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Firefighters say hall is unsafe

Union representing Port Moody firefighters urges voters to lobby City Hall to honour referendum Stories by Jennifer McFee jmcfee@thenownews.com Port Moody firefighters are demanding that council heed referendum results to borrow up to $16 million for a replacement fire hall.

Rob Suzukovich, president of the Port Moody Fire Fighters Association, said firefighters are shocked by council’s decision not to borrow the funds.

“There was definitely some disappointment, to say the least,” Suzukovich said.

The uncertainty about the hall’s location has created angst for firefighters and for members of the public, he added.

“Council has known about our hall for 10 years, so all the options have been explored.

It was identified that this site is the best site

Spring break still two weeks School District 43 trustees unanimously passed a budget Tuesday that was balanced based on provincial money they don’t yet have.

The 2011 to 2012 operating budget depends on receiving nearly $2 million in enrolment reserve funding from the provincial government.

Secretary-treasurer Rick Humphreys said holdback money is usually allocated at different times of year and for different amounts. This fiscal year, the district received $2.6 million in December. However, Humphries noted that the provincial government has no legal obligation to provide holdback funds.

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right now to serve the needs of the department,” said Suzukovich, a firefighter for the past 16 years.

“That’s been determined through the fire chief, through previous studies and even council itself decided up until the other night that this was the location that was best suited.”

On April 16, 9.2 per cent of Port Moody’s eligible voters cast ballots in a referendum that asked if they were in favour of borrowing funds to replace Fire Hall No. 1. In total, 58 per cent of voters supported plans to borrow up to $16 million to be repaid over a 30-year period.

Ten days later, however, council voted 42 against adopting the bylaw to borrow the money. Mayor Joe Trasolini opposed the borrowing bylaw along with councillors Meghan Lahti, Karen Rockwell and Gerry Nuttall, while councillors Mike Clay and Bob Elliott voted in

favour. Coun. Diana Dilworth was absent.

A committee is now revisiting the location, size, shape and form of the fire hall and will report back to council within two months.

According to the City of Port Moody, the hall has been steadily deteriorating since it was built in 1974. It has structural damage and now must serve a population three times larger than when it was built.

A large seismic event could leave firefighters unable to help if they are trapped in the rubble of their own building, Suzukovich added.

“Our hope is that council revisits their decision here,” he said. “My hope is that it’s revisited otherwise it just stalls it out further. It’s unfortunate that this is what it boils down to.”

Suzukovich is urging the 1,142 people who voted “yes” in the referendum, as well as any other upset residents, to contact the mayor

and council to demand that they respect the democratic process. “I think the people need to speak out and let them know what they’ve done is wrong,” he said. “You’ve asked the people and they told you what they wanted, and now it’s being ignored.”

However, Trasolini casts a different light on the subject. He said information kept coming in both before and after the referendum.

“I found out after the referendum … that the design was done in such a way to allow for 10 firefighters per shift, instead of the five that are designed to be on a shift as a maximum,” Trasolini said. In addition, he said it “wasn’t clearcut one way or another” about which site would be best. By revisiting it, the city might be able to save between $2- and $6-million.

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ina Rasmussen filled her arms with flowers. She chose her mom’s favourites with care — pink geraniums, mini carnations and potted white mums.

Her heart ached to hand them to her mom with a Mother’s Day hug.

Instead, she took them to a bushed area off a Port Coquitlam Photos submitted trail. She lovingly Donna Rasmussen and daughter placed the flowers alongside a small Tina (above and top left) took a wooden cross, set at special trip together to Vegas. the spot where Donna Rasmussen last lay.

Donna, a 75-yearold Port Coquitlam woman, had gone out for her usual afternoon walk last Tuesday.

When she didn’t return home, Tina called the police.

Kurt and Donna Rasmussen in 2007 (above) and There was no sign 1997 (bottom right). The pair were married for of Donna for five days, 42 years. “She was my beautiful girl,” Kurt said. despite efforts from afternoon shift. Her goal Coquitlam Search and know how I feel about my wife and was to outdo my dad with Rescue, the RCMP and more than 70 I love her very much. I have lots of finding beer cans or pop volunteers who scoured the area. happy memories from her. She had cans as she was out wanHowever, on April 30, passersby her own special way of doing things dering,” she said. discovered Donna’s body off the PoCo without ever hurting a person,” Kurt “And it was a big trail. The police file is still open, but said. thing when she’d come no foul play is suspected.

“She was my beautiful girl.” home, sometimes arms For Tina and her family, the reality Michael Babey, one of Tina’s two loaded.” is raw. older brothers, also shared memories This Mother’s Day, “I don’t think it’s sunk in completeclose to his heart.

Tina faces an emptiness ly yet,” she said. “I’m staying with “Mom was my golfing buddy,” that she hopes to fill with flowers. my dad right now. We’re just going “I’ve been very blessed Michael said. “She was most happy Every year, her mom would buy cedar moment by moment.” that I have the best parents. A lot of playing and telling me what I was baskets of colourful blooms to decorAs she flips through old family people may not have that, but everydoing wrong with the golf swing. She ate the patio, which she scrubbed last photos, Tina is filled with warm memone should realize that things can was the greatest mom ever.” week in preparation.

This year, Tina ories of her loving mother and best change quickly. I never would have Tina agrees. She’ll miss all the will take over the task. friend. expected this.” mother-daughter trips she took with Meanwhile, she’ll be thinking about “She has made me the person that She extends heartfelt thanks to Donna, who she nicknamed “Itty past Mother’s Day breakfasts at IHOP, I am today. Everyone who’s had the the RCMP, the community, family Bitty” because of her short stature. where her mom devoured double opportunity to know her would appreand friends who helped with search “We were very close. She was a very portions of strawberries and whipped ciate everything that she would ever efforts. loving woman who would go the extra cream. do for somebody. I’ve never known “My mom really touched a lot of mile for anyone,” she said. “I rememShe also remembers her brother’s anyone who cares for people as much people and we didn’t even know,” she ber her smile, her hugs and wrapping wise words, spoken nearly 30 years as she does,” said the PoCo woman. said. my arm around her and telling her ago at their grandma’s funeral.

“She has a heart of gold. The love “I could never thank everyone every time I saw her and every call “He said to me, ‘Be good to them that she had for my dad and her kids enough for their caring.” how much I loved her.” while they’re around because once is undeniable and never questioned.”

Tina hopes her mom will be Her mom was always on the go, they’re dead and gone, there’s nothTina’s dad, Kurt, reflects on 42 remembered for her heart, her innoeven at 75 years old, Tina added. ing you can do about it.’

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“My dad would go for walks every thing that’s always been in my head,” “She’s a good woman and she’s “She’ll never be forgotten.” morning and my mom would take the Tina said. been good to me for many years. I

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SAR seeks donations for helicopter system John Kurucz jkurucz@thenownews.com The men and women who are normally tasked with extending a lifeline are looking for one themselves.

Volunteers with Coquitlam Search and Rescue are hoping to raise $50,000 to purchase specialized rescue equipment and pay for the training and certification necessary for search and rescue members to use it.

The coveted equipment is referred to as a helicopter external transportation system (HETS), a rescue system that entails a search and rescue volunteer suspended at the end of a 60-metre rope slung beneath a helicopter.

The benefit of the HETS is that it minimizes rescue time and allows volunteers to more readily access difficult terrain.

“Out of all the rescue systems we use, we actually use this one the most and it makes sense to have it on our team,” said Coquitlam Search and Rescue member Dwight Yochim. “Having it on our team allows us to activate it in an instant.”

Yochim noted that his team used the HETS in five rescue scenarios in 2010 alone, including the search for Tyler

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Helicopter rescue systems save time, according to SAR. Wright, who went missing last summer while hiking between Squamish and Coquitlam.

Outside of that search, Yochim’s team also used the HETS to help a man who fell into a ravine on Eagle Mountain, and another man who was trapped in a ravine adjacent to Buntzen Creek.

“In that case, the HETS probably saved at least seven

hours of stretcher carrier time,” Yochim said. “We’ve used it more and more over the last five years, so it’s becoming a very safe and very quick way of getting someone out, saving hours and hours of stretcher carrier time, or possibly walking a person down and risking further injury.”

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Because the HETS system can drop searchers off in specific areas, those search crews can begin their work at the crack of dawn as opposed to hiking to an area and wasting precious time getting there.

And while $25,000 has been earmarked for the equipment itself, the other $25,000 is needed to train and certify both rescue personnel and helicopter pilots to be able to use the HETS system.

Yochim noted that those who do undergo that training are required by Transport Canada to get recertified on a yearly basis.

“This will help us with a whole number of things,” Yochim said, adding that search and rescue teams

on the North Shore and Chilliwack have already attainted the equipment. “The No. 1 thing is the speed of activating a rescue is dramat-

ically increased and it’s the best thing for the subject.”

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It doesn’t take much to lose your ICBC coverage, even if you’ve paid your premiums. Payment is just one element of the insurance contract between you and ICBC. By law, that contract contains several conditions that you, as the insured person, must honour. If ICBC finds or believes that any of the conditions have been broken (or “breached”), ICBC can deny coverage.

Say you were at fault in a car accident, where the other driver was injured, and that person sues you for compensation. If ICBC pays money on your behalf to that person, ICBC can later sue you to be reimbursed that money.

Let’s look at a recent case. Mr. K, the insured, was driving without a qualified accompanying passenger, as required by his licence. On the evening of the accident, he told police and the ICBC adjuster to whom he reported the claim that he was alone in his vehicle at the time. A month later, he reported to ICBC that he was accompanied by his girlfriend.

The BC Supreme Court agreed with ICBC that Mr. K was in breach of his insurance policy for driving without a qualified accompanying passenger and making a wilfully false statement. He was ordered to pay ICBC the $36,613.63 that ICBC paid out on his behalf (from his liability insurance) to the owners and drivers of all the vehicles involved.

That wasn’t all. Before the trial, ICBC had offered to settle Mr. K’s dispute with ICBC by agreeing to accept $33,000 from him as reimbursement. He refused, even though he generally knew what a number of ICBC witnesses would testify against him. He insisted on going through with a four-day trial. As a result, the court slapped Mr. K with “double costs” – meaning he had to pay ICBC twice their legal and court costs (according to a prescribed schedule of fees and expenses). This judgment of double costs added significantly to the financial burden of the existing judgment of $36,613.63 against him.

But that burden can be far, far worse. Personal injury judgments can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars, or in tragic cases, several million dollars.

ICBC can deny coverage for several reasons. Two conditions, in particular, cause grief for many insured people. One is where ICBC believes the driver was sufficiently impaired due to alcohol. ICBC doesn’t even need a drunk driving conviction to deny coverage – they only need enough evidence to show, on balance, that the driver was incapable of properly controlling the vehicle due to drinking alcohol. The other condition is where (to save premiums), the insured person makes a false declaration on the insurance application form about who the principal operator will be or about the main use of the vehicle (for example, says the use is for pleasure, rather than to drive to and from work).

If you get notice that ICBC denies or may deny coverage, you should contact a lawyer promptly to determine your rights.

What if you were the person injured, and you weren’t in breach of your policy and the accident wasn’t your fault? You should still see your lawyer. Even though an ICBC adjuster may offer you compensation to settle your personal injury claim without going to court, the ICBC adjuster is not working for you. But your lawyer is, and she will ensure that your rights are fully protected.

In most cases, you’ll receive a larger settlement with a lawyer representing you than without one.

This column has been written with the assistance of SHADRIN BROOKS. It provides information only and must not be relied on for legal advice. Please contact SHADRIN BROOKS of BTM Lawyers LLP for legal advice concerning your particular case.

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year. The longer in the fiscal year this goes, the greater the adjustments have to be,” Humphreys said.

“So there is a risk. We could run a deficit, but of course that affects future years. This board has done that before. You know the pain that that entails.”

The base budget anticipates a 600-student enrolment increase, mainly for full-day kindergarten. The provincial government provided about $6 million to fund the growth, plus an extra $44 for each full-time student.

The base budget also includes funding for early morning caretakers for small elementary schools, plus extra money for the District 43 Parent Advisory Council. As well, the budget restores staff development reductions from the past school year.

Another budget requirement is a $1.4 million provision for estimated contractual obligations.

The school district must also squeeze $800,000 out of local capital reserves to pay for increased bandwidth to improve technology issues.

Trustee Gerri Wallis voted

in favour of approving the budget, like the rest of the school board. At the same time, she expressed concerns because the two-week spring break will continue into 2012. Students will also be given one extra day off in November to coincide with Remembrance Day. A similar break this year saved about $480,000 in staffing costs.

“I know a majority of people are in favour of the two-week spring break and

it seems to be that we need it because of the budget, but I guess the difficulty for me is that we’re taking away six educational days from students,” Wallis said.

