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jdeutsch@thenownews.com Taking a dip in the chilly waters of Buntzen Lake in the middle of January isn’t for the timid.

But don’t tell that to a group of volunteer divers who suited up on an overcast day to plunder the lake looking for garbage.

On Thursday, a group made up of five divers lead by Henry Wang were on — or perhaps a better description would be in — Buntzen to clean up the lake.

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If you can imagine it, or toss it into a lake, that’s what Wang and his friends have pulled out of the popular lake in Anmore.

Specifically, the divers were out searching for garbage near the cliff diving and swimming areas of the lake.

As Wang noted, each area produces a different type of garbage.

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InTHE NOW NEWS IN BRIEF Thieves target catalytic converters on vehicles

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Coquitlam Mounties are warning the public after several recent thefts of catalytic converters in early January.

Thieves stole the devices from five vehicles in the area south of Austin Avenue between Mariner Way and Laurentian Crescent.

“The striking similarity between all five thefts is all the vehicles involved were either a Toyota 4-Runner or Tacoma between the model years 1997 to 2001,” said RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung in a statement. “That said, thieves could have easily targeted other types of vehicles at any place. This is why we are asking residents to be vigilant and report all suspicious activity to us.”

A catalytic converter is an emissions control device that converts toxic pollutants in exhaust into lesser pollutants. It is located underneath the vehicle. Police note catalytic converters have become a hot commodity for thieves because of the copper and other metals inside. They are also relatively easy to steal.

Mounties also pointed out trucks and SUVs are targeted the most, in part because they are higher off the ground and easier to crawl under. It’s also easy to tell if your catalytic converter has been swiped as your vehicle will sound like it doesn’t have a muffler.

Police are urging residents in the area of the thefts to call the local detachment if they see anything suspicious, or to call 911 to report a crime in progress.

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Port Moody continues OCP debate

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jdeutsch@thenownews.com The calendar might have flipped to 2014, but that hasn’t ended debate on future growth in the City of the Arts.

On Tuesday, city council got back to business to work on the 100-page-plus document known as the draft Port Moody official community plan (OCP).

A few changes were made to the document during the course of the committee–ofthe-whole discussion, including limiting the old Barnet Hotel site to six storeys and lowering the 30-year population growth estimate to 50,000 from 59,000.

But mostly, the core of the OCP is still intact.

And that is drawing a mixed reaction from various councillors.

Coun. Rick Glumac said he put motions forward in an attempt to address residents’ concerns around plans for

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Port Moody is revamping its official community plan (OCP) in anticipation of the Evergreen Line’s arrival. the oceanfront district and more green space, but they fell short.

“I’m not sure if we’ve addressed [residents’] concerns enough yet,” he told the Tri-Cities NOW, adding he believes there is a way to develop around the Evergreen Line and keep the small-town character of Port Moody.

As for support for the overall plan, Glumac said he’s

satisfied with the document if the community is too.

However, he said if council hears more opposition from the public to the draft plan, the debate might not be over.

For the better part of a year, city council has been working on the OCP in anticipation of the Evergreen Line’s arrival.

The document, which guides land use, servicing and the form and character of any

new development, identifies is important the city have seven distinct Evergreen sub some vision out there for the areas, mostly within the city developers already coming into the community buying centre area.

All of the changes being land and making plans.

“It [the OCP] will evolve proposed in the new OCP are within areas where the new over time as the last one did,” Clay said.

SkyTrain line “It’s like will run once anything, it’s complete you could get in 2016. caught up so Mayor Mike I’m not sure if much in the Clay believes we’ve addressed planning that the city is [residents’] you forget close to coming up with a concerns enough you’re actually doing somefinal OCP, but yet. thing.” still has some Coun. Diana issues.

–Coun. Rick Glumac Dilworth said Specifically, she is conhe said he’s cerned about concerned some of the with the amount of “hope” pinned on language in the OCP, includthe west end of the city in ing the designation limiting vehicles on Spring Street to terms of development.

Clay said he was also per- bicycle and pedestrian trafplexed by council’s decision fic.

She believes it sends the to limit the size of the Barnet wrong message to businesses Hotel site to six storeys.

Despite some of his res- in the area and put a motion ervations, the mayor said it forward to change the docu-

ment, but it too failed to pass.

Besides that, Dilworth said there appears to be a desire to move on with the OCP. “We’ve worked hard and come a long way,” she said.

Even if the politicians making the final decision on the plan all agreed, the OCP still has a process to go through before it’s on the books.

The OCP will go back to a regular council meeting, probably later this month, before it gets moved to the land use committee for public input, likely in February.

From there it goes back to council for first and second reading, then a public hearing potentially in early March. The document then gets a third reading before being passed to Metro Vancouver Regional District for the Regional Context Statement and Regional Growth Strategy.

The final stage involves it coming back to council for adoption.

