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jdeutsch@thenownews.com For many, Buntzen Lake and White Pine Beach are two places in the Tri-Cities to get out and enjoy the sand and sun.

It’s no different for Lynn Power.

The Port Moody grandmother has used the fantastic weather as an opportunity to visit the two hot spots this summer on a regular basis.

While she enjoys the beach, Power’s last few times have been more troubling than tranquil.

On three occasions at Buntzen Lake, she’s

watched children as old as 12 chase and terrorize the geese that call the beach home.

In one case, she saw some kids kicking sand at a flock of geese, while another time a group of kids pelted the fowl with rocks at close range.

She’s also witnessed similar activity at White Pine Beach.

More perplexing for Power, she said none of the beachgoers or parents seem to care.

“They don’t get it; they think it’s fine,” she told the Tri-Cities NOW. “This has got to stop. I’m losing sleep over it.

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They don’t get it; they think it’s fine.

This has got to stop. I’m losing sleep over it.

– Lynn Power

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Are park messages too sombre?

COQUITLAM LOOKS AT LIMITING ‘CEMETERY-LIKE’ LANGUAGE ON MEMORIAL BENCHES

John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com The City of Coquitlam may soon ask residents to save their grief for the graveyard.

The issue of how residents choose to memorialize their deceased loved ones came up Monday as part of a look at the city’s Corporate Donation Policy and Giving Program.

City staff are updating the plan for the first time since 1997, in part because the wording on memorial plaques has become a sore spot for some residents.

Because of that, staff are recommending moving away from birth and death inscriptions on those plaques, along with any references to memorial language.

Instead, they’re investigating best practices in other municipalities that focus on more celebratory messages on plaques.

According to a staff report that gauged other Metro Vancouver municipalities, many other cities are moving in the same direction.

“This focus is supported by Coquitlam residents who have

There are about 160 donated benches and picnic tables in Coquitlam city parks, including 31 at Como Lake. expressed concern that memorial amenities in public parks create a cemetery-like environment,” the staff report notes.

There are about 160 donated benches and picnic tables in city parks, with just under half of them

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located in Town Centre (40) and Como Lake parks (31).

A moratorium on donation benches at Como Lake Park and around Lafarge Lake has been in place since the late 1990s.

A cursory look at benches around

Como Lake suggests roughly half contain memorial plaques.

Almost all of the ones seen by Tri-Cities NOW staff on Wednesday alluded to the person’s date of birth and the day they died.

Most contain language including “In Loving Memory” of how those deceased individuals are missed by their family and friends.

Parks and recreation planning and business services director Michelle Hunt said complaints about the memorial plaques at Como Lake Park are a “fairly regular occurrence.”

“It’s that which you see in a cemetery, that’s what we’re trying to get away from,” she said at Monday’s council in committee meeting.

While the issue of language is one reason for the proposed shift, cost is another consideration.

Donation amounts for a bench typically come in around $1,600, while the actual cost to buy and install a bench is about $2,200.

Maintenance over a 10-year period is about $400.

Because of those disparities, the

city is also looking at increasing proposed donation amounts for a series of items: benches, picnic tables, trees and games tables could double or triple in price.

Reaction to the proposed changes was mixed among council members, as were their perceptions around memorializing.

“I’m one of those who finds [memorial plaques] perfectly inoffensive,” said Mayor Richard Stewart.

“I really celebrate the ones that are there to celebrate somebody rather than to express their deep and undying grief.”

Coun. Terry O’Neill, on the other hand, painted a different picture.

“There’s a time and place for everything,” he said.

“These roadside memorial things, they are sort of an imposition. They are forcing us drivers to kind of deal with this very public display of grief for months and sometimes years.

And I don’t appreciate that.”

Staff will report back to council with a draft policy in the fall. twitter.com/johnkurucz

Kwikwetlem chief Cyclist hospitalized justifies huge salary Jeremy DEUTSCH

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jdeutsch@thenownews.com In an exclusive interview with the Tri-Cities NOW, the chief of the Kwikwetlem First Nation is defending the whopping salary he took home last year.

Chief Ron Giesbrecht told the Tri-Cities NOW he made about $800,000 as a bonus last year after taking over the role of economic development officer for the band.

According to remuneration numbers posted on the band’s website Thursday as part of the federal government’s First Nations Financial Transparency Act, Giesbrecht made $914,219 in 2013-14.

A further breakdown provided by the band shows he made $4,800 in his role as chief, $80,000 as economic development officer and $800,000 in the form of a 10per-cent bonus for being economic development officer.

Giesbrecht explained he took over the role in September 2013 after the former economic development officer left, in order to keep millions of dollars worth of projects moving.

He said the 10-per-cent bonus was built into the

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Kwikwetlem First Nation chief Ron Giesbrecht said most of his nearly $1-million salary consisted of bonuses. position three years ago to give the person in the role an incentive to get contracts.

“Whoever thought the bonus would be this much? I tell you, I never would have,” he said, noting in light of the situation, the band will likely hire someone else to take over as economic development officer.

“I just pushed for a lot of jobs and partnerships and it just excelled.”

Giesbrecht said when he learned of the bonus structure, he personally removed it from the position.