“That really is educational opportunities that we’re actually just taking from them. I guess it really bothers me. The main thing is … we’re not getting the money from the ministry and we still sit as the lowest-funded district in the province.”

Supt. Tom Grant said extra time has been added to each school day to meet provincial requirements for annual instructional minutes.

“I understand the dilemma and the feeling of angst. …

The research sadly doesn’t give us any respite either, so we can’t prove that the lack of those six days detracts from learning or improves learning.

So you’re right. It comes right back down to being an economic argument,” Grant said.

Robbery suspect sought Coquitlam RCMP are asking for help to identify an alleged bank robber suspected of robbing a TD bank in Port Coquitlam.

On March 1, RCMP responded to the TD bank at 1492 Prairie Ave. after an employee called 911 to report an armed robbery.

A lone man entered the bank and waited in line for the teller.

When it was his turn at the counter, he allegedly pulled out a handgun and demanded money. According to RCMP, an undisclosed amount of money was turned over to the suspect before he walked out of the bank. No one was injured during the robbery. The suspect is described as a 20- to 30-year-old Caucasian man who is about 5’8” to 5’10” tall.

Anyone with information is asked to call Const. Alex Bojic of the Coquitlam RCMP robbery section at 604-945-1550 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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Pesticide ban too political Re: “Pesticide bylaw bogged down?” story, Wednesday, May 4.

The discussions about cosmetic pesticide use in Coquitlam and other municipalities are getting far too political. The likes of Coun. Selina Robinson are trying to impose their personal will on the people of the community without room for proper discussion.

When council decided to form a comTo The mittee to look into this, I breathed a sigh of relief figuring we would get a knowledge-based decision rather than political one. It was obvious Selina Robinson was not interested in what recommendation a committee might come up with. She just wants an outright ban, period.

Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not crazy about the free use of chemical pesticides and herbicides.

However, I do not believe an outright ban on their use is the correct avenue to take. Political types are all too quick to want to impose bans on this and that.

The proper way of dealing with this, for starters, is at a provincial level. Second, it’s the application of the products that needs to be controlled, perhaps by

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limiting product strength for residential use or having licensed companies apply product to larger areas.

What now bothers me is that in reading the local paper, it would seem the committee has already been mandated, or decided, a ban on pesticides is finalized. The only thing remaining is how to impose and enforce it.

The notion that bylaw officers may be coming onto private property and taking Editor samples to prove product use is tantamount to a police state, in my opinion.

I see all kinds of issues arising from this tactic, and I can’t believe the City of Richmond has gone this route.

What should be done here is the committee look at the real issues surrounding pesticide and herbicide use and decide if it really warrants any major action.

I personally do not think the occasional use of bug and weed killer around residential gardens is as big a problem as some would have us believe. Let’s have cooler heads prevail here please.

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Celebrating Mother’s Day

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rder the flowers, book dinner reservations and, for heaven’s sake, don’t forget the card.

The annual ritual of thanking our matriarchs on Mother’s Day can seem like a chore at times, especially those who file the yearly tradition under the category of Hallmark holidays.

But a story in today’s paper reminds us there will be a time when we are no longer required to celebrate Mother’s Day — and that can be an extremely sad point in life.

One Port Coquitlam family is finding this year’s celebration of all things Mom beyond difficult, having lost their mom in unbelievable circumstances.

The Rasmussen family sounded the alarm two weeks ago after the family matriarch, Donna, went for an afternoon walk and didn’t return.

A few days later, passersby on a trail discovered Donna’s lifeless body — and the Rasmussens have been occupied by memorial arrangements, not Mother’s Day preparations.

Mother’s Day can be extremely difficult for those who have already said goodbye to Mom. She is there from our beginning, one of the first faces to smile down on us when we are introduced to the world.

She’s the one to protect us, pull for us in tough times, teach us right from wrong and point us into the direction of adulthood.

If we are lucky, we are able to walk that path with her for a while.

Our hearts go out the Rasmussen family this Mother’s Day. At 75, Donna would have experienced many good years, but there was so much more love she had yet to offer.

For the rest of the Tri-Cities, we wish you all the best for the day devoted to appreciating your mother’s love.

Perspective

Hollywood feeds paranoia-prone parents W by a peel of laughter from their mouths. They slap ith summer approaching, most teenagers their knees as we sit watching the scene in disbelief graduating high school this June are eager and growing anger. to ditch their high school student titles in We try again, this time, presenting the favour of one more adventurous and idea a little more seriously as our parents seasoned — that of “Euro backpacker.” slowly sober up, and this time it is their The idea of leaving our sheltered faces painted in disbelief. lives behind and exploring unknown Predictably, the immediate answer is territory is both thrilling and terrify“No.” We ask why, and prepare ourselves ing. Let’s face it, once the seed of a trip for the inevitably long speech about to sans parents has been planted in our follow. They begin their defense lanminds, we can’t help but imagine what guidly, as if talking to a toddler, with it would be like to travel from city to My Generation the exaggerated dangers and threats that city with our close friends. lie waiting for us — cue examples from Then comes the hard part: breaking Sally Arang Hollywood blockbusters like Taken and the news to the parents. We approach Human Centipede — and end with a simple “You’re the topic with caution, mentioning that summer is too young,” effectively shutting down any further coming up soon, subtly hinting at graduation presconversation. We stumble over our weak rebuttals, ents and eventually tire of their apparent oblivion already sensing their glowing satisfaction at our and drop the bomb: we want to backpack across lack of solid response.

Europe this summer.

And really, what can we say back to that? How In a time span too short for the human eye to exactly are we supposed to prove we’ll be alright catch, their eyes flicker to the three-year-old chilwhen the media is constantly pumping out movdren waving happily to the camera in the photoies and reporting on events that seem specifically graph on the fridge, and back to the teenage strandesigned to reassure paranoid parents and push ger waiting politely for their answer and tears start them to shelter us even further. to form in small pools.

Forget about Europe, these days it feels like a rarThe uncomfortable silence is suddenly broken

ity to see a child playing in the street, let alone walk to the bus stop at the end of the street.

When did parents become so irrationally terrified of the world? My dad recounts stories of his childhood in which he would walk to the local bakery every morning at the tender age of seven to pick up a loaf of fresh bread, a memory that would have parents these days close to full-blown panic attacks.

Gone are the worry-free days in which children went on impromptu adventures through their neighbourhood forest, and are in turn replaced by afternoons spent indoors on the computer where it’s safe.

Don’t get me wrong, I realize danger lies in every city regardless of the continent and we should always ensure a child’s safety above all else, but with the direction we’re heading in now, I can’t help but wonder what the world will be like when I eventually have kids.

Will I be just as paranoid? Will I want to shelter them from the ever-growing dangers of the world, or will this paranoia reach a peak and slowly start to decline as parents realize that the world is not as bad as our friends in Hollywood makes it out to be.

Sally Arang is a Grade 12 student at Dr. Charles Best Secondary in Coquitlam.

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lives. ome may consider this a shameful confesIf you are a Canucks fan, try to imagine sion: I am a fan neither of the Vancouver small talk for we non-fans.

Canucks, nor of hockey in general.

“Great game last night!/Man, For whatever reason, I never that was a disappointing game!” caught the hockey fan virus. It says the fan, as an opening gambit. helps that I was a quiet, nerdy kid “Um, didn’t catch it,” the nonmore interested in Tolkein and fan mutters.

Heinlein novels than sports. (Sports Matthew Claxton “Tape it?” at which I was bad as a child: all of “Nope.” them.)

“DVR it?”

For most of the year, this has no “Nuh-uh.” impact on my day-to-day life. Then the playoffs “Were you having an emergency liver transhit. The better the Canucks do, the harder it plant then, BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY is for the hockey-neutral to go about our daily EXCUSE FOR MISSING A PLAYOFF GAME!” It’s kind of hard to change the subject to the weather after that.

Trains were there first The media isn’t helping, either. The morRe: “Trains ‘unbearably loud,’” letter ning after the seventh game of the series with to the editor, Wednesday, April 20.

Chicago, a local TV station’s morning news I’m afraid I cannot be overly sympadevoted five minutes to the game. Then 30 secthetic toward Lisa Haddrell when she onds to the federal election. complains about noisy trains. Trains and So please, Canucks fans, on behalf of nonairplanes are noisy, we all know that. fans everywhere, let us be, OK? We don’t And those are the things to be considered begrudge you your fun. It’s cool that you like when buying a house, not complain about your team. A little weird, with the jerseys and after moving in. If proximity to school the face paint and the Dionysian celebrations in and work are factors, we weigh the pros the streets, but that’s your thing. and cons then make a decision.

Just try and remember the following facts This reminds me of the story of a during the remainder of the playoffs: gentleman who bought a house in the • Things other than the playoffs are going Swiss Alps. Soon after moving, he started on. There’s this federal election, an upcoming complaining about the noise of cowbells.

HST referendum, floods in Manitoba, twisters I’m sure most of us have heard similar in the U.S. and civil wars in the Middle East. stories.

Perspective! Try it at least once a day.

B.J. Van Eldik • A fondness for hockey is not actually a prePort Coquitlam requisite of Canadian citizenship.

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while well-meaning, is not actually going to be fun for us. Would you like to come over and watch me sort my comic books by issue number? No? Okay then, maybe we can go do something we’d both enjoy.

• Not caring about hockey does not mean I don’t like Stompin’ Tom Connors. I just prefer Sudbury Saturday Night to The Hockey Song.

• When you start talking to us about various hockey players, you might as well be talking to a dog. “Yeah, Xyrkpl was great last night, but Frngtrph needs to step up his game,” is what we hear.

And to my fellow non-hockey fans, don’t follow my example. Avoid baiting the hockey-loving masses.

My mother, brother, and several other friends and relatives are big Canucks fans.

During family visits that coincide with games, I have been known to mess with them.

“Is this the third down?” is not the appropriate response to overtime.

Declaring that professional sports are a tool of the bourgeois ruling class to distract the proletariat is not a good idea. Unless you’re watching hockey with a Marxist.

Asking which team we’re rooting for will probably not be appreciated.

Actually rooting for the non-Canuck team seems to result in a punch to the arm.

Finally, non-hockey fans, remember that the playoffs are a finite period of time. Everything will be back to normal, once the Canucks get their butts kicked by Nashville.

Matthew Claxton is a reporter at The NOW’s sister paper, the Langley Advance.

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he Coquitlam Principals and ViceAndersen is organizing an e-waste collection Principals’ Association is hosting its 10th as part of the Fingerling Festival on Saturday, anniversary In Motion run for cancer May 7. research on Sunday, May 15.

A drop-off area will be set up outside the ice Everyone’s invited to join staff, rink at the Port Moody Recreation students and community members Complex. Residents can donate old to walk, run, cycle, inline skate or computer hardware and software, cell phones, game consoles, DVDs jog for two, five or 10 kilometres. and CDs. School teams and individuals All donated equipment will go are welcome to take part. There to Free Geek, a Vancouver-based is no registration fee, but particinon-profit group that reuses and pants are asked to make a $10 recycles donated electronic equipdonation to the Canadian Cancer Class Act ment.

Society.

Jennifer McFee For information about what type Since the event launched nine of equipment can be donated, visit years ago, In Motion has raised http://freegeekvancouver.org. more than $69,000 for cancer research.

Online pledges can be made at www.cancerevents.kintera.org/cpvpa. A tax receipt will Dine Out 4 Youth served up be issued for in-person or online pledges. For PoCoMo Youth Services Society is hosting information, contact local school offices or ean upcoming Dine Out 4 Youth event on May mail Darlene Proulx at dproux@sd43.bc.ca.

10 at 1250 Dominion Ave. in Port Coquitlam.

Tickets cost $45 and include an all-inclusive Get rid of e-waste safely meal plus an evening of entertainment.

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Helping the hungry

Helping hands are coming to Port Coquitlam when Hope Lutheran Christian School and Church hosts the regional outreach workshop on May 14.

Residents of PoCo’s Riverwood Gate and Riverside Drive have been asked to fill 1,000 Coopers Food grocery bags with non-perishable items. Regional outreach volunteers, from the Hope Lutheran community and other Fraser Valley Lutheran churches, will collect the bags for SHARE’s food bank.

The same day, volunteers will host a community cleanup in three Port Coquitlam areas: Ottawa Street, Hyde Creek and Cedar Drive pathway. The community is invited to help in the cleanup efforts.

To volunteer with this event, meet at 12:45 p.m. at Hope Lutheran Christian School and Church at 3151 York St. Gloves, bags and bottled water will be provided to all participants.

For more information, contact Pastor

Laverne Hautz at 604-942-5322 or lhautz@ hlcs.ca.