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Divers raising funds to continue work machines to pick up the trash and items in the water — just a hand and donated onion bags.

Wang explained the onion bags are mesh and in the swimming area it’s children’s toys and don’t hold water, making them perfect for and Frisbees. “[Different areas] produce different things, holding garbage under the surface.

And as many of the items as possible pulled which is what we’re learning as we’re cleaning from the lake, like cans and even some metals, as well,” he told the Tri-Cities NOW. Wang and the group were expecting to pull are recycled.

Wang admits the group gets a kick out of out 100 pounds of garbage from Buntzen.

Last September, the divers nabbed 160 how much garbage they can pull out, noting it’s become a bit of a challenge pounds of garbage from the amongst them each time they lake, but that just scratched the go out. surface.

“It’s like a treasure hunt,” That’s why they came back [Different he said. this week for another dive.

While right now, Wang and Wang, who owned a dive areas] produce his friends are doing this work shop in North Vancouver before different things, on their own, he’s hoping to selling it last year, was looking which is what fundraise so the group can for a way to keep up his skills, expand to more lakes. when a friend invited him to we’re learning Under the name Divers for Buntzen. as we’re Cleaner Lakes and Oceans, the That’s when they noticed all cleaning. group is trying to raise money the garbage and decided to do to buy a trailer capable of haulsomething about it.

–Henry Wang ing 2,200 kilograms of garbage “While I’m there, why not at a time, besides supplies for pick up garbage?” he figured. cleaning.

“It’s so much fun and really rewarding.”

Even with a couple of successful dives in He also said the work is a way of bringing attention to just how much garbage ends up Buntzen under their belt, Wang said he and his friends will likely be back this summer to in local lakes.

Since then, he and his friends, all volun- do more cleanup.

The goal is to have the popular lake comteers who pay their own way, have cleaned up pletely free of garbage. other lakes in the region.

For more information about the group or And they’ve found some pretty interesting items, including a Glock handgun in one lake to volunteer, contact Wang at northshorehenry@gmail.com. To donate directly, go to and some stolen laptops in Belcarra.

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A month later, the rebuilding process is slow, but progress is being made.

Earlier this week, the City of Port Moody dropped off a several-ton gift to the site of the hatchery in the form of a temporary trailer.

The trailer will be a warm and dry place in which members of the organization can operate from and eventually use as a construction headquarters.

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Burnt remains from the hatchery fire on Dec. 11 are still visible on the grounds. the hatchery.

She told the Tri-Cities NOW the trailer is especially important for Sundays when volunteers drop by the hatchery.

The fire a month ago ripped through the hatch-

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Support pours in for hatchery VOLUNTEERS HAVE ALSO FOUND MISSING PHOTOS

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 the blaze. The hatchery’s pink salmon program was also wiped out, along with historical books and press clippings.

Two holding tanks containing coho smolts were left untouched.

Foster noted the demolition of the fire site would happen soon as part of insurance coverage.

As for the future, she said there are a lot of ideas being floated around on how to replace the building and make it better.

However, Foster said she would be happy to have the fishrearing portion of the operation back by the fall.

Any new building, she cautioned could be completed some time after.

“We have a long way to go,” Foster said.

Besides donations, the hatchery will be applying for grants from the Pacific Salmon Foundation and other agencies.

In the meantime, the folks at the hatchery are blown away by the outpouring of support and funds coming in from the community and beyond.

Some of those donations include $10,000 from the City of Port Moody, $5,000 from the Ioco Boat Club, $1,500 from the Port Moody Firefighters local union and $4,000 from Pacific Coast Terminals, to name a few.

Foster said the organization is grateful for all of the donations that have come in since the fire.

The hatchery also got a bit of good news while volunteers were recently sifting through the rubble, finding some old photos dating back to the 1980s that were in salvageable shape.

Foster, along with fellow Centennial Secondary biology teacher Rod MacVicar, started the hatchery back in 1976 as part of a school project.

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Familiar scammer resurfaces John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com An alleged crook referred to as the “tow truck scammer” has resurfaced in Coquitlam, this time in the Blue Mountain neighbourhood.

The latest incident took place around 9 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 4 near the intersection of Foster Avenue and Gatensbury Street.

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“He came to the door and said that he was friends of people down the street and that he was in town visiting them, but they weren’t home,” James said. “He mentioned that he had a car accident but that he was $8.70 short of being able to pay for the tow truck.”

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went to investigate, the scam- over any cash and instead and not open the door.

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One drunk driver is one too many

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t does appear people are getting the message: Don’t drink and drive.

While it’s hard to know for sure if there are fewer drunks on the roads around the Tri-Cities, the number of people getting busted has dropped dramatically in the last couple of years.

According to Coquitlam RCMP, there were 31 people busted this past December compared to 71 just two years ago. But the positive numbers are little comfort for the families of the victims of drunk drivers, like Dan Reaveley.

