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Coaching until the very end St.Thomas More’s varsity football head coach Bernie Kully put his heart and soul into the game and his players. So much so that when he lay dying of cancer at the age of 41, he was still developing defensive schemes for the big game. Reporter Grant Granger talks to some of the people who knew and loved and admired him. SEE STORY, MORE PHOTOS, PG. 13
SCHOOL IN MOURNING: Members of the St. Thomas More Knights varsity and junior varsity teams hold hands as they pray before practice Monday after
losing the program’s head coach Bernie Kully (above left) to esophageal cancer Saturday night. It was an emotional day for the players, students, coaches and staff at the independent Catholic high school as they mourned a man who graduated from STM in 1994 and returned to work there as a teacher, counsellor and coach.
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PART OF 10-YEAR VISION
Gondola plan back on the mountain
2011 business case touted reduction in greenhouse gases and improved transportation services By Tereza Verenca
tverenca@burnabynow.com
A gondola up Burnaby Mountain is back on the front burner. It was included as one of the “major projects” in the Mayors’ Council’s 10-
year vision update for transit and transportation, released on Sept. 21. The idea of a gondola first surfaced years ago. It was a $120-million plan that was eventually scrapped in favour of other transit projects around the region, like the Evergreen Line.
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Last summer, SFU president Andrew Petter spoke out in favour of the project. He said there were renewed calls given the growing population of students and staff on Burnaby Mountain, as well as the development of the residential community.
Petter noted students were becoming increasingly frustrated at getting passed by full buses every day due to long bus lineups at Production Way and on Burnaby Mountain. There are currently 25,000 Continued on page 4
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