Children’s health a safe bet

The Toonies for Kids Society is hosting an Aladdin casino night fundraiser to fight child poverty in B.C. The event will feature dinner, a belly dance show, casino and dancing. Guests can try their luck at blackjack, roulette and a private poker lounge.

Prizes include return airfare for two anywhere WestJet flies, a five-hour party from Sound Explosion Entertainment, a salmon fishing expedition by Speed Fishing Charters and more.

The fundraiser will be held Saturday, May 14 from 6 p.m. to midnight at the Executive Plaza Hotel, 405 North Rd. in Coquitlam.

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thinking is we should have supplies for up to anucks and Hawks, what a series! I three weeks. admit, I jumped on and off the ’Nucks What should we be stocked up on? I believe bandwagon many times — but I knew the following is crucial, but not the final list: they would gut out a win in game seven. I water, medical supplies, a light source and batam hoping the Canucks continue with their teries, dried foods and a wind-up focus with their series against the radio.

Predators.

Realistically, when a disaster I thought I would start off with strikes, it will take at least four days a bit of a break after all the recent for everyone to start mobilizing and bad news. The tsunami that devgetting over the shock of what hapastated the north-eastern part of pened. The roads and infrastructure Japan, coupled with the nuclear will be gone; with communication disaster that followed, was another and other key essential services wake-up call to how fragile we are Off the Cuff non-existent. in the cycle of things.

Const. Bill Kim We will have to rely on our own With all our advancement in disaster relief plan, because everytechnology and science, we are one will be thrown back to the still at the mercy of Mother Earth.

Stone Age. It is critical that we become indiScientists have been warning us that the vidual survival pods — able to meet our daily next big one will hit us soon. demands until the infrastructure is fixed.

I have written about this in past columns.

We must be cognizant of looters and vandals We as a community should be looking seriouswho will try to take advantage during a time of ly at the real possibility that disasters like the crisis. The first responders will eventually get ones to hit Haïti, New Orleans and Japan will to you — but it will take time. One example of strike us — and it will. how a society can persevere and take steps to I have travelled to different parts of the overcome such devastating adversity without world, and I am still surprised to see how little panicking and looting is the Japanese. people do to prepare themselves for a disaster.

We are only as strong as our weakest link. If This type of mindset is troubling, since we we are strong individually, then we as a comhave seen the disastrous outcome from these munity will be stronger. catastrophes.

• Const. Bill Kim is the community and Individually we must be responsible for our media liaison for the Port Moody Police own selves; historically, we have been told to Department. have supplies to last up to 72 hours — my

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he annual Social Justice Film Festival in Port Coquitlam will be staged over two days this weekend.

The festival kicks off at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 6 with a screening of the Academy Awardwinning John Kurucz film Inside Job, which provides in-depth analysis of the global financial crisis that began taking root in 2008.

Food, Inc. goes at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 7 and examines where and how food is produced, while highlighting the role of big corporations in the overall world food supply.

The New American Century is also slated for an 10 a.m. start time, and delves into terrorism both on North American soil and abroad.

Guns for Hire and Afghanistan: Drugs, Guns and Money get going at 11:30 a.m., and a number of other films will be screened Saturday until the festival closes at 5 p.m: With God On Our Side; Crude — The Real Price of Oil; Wiki Rebels; Acts of Transformation — War Toys to Peace Art and The Coca Cola Case.

Admission on Friday evening is by donation, while Saturday’s prices are $5 for a half day, $10 for a full day and $2 for students or low-income earners.

All films will be shown at Trinity United Church, located at 2211 Prairie Ave. in PoCo.

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World tour in a night

A fundraiser dubbed A Trip Around the World in One Night is scheduled for Friday, May 6 at Pinetree Way Elementary.

Organized by the school’s PAC,  CONT. ON PAGE 16, see AUDITIONS.

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t’s got all the makings of The Band’s The Last Waltz minus the band breaking up at the end of the show.

This Saturday’s inaugural Soul Shake fundraiser in Coquitlam will feature one mainstay, backing band supporting more than 20 well-known Canadian singers over the course of the evening’s repertoire.

Organized as a fundraiser for the Shooting Stars Foundation and the SHARE Family and Community Services Society, the bill includes performers such as Leora Cashe, Oliver Conway and Alita Dupray, among others.

The format of the show will see each singer come out and “This is about sing one popular planting the seed Motown or soul so this show will song with the help of a 12grow.” person backing band known as The Scorchers.

Kendra Sprinkling “These are Shooting Stars Foundation 23 of the best singers in the country, and a 12-piece band that are some of the best players in the country,” said Kendra Sprinkling, founder and executive director of the foundation. “Because of the generosity of the artists, this is the only way this audience could see this kind of event, because it’s for charity.”

Established 25 years ago, Sprinkling’s foundation supports HIV/AIDS related organizations across Canada. Formerly a singer who opened up for the likes of B.B. King, the Doobie Brothers and Martha Reeves, Sprinkling got into her foundation work in a rather roundabout way. She was performing in an Arts Club Theatre fundraising variety show in 1986 called Starry Night when it was learned that the show’s developer, David Harrison, was diagnosed with AIDS. He died in 1995.

“David had this brilliant, great show and we didn’t want it to die from a performer’s point of view, because it’s so great to be on stage with a bunch of other generous artists,” she said. “The feeling backstage at these events is just fabulous, because they are all giving people or else they wouldn’t be there. We carried on mostly for David’s legacy, but more so because we saw this enormous need in the community.”

Since the 1990s, Sprinkling has reduced the amount of singing she does to focus on co-ordinating six Shooting Stars events a year. Saturday’s Soul Shake at the Red Robinson Show Theatre will be the event’s first go round ever.

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Coquitlam’s Corbin VanderZalm will be among 23 singers performing for charity Saturday.

“I want people to sit in that theatre and realize what’s going on in terms of the dance and songs,” she said. “For the first year, what we hope is to have everybody in that room have the time of their lives and say, ‘Oh my gosh, I had no idea this was going to be so good.’ This is about planting the seed so this show will grow.”

Aside from the seasoned veterans who will be featured, there will also be a handful of younger, less established singers on the bill as well.

That’s where Coquitlam’s Corbin VanderZalm enters the picture, as the 19-year-old has been slotted in to sing “Tell Me Something Good” by Rufus and Chaka Khan.

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“I’ve been trying to practice [the song] between all my courses at school. But I’m back on Friday night and I’ll be practising it all day on Saturday,” VanderZalm said in phone interview from Boston.

“It’s not daunting. I’m excited because I’m just coming from Berklee, where I’ve been studying music, and I get to go right back into playing it.”

Doors open for Saturday’s inaugural Soul Shake fundraiser at 7 p.m. Tickets are $42 in advance via Ticketmaster or $50 at the door. For information, see www.shootingstarsfoundation.org.

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Haller was also recognized by the Vancouver Ballet Society, having been awarded the Ruth McLoughlin Memorial Scholarship upon attending the society’s by invitation only spring seminar taught by Evelyn Hart and Justin Peck in March.

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• Create a handmade card with personalized sentiments that reflect the unique relationship with this special woman.

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• Find out her interests and spend a day doing entirely what she wants to do. It doesn’t necessarily have to take place on Mother’s Day. A trip to a museum or a day at the park – whatever it may be – can be a nice outing.

• Treat her to a special dinner. Ask about favorite foods and create a meal at home. If dining out, choose a day other than Mother’s Day to avoid the crowds and have intimate moments with just the two of you.

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and do that. Maybe you met up due to a hobby or interest. Remember the first day you met and reminisce by heading to that place for a celebration.

• Have an extended family fiesta. Host a Mother’s Day party at home and single out all the special women in attendance.

Serve cocktails and enjoy the time spent together.

Mother’s Day is a special time of the year to honor not only a person’s mom but also any other notable woman in his or her life. The holiday can be customized any way a person sees fit.

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Mother’s Day minus mom

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Certain people prefer to be alone, while others want to be in the comfort of a group.

The way the holiday is spent is entirely up to the person and the way he or she feels the most comfortable.

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• Plant a tree or plant in her honor in the yard.

• Watch a video or look through pictures of Mom and remember all of the good times had together.

• If you are a mother, relish in the day with the kids and other family.

Your Mom would want you to.

• Wear a white carnation to symbolize that you have lost your mother.

• Gather together with siblings or friends who have lost their mothers and spend the day together.

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Guys and Dolls turns 60 D r. Charles Best Secondary students are taking to the stage in their rendition of Guys and Dolls, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary.

Since January, the students have rehearsed two hours every day after school, plus two mornings per week. They’ve also been practising on Saturdays throughout April. The students are also performing all the music.

“These kids are the ones who have been researching and been preparing a really hard show to pull off, and they’re doing a great job,” said music director Brent Hughes in an e-mail.

Guys and Dolls runs May 6 and 7, followed by additional performances from May 11 to 14.

Showtime is 7:30 p.m. at 2525 Como Lake Ave. in Coquitlam. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

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the show will include visual displays, interactive stations, and multi ethnic food. The goal of the benefit is to raise money to purchase pieces of technology for the school — computers and cameras, among other things.

The event’s entertainment will come courtesy of James Khoo, Parsa Khakpour, Asian Arts Bhangra Group, Kyung Hee University Taekwondo School and Saima Shah.

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Lincoln MKX puts on the ritz over competitors Is MKX simply a rebadged version of the wildly successful Ford Edge? After all, both are designed from the same platform, and built in the same plant in Oakville, Ont. But that depends on your perspective of what we mean by “same.”

The Lincoln is a full-load single trim line vehicle with standard all-wheel-drive, and comes with uniqueto-Lincoln features, a ritzier exterior and interior and a better warranty than the Edge.

The Ford Edge, of course, is not as upscale as the Lincoln, and it has less features than its more expensive cousin.

The Ford Edge also recently received the prestigious 2011 Canadian Utility Vehicle of the Year Award. So, the MKX is certainly built on a very good foundation.

A fully loaded Edge is about the same price as the MKX, which is something for buyers to consider. However, the Lincoln is more likely to appeal to a buyer who’s looking at a similar class luxury utility vehicle, such as the Audi Q5, Cadillac SRX or Lexus RX350. Value-wise, the MKX stacks up very well against this calibre of competition.

The MKX was first introduced by Lincoln as a 2007 model. While not a complete makeover, over 60 per cent of parts and components in the 2011 edition have been changed. It’s still a five-seat midsize utility vehicle, but now it’s powered by a 3.7-litre V-6 that’s mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.

The new engine can produce 305 horsepower, which is 40 extra horses than the outgoing 3.5-litre V-6. Yet fuel economy is better than in the predecessor, rated at 12.2 L/100 km in the city and a very frugal 8.8 L/100 km on

amount of brightwork on the body, which includes chromed door handles. Styling changes up front are extensive as the hood, fenders, headlights, bumper and front air intakes are all new. Around back, MKX gets new LED tail lights, a new liftgate design and oval exhaust tail pipes. As well, the suspension has been reworked and braking system modified.

Providing a quieter, more comfortable cabin with more utility for its users were goals of the Lincoln interior engineers. As such, they left little or nothing of the old interior, as the instrument panel, console, seats and door panels etc. are all new. And new sounddeadening techniques have also made it a uniquely quiet cabin.

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system too cumbersome to use while driving and in general, it’s a bit “ahead of its time.”

Highlights of the long list of standard features that come with the MKX are its 18-inch polished aluminum wheels, hill start assist, automatic adaptive xenon headlights, fog lamps, heated blind-spot mirrors with puddle lamps, a power liftgate, a rear-view camera, keyless entry with push-button start, a power tilt and telescopic heated steering wheel, heated and cooled leather 10-way adjustable power seats, driver’s side memory, leather-trimmed seats and the SecuriCode keyless entry keypad.

It doesn’t stop there, as you can also add some unique options like adaptive cruise control, collision warning with brake support and THX 2 audio system. There’s also a new premium package and a sight and sound package.

The most obvious change is the big, chrome split-wing front grille. While new to MKX, it’s actually a modern version of an older Lincoln signature feature, and it’s an attractive interpretation. Another nostalgic nod is a general increase in the

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Vodka can put spark back in plugs Dear Tom and Ray: Setting the scene: Six middle-age guys cruising the Caribbean in a 40-foot catamaran, mooring and anchoring at a variety of harbours, bays and coves in the Dutch and French West Antilles, using our dingy and its two-stroke motor to ferry us to and from shore. When the motor started Click and Clack losing power and occasionally misTom and Ray Magliozzi firing, the most mechanically savvy member of our group (by day a pediatric ophthalmologist) dismantled it and went right to removing the spark plugs, finding both tips well-fouled with carbon, one more so than the other. He replaced the worst one with a new plug found in the boat’s tool kit, but lacking another new plug, he decided to try to clean the buildup on the better of the two fouled plugs. So, lacking any other solvent, but having plenty of ethanol of various flavours on board, he and an assistant (by day an architect) soaked the spark plug in fairly expensive vodka for an hour or so, after which it cleaned up quite well. After the plug was replaced, the motor ran as smooth as silk, and with plenty of newfound power. So, our questions are: Is a vodka soak a reasonable way to clean a fouled spark plug? Can one damage the plug this way? Is there one brand of vodka that’s better suited to this than another? Seeing as we were

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sailing in the Caribbean, should we have used rum instead (there was plenty on board)? Can this method be translated from a twostroke dingy motor to an automobile engine? And should we let the marketing department of the vodka brand know about its product’s expanded functionality? We are much appreciative of any assistance you can offer.