Last Friday, a judge found Cory Sater, the man behind the wheel of a jeep that killed Reaveley’s wife Charlene and another woman, Lorraine Cruz, in 2011, guilty of several charges including impaired driving causing death and bodily harm. The two women, along with Cruz’s boyfriend, were standing at the side of the Lougheed Highway in Coquitlam when a Jeep driven by Sater hit them and took off.

Sater will have his fate handed to him by a judge at his sentencing hearing in March.

Unfortunately, the fate of the victims and families involved was sealed when Sater, who had six rye and cokes and a couple of shots in a three-hour period, decided to get behind the wheel that winter night.

After the decision, Reaveley told the media he hoped the conviction would set a precedent for future cases.

The sad part about that statement is there will be another case. Somewhere, maybe in the Tri-Cities or in another municipality, a family will be torn apart by the careless action of a driver choosing to ignore the law — and common sense.

We know it can’t be said enough: If you plan to have some drinks, don’t get behind the wheel. Find a safe way home. The cost for doing otherwise is just too high.

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Resolutions? No thank you

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ore than a week ago we entered 2014 and, like the beginning of every year, anything seems achievable.

It’s an opportunity to embrace change, to anticipate challenge and, of course, to use as an excuse to finally make a goal. Fuelled with the wondrous power of unpredictable possibilities that each year brings, you dared to make a new resolution.

And although resolutions seem like a good idea at the time, let’s face it — the old saying is true.

Old habits die hard.

From spending less money to building new relationships to challenging the infamous and ambitious “I’m-going-toeat-healthy-and-exercise” goal, you quickly realize that your objective might have been slightly unreasonable. Irrational, even.

In fact, I bet a lot of us already broke the resolution we made last week.

As students, we have our own set of impeding challenges. Many of us can face various poor habits that are potentially detrimental to our educational studies.

The start of a year is an opportunity to eradicate these faults, motivating us to finally take action in reaching targets that seem beyond attainable.

A new year, a new person — things can change, right? Possibly. But some habits, well, not so much.

Take distractions, for instance. It happens to every student. Staring at the flashing line on top of an empty Word document, you feel your hand slowly drift away to your iPhone.

Just five little minutes, you reason with yourself, opening an app. Or perhaps you reach for the TV remote instead.

Whatever the case, you find yourself pressing a button on a device, and three hours later, you’re contemplating the

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best excuse to use to explain why you were unable to finish your homework.

Maybe the Internet kept disconnecting.

This results in a common resolution of limiting the distractions around you when you study. But who can blame any of us students, constantly immersed in state-of-the-art technology, if we play games on our laptop or read texts on our phone?

Unless you stash or smash the devices, this restriction is difficult to adopt. And of course, almost every student falls victim to the inviting means of procrastination.

Project due next week? There’s still time, you repeatedly convince yourself, right up until the night before the due date.

Even last-minute studying for tests is something we all would like to avoid.

But making a promise with yourself at

the beginning of a new year is unlikely to break any habit, especially without immense dedication.

So why do we make resolutions if we all know the chances of fulfillment are low? To satisfy tradition?

I doubt that anyone enjoys failure.

Success is something most of us strive for every day. Still, when many of us face dissatisfaction at the end of each year, we decide to celebrate by making another unreasonable goal.

For hope, perhaps. Initiating a new year’s resolution is a method to efface the past year’s errors, to rebuild and recommence the ideal “you.”

Embracing the mystery of imminent opportunities can only be done in the beginning. Whether this goal is actualized or not, I think the concept of resolutions is to start the year optimistically.

Until reality catches up with you.

Tradition or not, these “wishes” are a way to confirm our many aspirations and expectations, before you discover that you are still the same person as last year.

But if you like success, you better try something else.

Maybe the best resolution to make is to simply make no resolution at all.

Kana Wiens is a Grade 12 student at Dr. Charles Best Secondary in Coquitlam.

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LETTERS MAYOR SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT

Re: “The right priorities?” letter to the editor, Wednesday, Jan. 8.

Wayne Taylor’s letter suggests that a replacement for the Bailey bridge is “my top priority,” as apparently published in the Vancouver Sun. However, the Sun didn’t ask for the “top priority” of mayors; it asked us what the “one remaining thing is you really want to accomplish before the next election.”

I completely agree with Mr. Taylor that a high priority needs to be placed on the connection of the Evergreen Line with our transportation network and with neighbourhood plans within Coquitlam, to ensure that growth is managed effectively to protect our residents.

In fact, that was actually my first e-mail response to the Sun’s question (I’ve provided the editor with the e-mail string between myself and the reporter, for verification).

However, the reporter rejected that response, as it wasn’t sufficiently time-limited and finite; she wanted specifically one thing to be completed in the next nine

months, such as a bus route that needed to be added, etc.