The band said it has six projects on the go worth millions, including an ongoing

partnership contract to remove dirt from the tunnel of the Evergreen Line worth $8.5 million, and a project to remediate a fuel depot on the Riverview Hospital grounds.

The band’s financial statements show it has $8.8 million in net financial assets, up from $2.7 million in 2013.

Giesbrecht suggested the band’s fortunes took off after the provincial government started offering extra points on bids for contracts for companies that partner with First Nations.

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One moment, Bruce Rickman was riding his bike home from work along the Mary Hill Bypass.

The next, the bus driver was lying unconscious on the road after being hit by a vehicle.

Now Coquitlam RCMP, along with the 55 year old’s family and friends, are pleading with the driver of the vehicle to come forward.

“Do the right thing. My husband is a very kind, loving man who would have been the first person to stop and help another person,” Rickman’s wife Twyla told media gathered for a press conference outside Royal Columbian Hospital on Thursday.

Police said the victim was riding his bike eastbound along the bypass just east of Kingsway Avenue before midnight Wednesday when he was hit from behind by what investigators believe was a Toyota truck or SUV.

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Twyla Rickman, wife of hit-and-run victim Bruce Rickman, appealed for the driver who hit her husband Wednesday night to come forward.

The father of two from Pitt Meadows was taken to hospital with serious injuries and as of Thursday was still not conscious.

Investigators recovered a black plastic passenger side mirror housing from the scene they believe may be from the suspect vehicle.

“We urge the driver to do the right thing by com-

ing to us and telling us what happened,” said RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung, adding police are also asking any witnesses to come forward.

“We need to hear this from him.”

Anyone with information is asked to call Coquitlam RCMP Traffic Services Section at 604-945-1550 and quote file 2014-21316.

Setting the record straight A story that ran in Wednesday’s edition of the Tri-Cities NOW, “Landlord on hook for home raid costs,” implied that the house in question was currently vacant.

In fact, it is occupied by tenants who were not living there at the time the house was raided, and have not been implicated in any wrongdoing

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Harming wildlife is illegal, SPCA says CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “What I see is horrifying to me.”

She’s brought the issue up with park staff and said she was told they know it happens and try to stop it if they see it.

But that response isn’t good enough for Power, who predicts one day the geese are going to bite back and injure a child.

And she worries the story will be about the dangerous geese, as opposed to the children provoking them.

“If that’s been going on all this time, why has nothing been done about it?” Power asked.

She said she’d like signs put up informing people to leave the birds alone, and patrols on the beach. She even offered to volunteer her own time to do a patrol if it means keeping the geese safe.

In response, BC Hydro, which operates Buntzen Lake, told the Tri-Cities NOW park management immediately speak with park users if they observe the geese being chased or fed. However, the Crown corporation noted with 800,000 visitors a year to the lake, and up to 14 workers on a weekend day, their main priority at the park is public safety.

“Most park users treat the geese with respect but in the odd case where they don’t, we treat the matter in the same way that we deal with infractions of other park regulations,” said BC Hydro spokesperson Simi Heer in an e-mail statement.

“We talk to children, parents and any other park user when we see inappropriate behaviour at the park. This, more often than not, results in compliance with park rules.

“We will continue to discourage the public

from bothering the geese at Buntzen. We will also put up temporary signage to try and discourage the public from feeding them in hopes that the geese move to a less popular area where goose/human interactions will be minimized.”

BC Hydro also noted there are about 16 geese currently at the lake, but the numbers can fluctuate on an annual basis.

Metro Vancouver, which operates White Pine Beach, said it takes complaints seriously and if park staff see someone mistreating the wildlife, they’ll step in.

The BC SPCA recommends that if people see anyone being cruel or violent to wildlife they give the organization a call.

“Sadly, I think people can be cruel to any animal and wildlife is certainly no exception,” said Lorie Chortyk, general manager of community relations for the BC SPCA, adding that harming wildlife is also against the law.

While the SPCA doesn’t necessarily advocate approaching people if they are harming an animal, in some cases a friendly conversation with a parent could remedy the situation.

Chortyk also suggested part of the issue is education, noting the SPCA has youth programs that aim to develop empathy and compassion in children for the environment and animals.

Though chasing a goose might not seem harmful, the SPCA said anything that creates fear and stress in an animal is cruel.

“Every animal deserves to have freedom from fear and distress,” she said, “and as a society we don’t really want to be promoting that kind of [bad] example, whether it’s children or adults.”

Kittens abandoned in Coquitlam dumpster John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com Four kittens were discovered abandoned in a dumpster Tuesday morning in southwest Coquitlam.

The city’s bylaw and animal control services manager, Andrea McDonald, said the kittens were found around 8:30 a.m. on Schoolhouse Street, after bylaw staff received a report from the RCMP. “It’s totally disappointing,” she said. “It’s not a really great statement about human nature to just dump your cats in a dumpster.”

Outside of being visibly scared, the three-month-old kittens appear to be in good health and are now in foster care. The cats did not have any identifying markers on them, and McDonald said it’s “fairly unlikely” the perpetrators will be caught.

