defence, Brandon Tidy has been a standout in transitioning back to the blueline after a season as a forward.

The coach noted a firmer, grittier approach can give the team more of an edge.

“Definitely our D-zone coverage has got to be better.We’ve got to play a little more aggressive — that’s the system we want to play, we don’t want to be passive,” explained Coletta. “We want to be aggressive, in your face.”

SFU’s next home game is Saturday, Jan. 21 when Trinity Western comes to the Copeland Centre.

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Stealth start new year right

Now, that’s the way to start a season.

The Vancouver Stealth’s season-opening weekend couldn’t have gone any better, as they rolled up road wins over Calgary and Colorado to start the National Lacrosse League regular season 2-0.

On Saturday they defeated the Colorado Mammoth 15-9 in Denver, just 24 hours after edging the Calgary Roughnecks 12-11 at the Saddledome.

Led by Rhys Duch, who counted a hat trick in each half,Vancouver spent much of the game Saturday in control – except for a brief run in the third quarter when Colorado blitzed ahead 8-7 with four

quick goals.

The Stealth had an answer – reeling off four straight goals of their own, including three in a span of 52 seconds, then limited the Mammoth to just one tally in the fourth frame.

Duch finished with nine points in the win, while Corey Small, who like Duch plays summer lacrosse with the Western Lacrosse Association’s Victoria Shamrocks, pocketed two goals and five helpers.

New Westminster Salmonbellies’ Logan Schuss netted four goals and contributed two assists, while the Burnaby Lakers’ Justin Salt snapped in a goal and twin assists.

The Mammoth got four goals from the the Lakers’ Eli

McLaughlin.

Netminder Tyler Richards, who also plays for Burnaby, made 43 saves in the win.

A day earlier, a strong first half provided enough momentum to hold off Calgary’s serious rally over the final 15 minutes.

Vancouver took a 12-7 with Keegan Bal’s third of the day early in the fourth frame, and then held on as Calgary pressed to within a goal.

Bal, who like Schuss plays with the Bellies, also drew a pair of assists.

The Stealth now look for a third straight win, going up against Calgary on Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Langley Events Centre.

Hot shooting leads STM to title

Continued from page 24 Sufi Ahmed remarked how the effort and experience were going to pay off down the road.

“Our coach (Bal Dhillon) just told us to stick it out, hold our composure and stay positive…

We just have to stay together as a team and keep our heads up.We’re going to face tough teams like this during the season,” said Wan, a veteran still just in Grade 10.

“We had to stick together as a team, it was important that we refused to go away,” added

Ahmed, also in Grade 10.

Both teams advanced to the final in nailbiting fashion, as the Bulldogs bested Robert Bateman 74-73 and STM topped G.W. Graham 75-72.

Bangura was named the top defensive player of the final, while Morris took the game’s best offensive player award.

Picking up first all-star team honours were Escobedo, Galicia,Wan and Byrne’s Majok Deng. On the second team were STM’s Sajjun Shokar and Djunga.

Crowding the key: Robert Bateman’s Dawson Davies, at left, bumps into G.W. Graham’s Geevon Janday during the third-place game Saturday at the St. Thomas More Chancellor senior boys tournament. Graham prevailed 92-61. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER

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GRASBY, Audrey Marguerite (nee Wilkinson) June 17, 1925 - December 7, 2016 It is with great sadness that we announce the peaceful passing of Audrey Grasby on December 7, 2016 surrounded by her beloved family.

Audrey was predeceased by her dear husband Don in 1995 and her son Raymond in 2014. She leaves many treasured memories with her daughter Susan Fry (Earl) as well as many friends and relatives. Audrey focused her life around her family and friends that she loved so much .

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Organic Green and Black Kale from Mexico

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