With that clarification, I offered up two short-term needs, and she ran with one of them — the Bailey bridge.

This issue certainly must be resolved within the next six months, but nobody would call it their “highest priority;” it’s urgent (construction must take place during this summer’s fisheries window), but not nearly as important (as high a priority) as a dozen other issues.

Engineers agree the 20-year-old one-lane Bailey bridge is at the end of its life. Since it was closed to truck traffic 11 months ago, it has created enormous backups on Brunette, which has placed lives at risk through delays in accessing Royal Columbian Hospital.

New West has taken the position that the one-lane bridge should be replaced with another one-lane bridge to limit traffic flow, a position that is unacceptable to Coquitlam and to businesses in both communities.

And while Mr. Taylor suggests that the design of the replacement bridge is completely up to New Westminster, the law says otherwise; under legislation, this “intermunicipal roadway” is under joint management between our two cities, and Coquitlam has

just as much say in what gets built.

Coquitlam will continue to push for a two-lane replacement, and ultimately for a four-lane overpass that gets goods-movement over the rail crossings at Braid Street, a plan that has been in the works for more than 20 years.

If I had been asked about my priorities for 2014, I would have offered any number of really important public policy objectives that we are working on, from traffic safety to homelessness, from crime reduction to support of families in need, responsible management of growth to combating childhood obesity, bullying, drugs and addictions, etc.

Mr. Taylor suggests that the Bailey bridge was my answer to a question that wasn’t asked.

Richard Stewart Coquitlam Mayor

MEETING TIME DIDN’T WORK FOR BUSINESS OWNER

Recently, I received an invitation to a business assessment workshop, sponsored by the City of Coquitlam and the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce. The

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scheduled meeting time was Wednesday, Jan. 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at City Hall.

This event came as a direct result of a budget town hall meeting on Oct. 3.

That meeting began innocently enough with a budget presentation, but soon transformed into a public outcry on taxation of business and municipal spending in our city.

A procession of business owners approached the mic that evening, some in tears, to protest the business property tax rate in our city.

Business property in Coquitlam is valued at 15 per cent of the total property value. However, businesses pay 40 per cent of the total property tax.

As someone in the process of relocating his business to Coquitlam, I appreciate this effort to educate business owners in the process of taxation.

However, the date and time of this meeting is curious. Business owners are busy during business hours trying to earn enough to pay their disproportionate share of property tax.

Shouldn’t event sponsors respect this fact and hold the meeting outside of business hours?

Ben Craig Coquitlam

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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO SELL CITY LAND Pursuant to Sections 26 and 94 of the Community Charter, the City of Coquitlam hereby gives notice of the intention to sell all or portions of the following properties: Legal Description:

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30 impaired drivers pulled off the streets

DECEMBER COUNTERATTACK NUMBERS IN

Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com The numbers are heading in the right direction as far as police are concerned, but there is still room for improvement.

Last month, as part of its annual Christmas CounterAttack campaign, Coquitlam RCMP pulled 31 impaired drivers off Tri-Cities streets.

That represents about a one-third drop in the number of impaired drivers being busted by police compared to the same time in 2012, when 46 people were caught.

RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung noted this year’s totals are generally positive.

“It shows some of the people, but not all of the people, are getting the message of don’t drink and drive,” he told the Tri-Cities NOW, adding the goal for police is to have no one behind the wheel drunk.

The stats are showing a fairly steady decline in the amount of people busted for drunk driving during the holiday season.

In 2011, local Mounties removed a total of 71 drivers from the roads.

With what appears to be fewer drunks on the road, the number of crashes and collisions is also down in the last two years.

There were 31 crashes recorded in the month of December, compared to 41 in the same month in 2011.

That was just about the time tough provincial drinking and driving laws, which were reinstated in June following a court challenge,

came into effect — which meant drivers could receive immediate roadside suspensions, have their cars impounded and face fines of up to $4,000.

While more people may be getting the message, Chung suggested the CounterAttack campaigns — which police usually run one each of in the summer and winter — remain a valuable program.

He noted there are two aspects to the campaigns: to provide education and an expectation that if people drink and drive they’ll get caught and laws will be enforced.

Coquitlam Mounties are also reminding the public of a program in the Tri-Cities to report drunk drivers through 911.

Report Impaired Drivers, or RID, is a program to remind the public it’s OK to call 911 to report a drunk driver.

The campaign was launched in the TriCities in the summer of 2012.

As part of the campaign, signs alerting drivers of RID were placed around the community at gateways and high visibility areas, such as on Barnet Highway.

Chung said there is no hard data to show how many people are using the emergency number, but suggested it was already being used regularly prior to the campaign.

“It’s just to ensure them [motorists] it’s OK to call 911 to report an impaired driver,” he said.

Of course, police are reminding anyone who calls 911 to report a drunk driver to do so in as safe a manner as possible.