Your fans: Joe, Martin, Martin, Frank, Tim and George TOM: Well, we use nothing but Grey Goose in our shop.

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But it’s to illustrate a good cause. Canadian Blood Services is raising awareness about the work it does — and just how important it is for others to get involved.

On average, every minute of every day, someone needs blood or blood products in Canada — and donors are needed now more than ever before.

An Ipsos-Reid survey found 52 per cent of Canadians reported they or a family member have needed blood or blood products for surgery or for medical treatment.

Blood and blood components are used to treat a number of injuries and illnesses, including various forms of cancer, hip and joint surgery, transplants, trauma patients like car accident victims, patients with blood disorders and many others.

The need for blood is greater over long weekends and during the winter and summer holiday and vacation seasons because regular donors may be away or too busy with other activities to maintain their regular donation schedule.

Meanwhile, the demand for blood and blood components is constant.

One donation — which takes about an hour of your time — can improve or even save up to

three lives.

One person can donate blood up to six times a year, improving the quality of life for as many as 18 people.

As the population ages, Canadian Blood Services needs an estimated 90,000 new donors every year to build a long-lasting and sufficient donor base.

Approximately 425,000 Canadians are active blood donors, meaning that they have donated at least once in the last 12 months.

In the fiscal year of 2009 to 2010, Canadian Blood Services’s blood collection target was 927,000 units.

What people may not realize is that the need for blood is always constant because of its limited shelf life.

Red blood cells must be transfused within 42 days, and platelets must be transfused within five days.

To donate, you must be at least 17 years of age, in general good health, and feeling well on the day of your donation.

If you have never donated before and have had your 61st birthday, or if you are between the ages of 67 and 71, and have not donated within the last two years, you must be assessed by a physician who must fill out and sign a letter. You must also meet the other standard requirements for donation.

To find out more about how to donate, please call 1-888-2-DONATE.

Documentary, expert broach discussion on gifted children Fast-Brained Kids of Coquitlam, a support group for parents of highly able kids, welcomes families and others connected to gifted education to please join them for a special presentation by P. Susan Jackson.

Gifted Children: a Documentary and Discussion will be held on Thursday, May 12 in the Gallery Room of Winslow Centre, 1100 Winslow Ave. Doors open at

6:30 p.m., The session will feature a 12-minute documentary featuring gifted children and teens between five and 26 years, who describe their experiences and thoughts on a range of topics.

Jackson is the founder and therapeutic director of The Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted in White Rock, which offers service to profoundly gifted children

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“I am honoured by the trust that families in New Westminster-Coquitlam and Port Moody have placed in me.

And I look forward to working with all of you to strengthen our communities.”

and adults supporting the educational needs and overall development of this exceptional population.

Two concurrent kids programs will be held — Science Alive and the Great Smartini — and parents must attend Jackson’s presentation to be eligible.

Admission is $10 per adult and child, and participants must RSVP to fast.brained. kids.coquitlam@gmail.com.

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and pancakes. Information: Dennis at 604-417-7062.

FRIDAY, MAY 6 Our Lady of Fatima Church hosts Corpus Christi College Trinity United Church screens The Inside Job, a documenChamber Choir for a special performance at 3 p.m. at 315 tary on the 2007 financial crisis, as part of the congregation’s Walker St., Coquitlam. Conductor Tony Araujo annual Social Justice Film Festival, which runs will lead the group through a repertoire that is Friday and Saturday at 2211 Prairie Ave., Port a flashback to the ’80s, as part of the Joan West Coquitlam. Admission is by donation and refreshMemorial Concert Series. Tickets are $20 and ments to follow. events@thenownews.com should be purchased from the parish office in Pinetree Way Elementary hosts a multicultural advance.

Information: 604-936-2525. fundraising event from 6 to 9 p.m. Visual displays, MONDAY, MAY 9 interactive stations and performances of music, dance and poetry will highlight the cultures within the Hang Tough Arthritis Support Group meets at 1 p.m. at school community. Tickets at the door are $5 for adults and $3 Astoria Retirement Home, 2245 Kelly Ave., PoCo. Nurse Gulzar for children and seniors.

Hassan will discuss nutrition and arthritis.

offers people 40 and older a chance to get together and enjoy activities like walking, theatre, dining, biking, bowling, kayaking and weekend trips. Membership is $20 per year, and the group meets on the third Friday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Port Moody Legion, 2513 Clarke St. Information: Marcy at 604-346-9776 or e-mail tricityclub@gmail.com.

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SATURDAY, MAY 7

Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 263 Coquitlam holds a special ceremony to mark VE Day, when Europe was liberated, at 10:30 a.m. at the cenotaph on Porter Street.

All welcome. Reception to follow at the Legion.

Port Moody Ecological Society holds its 20th annual Fingerling Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Noons Creek Hatchery and Port Moody Recreation Centre. Volunteers will help participants release 40,000 salmon into the creek. Information will be on offer and plenty of activities will be held for the kids. Information: www. noonscreek.org or 604-4699106.

SHARE and the Shooting Stars Foundation present Soul Shake, an evening of soulful entertainment at the Red Robinson Show Theatre, 2080 United Blvd. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $50 at the door and proceeds benefit SHARE. For information, visit www.sharesociety.ca or www.shootingstarsfoundation.org.

Place des Arts holds a special recital for scholarship award winners at 7 p.m. in the Leonore Peyton Salon, 1120 Brunette Ave. Gala will feature student performances in music and dance. Visual art will also be on display. Admission is by donation and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Info: 604-664-1636.

Mackin House Museum holds a Mother’s Day tea at 2 p.m. at 1116 Brunette Ave. Tea, sandwiches and dainties will be served for $16 per person. Registration is required and expected to sell out quickly. Information: 604-516-6151.

Trinity United Church screens films and documentaries like Food, Inc., The New American Century and Guns for Hire as part of the annual Social Justice Film Festival, which runs all day at 2211 Prairie Ave. Admission is $10 for the whole day, or $5 for half, with discounts available for low-income or students.

Lunch is available for $6. Information: 604-942-0022.

Sahaja Meditation Group hosts weekly meditation classes at 10 a.m. at the Port Moody Civic Centre. Info: Joanne at 604729-6990 or www.freemeditation.com.

SUNDAY, MAY 8

Riverview Horticultural Centre Society hosts a Mother’s Day guided tree walk at 1 p.m. at the Riverview Hospital grounds.

Meet at the upper entrance to the Henry Esson Young Building.

Information: 604-290-9910.

Port Moody Station Museum holds its popular Mother’s Day tea on the train, featuring a cuppa and scones on the 1920s Venosta rail car from noon to 3 p.m. Tickets are $5.

The museum is located at 2734 Murray St. in Port Moody.

Information: 604-936-1648 or portmoodymuseum.org.

Knights of Columbus Council No. 9846 hold a Mother’s Day pancake breakfast from 9 to 11 a.m. at the parish, 140 Moody St. in Port Moody. Admission is $5 and includes sausages, eggs

SFU TODDLER STUDY NEEDS PARTICIPANTS

TUESDAY, MAY 10

SFU’s Social Development Lab invites 18-month to 24-month-old children and their parents for a research project on helping and cooperation. 40 minute visit - paid $20.

Burke Mountain Naturalists host guest speaker David Hancock for a special discussion on the nesting bald eagles of B.C. and how eagle-cams came to be at 7:30 p.m. at Como Lake United Church, 535 Marmont St., Coquitlam. Admission is free and all welcome. Information: www.bmn.bc.ca or 604-9373483.

Ladies Legion Auxiliary meets at 1 p.m. at the Legion Branch No. 133 in Port Coquitlam. Information: 604-9426028.

For more information call 604-338-2558 or email: shammond@sfu.ca

SATURDAY, MAY 14

Coquitlam Centre presents its inaugural Unwined — Sip, Savour and Mingle, an evening featuring international and domestic wines, craft beers and culinary treats, from 7 to 10 p.m. Local sommelier John Gerum will also offer a presentation on the five secrets to wine tasting. Tickets are $45 and available at the Guest Services desk at the mall. Proceeds go to support educational funds at Douglas College and the Coquitlam Foundation.

Great music. Great cause. Join us.

All proceeds go to support Crossroads Hospice Society

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TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) invites new members to experience friendly group support for weight loss. There are a number of chapters in the Tri-Cities area. Information: Gail at 604-941-8699 or www.tops.org.

TRICEPS (Tri-Cities Early Psychosis Support), a non-profit support group that provides help to parents, spouses and siblings of individuals diagnosed with psychosis, meets the second Wednesday of each month in the Parklane Room of Eagle Ridge Hospital from 7 to 9 p.m.

Tri-Cities Caregivers’ Support Group meets the second and fourth Friday of each month at 10 a.m. at Dogwood Pavilion, 624 Poirier St., Coquitlam. Info: Karen at 778-789-1496.

Tri-City Family Place offers a drop-in program for parents and caregivers of children under six years, open Tuesdays to Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 2062 Manning Ave. Information: 604-945-0048.

Tri-City Newcomers Club meets on the third Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. All women, not just those who are new to the area, are welcome to attend. For information, contact Wendy at 604-468-2423 or tricities_newcomers@yahoo.ca.

Tri-City Singles Social Club

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cut-and-come again. Both eafy green vegetables these characteristics makes can give you a longer them very useful and more in containers on varied harvest partly shady balconthan any other ies — especially food plants since all the major — and the ways pests of green these leaves leaves (slugs, flea can be used has beetles, aphids and widened in the leaf miners) seldom last few years to Branching Out trouble apartment include smoothgardens. ies and wraps as Anne Marrison In-ground garwell as salads. deners aren’t so lucky. Row Most leafy greens tolercovers are good protectors ate part shade and many are

where the gardener feels flying insects are doing intolerable damage. But row covers aren’t cheap and need to be cleaned and stored very carefully if they are to last two or three years.

Slug-infested gardens have special challenges because row-plantings make plants an easy meal. Many organic people prefer to dot vegetable plantings in isolated groups all over the food garden. This protects against disease transfer and insects and is effective

if slug numbers are low.

A leafy green that slugs dislike is arugula. This is a fastgrowing spring and fall crop that loves moist, cool weather.

Young leaves are nicely peppery, but old leaves are burningly hot.

Corn salad is another coolweather crop which survives mild frost, though it won’t grow in winter unless you protect it. The leaves form a rosette pretty enough for a flower garden and the sturdy leaves are quite pest-resistant.

It likes very rich soil.

Mustard also needs early spring or late summer planting. Young leaves taste mild but, like arugula, the older leaves are fiery-tasting. Bigger leaves can be cooked.

Many lettuces also prefer cool spring or fall weather.

The best types for cut-andcome again are Cos and Romaine lettuce. But for summer use, it’s important to plant heat-resistant lettuce such as lollo rossa or red oakleaf. Even these two do best in shade.

For fall planting, the heirloom lettuce winter density is a useful choice.

Tall leafy greens such as kale can be harvested repeatedly if you just cut a few leaves at a time. The heritage

lights are very pretty.

For hot summers, New Zealand spinach thrives when other crops bolt and dry out.

This makes ever-enlarging mats of small, succulent green leaves from late July to frost.

Then there’s the beautiful nasturtium. The leaves are a mild, peppery treat in salads, the flowers can be eaten and so can the seed pods.

kales such as red Russian and hungry gap are especially useful because they have impressive cold resistance.

Another leafy vegetable which is harvested well into the fall is Swiss chard. The leaves can be stir-fried and the stems can be sliced small and steamed. Some chards, such as the red rhubarb chard or the multi-coloured bright

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Coquitlam UV Water Disinfection Project Public Meeting Please join us on

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Room: A2310, Level 2 1250 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam from 6:30 to 8:30 pm

Registration and Open House: 6:30 – 7 p.m.

Presentation and question period: 7 – 8:30 p.m.