“I don’t think they had been there too, too long,”

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These kittens were found in a dumpster on Tuesday. she said. “They were pretty scared, but other than that, their health was not too bad.

They weren’t too sickly or anything like that.”

McDonald suggested a pair of factors could have been at play — the owners either faced financial challenges, or were set to move at the end of the month.

“We do find that animals, if they’re going to be abandoned, it’s usually around the end of the month,” she said.

“We’ve seen it with turtles, we’ve seen it with rabbits.

People think, ‘Oh well, they can just fend for themselves.’

That’s not always the case and there can be negative consequences from those decisions.”

Anyone with information about Tuesday’s incident is asked to call the city’s animal shelter at 604-927-7387, the SPCA at 1-855-622-7722 or the Coquitlam RCMP at 604945-1550.

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We all know the importance of learning our ABCs, right? Maybe not, according to recent Literacy BC statistics.

Every year, up to 30 per cent of children enter kindergarten without the basic pre-reading skills they need to succeed. These children may not know how to hold and open a book, how to recognize letters or how to share in the joy and knowledge books can bring.

On the other hand, children raised in reading households are likely to enter Grade 1 with several thousand hours of one-to-one pre-reading experience behind them. These pre-reading experiences are the most important predictors of reading success in future grades.

How do we address this inequity? Literacy organizations and libraries struggle with this question.

The Port Moody Public Library offers programs and resources to help children and their parents with literacy skills. Through funds raised by the Links to Literacy Golf Tournament the library is also able to host special literacy projects. For example, Links to Language Multilingual Kits provide parents whose first language is not English with resources to share with their children in their home language. The kits are available in five languages: Korean, Farsi, Chinese (Mandarin, traditional or simplified characters), French and Spanish. Each kit contains 10 books, a CD, a DVD and a resource manual with early literacy tips and activity suggestions. Proceeds from the 2011 Links to Literacy Golf Tournament paid for the kits.

Sponsors of this year’s tournament, such as the Tri-Cities NOW Newspaper, support the Port Moody Public Library’s goal of making the community a better place through these special literacy projects. You’re invited to join in as a golfer or a banquet attendee at this year’s event.

The tournament takes place on Tuesday, Aug. 26 at Meadow Gardens Golf Club, located at 19675 Meadow Gardens Way in Pitt Meadows.

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B.C. to pay parents if strike continues

VICTORIA TO PAY $40 PER DAY PER CHILD

B.C. parents will get $40 per day to help pay for child care and other costs if a teacher strike continues into the start of the school year in September, says Finance Minister Mike de Jong.

De Jong said the money, to be provided for every child younger than 13 years old, is a “contingency” plan if the dispute between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the

province stretches through the start of the school year.

The government will use the money that is being saved daily by not paying teachers in September, estimated at around $12 million per day, de Jong said.

The millions already saved in unpaid teacher salaries due to the strike in June remain on the table for negotiations, he added.

He said both sides have five weeks remaining to strike a deal, but repeated a pledge that the government will not legislate teachers back to work in September and that teachers must lower their demands into an affordability zone that is similar to settlements already signed by half of the province’s unionized public service.

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Changes expected this fall Maillardville to ‘monster house’ rules building OK’d PORT MOODY COUNCIL DEBATES FOR FOUR HOURS

Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com Port Moody politicians and many residents alike may agree something needs to be done about the proliferation of monster homes in the city, but changing the rules may not be as easy as it might appear.

On Tuesday, city council spent hours coming up with direction for staff and potential changes to the existing zoning bylaws for new singlefamily homes.

Council approved a motion for staff to be directed to report back at the first meeting in September with a plan for creating area-specific zones for Ioco, Moody Centre and Glenayre.

Council also directed staff to begin work on the public consultation aspect of any changes that might be brought forward in the fall.

While some on council wanted to see changes right away before the summer break, including a moratorium on any new construction, city staff asked for more time.

City manager Kevin Ramsay noted a moratorium is not possible, adding city staff would like to provide comment at a later date on any specific motions relating to the current bylaw.

“Any simple change to height or area calculations, they may seem simple with one type of situation, but they complicate other areas of our zoning bylaw,” he told council, noting it could take up to five months to make the changes.

Currently, a home can’t exceed three storeys or 35 feet above grade, while the building can’t exceed 50 per cent of the size of the lot.

However, the city does not calculate unfinished basement into the square footage.

The issue is complicated because of the different slopes and grades on properties.

In June, council promised to look at the issue of monster homes in the city, while hosting a town hall meeting on the issue in July that drew a large crowd of concerned residents.

City staff noted the municipality has dealt with only five or six building permits for new single-family homes this year.

Following Tuesday’s discussion, Mayor Mike Clay said he figured all along making changes to the current bylaw wouldn’t be that easy or quick.

“There’s a huge amount of issues that need to be consid-

ered that aren’t as easy as just drawing a two-dimensional diagram on a piece of paper and saying, ‘This is what we should do,’” he told the TriCities NOW. The mayor also suggested the city needs to come up with a well-thought-out plan with options it can take to the community for feedback.