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ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT

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A new exhibit, called Phantoms, opens Thursday, Jan. 16 at the Leigh Square Community Arts Village in PoCo. An artists reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. that evening, and the show runs through Feb. 17. It focuses on the human figure in modern art.

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Les Echos du Pacifique turns 40 this year, and is in need of more choir members.

Celebrating 40 years John KURUCZ

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Leigh Square hosts new art exhibition

PoCo’s Leigh Square Community Arts Village will host the Vancouver artist collective Phantoms in the Front Yard for their exhibition, Phantoms, from Thursday, Jan. 16 to Monday, Feb. 17.

Phantoms ushers in a new year and a new season of diverse and compelling art at Leigh Square Community Arts Village, according to a press release from the city.

Phantoms in the Front Yard is a touring artist collective that brings together the work of Vancouver artists Michael Abraham, Jeremy Birnbaum, Paul Morstad, Marcus Macleod, Jonathan Sutton and Jay Senetchko, with curator Pennylane Shen.

The artist collective’s shared vision for their work is the idea that figurative art has become the phantom of the fine art world, haunting

both modernism and postmodernism with its ties to a classical tradition, refusing to be dismissed, ignored or forgotten.

Phantoms in the Front Yard boldly challenge the contemporary Canadian art scene to revive the human subject as muse.

The opening reception of Phantoms, set for Thursday, Jan. 16 from 7 to 9 p.m., will feature members of Phantoms in the Front Yard presenting an artists talk.

The talk will include an interactive discussion of their work in the exhibition, their dynamics and vision as a group, and their reflections on the place of the human figure in contemporary art.

Phantoms is a must see for those interested in artistic variety and the beauty of the human figure.

25 years helping the hearing impaired in Surrey

A Maillardville mainstay is ramping up to highlight four decades of harmony through song. Les Echos du Pacifique celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and the group’s longevity is a testament to celebrating the past, while embracing the present.

According to choir president Daniel Bouchard, the choir started out as a group of “French-Canadian Catholics” exclusively from Maillardville.

But while francophone culture is still at the forefront, the group has diversified.

“My mom was in the choir and so were my aunts and cousins,” Bouchard said.

“Back then it was a really Maillardville-based, francophone type of community choir. Now the choir brings in people from across the Lower Mainland.”

Bouchard has been a member since Day 1, although he periodically took time away to focus on his career.

He remembers the choir’s first rehearsal in the basement

of Our Lady of Fatima Church, complete with 40 enthusiastic singers embracing the worlds of folk and traditional music.

“It was very exciting, because it was brand new and it had never happened before.

It started out in an era, back in the ’70s, when choral singing and folk singing really took off,” he recalled.

“There were choirs all across Canada and we would end up travelling to choral festivals in Edmonton, Calgary, Manitoba, New Brunswick. It was fantastic.”

Despite being around for 40 years, not much has changed in the original spirit of the group. Some of the songs have been passed along from generation to generation, and speak to experiences that are as relevant today as they were in the 1800s, according to Bouchard.

And while the songs are all in French — including titles like “Dans mon moine danse,” “Alouette” and “Je voudrais vois la mer” — all ethnicities are invited to participate in the group. To that end, group members help translate certain terms, and reference

material is provided for members to take home.

One thing that has changed is the way people experience music, Bouchard said.

“Prior to the advent of a lot of the new technology available, people produced, they sang and they got together and played music with another,” he said. “They say it’s a very different experience when you’re actually a part of the process. The feeling you get when you’re singing, it’s like you’re not listening to it.

You’re in it.”

On top of shows throughout Coquitlam — namely at Festival du Bois and Foyer Maillard — the choir performs across Metro Vancouver. And they’re looking for new members.

“We’re looking for people with a willingness to participate,” Bouchard said, “but also those people interested in singing and sharing music with others.”

The choir holds its first rehearsal of 2014 on Monday, Jan. 13 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Place Maillardville.

For details, see www.lesechosdupacifique.com.

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COMMUNITY&LIFE

Learn about arthritis at a free talk Did you know that one in 10 Canadians suffer from osteoarthritis and one in 100 suffer from rheumatoid arthritis?

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City to honour staffer

Trevor Wingrove will be honoured by Coquitlam city council at the regular council meeting on Monday, Jan. 13.

Wingrove was a long-term city employee and the general manager of corporate services for the City of Coquitlam before passing away from cancer in 2010.

He was also a local lacrosse star.

Members of the public are welcome to attend at 7 p.m. in council chambers, at 3000 Guildford Way. The meeting can also be viewed online via a live webcast or archived broadcast at www.coquitlam.ca/webcasts.

Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 10 a.m., join Jeff Kim, a pharmacist from Thrifty Foods, for a presentation on arthritis.

Kim will talk about the differences between the two

questions from the audience.

This presentation is free of charge, however, pre-registration is required. To preregister call 604-927-4386.