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We can work to be goodYou will notice that you natured and we can help our don’t engage in the argument children to understand that she is trying to start. You grumpy responses to requests don’t need to explain that she just aren’t necessary or appredoesn’t have to do everything, ciated. that it’s her turn and that Kids learn how to respond it’s not even a big job. Just to life by watching us. So if deal with the grumpiness and we are complaining about move on. what we need to do, they will If she can’t get you involved follow suit. But if they see us in an argument, she will likely respond cheerfully to them just take out the garbage. She and to our spouse, even as may be mumbling as she goes, we sometimes need to say but you can ignore that. no, they will at the very least If your normally cheerknow what a good-natured ful child suddenly becomes response looks like.

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One-run losses reveal different things to Reds Two games, the same results and different conclusions.

The Coquitlam Reds dropped back-to-back 3-2 decisions Tuesday and Wednesday in B.C. Premier Baseball League play, in ways that could be described as both disappointing and promising.

How the losses came about gave manager Kyle Williams reason to experience both emotions.

“It’s kind of funny, we lose two games and I had a completely different feeling after each game,” Williams said.

On Wednesday they led the Fraser Valley Chiefs 2-1 until the sixth when the Chiefs plated two runs on a two-out error by shortstop Steven Kandborg that ended the game.

“Last night, we handed the game away… While you could look at the one error, the game was really (decided) on the offence,” said Williams. “We had runners all over the place but just never got the big hit to open the game up. We had the bases loaded with none out in the sixth and didn’t score.”

The Reds were held to just a single hit, and made four errors in the field. Jordan Ramirez was solid over six innings, allowing five hits and no earned runs to lower his ERA to 2.06.

Coquitlam got its runs on a sacrifice and a fielder’s choice.

The Reds now sit eighth overall with a 5-5 record, while Fraser Valley improved to 6-2 for fourth spot.

The 3-2 loss to the Langley Blaze Tuesday was one of those where the effort was deserving but fate proved fickle.

“I thought we played very well in Langley, (pitcher Matt) Trimble was outstanding. One of his best starts in the PBL,” Williams noted.

Up against the 8-2 Blaze, the lefthander held them to just two runs on seven hits, while striking out five. It came just a couple of days after he had returned from Florida, where he was part of the Canadian junior national team’s  CONT. ON PAGE 30, see BLAZE...

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School coaches come full circle Stories by Dan Olson sports@thenownews.com The two coaches work their ends of the field, handling the responsibilities of instructing, encouraging and inspiring their players to make it a great day.

Just a decade earlier, one of the coaches was in uniform, getting sage guidance from the other en route to B.C. gold and silver in back-to-back years.

For committed teachers like Larry Moro and Anna Hilborn, coaching against one another is just another twist in the great game of soccer.

Although a lot of water has gone under the bridge since those Centennial Centaur provincial powerhouse years, winning gold in 2000 and silver in 2001, the two have remained true to their roots all these years.

The game — and the inspiration of great coaches — does that.

Moro, who isn’t teaching this semester while he awaits surgery, is still on the Centennial Centaurs sideline, with assistant coach Dan Wilson.

For Hilborn, who joined head coach Dino Bolognese in skippering the Port Moody Blues girls squad, this year was a learning lesson — just as much for the coach as the players.

“If you are a good athlete and a good player [it] doesn’t mean you’ll be a good coach,” Hilborn, who starred at Simon Fraser University for five years, said. “I’m still learning. I’ve learned a lot from Dino and learned a lot from Larry just as a player. I respect them greatly, and it’s definitely different playing from coaching and I’m still learning.”

In the circle of high school sports, finding teachers who have the time, energy and expertise to add volunteer coach to their palette is becoming a tough assignment. Moro has been a steady local presence on the coaching sports treadmill, at the community and school level, because of the rewards.

Helping a young player learn something new and build confidence and character through a game was a skill passed down to him by his late father, B.C. Sports Hall of Fame member Lou Moro, and nurtured by a list of coaches that includes Wilson.

When he was a 19 year old in north Burnaby, Wilson coached the younger Moro in baseball. Twenty five years later, Moro coached Wilson’s daughter at Centennial.

Joining Moro and Wilson along the

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ON THE SIDELINES AND IN THE GAME: Coquitlam soccer product Anna Hilborn has joined the coaching ranks, helping skipper Port Moody against the likes of her former coach Larry Moro at Centennial.

Centaur sidelines is Kevin Comeau, a player from the Port Moody premier club side — a team coached by Moro.

It’s more evidence of the continuing circle of coaching.

Hilborn says coaches were a constant positive influence in her life, which has inspired the new teacher to take on the sideline drills and afterschool hours.

“Larry definitely had a big impact on my career. Just playing in high school he was always encouraging,” she said. “It’s fun, but it’s different

to play against Centennial because I know they’ll be a strong team, they always have been even before I got there. Larry’s done an awesome job with the program, so it’s fun to play against him.”

The Centaurs pressed their point in Fraser Valley North league action, edging out Dr. Charles Best by two points for first place.

Moro hopes this year’s Cents enjoy a measure of success that the squad Hilborn played on. Provincial championships are a rare thing, so if they

can earn a berth to the B.C.s then it’s another part of a successful season.

He notes that the measure of success for a coach comes down to participation. If the players enjoy coming to the field and are engaged, that enjoyment is paid forward.

“It does come full circle. You get a lot of pats on the back for coaching, but I get a lot out of it, I enjoy it, it’s not just something you do but hate. I hope these kids are seeing the same thing when they come back and coach,” said Moro.

COQUITLAM METRO-FORD SOCCER PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Vanessa Baker

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The Under 16 Coquitlam Metro-Ford Diablos won the Coastal ‘B’ Cup this past weekend by defeating Nanaimo FC by a 2-1 margin. All the Diablos should be proud of their extraordinary performances, but special mention should be made of goalkeeper VANESSA BAKER who was instrumental in the narrow victory. Vanessa anchored and controlled the Metro-Ford backline with an enormous amount of confidence. She was also aggressive, cutting off numerous crosses and through balls and making some key saves to preserve the margin of victory. For her magnificent performance this past weekend, and throughout the season, VANESSA BAKER Aria Sarhangpour has been chosen Coquitlam Metro-Ford Female Player Metro-Ford Sparta of the Week.

The Under 16 Selects Sparta won the coveted Coastal Cup this past weekend by defeating Victoria FC by an emphatic 5-0 margin. One player on the Sparta team who rarely gets recognized is central defender ARIA SARHANGPOUR. As team captain, Aria has shown immense leadership qualities throughout the season as he has led his team to the Provincial Cup finals. Aria is the type of player that gives 100% all the time—on or off the field. Without his leadership, this group of boys would not have achieved their great success!

For his season-long contribution, ARIA SARHANGPOUR has been selected as Coquitlam Metro-Ford Male Player of the Week!

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Gleneagle golfers sizzle to junior, senior district titles seven strokes, registering a four-player aggregate of 332 (75, 83, 96, 78).

Two days later, Gleneagle’s seniors appeared to feed off that, steamrolling past the competition to claim the district title by a 21-shot margin.

Leading the way was Grade 10 David Lee, who’s four-under par 68 set the tone — and also placed him first among individual scores.

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That game was decided by a wild pitch by Ramirez in the eighth inning.

The Reds’ Kandborg led off the game with a single and scored on Max Hollingworth’s RBI single. A few pitches later, Hollingworth came around to score on a wild pitch to make it 2-0.

Langley pulled within a run in the second and tied it in the fifth. That lasted into the bottom of the eighth. Going the distance for the win was Blaze pitcher Devon Stewart.

On the weekend, the Reds split a double header with the North Delta Blue Jays, winning 8-2 in the first game before falling 7-2 in the nightcap.

Despite displays of wildness, lefthander Jeff Heidema won the opener by tossing four innings of two-hit ball. He also walked six and fanned five to keep his ERA at 2.33.

Hollingworth collected two hits, including a double, while knocking home two runs. Left fielder Jared Peterson scored three times, while first baseman Mitchell Jackman finished 1-for-3.

It was another early lead for

championships next week at Surrey’s Northview golf course. That’s where the Talons will begin their march to repeat as Fraser Valley champs.

“I have learned that anything can happen and not to take anything for granted,” Unger said. “We have a super strong team of great kids and if we continue our fine play, there is no reason why we can’t repeat as Fraser Valley champions in golf.”

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a provincial championship, although we did it in a one-day competition and the provincials are a two-day event,” remarked Talon coach Brian Unger.

Unger said he added Lee to the senior team after he posted the best score at the junior final. It means Lee can’t compete at the junior Western Fraser Valleys May 16 in Richmond.

Instead, he’ll join the senior group at the Western Fraser Valley

was Grade 9 Kevin Ko, while Grade 11 Jessie Keel carded a one-under 71.

Posting their best scores of the short season were John Kim and Duncan Priestly, who posted rounds of 78 and 86, respectively.

Gleneagle’s top-four aggregate tallied 286 (68, 69, 71, 78, 86), while Dr. Charles Best placed second with a total of 307.

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It was clear sailing right to the pin for the Gleneagle Talons senior and junior golf teams this week, ending in a pair of Coquitlam district championship titles.

The junior squad began the week on a winning note for the Coquitlam school, outlasting the competition in a rainstorm at Port Coquitlam’s Carnoustie Golf Club.

They edged Heritage Woods by

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DELISLE, VICTOR Passed away peacefully on April 26th, 2011. Loving and missing him dearly are son Jason (Sara), grandson Jaxson, daughter Jessica, and other half JC. He was a father to Denise, and grandpa to Jocelyn, Jessie, and Marlee.

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Born in Edmonton, Alberta, passed away peacefully on May 2, 2011 in Eagle Ridge Hospital, at the age of 92.

Predeceased by husband, Thomas Alan (Tom), Bailey in 1972.

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1403

Money to Loan

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5070

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3545

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5070

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5035

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3520

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5005

Dogs

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3508

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5050

Investment

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5075

Mortgages

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4060

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6005

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6007

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

FOR SALE; 42 seat Coffee Shop / Catering Business. Great take out traffic. Boasts homemade Bread, Soups, etc. $250,000.

Contact Debbie at 250-787-8424.

6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-02

Abbotsford

MOUNTAINVIEW VILLAGE in quiet end location. Family oriented complex in East Abby.

Has outdoor pool, club house, playground, pets allowed. This UPDATED 3 BR, 3 bath feels like a home. Spacious mn flr offering eating area/computer space off the remodeled kitchen w/new modern cabinet fronts & hardware, counters, tile floor & appls. Nice dining rm w/slider to private yard & patio. Good size living rm w/gas fireplace w/lam flrs. 3 BR up master has ensuite & walk in closet. Double side by side garage. Painted in trendy colours & close to visitor parking. Great place to call home! Easy access to Hwy 1, shopping, parks, and all levels of schools. $284,900. Call Pamela Stadnik, Remax Treeland Realty, 604-533-3491

6008-28

Richmond

Richmond 300sqft.+ West Facing Patio 1 BR $264,900 Centrally located. View website for open times, pics and floorplans. Michael Lepore Royal LePage 604-295-3974 www.AccoladeRealEstate.ca

6020

Houses - Sale

6020-01

Real Estate

www.bcforeclosures.com 6 BR home from $18,000 down $1,850/mo. 604-538-8888, Alain @ Sutton WC Realty W. Rock

6020

Houses - Sale

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6020-22

New Westminster

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6050

Out Of Town Property

BIG BEAUTIFUL AZ LAND $99/mo, $0 down - 0 Interest. Golf Course, Nat’l Parks. 1 hour from Tucson Int’l Airport. Guaranteed Financing! NO CREDIT CHECK! Pre-recorded msg 1-800-631-8164 code 4040 www.sunsiteslandrush.com

6065

Recreation Property

MISSION - LAKE FRONT starting from $78,800. 60 mins from Vancouver. Park Georgia Rlty Lisa Hughes • 604-931-7227

6508

Apt/Condos

1 & 2 BR, 1180 Landsdowne Dr. $895 up, carpets, drapes, balc./ patio, outdoor pool, tennis crt, NO PET. nr Coq Ctre. Avail now or June 1st. 604-942-2865 1 BR. N. West. by Moody Park, $775 incl prkg, heat, storage, ns, np, refs. June 1, 604-786-3488 1 BR. near Coq. Centre, Douglas College, WCE, pool, hw, laminate & marble, prkg, storage, ns, pet neg. now, $950, 778-889-5849 BBY, Lghd Mall. Bach, $700 incl ht & h/w. ns/np, newly reno’d, storage, Apr 1. 604-779-3882

2232 McAllister Port Coquitlam 1 BR & 2 BR Apartments Available

* Newly reno’d, quiet secure bldg, walk to all amenities. * Near WC Express. * Rent incls heat, hot water, fridge, stove, priv balcony & window coverings * Laundry & Storage ea floor * No pets ✔ Wheel Chair Access

6508

BBY HIGHGATE Bright & Lrg 1 BR, newly reno’d. Avail Immed, Inc heat/hot water. 778-994-2334 BBY METROTOWN 1 & 2 BR. Avail Immed, Clean, quiet bldng.