Coun. Zoe Royer agreed the issues are complex, noting council created a number of suggestions for staff to consider. However, she was disappointed one of her resolutions was turned down. It would have required owners and builders to consult immediate neighbours, and to post a site plan, elevation and roof plan on the property before obtaining building permits.

“We could come up with the best plan in the world … but at the end of the day, builders are very sophisticated and their goal is to maximize their property value, and the best thing we can do is make

• That all garages and carthis process even more transports be included in FAR calparent,” Royer said.

Coun. Gerry Nuttall said culations • That the full height of a some of the suggestions to control the development of building with a peaked roof mega homes are good, spe- be measured to the top of the peak and cifically capped at a establishing maximum the base line of 34.5 feet for new conThere’s a huge • That struction as d o u b lethe height of amount of issues heightspace the eaves of that need to be (a lofted the present considered that entrance) house and be counted determining aren’t as easy as as twice the the grade as just drawing a floor area the average two-dimensional in FAR calheight of the culations property. diagram on a • That W h i l e piece of paper and staff review he believes saying, ‘This is what the potenthe city can tial to keep a tightwe should do.’ increase er deadline – Mayor Mike Clay rear and than five front yard months, he said it is important any chan- setbacks and provide council with options to address the ges be done correctly.

Some of the changes coun- problem of impacted view cil approved for staff to con- corridors.

Council also approved an sider include: • That basements, finished allocation of up to $10,000 and unfinished, be included to assist in the facilitation of in floor area ratio (FAR) cal- a community consultation process. culations

John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com Plans for a revamped Vancity branch on Brunette Avenue now appear to be “Maillardville” enough for the city’s liking.

Council unanimously endorsed a development permit to the credit union on Monday, almost three months after initially sending its plans back to the drawing board over a lack of heritage elements in the design.

Several changes have since been made, according to project architect Mike Mammone, including the provision of a public gathering space and public art, more benches and sidewalk space, the inclusion of wood finishing materials and alterations to the roof design.

Future plans are also in the works for a stylized M to note Maillardville’s 100th anniversary, and the addition of historic photos and artifacts highlighting the area’s history.

“It’s something that we feel can give this site and, in particular, this project, some real prominence in the community,” Mammone said.

The credit union was opened in 1967 and recent renovations saw the building temporarily moved just east during the construction process. The bank was long referred to as Caisse populaire de Maillardville, a moniker Coun. Mae Reid wants reflected in the new building as well.

“I really think to have in French, Caisse populaire Maillardville, somewhere would be neat,” she said.

Coun. Craig Hodge, who chairs the Maillardville commercial and cultural revitalization advisory committee, said the renewed plans have been given a thumbs up from the majority of his committee members.

“I think Maillardville wants us not necessarily to celebrate French Canada, and the heritage and history of French Canada, but the heritage and history of Maillardville, which was different from French Canada,” added Mayor Richard Stewart. twitter.com/johnkurucz

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here’s nothing quite like the August long weekend to inspire some serious warm weather enjoyment.

Sure, Canada Day gets us out in patriotic droves, and Labour Day closes out the summer nicely, but this weekend is all about enjoying the dog days of summer in all their B.C. glory.

So, take advantage of the extra time off — if you get it — and the fantastic weather, and find a patio, park, beach, boat or other locale to enjoy some summer relaxation.

Every year around this time, we urge readers to get out and enjoy what this region has to offer … but we’d be remiss if we didn’t issue a safety reminder at the same time.

Long weekends — and summer generally — come with their own dangers.

For example, according to the Canadian Safe Boating Council, 40 per cent of boating-related fatalities are linked to drinking.

Driving and alcohol are a deadly mix as well, of course — and alcohol tends to come out during long weekend barbecues and gatherings. Open windows in homes can lead to accidental falls for children, or robberies; closed windows in cars can lead to death or serious injury.

There’s a summertime spike in accidents related to motorcycles, bicycles, rollerbladers, skateboarders and, yes, even pedestrians — there’s just more of them out and about this time of year.

And it wouldn’t be summer if we didn’t hear about an unprepared day hiker caught out in the woods without sufficient supplies and lost overnight.

It all sounds a bit dreary and, yes, perhaps even morbid, but the truth is that a little precaution, planning and common sense will go a long way in keeping you and your family safe — and enjoying the summer.

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Past mistakes are coming back to bite us yet again

W

e’ve been sitting here in the newsroom, arguing about the First World War. Gads, I love irony.

Stupid arguments are exactly what got that whole thing going.

But when did it really start? And how significant is it that it started 100 years ago this week?

Officially, the First World War got underway on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary opened fire on the Kingdom of Serbia.

Ostensibly, the attack on Serbia was in retaliation for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo.

That shot was fired a month earlier, on June 28, 1914, spurring an ultimatum from Austria-Hungary, in collusion with Germany, which was crafted in such a way as to force war.

The goal was to crush Serbia out of hand, as a display of force.

It really didn’t have anything to do with the death of the archduke or his wife (who most people forget was also killed).

They wanted to show the rest of Europe that they were still the boss.

Immediately, however, a complex tangle of alliances and treaties came into play, and it really became a “world war” by mid-August.

Most of the alliances had been arranged to counter petty differences that had grown or lingered over a span of centuries of feeding mindless nationalism.

