NEWS 3
ARTS 13
Parking meters cause a stir
Backstage at the ballet
ARTS 14
New shows at the BAG FOR THE BEST LOCAL
COVERAGE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2018
GO TO PAGE 15
There’s more at Burnabynow.com
LOCAL NEWS – LOCAL MATTERS
A DUCKY DAY: A rainy day was just what the water fowl ordered on Sunday. And it didn’t even discourage some bird lovers from venturing outside. Luke, Erika and five-year-old Ethan Ireland fed the birds at Burnaby Lake’s Piper Spit. PHOTO JENNIFER GAUTHIER
IN THE COURTS
Churches battle over right to divvy up property Judge says one church can’t force another church to sell its share of the church and property in Burnaby
By Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@burnabynow.com
A local congregation has won a B.C. Supreme Court tussle with the B.C. Synod of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church over a North Burnaby church. The synod, a provincial body that oversees 48 congregations in B.C., owns a 57 per cent stake in a church and land at 1005
Hello, ur yo craving is calling This is PERi-PERi Nando’s Kingsway
4334 Kingsway, Burnaby (604) 434-6220
Kensington Ave., according to court documents. It wants to sell the property and divide the proceeds with the Vancouver Chinese Lutheran Church (VCLC), which has a 43
per cent stake in it and a congregation that still worships there. The congregation – not one of the 48 churches the synod oversees – doesn’t want to be forced to sell.
The synod petitioned the court in August for an order to sell the property by the end of October 2017, so the proceeds could be split, but VCLC applied to have the pro-
ceedings stayed. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Carla Forth ruled in favour of VCLC last month, dismissing the synod’s petition and saying Continued on page 4
Free Home Evaluation
Order Take-Out.
Call AL KABANI today 778-773-4646
Call 310-SPOT (7768) or order online at www.whitespot.ca
RE/MAX Central
Burnaby, BC V5H 4C2
| Since 1985 | #1-5050 Kingsway,
778-773-4646 AL KABANI
alkabani@remax.net