Inc heat/hot water. 604-715-1824 BBY, METROTOWN. 1 - 2 BR. Clean, quiet bldg. Incl heat/hot water. Immed. 778-323-0237 BBY S. Bach & 2 BR. $620, $860 incl hw, ug prkg, WiFi, hardwood, storage cat ok, 604-818-1129

BBY/COQ. BROOKSIDE 2 BR, 7 appls, f/p, sec prkg, storage. Near sfu, skytrn, mall. Avail Jun 1. $1100. NS/NP. 778-891-8772 COQ 1 BR condo close to all amens, 5 appls, ug parking, corner unit, n/s, n/p. Quiet building. Avail Jun 1 604-314-1375

6508

Apt/Condos

COQ AUSTIN & BLUE MTN. 1 Br $720, 2 Br $820. Incl h/w, bldg W/D. Nr transit. 778-865-6696 COQ • Austin Heights Clean quiet 2 BR apts avail.

Sorry no pets. 604-936-5755

Don’t Miss THIS! Large 1 br $800 & 2 br $960.

1117 Ridgeway Ave. incl heat, hot water, dw, cat ok, ns, avail June 1, Raymar Realty. 604-782-5941

Large bright 1br from $765.

New reno. Incl heat, hot water, dw np, 1016 Howie Ave. nr Austin Raymar Realty. 778-828-6345 GROSVENOR HOUSE 1 BR Apt, incls ht & h/w. By Moody Park. 720 - 7th Ave, New West. N/P, N/S. 604-517-1077

COQ. 2 BR $900, Avail Now orJun1 , heat, parking.

778-990-7079 or 604-521-8249

COTTONWOOD PLAZA

MOVE-IN BONUS

AMBER ROCHESTOR

Large units some with 2nd bathroom or den.

On bus routes, close to S.F.U. & Lougheed Mall.

COQUITLAM

Close to Lougheed Mall, S.F.U. & Transportation.

office: 604- 936-1225

office: 604- 936-3907

JUNIPER COURT

604 - 941 - 7721

612 CLARKE ROAD

Bach from $699 2 Bdrm from $1050 D/W, Heat/Water included, parking avail.

No smoking, no pets.

Exercise room onsite.

545 Rochester Ave, Coq

AMBER (W)

401 Westview St, Coq Large Units.

Near Lougheed Mall.

Transportation & S.F.U.

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1 bedrooms from $804

UG Parking, balconies.

Close to Skytrain, near Gold Club, walk to mountain park. near Lougheed Mall.

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552 Dansey Ave, Coq

Extra Large 2 Bedrooms.

Close to Lougheed Mall & S.F.U.

555 Cottonwood Ave, Coq

415 Westview St, Coq

Close to Lougheed Mall, all Transportation Connections, Schools & S.F.U.

office: 604- 939-8905 cell: 604- 916-0261 KING ALBERT COURT 1300 King Albert, Coq Close to Transportation, Schools & S.F.U.

office: 604-937-7343 cell: 778-848-5993

office: 604- 939-4903 cell: 778- 229-1358

CALYPSO COURT 1030 - 5th Ave, New West Near Transportation & Douglas College.

Well Managed Building.

office: 604- 524-8174 cell: 604- 813-8789

Tim Stephens' Astral Reflections Aries March 21 - April 19: Continue to chase money. This week is relatively smooth, unhurried.

Sunday holds a few frustrations if you wander afield after outside goals or adventure. Instead, stay home, garden, repair, or soak up nature. Romance, creative surges, pleasure and beauty surge Monday/Tuesday – you’re a winner! Tackle chores Wednesday/Thursday, buy machinery, seek health cures, employment or employees – you’ll succeed.

Relationships face the deep, slow pulling apart you’ve noticed in recent years, but Saturday shows the cure. The problem is your ambition: the cure is another’s – support it.

Taurus April 20-May 20: Your energy, effectiveness and charisma rise nicely! Don’t expect everything, as you’re in the trough that comes just before the big luck wave swells. That trough lasts to June 4 – five more weeks. Then 53 weeks of great, life-changing luck begin! Don’t waste your present energy: you can solve problems that would usually stymie you, can accomplish unusual feats. Focus your abilities on solving whatever has held you back. The main thing: to clear the way for big, lucky things June onward.

Home’s sweet, good Monday/Tuesday. Romance, creativity midweek. Work, Friday. A good week!

Gemini May 21-June 20: Continue to rest, plan, pray, meditate. Be charitable, deal with government agencies, institutions. Wishes can still come true, but consider this: wishes that lead to freedom are much more viable than those that lead to depth, darkness, lust, security, investment. Soon, you will get a chance for these deeper things (June 2011June 2012) but over the entire rest of this decade, these deeper things will “disagree” with ethics, law, friendship, lighter laughter – and the lighter will win.

This also means light romance will conquer deep romance. Buy nothing Sunday. Success, all week!

Apt/Condos

Friday, May 6, 2011

Cancer June 21-July 22: Your energy and charisma step up a notch Sunday – conquer problems, seek solutions. Chase money Monday/Tuesday – and chase friends, contacts, information Wednesday/Thursday – luck accompanies you in both endeavours! Be home, pay attention to the needs of children, parents Friday/Saturday. Take a rest after a lucky, active week.

Wishes can come true this week and next, especially in career and social arenas. But realize your career is changing deeply (and in many cases suddenly) over the next eight years: in-depth research, investment, power plays, secrets play a bigger role.

Leo July 23-Aug. 22: Chase ambitions, and the people who can grant them. You’ll be tested, but you’ll win an “A!” Rest Sunday, plan and prepare – but be careful with fire, hot irons and ethical/ legal temptations. Your energy and charisma soar Monday/Tuesday – get out and impress people, especially bosses, VIPs, parents and authorities.

Chase money (e.g., ask for a pay raise, seek new clients) Wednesday/Thursday. These are four successful, satisfying days – by Friday/Saturday you’ll be ready to socialize, dream, wish and enjoy your optimism – though it will be a sober optimism.

Until 2019, love succeeds!

Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22: A gentle, compassionate understanding flows over you. You might fall in love.

Actually, someone is likely more impressed with you than vice-versa, Wednesday/Thursday. Still, you might fall in love. Something is working powerfully to change your life – it could be sex, could be finances, a move, a secret, an urge – Charlie Sheen is a Virgo, and a hero, because he is embodying the Virgo urge right now. Behind-scenes actions, government and administrative chores succeed Monday/Tuesday.

Charge forth and chase a major goal Wednesday/ Thursday! Money needs care Friday/Saturday.

MONTECITO TOWERS 99-7360 Halifax St, Bby

6508

NEW WEST Cozy 1 BR Penthouse, nr all amens, n/s, n/p, $750. Avail Now. 604-783-6003

EL PRESIDENTE

220 - 7th St, New West 1 BR apts from $720/mo.

Includes heat & hot water, Big balconies. By shops, banks, Skytrain & college. U/grd prkg available.

Call 604-519-1382

604 420-5636

6508

Apt/Condos

NEW WEST 2 br 1 bath, all appls, balcony, 1 prkg, McBride & Sangster, behind McDonalds, great shopping, good transit, quiet bldg, $1350. Lease Pat 604-916-0098 NEW WEST 2 BR + den 2 bath at The Point Spectacular view fromt he balcony $1795. Call Quay Pacific Property Management Ltd at 604-570-2786

NEW WEST

NEW WEST 310 - 8 St. Close to skytrain & bus. Lrg 1BR, w/lrg patio. $795 incls heat & storage locker. Cat OK with pet dep. Refs req’d. Call Res Mgr 604-395-5303

Call 604-518-5040

NEW WEST 508 - 8 St. Close to Westminster Mall & transit. BACH ste w/balcony, $655 incls heat & storage locker. Lrg 1 BR with balcony $795. Cat ok w/pet dep.

Refs req. Res Mgr 604-521-1862

Managed by Colliers International

St Andrews Street 1 BR Apt, Large balcony, updated, nr transit & amens.

Available Now. Small pet ok with pet deposit.

GARDEN VILLA

1010 6th Ave, New West 1 BR & 2 BR Available.

Beautiful atrium with fountain.

By shops, college & transit.

Pets negotiable. Ref required.

CALL 604 715-7764 BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

VILLA MARGARETA

NEW WEST. Quiet 1 BR, g/lvl. Nr Moody Park. $700/mo + utils.

604-591-3628 or 604-517-5593 NEW WEST. RENO’ed 1 BR & 2 BR. New Kitchen/Bathroom, Carpet, Appliances. From $795 & $1050. 604-724-8353

320-9th St, New West

Bach & 1 BR Available.

All Suites Have Balconies.

Undergrd Parking Available.

Refs Required. Small Pet Ok.

CALL 604 715-7764 BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

SKYLINE TOWERS 102-120 Agnes St, N.West

Hi-Rise Apartment with River View & Indoor Pool.

1 BR & 2 BR Available.

Rent includes heat & hot water. Remodelled Building and Common area. Gated undergrd parking available.

References required.

Port Moody NEW PORT VILLAGE Highrise DELUXE Condo GREAT LOCATION. 1 BR & Den • 900 sq. ft

7 appls, parking, storage, $1350.

Rec & Amenity rooms. NS / NP.

604- 983- 8046

RIVERS INLET Apartments

BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

(Coquitlam Centre area) Bachelor, 1 BR & 2 BR Apts, 3 appls, incls heat & hot water, bldg laundry room on each flr.

Avail now. Sorry no pets.

Call 604-942-2012 coquitlampropertyrentals.com

BONSOR APTS

ROTARY TOWER 25 Clute St, New West

CALL 604 525-2122

Renovated high rise, concrete building. Penthouse, 1 BR & 2 BR available. Very close to Metrotown, Skytrain & Bonsor swimming pool. Rent includes heat, hot water. Refs req’d.

Bach, 1 BR & 2 BR www.montecitotowers.com

Apt/Condos

A33

Contact Alex 604-999-9978

or Bayside Property Services Office: 604-432-7774

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Most trends/occurrences are split into two streams: open relationships, and the more private, behind-scenes interactions. E.g., you are meeting challenging but lucky people or bright, obvious opportunities – these can quickly turn to intimacy, mutual financial funding, investment, detective work, or lifestyle commitments. Look for friendship on the surface, bonding underneath.

Soon, this “deeper side” will increase – and by June onward, for a year, it will grow very lucky. But for now, the luck resides in the meeting, the seeing, relocation, pursuing new horizons and opportunities.

Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21: This month doesn’t exactly offer you the prize with a flourish of easy luck, but it does give you a real preview of the luck to come, June 2011to June 2012. The prize involves a relationship.

It could be an opportunity in business, new life horizons, love/marriage, fame, contract negotiations.

It will arise because you impress or please someone, because you’re diplomatic and focused on another’s needs and desires. (You’re an expert at that.) This week, study your ethics Sunday: right, wrong? Your ambitions meet luck Monday/Tuesday; your hopes meet “a friend” Wednesday/Thursday!

Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21: Lots of work faces you – you might as well plod through. Recent romantic, pleasurable, creative or child-oriented ventures remain active, lucky. The year ahead (starting in a week or two) will expand your duties, so pack in some last-minute pleasure and relaxation now, while you can. You might, in the six weeks ahead, stumble upon a creative work situation – grab it. A co-worker romance might develop.

Cautious Sunday: traps exist. Wisdom, gentle love flow Monday/Tuesday. Be ambitious Wednesday/ Thursday – success accompanies you! Your mood’s happier than events, late week.

Age 55 or over. Beautiful view.

Bach high rise apt.

Close to trans & shopping.

Rent incl all utils. Refs req.

Contact Ana Cell: 778-859-0798 Bayside Property Services Ltd.

Rentals

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May 8 - 14, 2011 Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19: You’re riding a minor winning streak, but it’s good practice for the “big wave” that’s coming June 2011 through June 2012.

That time will bring “benefits with responsibilities” in romance, creative projects, speculative ventures, pleasure, vacation, and children’s talents. These very things fill May, so enjoy life, relax and pursue love! A relationship gives you friction Sunday. Life’s depths, lust, finances, meet with luck Monday/Tuesday.

Gentle love, understanding fill Wednesday/Thursday.

You feel ambitious Friday/Saturday, but use a light touch if others react unexpectedly.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18: The focus lies on home, family, recuperation, nature, garden, soul, stomach, security, real estate, retirement, endings and beginnings. This period isn’t ultra-important at the moment, but it will become the source of your luck from June 2011 to June 2012. So keep your eyes open, your thoughts ticking. Chores might frustrate Sunday: proceed cautiously, especially around power tools. Relationships might be competitive Monday/ Tuesday, but they’re also lucky, even loving, so plunge in! Investments, debt, sex, intimate commitments, lifestyle changes proceed well Wednesday/Thursday.