But what most had previously con-

sidered meaningless pieces of paper became focal points for egoistic opportunism — just like the egoistic opportunism that launched Austria-Hungary past the death of its heir to the throne and into a “we’ll show them” war.

There’s a school of thought that the war really began at the 1900 Paris World Fair, when all the superpowers smiled with all their teeth showing at each other, as each tried to outshine the other with exhibits whose underlying themes demonstrated their military might.

Some of those displays got friends and foes re-thinking their relationships — and retooling their military forces.

Some historians prefer to take it further back still … and who’s to say that every war didn’t start on the day the first guy wanted something another guy had?

I don’t want to belittle the fact that nine million people — mostly soldiers — were killed during the ensuing four years. That’s not a little thing at all.

Nevertheless, it was a stupid war.

It was a war fuelled by the egos of royals who viewed ordinary people with little more consideration than Southern American slave owners showed for their plantation stock.

The First World War was a fool’s game played with little regard for the lives of the real people who actually held the guns and stood in front of the bullets.

Battle tactics were inadequate to the rising technology, but worse than that, for the most part the generals and commanders didn’t care. Arrogance reigned supreme in the war rooms and the throne rooms.

It was not deemed honourable to run, duck, or dodge enemy fire — even if that fire was spewing from machine guns that were capable of creating a wall of flesh-eating lead — and so any soldier with the good sense to break stride might be summarily shot by his own officers.

In the end, it all backfired. AustriaHungary virtually disappeared, the world changed … and didn’t change at all.

Nobody won.

Now take a long, hard look today, 100 years later, at the events unfolding in the Ukraine, so near where that shot was fired to rain down all the excuses that arrogant leaders could muster to show how important they were — and how stupid they could be.

Lest we forget.

Indeed.

Bob Groeneveld is the editor of the Langley Advance, a sister paper of the Tri-Cities NOW.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Share your opinion on this column or anything else you read in The Tri-Cities NOW by sending a letter to the editor to editorial@thenownews.com, with “letter to the editor” in the subject line. We edit for taste, legality and length, and both letters to the editor and opinion columns may be reproduced on The Tri-Cities NOW website, www.thenownews.com.

LETTERS ACT NOW ON DWINDLING SALMON STOCK

Along with fish farming and pollution, my late father, who commercially salmon fished for about a half century, was particularly concerned about the negative repercussions of warming waters on wild salmon — a situation experienced in the Fraser River last summer and perhaps now even this summer.

The other great problem is getting an eco-hazardous federal government such as ours to act to preserve salmon stocks rather than hinder their survival with the likes of seemingly unconditional mass-scale natural resource extraction and shipment.

I can picture my dad whirling in his urn if he could still observe what our governments are allowing — and much more frightening, going to allow — various industrial interests to do to cause serious damage, perhaps irrevocably, to our precious salmon habitat, and, topping it all off, apparently to a degree beyond what Dad likely ever thought possible.

So many very early mornings, I’d briefly get up for a washroom

break and see the light breaking through underneath his bedroom door and into the hallway’s darkness, with my father on the other side very-slowly typewriting missives to various politicians.

I must’ve proofread and made many grammar corrections to almost a couple hundred letters of his over the years, just on this topic alone.

I’d assure him that the politicians do not have or will not give their time to personally respond to each concerned writer; that they almost certainly had hired staff to read the missives and use an “issue-template” letter return system, with a specific template ready to respond to every potential issue.

All they’d likely do is type in the letter writer’s name and address and print it out to mail back. Nonetheless, my father typed on about what were to him the greatest fish habitat concerns of the day.

Frank Sterle Jr White Rock

NEW GARBAGE RULES STINK Re: Plan to bear-proof garbage containers in PoCo

isn’t working,” letter to the editor by Peter Manning, Wednesday, July 23 In a recent letter by Peter Manning, Coquitlam is praised stating “Coquitlam residents will know that all their bins are as bear-proof as possible”.

While it seems that PoCo has some problems with their solid waste program and bear prevention, I can assure you that the City of Coquitlam’s program is not perfect and has some unresolved ‘snafus’ around bear security of its own.

As part of the new solid waste program in Coquitlam (which took effect July 1), homeowners were provided with a new garbage bin and a new green waste bin.

The green waste bins did include bear/wildlife locks, the garbage bins provided did not.

Not providing lockable garbage containers was a huge oversight by the city.

We have been making efforts to ensure all of our food waste and kitchen scraps are in the lockable green bin. However, we have to put all of our soiled diapers in our garbage can.

I can tell you that bears really like soiled diapers.

We attempted to secure our bin with bungee cords and attempted

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to mask the smell by ensuring all our diapers were in plastic bags, but in the end our efforts proved futile.

We had some visitors earlier this week and our side yard ended up looked like Sunset Beach Park after the Celebration of Life fireworks. Our previous garbage can (which we researched and provided included a screw-on lid and a bungee cord for good measure) never had the same issues.

I suspect we are not the only household facing this problem, as there are many other parents changing diapers out there.

Additionally, other garbage items (such as plastic or Styrofoam meat packaging, etc) are likely to attract bears to the unsecurable bins provided by the City.