Dogwood Pavilion is

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Apply for a grant

The deadline for grant applications to the Port Coquitlam Community Foundation is midnight on Wednesday, Jan. 15.

Founded in 2012, the foundation is accepting prescreening applications for its inaugural granting cycle.

Applications are encouraged, but not restricted to, projects in the areas of the arts, culture and heritage; assistance to the homeless; the environment and community safety; and sports, fitness and recreation.

The pre-screening application, procedure and process details are available at www. pocofoundation.com.

The foundation raises, manages and distributes funds for initiatives and programs that benefit residents.

Its most recent success story is the creation of the PoCo Minor Lacrosse Bursary Fund that provides bursaries to exceptional lacrosse players to assist them in furthering their education.

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SUCCESS is staging the first get-together for the Chinese community on Monday, Jan. 13, while the Korean community gets its turn on

Friday, Jan. 17. Both celebrations take place in Room 127 of the City Centre branch of the Coquitlam Public Library from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“It’s open to all people, not just SUCCESS clients,” said Alice Poon, a settlement officer with the social services agency. “We want all ethnic groups to understand how the Chinese and Koreans celebrate.”

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And according to Poon, not much separates the two as it pertains to customs around the Lunar New Year: homes are cleaned from top to bottom, new clothes are purchased for children and desserts fill the home.

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Casino staff encourage others to give back John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com Staffers at the Hard Rock Casino Vancouver (formerly known as the Boulevard Casino) are looking to start a tidal wave of TLC. A group of employees from the newly renovated facility have started a random-acts-ofkindness program, offering cash, materials and other items to charities and organizations across the Tri-Cities.

Already, they’ve doled out close to $10,000 to the likes of SHARE, the Crossroads Hospice Society, Place des Arts, the Coquitlam Animal Shelter and the Backstage Youth Performers Society. Now, they’re encouraging others to follow suit through a contest that can net winners a free dinner and a $500 donation towards a charity of their choice.

“The idea we had was around how we can give back, but how we can also get other people to join with us,” said Hard Rock’s marketing manager, Carly Roberts.

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Part of the program’s panache is the fact the donations are dropped off with little to no advance notice. Hard Rock staff research an organization’s needs, then show up unannounced.

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She knows it can take years or decades before one goes through the full spectrum of emotions after losing a loved one.

Having lost her daughter at the age of 32, Cullen now heads up a grief support group that begins meetings on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at Port Coquitlam’s Riverside Community Church.

Called the Grief Share Group, the meetings will be geared specifically to those who have lost a loved one.

“It normalizes the grief process, it gives people permission to be sad and to cry,” said Cullen, a pastor at the church. “Tears are very acceptable. You don’t want to push anybody past their ability to cope at any particular time. You have to take things gently while walking through the process.”

The group has existed on a semi-regular basis for the past decade, with courses offered over a two or threemonth span depending on the level of need.

The current group sessions will run weekly from Jan. 14 to March 17, with each meeting featuring a different DVD focusing on varying topics.

Those DVD materials also document different types of loss and coping strategies: the death of a spouse or child and identifying ways to cope.

“If you go past two or three years and you’re still stuck, you really do need more help,” Cullen said. “It really does become a support group because we care for each other.”

On top of the group sessions, Cullen also offers one-on-one support. But like those grieving themselves, Cullen also needs to be heard out from time to time, given the traumatic emotions she often finds herself dealing with.

“I have walked through this grief process and I think I come from a position of strength having already walked it,” she said. “I have to have people that I am able to talk with and be encouraged by and supported myself. I have those people in my life and I’m very thankful for them.”

Cullen noted that religion does enter into some of the discussions.

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COMMUNITY&LIFE

Tax info sessions aim to stretch your dollars

No one likes paying taxes, but for most of us it’s an inevitable part of life However, there are ways to reduce what you pay to Revenue Canada and maximize your choices as to where you spend your money.

An upcoming session at Douglas College offered on Jan. 18 will provide free tips around saving money on taxes and insurance.

Tax Tips Through the Ages is part of the Life as A Journey series hosted by the Douglas College Foundation in partnership with Wildlife Rescue Association.

The first session, held in October, looked at travel options and travel insurance and future sessions are planned on estate planning, housing choices, healthcare and pet care.

“The series came about because we realized there are many issues — from travel to housing, from estate planning to healthcare — that change over one’s lifetime,” said Hazel Postma, the college’s associate vice president of external relations, in a press release.

“It’s a way for us to offer educational sessions to the community on topical issues at no cost.”

The Jan. 18 session features presenters Heather MacLean, CGA, of New Westminster’s McLaren Trefanenko and Ted Leung of The Co-operators, Ted Leung Agency Ltd., in Coquitlam.

MacLean will provide a number of money-saving tax tips while Leung will explain the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of personal insurance tools.