Pisces Feb. 19-March 20: Romance has a few snags Sunday – go slow. Tackle chores or buy machinery,tools Monday/Tuesday.If unemployed,look for work, especially Tuesday afternoon. A whole grabbag of opportunities faces you Wednesday/Thursday.

Go forth, seek, be curious, ask. Be diplomatic, too.

Relationships surprise, reward. The news might disappoint in financial, health and/or sexual areas Friday/Saturday. Investments made Friday won’t work; those made Saturday might. Generally, this is a light, busy, smooth and satisfying week. Money’s still lucky in an income way, but not for long – act now! timstephens@shaw.ca • Reading: 416-686-5014

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The NOW COQUITLAM, PORT COQUITLAM, PORT MOODY, ANMORE AND BELCARRA

Friday, May 6, 2011

Apt/Condos

ROYAL CRESCENT ESTATES

22588 Royal Crescent Ave, Maple Ridge Large units. Close to Golden Ears Bridge. Great view of River

office: 604- 463-0857 cell: 604- 375-1768

SUNSET PARK 5870 Sunset Street

Close to Bus & BCIT STUDIO & 1 BDRM ★ Quiet park-like setting ★ Newly Reno’d ★ Heat/hot water incld 604-291-8197 www.sunsetparkapt.com

6540

Houses - Rent

COQ NEW HORIZONS, brand new architect-designed, high ceiling, sunny home. 2000 sf w/3 BR, 2.5 baths,1 Den, 2 lvls, gorgeous garden , quiet cul-de-sac. $2200.

Avail immed. 604-760-6372 COQ/BBY, near Lougheed Mall/ bus/park/skytrain, 5 BR hse, 2 full baths, 2 kitchens, f/p. NS, Ref. Avail Jun 1. 604-785-1699 N WEST free utils/full/cbl /net furnished/unfurn, 4 br heritage home, quiet, w/d. N/s, n/p. May 15/Jun1. $2500. 604-805-6763 NEW WEST Victoria Hill new 4 BR T/home, roof top sundeck w/ great views! 2200+sf, 3 f/ bath, all appls, 2 sec prkg, locker. immed, $2500/mo. NS/NP. 778-228-9598

Whitgift Gardens 1 BR Apt, $750/mo, 2 BR Apt, $925/mo, 3 BR Apt, $1100/mo.

Heat, hot water, parking.

Family living, daycare available.

Near kids’ park, basketball court and Skytrain.

6595

Shared Accommodation

6595-20

Suites/Partial Houses

BBY, 14 Ave/2nd St. 1 BR, grd/lvl. $700/mo includes hydro. Shared laundry. Ns/np. 604-802-4492 BBY 2 BR, $750 incls utils, nr Edmonds skytrain, bus & schl, n/s, n/p, Avail Now. 604-524-0998 BBY CAPITOL HILL, 2 BR g/lvl ste, 5 appls, n/s, n/p, $1200 incls utils, suits professional, Avail Jun 1. Refs Req. 604-299-5224

POCO 3 BR Rancher, 2 f/bath, w/d, big f/yard. $1350. By bus. Av May 15 Pet ok. 604-522-3100

BBY CARIBOO HTS, 2 BR updated bsmt ste, $875 inc utils, n/s, n/p, no w/d. Now. 604-528-6036

No pets. Available now.

604 939-0944

6510

POCO NR Coquitlam Centre, 4bdrm, 2 ba, 2600 sf, avail now, $1,600+util, ref, 604-312-8388

Co-ops

ARBORETUM HOUSING Co-op located in Guildford Area, easy access to Port Mann.

Spacious Townhouses, W/D hook up, D/W, F/P, 2 parking stall, 4 BR Townhouse $1144mo + utils. - Share purchase $2000.

N/P. Avail June 1. Call between 10am - 9pm, 604 582-9520

6540

Houses - Rent

BBY Metrotown 3 BR bsmt home, deck, garage, workshop. Av now. $1500. NS/NP. 604-327-3855

BBY NORTH, 3 BR house, 1.5 bath, all appls, lrg rec rm, carport, lrg yrd. Nr BCIT, SFU, transit. $1450. Avail now. 604-299-2161

6450

Miscellaneous Rentals

BBY, HIGHGATE. Spacious 1 BR + den. F/bath, sh’d w/d, f/yard.

Nice area! Suits 1. Ns/np. $700 incl hydro. June 1. 604-522-6525 BBY, METROTOWN. 1 BR, g/lvl, Alarm. Near skytrn. NS/NP. Refs. $750 incl util/cbl. 604-430-1358

GATED PARKING AVAILABLE

BBY, Metrotown. 2 BR, upper flr.

Nr bus, Skytrain, schls, T&T Mrkt.

Ns/np. $950 + util. 604-438-1588

New Westminster

BBY N. Lrg 3 BR upper flr. Nr SFU all amens. $1450 incl util, sh’d w/d. N/s, n/p. 604-420-7998

CALL 604 723-8215 BAYSIDE PROPERTY SERVICES

6565

Office/Retail Rent

POCO RETAIL 1236sf, $3200, 2569 Shaughnessy St. Air cond, exc loc acreoss from City Hall.

Jun 1. Bill Evans 604-836-2494

Suites/Partial Houses

BBY, Near BCIT, 2 BR g/lvl ste.

NS/NP. $1000 incl utils, shared w/d, Immed. 604-438-1790 BBY, NORTH. 1 BR, f/bath, priv w/d. Cat ok. $900 for 1 person, incl utils. June 1. 778-898-5159 BBY SOUTH. Lrg 1 BR gr lev, own W/D, NS/NP. Suits cpl. $825 incls utls. Refs. 604-526-7335

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

NEW WEST. 1 BR. Shared w/d. ns/np. $725 incl hydro. Avail Now. 604-325-0453, 604-761-0453

Coq./Poco/ Port Moody

ROOM WITH a View, in a house, incls util/cbl/ph/wd, $450/mo.

Avail May 1. N/P, 604-315-6611

6602

6602

BBY, The Crest. Newly reno’d 2 BR. Private w/d & yard. N/s. $975 incl hydro. 604-522-5547

NEW WEST, Queensborough, Large 2 BR, g/lvl. $750 incl utils.

Ns/np. 604-525-7039

COQ 2 BR bsmt, lrg kit, w/d, small cov patio, newly painted, n/s, $725 + 1/3 utils, 604-525-9266

NORTHSIDE POCO, newer 1 BR bsmt, near schools and shopping. includes utils, available May 15, $700/mth, N/s, N/p, 604-941-6843 or 778-708-4045 POCO. 2 BR, f/ba, f/p, priv w/d.

Great view! Ns/Np. $975/mo incl utls. Avail now. 604-944-1479

COQ , Blue Mtn Park area. Bright 1 BR. On quiet street. D/w, alarm.

Shared w/d. $700/mo + 1/3 util.

Ns/np. avail now. 604-939-5711 COQ BRIGHT 1 BR, nr Coq Ctr, priv ent & w/d, n/s, n/p, $750 incls utils, Avail Now. 604-472-9255

COQ CTR. Very clean, big 1 BR. Shared laundry. Ns/np. $750/mo incl utils/internet. Avail June 1st.

Near bus route. 604-464-1085 COQ W. Plateau 2 BR, 11 ft ceilings, patio, panoramic view, sauna/steam room, W/D. NP/NS. $997. Av May 1. 604-880-2991

POCO BRIGHT private 1 BR g/l, lrg fenced yard, freshly painted, new bath, inste w/d. Small pet ok. avail now, $750 incls utils. Suits mature n/s. 604-299-5435 POCO, MARY HILL. 1/2 duplex.

3 BR up. 3 BR down. Rec room.

Ideal to operate a beauty salon, physio clinic, daycare, accounting or large family with in-law accom.

Owner helps conversion. Immed. $2,100/mo negotiable + util.

604-953-0952 or 604-671-2049 POCO, NORTHSIDE. 2 BR, g/lvl.

Gas f/p, garage, priv entry. $800.

Ns/np. May 15th. 604-942-9725

6605

Townhouses Rent

POCO 2 BR T/H $785/mo. Quietfamily complex, No Pets! Avail Now. Call 604-464-0034 N. WEST, Hume Park, Braid skytrain. Lrg 2 BR, sh’d W/D, prkg. $975 incls utils, cable/net. May 15/Jun1. NS/NP. 604-540-2177

PORT COQUITLAM 2 BR townhouse, $830, quiet-family complex, no pets call 604-464-0034.

RIVERS INLET Townhouses

NEW WEST, Queens Park, 4th St, 1 BR, priv entry, sh’d w/d.

Character home/modernized.

Suits 1 person. $635/mo incls utils. May 1. Ns/np. 604-521-3025

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Find your answer in the Classifieds – in print and online!

8010

Alarm/Security

ALARM 604-463-7919 Systems Ltd.

8020

Blinds & Draperies

(Coquitlam Centre area) • 2 BR Townhouse • 3 BR Townhouse 1.5 bath, 2 levels, 5 appls, decorative fireplace, carport. Sorry no pets.

• 1 & 2 BR Apts also avail.

Contact 604-939-0221 woodland@rentmidwest.com

6620

Warehouse/ Commercial

LANGLEY. 2780 sq. ft. main floor warehouse plus 600 sf mezzanine. Front office and rear grade loading with 90’ turning radius! $7.25/sf. Ben Gauer, Royal LePage Ben Gauer & Associates, 604-644-0273 or 604-581-3838

1-BEDROOM A PT. Move in tomorrow. Affo rdable monthly rent.

LANGLEY. 2780 sq. ft. main floor warehouse plus 600 sf mezzanine. Front office and rear grade loading with 90’ turning radius! $7.25/sf. Ben Gauer, Royal LePage Ben Gauer & Associates, 604-644-0273 or 604-581-3838

8035

ROYAL STEAM CLEANING Carpet, Upholstery, Auto (Int), walls & windows 604-765-8054

8055

Cleaning

★★★★A GIFT OF TIME ★★★★ European standard. Lic/Ins. ICBC & Veteran claims. Free Window Cleaning , 778-840-2421 Exp. Reliable European Cleaning, Move In or Out, Res/ Comm★ Call 604 760-7702 ★

8060

Concrete

Personals

EXOTIC FRENCH MAIDS. Hot stone massage in sexy uniforms Mobile available 604-217-2224

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944 Best Service! Best Price!

Hardwood, Laminate & Tiles.

Repair & Refinish. 604-783-4615

8125

Gutters

Edgemont Gutters. Sales & Install 5’’ continuous gutter, minor repairs, cleaning. 604-420-4800 PRESSURE WASHING, Gutter Cleaning and Repairs Call George • 778-859-7793

8130

Handyperson

Concrete Cracks Repair.

Foundation Walls, Basement, Parkade. Full Warranty. Call Simon (604) 473-7761

A Semi Retired Tradesman Small Renovations & Repairs, Crown Moldings & Finishing.

Richard, 604-377-2480

DALL’ANTONIA CONCRETE Seniors discount. Friendly, family business, 40+ yrs. 604-240-3408

HANDYMAN - framing, decks, tiles, hardwood, drywall. Total additions & basements. Ken 778-773-6251 or 604-455-0740

8073

Drainage

PROFESSIONAL HANDYMAN For Homes or Businesses.

Call Dave at 778-386-3844

BAJ MINI EXCAVATING Sewer/storm, drains, oil tanks, paving, retain wall. 604-779-7816 Stevie’s Handyman Services Big or Small, we do it ALL! Call Stevie • 778-997-0337 DRAIN TILES & WATER LINES Without Digging a Trench 604-294-5300

8075

ALL WORK GUARANTEED

J.A. CONSTRUCTION

Specializing in drywall & textured ceiling repairs, drywall finishing, stucco repairs, painting. Fully insured.

604-916-7729 JEFF

8080

8155

Landscaping

Drywall

Electrical

HOMEFIX ELECTRICAL DIVISION

Contract # 102055 200 Amp Service Upgrades Spring Special $1800 Free est. Ins. 25 yrs exp.

For All Your Reno Needs!

No job too big.

No job too small.

We keep it simple.

• Spring/Fall Yard Cleanup • Pruning trees, shrubs & hedges the proper way!

• Planting Plan & Full Installation • Retaining walls, walkways & bed edging • Patio, Deck & Rockery • Fence Removal & Installation

Please call Sherry

604-992-6654

Landscape Technician & Cert. Arborist

★ AMAZING TOUCH LAND’G ★ Bobcat, paving, retaining walls, turf, planting, etc. 604-889-4083 ★ OPERA LANDSCAPING ★ Bobcat, retaining walls, irrigation, paving, fences. 778-688-2444

8160 Residential / Commercial and Industrial Wiring / Maintenance No Job Too Big or Small Licensed, Bonded & Insured Contractor # 50123

Call Rod at 778-835-8319

7010

Call Ryan: 604-329-7792

Carpet Cleaning

HOMEFIX ELECTRICAL DIVISION - Contract # 102055 200 Amp Service Upgrades Spring Special $1800. Free est.