When we called to ask the city if they provided more effective locks, we were met with a stunned employee on the line who responded with something the effect of “Oh, we weren’t told what to say for requests like this.”

We are now awaiting a call back from a supervisor on the issue hopefully with a solution.

Mike Watson Coquitlam

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those of missing man

Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com The remains of a Coquitlam man who went missing in early July have been found.

On Thursday, Coquitlam RCMP confirmed that human remains found in a wooded

area near Plateau Boulevard and Sugarpine Court in Coquitlam Monday are those of Nicola Candeloro.

Police note foul play has been ruled out and the investigation is now concluded.

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Candeloro, 44, went missing July 3 from his home in Coquitlam after going for a walk in the Eagle Mountain area and Westwood Plateau.

That weekend the family, along with Coquitlam Search and Rescue members, was out searching a wide area of the community.

Candeloro’s family told the media his disappearance was out of character.

The father of four reportedly missed his daughter’s birthday on July 4.

The RCMP said Candeloro’s family has requested privacy to grieve their loss. twitter.com/jertricitiesnow

Consolidating Our Industrial Zones As part of the City’s action plan to be more business friendly, the City launched a comprehensive review of our industrial zones in order to ensure that the zones are well suited to meet business needs.

After extensive research, the City is proposing to consolidate the existing nine industrial zones into three broader and more flexible zones.

Through this review, the goal is to create zones that: simplify our industrial zone structure; provide a broader range of permitted industrial uses within each zone; increase flexibility for property owners and business operators; are more responsive to the changing needs of the business community; and are easier to administer.

Why is this important and what does this mean to our city?

A thriving business and industrial sector that translates into better jobs locally and opportunities for improved local services and a better quality of life for the citizens of Coquitlam.

And that is why we are now inviting stakeholder and community input into our review to ensure that the proposed changes benefit our community as a whole.

Please visit the City’s website at www.coquitlam.ca/industrialzones to review details of the proposed changes and to complete a comment form. All feedback will be reviewed and considered by Council and staff as part of the industrial zone review. We ask that all written feedback be received by August 18, 2014.

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New Rochester pool unlikely Murder suspect BUT IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE: CITY STAFFER

John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com Though it’s an outside possibility, an outdoor pool could return to Coquitlam’s Rochester Park after all.

Acting parks and recreation

manager Raul Allueva hinted at that possibility on Monday as part of a larger discussion around planned upgrades to the park.

Allueva did, however, offer a series of caveats around the potential for a new pool: it would have to be built in a different configuration, in a different area of the park and feature different programming.

“That is a challenging recommendation,” he said. “We can certainly think about

that. It’s challenging for us to put that commentary out and not lead the public down the road of expectation.”

The pool’s re-opening, along with all of the planned upgrades at the park, depends on budget considerations, direction from council and the results of a series of meetings with community members slated to take place in coming months.

Preliminary estimates for some of the park refurbishments range between $3 mil-

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lion and $4 million.

Operations at the pool, which was built in 1968, were suspended in 2012 due to issues around fractures, leakage, erosion and potential replacement costs.

A public outcry resulted when the pool was shut down, and a few councillors have expressed an interest in reopening it.

Repair and replacement costs at that time ranged between $200,000 and $4 million.

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jdeutsch@thenownews.com The man accused of murdering his wife earlier this month in PoCo made a brief court appearance Thursday.

Irinei Catalin Ghiorghita made an appearance in Port Coquitlam provincial court by video link.

His lawyer asked for the case to be put over until Aug. 18.

Ghiorghita is charged with one count of second-degree murder in the death of Andra Ghiorghita, 38.

Police were called to a townhouse at 2495 Davies Ave. on July 15, after a man reportedly went to the Coquitlam RCMP detachment to tell police his wife was hurt. The woman died at the scene, and police determined foul play was involved.

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PoCo pipe band unseats SFU champs

TOPPLING THE ‘DOMINATING WORLD FORCE’ EARNS LOCAL GROUP A TRIP TO WORLDS “The energy a band produces is a very palpable thing when it’s a great perform-

John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com David Hilder has no time to dwell on the biggest accomplishment of his musical career. Instead, he’s setting his sights on raising the bar even further.

Hilder is the pipe major — or band leader — with the Port Coquitlam-based Dowco Triumph Street Pipe Band, a local ensemble that just punched its ticket to the World Pipe Band Championships later this month in Scotland.

Qualifying for the major event entailed defeating the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band last weekend, a feat Hilder said hasn’t been accomplished on North American soil in two decades.

“They’ve been a dominating world force for a very, very long time in North America, so this is really, really huge for us, ” said Hilder.

“It’s something we’ve been trying to do for a long time.

Of course, we’re friends off the grass, but we are hugely fierce rivals on the grass.”

The Triumph crew qualified for the world championships after winning a handful of categories at a North America-wide competition stagedlastweekendinSeattle.

Now the band will vie for world supremacy against 24 of the best pipe bands on the planet in Glasgow, Scotland beginning Aug. 15.

“It’s a major springboard for us to get a really good listen over there — it’s a major stage,” he said. “The BBC Live streams the show around the world to thousands of people.