Enjoying the Journey

Teens offer tech tips

Got a computer or technology question that leaves you feeling frustrated?

Adults can get oneon-one help from teen volunteers on Fridays from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Port Moody Library’s ParkLane room as of Jan. 17.

Teen volunteers will be available to help with the following technology basics: eBook readers and eBooks; e-mail (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail); attachments (download, upload and save); saving, creating, and organizing folders; flash drives; online forms; social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube); smartphones and texting and Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Participants can bring their own devices or use the library’s laptop computers.

For more info, call 604-469-4577.

— Tax Tips & Personal Insurance is set for Saturday,

Jan. 18, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the boardroom at

Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave., New Westminster

which is accessible by SkyTrain. Admission is free

but registration is required by calling 604-526-2747.

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Save even more time with TReO

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New highway lanes are now open west of the Port Mann Bridge. This means a smooth ride the whole way, with no

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Regular toll rates For the last year, as construction along Highway 1 has been wrapping up, drivers who registered early have been eligible for low introductory toll rates.

As of January 1, with extra lanes open west of the Port Mann Bridge and drivers able to save even more time, the low introductory rates have been replaced with regular toll rates. For drivers already paying the regular toll rates, there is no change.

Tolls have stayed the same.

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CALENDAR

SUNDAY, JAN 12 Coquitlam Alliance Church begins a 10-week parenting

seminar at 11:15 a.m. at 2601 Spuraway Ave., Coquitlam. The seminar is called Alpha’s Parenting Children Course and is for parents, step-parents, prospective parents or caregivers of children aged 0 to 10 years. The cost is $5 per handbook. Info: www. cachurch.ca/alphaparenting.

MONDAY, JAN 13 Les Échos du Pacifique, Maillardville’s francophone choir,

kicks off its 40th season with its first rehearsal from 7 to 9 p.m. at Place Maillardville, 1200 Cartier Ave. in Coquitlam. Info: 604-9366993 or daniel_bouchard@csf.bc.ca.

Teen Reading Buddies kick off another month-long session from 3:45 to 4:30 p.m. at the Terry Fox Library, 2470 Mary Hill Rd. in PoCo. Teens in grades 8 to 12 are encouraged to volunteer to help the reading skills of kids ranging between kindergarten and Grade 3. The weekly sessions will run until Feb. 24. Info: 604-

927-7999 or visit the library in person.

S.U.C.C.E.S.S. hosts a free Chinese New Year Celebration from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the City Centre Branch of the Coquitlam Public Library, 1169 Pinetree Way in Coquitlam. Arts and crafts, traditional Chinese music, paper cutting, calligraphy and more.

Registration is required. Call 604-468-6000 or 604-937-4136.

TUESDAY, JAN 14 Grief Share Group meets weekly at 7 p.m. at Riverside Com-

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St. in Coquitlam. Kim will speak to the different types of arthritis, medications and preventative tips. Registration is required for this free presentation. Call 604-927-4386.

WEDNESDAY, JAN 15

Baby Sing & Learn classes for babies ages birth to 18 months run from 2 to 2:45 p.m. at the Terry Fox Library, 2470 Mary Hill Rd. The program runs Wednesdays until March 26. Info: 604-469-4577.

munity Church, 1477 Lougheed Hwy. in Port Coquitlam. Meeting Tuesdays each week until March 11, the group offers support and recovery for those who have lost a loved one. Register at the church or by phoning the office at 604 472 9988.

Dogwood Pavilion hosts Thrifty Foods pharmacist Jeff Kim for a presentation on arthritis starting at 10 a.m. at 624 Poirier

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SPORTSN0W

PoCo players star at Mac’s Dan OLSON sports@thenownews.com These Phantoms proved to be no apparition.

The Fraser Valley Phantoms put it all on the line during the Mac’s AAA Midget female hockey tournament final in Calgary two weeks ago, with their fate decided in overtime.

There was no shame in their marathon 2-1 battle with the Westman Wildcats, which went to the dying seconds of the third overtime period.

Getting to that stage in the famous puck tourney was an amazing feat for the B.C. girls — except for the fact that they are not use to settling for silver.

“Our team’s expectations prior to this tournament were very high,” remarked netminder Valencia Yordanov, one of three Port Coquitlam players on the Fraser Valley team.

“We expected to be first place. Our team has been playing very well before the tournament. We won the Mandi Schwartz tournament (in Saskatchewan) and beat the top [Junior Women’s Hockey League] team in the process — so naturally we felt like we had what it took to win.”

And they nearly did.

The B.C. lineup — which includes Kaely McMurtry and Shannon Morris-Reade, who like Yordanov attend Riverside Secondary — posted a string of polished wins in the round robin, beating Red Deer and Peace Country by a combined score of 10-2.

Their first encounter with Winnipegbased Westman resulted in a 1-1 tie, followed by a wild 6-4 victory over Calgary.