Ins. 25 yrs exp. 604-725-5371

Go to http://www.thenownews.com or call 604-444-3000.

• All Bobcat & Mini-X Services • Small Hauls Available • Fast Reliable Service

604-376-7224 www.centuryhardwood.com

604-725-5371

FOR RENT

ABSOLUTE BOBCAT & EXCAVATION LTD.

Century Hardwood Floors

Call 604-942-2012

TOWNHOMES Professionally managed family townhome complex on 28 acres located in beautiful Port Moody.

Spacious 2 BR & 3 BR units, 5 appls, inste W/D, walk out bsmt, 1 parking.

Cat friendly.

Excavating

Repairs & Staining Installation Free Estimates

coquitlampropertyrentals.com

WOODLAND PARK

8087

Hardwood Floor Refinishing

POCO. 2 BR, grd/lvl. Priv w/d & ent. Big fenced yard. $925/mo incl hydro. Now. Ns/np. 604-941-3068

PT MDY. Bright 1 BR grnd lev, Gas f/p, priv W/D. $700/mo incls all utils. NS/NP. 604-936-4815 COQ. WEST Upper 2 BR, own W/D, sundeck. Avail now. $995 + utls. NS/NP. 604-637-3662

HOME SERVICES

Top Tier Electrical Inc. Comm/Res renos & construction.

Adam 604-773-4313 Lic #104540 YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guaranteed. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

Lawn & Garden

* Landscape and Garden Design & Construction * Full Lawn Care Services Mowing, Power Raking, Aeration, Fertilizing, New Lawns * Hedges and Tree Pruning * Yard Cleanups * Fences & Decks

Marc • 604-315-8954

Home Services

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Lawn & Garden

COQUITLAM

LANDCAPING LTD.

❏ SPRING CLEAN-UP ❏ Yard Maintenance ❏ Hedge Trim ❏ Tree Pruning ❏ Weeding ❏ Retaining Walls ❏ Lawn Cuttng Contracts Insured. Guaranteed. John: 604-464-8700 or 778-867-8785

Park’s Landscaping

Gardening Services Lawn Maintenance Landscape Design Residential & Commercial William KIM • 27 years exp.

604-518-3571

CHAFFER BEETLE Treatment.

Lawn care, reseeding, rototilling gardens & hedges. 778-885-6488

A Gardener & A Gentleman Lawn, garden, tree svcs. Pruning, yard clean-up, rubbish. 319-5302

HON’S Garden Services •Lawn Cut •Power Rake •Trim •Weed & more ★ 604-317-5328

8185

Moving & Storage

8220

Plumbing

$35/HOUR PER PERSON • 24/7 Abe Moving & Delivery and Rubbish Removal. 604-999-6020

SAM’S Gardening SERVICE Lawn & Garden Care, Hedge Trims, Clean-up. 604-603-2341 THE LAWN BUTCHER Only Prime Cuts will do!

Call Jim 778-839-6250 WE CUT GRASS since 1988!

Lawn Maint. Monthy rates/contracts.

Reasonable rates. NO HST. Fred 604-614-8498 or Bill 604-939-2274

8185

Moving & Storage

AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men

1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 Ton $ From

45

We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance

FREE ESTIMATES Seniors Discount

604-537-4140 www.affordablemoversbc.com

ADVANCE MOVING LTD MOVING & DELIVERY EXPERTS!!

Licensed, Bonded & Insured Single item to full house moves We Guarantee the Cost of Every Move Flat Rates always available A+ (604) 861-8885 BBB www.advancemovingltd.com Rating

10% Off with this Ad! For all your plumbing, heating & reno needs.

Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005

DAN THE HANDYMAN. Reno’s & Home Repairs, 20 yrs Exp. Free Estimates. ★ Call 604 715-3979

TwoGuysWithATruck.ca Moving, Storage, Free EST 604-628-7136. Visa, OK

$69/HR Lic’d/Ins. Exp & friendly Clogged drains, plumbing, small jobs OK! Call 24/7! 604-805-2488

SKYLINE DECKING Renovations, Roofing, New Construction WCB/Insured/Licensed Guaranteed workmanship, reasonable pricing Call for FREE Estimate Luke: 604-729-6871

PLUMBERS

THOMAS DIAMOND Quality Renos, Repairs, Decks, Stairs etc. Precise, Reliable, Prof, Insured. Free Est. 604-710-7941. thomasdiamond1@hotmail.com

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

AAA PRECISION PAINTING

• Exterior/Interior Projects • Written Warranty • Years of Experience • Fully Insured • WCB Covered Professional Crew of Ticketed Painters

QUALITY WORK. DONE RIGHT.

778.881.6096 Magic Star Painting

Spring Specials 3 ROOMS 4 ROOMS $ 279 $359

Water Lines (without digging) Sewer Lines (without digging) Install. Drain tiles. 604-294-5300 LOCAL PLUMBER - Licensed, insured,GASFITTING, renos, Repairs. VISA 604-469-8405

8225

Power Washing

SMART CLEANING Janitorial, Pressure Washing, Window Cleaning. 604-862-9797 Poppa & Sons Ultimate Pressure Washing. Driveways, Decks, Sidewalks, Siding, Free Est. Wayne 604 671-9524

Call Now: 780-6510

CANSTAR PAINTING Quality Work You Can Trust!

Interior & Exterior ★ UNBEATABLE PRICES ★ Free Est. / Written Guarantee

Insured/WCB

778-997-9582

D&M PAINTING

Interior/Exterior Specialist Many Years Experience Fully Insured Top Quality, Quick Work Free Estimate

604-724-3832

DANN DECORATING

• Pressure Washing • Residential/Commercial • Over 25 years experience

Call Geoff Dann at:

604-782-8665

A Name You Can Trust

STARBRUSH PAINTING • Free Estimates • Seniors Disc.

• High Quality, Low Cost • WCB

25% Off with this ad

8240

Renovations & Home Improvement

TOTAL HOME RENOVATIONS Specialties Include: Kitchen & Bath Improvements We Also Do: • Roofing • Sundecks • Door & Window Replacements

CANWEST CABINETRY Save Money on Manufacturer Direct!

Quality Custom Kitchens & Baths New • Renos • Refacing • Closets Entertainment Units & more!

Free Estimates 604-328-0611

JENCO

CONSTRUCTION

Small Jobs Are Welcome!

We do Kitchens & Baths Spring special: 15% off Custom Cabinets www.jenco-online.info

NEW AIR MAINTENANCE

Commercial • Strata Small Business Painting • Drywall • Flooring Pressure Washing.

Hourly or by Contract Free Estimates. Call Richard:

604-671-9901

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Good Day Painting Fully Insured, Quality Work, Res/Comm, No Payment till Job is Completed!

Call Thomas 604 377-1338

✓ RenoRite

BEST RATE MOVING

MILANO Painting 604-551-6510 Int/Ext. Good Prices. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured.

Experienced Movers with Affordable Rates!

★ QUAYSIDE PAINTING ★ BBB • Fully insured • WCB 3 Rooms $250. 604-727-0043

• Local & Long Distance • Avail. 24/7 incl. holidays • Seniors Discount • Delivery to/from YVR Airport

★ STAFFORD & SON ★ We guarantee you the best work for the best price. 604-809-3842

Starting $30/ hour Licensed & Insured

604-787-8061

8200 MONTY J’S MOVING

Ask about our Spring Specials! www.MontyJsMoving.com

Call 604-710-5253

AMI MOVING ★ 3-5 ton cube.

Starting at $39/hour. Local & long distances. 24/7 ★ 604-617-8620

Patios/Decks/ Railings

UNITED VINYL SUNDECKS LTD.

• Waterproofing • Aluminum Awnings • Custom Aluminum Railings • Deck Renovations

Free Est.

942-5394

604.722.3600

A Eastcan Roofing & Siding Ltd Re-Roof, Repair. Ins. WCB. BBB. 604-562-0957 or 604-961-0324 A Eastwest Roofing & Siding Re-roofing, Gutter, Free Est, BBB Member, 10% disc, Seniors Disc, 604-812-9721, 604-783-6437

Tree Services

Treeworks 15 yrs exp. Tree/ Stump Removal, Prun’in & Trim’in & View Work 291-7778, 787-5915 www.treeworksonline.ca

8335

Tree Services

$ BEST RATES $

Dangerous tree removal, pruning, topping, hedge trimming & stump grinding.

Fully insured & WCB

Jerry 604-618-8585 Andrew 604-618-8585

Edgemont Building Maintenance. Window & Gutter Cleaning, Power Washing. 604-420-4800

A-1 TRI CRAFT TREE SERVICES (EST. 1986)

AUTOMOTIVE

9105

Auto Miscellaneous

$0 DOWN & WE MAKE YOUR 1st PAYMENT AT AUTO CREDIT FAST Need a vehicle?

Good or Bad Credit?

Call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599 www.autocreditfast.ca DLN 30309

9125

Domestic

9155

Avoid Costly repairs, let us tune up your original a/c system.

Save lots of $$$ Guaranteed Results!

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778-317-1256•604-451-0225 Bath *Kitchen* Suites & More

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BOOKING For:VANCOUVER RENOVATIONS ( Doug Ruchty) Rep: MVilliers Find one in the Ad#: 1307823 Home Services section A1 CONTRACTING. Bsmt, bath, kitchen cabinets, tiling, painting & decks. Dhillon, 604-782-1936 CARPENTER HANDYMAN, Reno’s, Carpentry, H/W Flrs, Home Repairs, etc. 604-307-6715 Complete Bathroom Reno’s Suites, Kitchens,Tiling, Skylights, Windows, Doors, 604 521-1567

SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

Trimax Roofing Ltd. Re & new roof, repairs, WCB, Ins. Will beat any written price! 604-856-4999

8255

Rubbish Removal

LOW COST ®

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

1991 MAZDA Miata 5 spd, 210K, new time belt, air cared, $3500, D9921 Abbty. 1-877-855-6522

9173

Vans

2002 MAZDA MPV LX, 3.6 V6, 177K, beige, new front brakes, exc shape $5100. 604-556-9434

E

9522

FREE SCRAP CAR REMOVAL Top $$ for complete cars.

Flat Rate Towing Service avail.

Call ★ 604-720-0067

Rubbish Removal

❏ DISPOSAL Construction, Reno’s & Drywall / Demolition ❏ YARD & HOME Cleanup •7 Days/Week •Free Est’s

STEVE TOWING SERVICES Scrap Car Removal. We Pay $$ for all cars. Call 778-316-7960

RV’s/Trailers

9125

2003 ADVENTURER 22ft RV, 85,000kms, sleeps 6. Excellent Cond $27,500. 604-819-6130 2006 FLEETWOOD BAYSIDE, sleeps 8-10, fully loaded, very large, $9500. 604-591-1452 2008 COUGAR, 30 ft 5th wheel trailer with 2 slides. Complete with full extended warranty until 2014 for worry free camping. Asking $27,500 obo. Call 604-576-4040

8.3 CUMMINS Diesel pusher, 36ft, 80,000 mi, loaded, w/d, rear camera. $27,900. 604-539-0506

Domestic

FREE SCRAP car & truck removal. Top $$ paid for all. No wheels - no problem. 604-761-7175

AAA SCRAP CAR REMOVAL Minimum $150 cash paid for full sized vehicles. 604-518-3673

Isaac ★ 604-727-5232

2003 PONTIAC Montana extended van, great running condition. Navy blue (similar to picture), gray interior. 166,000 KMs, all in Lower Mainland. New brakes, DVD system, comes with snow tires. $5,000 obo. Call 604-802-2884.

604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC 2H

Boats

Sports & Imports

9160

Call KoolAir King

9145

9515

1986 CHEV Gruman. Propane.

Step van style. $4,995 obo.

604-607-7711 or 604-809-3847

604-996-5464(KING)

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Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

Aluminum Boat Wanted, 10, 12 or 14ft, with or without motor or trailer. Will pay $. 604-319-5720

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604-761-7175

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Window Cleaning

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JJ ROOFING, Repair specialist, Reroof, New Roof. Seniors disc.

WCB, fully ins. 604-726-6345

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604-298-1222

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RENEW KITCHEN & Baths. Tile, slate, marble, granite, pools. 15 yr exp. Free ests 604-773-2264

8315

8315

Tiling

Since 1983

604-562-5934

• Exterior & Interior • WCB & Liability Insurance • Kitchen Cabinet Refinishing

8250

8309

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8300

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

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