It’s a spectacular event.”

Hilder’s group consists of 43 percussionists and bagpipers, with members coming from across the Tri-Cities, and from as far away as Scotland and the U.S. Piping is also a family affair in the Hilder household, as his wife Shaunna and son Liam are both members of the group as well.

Getting to the top of the

ance,” he said. “You need to project your energy into the crowd and have them enjoy

what they just heard.”

For competition details, see www.theworlds.co.uk.

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When you visit a physician, nothing is done without your consent. After listening to your concerns, asking more questions and performing an examination, the physician will offer a working diagnosis and suggest some options for investigation or treatment.

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1. Stay in control. If you are capable of understanding your situation and treatment options, you should continue to make important decisions about your care in the hospital. Ask the four key questions for any proposed treatment or investigation.

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2. Know the team. There are so many people working in the hospital that many patients don’t know who is who. It doesn’t help that many health-care workers wear surgical scrubs (or “greens”) and white lab coats. What could be easier than getting up and changing from comfy pink sleeping pajamas to comfy green pajamas? If we all did this, no one would buy pajama jeans.

You could try to read the name tags, but if you’re not sure, don’t be shy. Ask for each person’s name and their role (i.e. nurse, respiratory technician, pharmacist,

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Most importantly, you need to know who is the “attending physician” or “most responsible physician.”

This is the physician who is directing your care throughout your hospital stay. It is possible this might change from day to day, which, of course, is less than ideal.

3. Set up a channel of communication with your attending physician. Some hospitals have white boards in every patient’s room indicating the plan or schedule of tests or procedures, the results of tests and the expected length of the hospital stay.

If this isn’t the case, you should have a large pad of paper at your bedside so this information can be written down for you. You should prepare your own list of questions for your doctor. Try to find out when that doctor is expected. Like the traveller forcing himself to stay awake on the plane so he won’t miss his meal, patients dread falling asleep and missing the doctor during daily rounds.

I hope you won’t find yourself in the hospital any time soon, but if you do, follow these three steps to maintain control of your care.

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sports@thenownews.com The final score may have read 1-0 for Ontario, but for members of Team B.C., last week’s experience at the 2014 North American Indigenous Games in Regina was a winner.

The squad, which included North Coquitlam United soccer players Morgan Anson and sisters Crystal and Justine Laughren, absorbed as much of the event as possible while bonding quickly over nine days under the prairie sun.

“It was certainly different,” Crystal said of the tournament. “I had never seen so many people from different backgrounds come together before.

It was amazing.”

Finishing second wasn’t what the squad was aiming for, and it came down to a penalty kick in injury time that gave Ontario the win.

The NCU under-16 Rebels teammates discovered a lot about themselves and the Aboriginal communities that share sports and a unique history.

“It was so cool seeing all the dances and hearing all the stories and meeting so many people from different places and reserves,” Morgan said.

All three were added to Team B.C. after the Fraser Valley won the provincial tournament and right to attend the Regina-hosted competition.

The Laughrens, who live in North Vancouver but commute to play for the Rebels, remarked at how intense the training went and how focused everyone was once they arrived.

“Our coach put us all on diets when we got there, and we couldn’t

see our parents for the first few days,” said Crystal.

“I was amazed at how well the team came together,” Justine noted.

“Before the tournament a lot of us didn’t know each other and hadn’t played together. [But] when the tournament ended we left the field with our heads held high.”

Brett Anson, Morgan’s father, credits the tournament for bringing the Laughrens to North Coquitlam’s Div. 1 gold roster.

The Carson Graham sisters, who are two years apart in age, played the previous season on separate teams for the first time in their soccer careers. They were looking for a team where they could be together again and while competing for the Coastal squad at the B.C. Indigenous competition, found a friend in Morgan, a Coquitlam native of Métis descent.

It wasn’t long before a tryout invitation and a welcome were extended to Crystal, a forward, and Justine, a midfielder, who have Squamish Nation roots.

The Rebels would thrive and win the District Cup. As for the final, the girls agree that while a disappointing ending, it was an experience they’ll remember for a long time.

“I thought the closing ceremony [was a highlight],” said Morgan.

“Everything had finished and everyone was just hanging out, you were trading uniform pieces with people from all over. It was just a great feeling.”

The three now prepare for the upcoming season with the Rebels in the u-17 circuit.

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From left, North Coquitlam United’s Morgan Anson, Justine Laughren and Crystal Laughren helped B.C. advance to the girls final at last week’s North American Indigenous Games in Regina.

Coquitlam turns to defence to beat Bellies After the storm, the Coquitlam Adanacs delivered some much-needed calm.

The junior A lacrosse squad moved one-win away from clinching its sixth-straight B.C. Junior A Lacrosse League playoff title, after squeezing out a 7-4 victory over the New Westminster Salmonbellies in Game 5 Wednesday.

Cole Shafer netted a pair and the Adanac defence did a strong job of keeping the ’Bellies’ shooters to the outside in a game where the momentum shifts were smaller in nature but just as impactful.

Down 3-1 after one period, the Adanacs countered with three unanswered goals in the middle frame — by Tyler Pace, Jordan Gilles and Shafer.