Yordanov came off the bench to pick up the win, and was forced to make a sprawling Sergei Bobrovsky-like save after a give-away in her own end.

“I tried to pass it to her but it got intercepted by [a Calgary player] above the

The Vancouver Northeast Chiefs are hoping the new year picks up where the old one left off.

The B.C. Major Midget Hockey club enters the second half of the season aiming to build on some steady progress over the month of December, where it rolled undefeated over seven games and put a forgettable November behind them.

“We’ve been a bit streaky,” recalled Chiefs head coach Doneau Menard. “It was a hard stretch in November, going 0-7… But December was good and it all started with a great win over the [first-place Okanagan] Rockets.”

Six wins and a tie later, the Coquitlam-based major midget squad feels back in the driver’s seat. They venture to Prince George for a pair of games against sixth-place Cariboo Cougars.

When they return, five members of the Chiefs will play in the Jan. 17 Major Midget All-Star Game in Langley. Goalie Jakob Severson, forwards Connor Burk and Matt Hermary, and defenceman Jordan Henderson, all of Coquitlam, and Port Moody defender Lucas Johansen were named to the game.

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Port Coquitlam’s Valencia Yordanov, left, and Shannon Morris-Reade, right, joined Kaely McMurtry in helping their major midget team earn silver at the renowned Mac’s AAA Midget Hockey Tournament two weeks ago. ringette line,” recalled Yordanov. “I had to skate as fast as I could and slide to barely make the save. It was a great save, but the mistake I made in order to have to make such a save was kind of embarrassing.”

In the semifinal they blasted Highwood 6-1, with both Morris-Reade and McMurtry potting goals.

Bolstered by that result, they ventured to the home of the Calgary Flames, the ScotiaBank Saddledome for the championship final where Westman awaited.

“My biggest challenge in that game was keeping myself focused. It was my first time in an arena that large, and playing in front of so many people and cameras was daunting.

“Five minutes in I managed to calm myself down and concentrate on the

game,” said Yordanov.

She faced 49 shots over the six periods, turning back all but two.

At the tournament’s conclusion, Yordanov would be named the top goaltender and selected to the first all-star team. Morris-Reade, who finished with four goals and two assists over the six games, was selected to the second all-star squad. McMurtry, meanwhile, contributed two goals and two assists.

“It was a very exciting experience to play against some really great midget teams outside of B.C. It gave our team a chance to test our mettle against challenging opponents,” noted Yordanov.

The trio are major pieces to the Phantoms’ first-place run in the B.C. Female Major Midget League.

Gunners launch second-half offensive

If rust was in the forecast, so was a rapid recovery.

The Port Moody Lordco Gunners demonstrated that, yes, they were away from the turf for nearly three weeks, but they didn’t forget how to play.

The premier squad rallied with two goals in the second half to beat SFC Temple 2-1 last Friday, launching the second half of the Fraser Valley men’s premier soccer season.

It was the club’s sixth straight win.

Vaughn Andrews netted both Port Moody goals, on near-identical crosses from Tyler Leonard, to erase a 1-0 deficit.

“They were dirty hockeytype goals,” said Gunners coach Larry Moro. “It was a result of some hard work and mucking where we crashed the box.”

The win also maintained

the squad’s slim hold on top spot in the 10-team loop, with a 9-0-3 record — a single point ahead of both Langley United and North Delta SC. Turning in strong outings in the win were attacking midfielder Russel Huggon and right back David Suh. The league takes a oneweek break for the annual allstar tilt between the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island leagues — with Chris Attadia,

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TRI-CITY EAGLES FIELD HOCKEY Boys Field Hockey 2013 4 Registration Information

Boys born from 2000 1999 to 2004 2003 are invited to get involved in the sport that ranks only second to soccer in the world.

The Tri-City FHC is pleased to announce a Program for U-12 - 2004 ) and U-14 Boys ( Bds 2000 - 2001 boys ( Bds 2002 2001-2003 1999-2000) U-12 and U-14 teams compete in the Greater Vancouver Junior Field Hockey League from Mid-March to late June.

Season Fee $115.

Boys Drop-In and Try It Session Saturday, January 19th 8th , Cunnings Field , Noon to 2 P.M. weather permitting. Sticks will be provided. Mouthguards available for $3. Contact Brian at 604-619-4034 to register your intent to attend.

Season Registration information can be found on our website at www.tcfieldhockey.com Players must first register with Field Hockey British Columbia to obtain a player identification number. The ID number will be required to complete registration with TC Field Hockey.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Saturday Friday, Feb. A $10 late will charged after Feb. if space Friday, Feb. 1st1st A $10 late feefee will bebe charged after Feb. 1st1st if space is is available.

Enrollment is limited. available.

Enrollment is limited.

SEASON REGISTRATION INFO: www.tcfieldhockey.com Telephone 604-619-4034

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