While New West would push back and tie it early in the third on Luke Gillespie’s breakaway, Wesley Berg would convert the eventual game winner with 13:47 left to play. Eli McLaughlin and Evan Wortley rounded out the offence, as the A’s took a 3-2 lead in the series.

Coquitlam can wrap up the series tonight (Friday), 7:30 p.m. at the Poirier Sports Centre. If necessary, Game 7 will go Sunday, 8 p.m. in New

SPORTS SHORTS NATIONALS COME TO COQUITLAM

Team B.C. will look to make B.C. Day a great beginning to a big tournament showing.

With Coquitlam and New Westminster sharing the hosting responsibilities for the 2014 Lacrosse Peewee, Bantam and Midget Nationals, the action gets underway on Monday.

In peewee, Team B.C. begins the proceedings at 1:45 p.m. against Nova Scotia at Queen’s Park Arena. The team’s second game follows Tuesday, 9:45 a.m. at the Coquitlam Sports Centre’s rec rink against New Brunswick.

Team B.C.’s bantam roster hosts Manitoba in the opener Monday, 8:15 a.m. at the Coquitlam rec rink, and later in the day against Alberta at 2:45 p.m., also in the rec arena.

B.C.’smidgetactionstartsonMonday,2:45p.m.atCoquitlam’s main arena against New Brunswick, with their second test on Tuesday, 11:15 a.m. at Queen’s Park against Manitoba. To see the whole schedule, go to www. 2014laxnationals.com.

Westminster Both teams entered the contest minus some key floor talent, thanks to suspensions from Game 4’s explosive tilt that ended 13-8 in New West’s favour.

Serving one-game suspensions for their role in Monday’s battle were, from New West, Alex Bohl, Johnny Pearson and goalie Eric Penney, and from Coquitlam, Ray Banister, netminder Riley Camazzolo, Robin Lowenberger, James Rahe.

Coquitlam coach Neil Doddridge was slapped with a three-game suspension.

TAG REAPS GYMNASTIC BOUNTY

It was a triumphant week for a pair of TAG Sports Centre athletes at the Canada Cup gymnastic competition.

Jared Khalifa and Tamara O’Brien both scored individual event titles with their performances at the Newmarket, Ont. event, held last week.

Khalifa topped the junior men’s open tumbling division, posting a score of 135.5, more than five points ahead of his nearest rival. He would finish fourth in the junior men’s double-mini, which was won by PoCo’s Kyle Carrager.

Coquitlam’s Tamara O’Brien scored 132.70 points in the senior women’s double-mini event, edging out Karine Dufour.

The 18-year-old also placed fourth in the senior women’s tumbling, posting a 124.3 total, just 3.5 points back of third.

Another TAG athlete, John Rowden, picked up silver in men’s open tumbling, with 115.8 points, just back of Burlington’s Ahren Maher.

In men’s synchro event, Carrager teamed up with New Westminster’s Ben Blais to score bronze.

Taya Clyne placed sixth in junior women’s open tumbling.

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Adanacs stumble in WLA race A year ago, the Coquitlam Adanacs dug deep and overcame numerous obstacles to capture the final Western Lacrosse Association playoff berth.

This year, the obstacles proved to be too great.

The senior A lacrosse team were eliminated from the postseason party following a humbling 9-5 loss to New Westminster last Saturday.

As they close out the season against the Burnaby Lakers tonight (Friday, 7:30 p.m. at the Bill Copeland Sports Complex), more than a few questions will emerge regarding the whimper in which the year finished on.

None are more puzzled than head coach Bob Salt.

“I think we’re a lot better team than that,” noted Salt, “but when you lose like that who’s going to believe you?”

For the opening 20 minutes, it appeared the squad was prepared for the crucial test — New Westminster had bested Langley two days earlier, keeping Coquitlam’s chances alive in the process. The A’s took a 2-1 lead on goals by Brian Gillis and Brett Hickey, only to surrender six in the middle frame to fall 7-3 behind.

In the third period, the rally cry was muted after New West upped its lead to 9-3 before Coquitlam got two late markers to close out the scoring.

It clinched the fourth playoff spot for the Salmonbellies, and a seat in the stands for the Adanacs. The lack of urgency and resilience was perhaps the biggest disappointment.

“We had a shot at it but we just didn’t play very well, and credit to them, the ’Bellies did,” noted Salt.

“To be honest, for some of our guys I thought that was the worst game we played all season.”

Saltbelievesthatthisyear’sunsightly finish was an aberration — but admits it poses more questions. The club, a hearty mix of recent draftees and acquisitions and a peppering of vintage vets, needs an offensive boost.

“It’s really disappointing and a setback for the organization,” he said.

“You’re suppose to be moving ahead but this was as big a game as you could get and we just didn’t perform in the way we can.

“It’s a head-scratcher, it really is.”

MIDGET A’S POWER TO BC A1 TITLE

Bolstered by a true special-teams effort, the Coquitlam midget A1 Adanacs proved their mettle last week by doubling Langley 8-4 to capture the provincial box lacrosse crown.

Trailing 4-3 in the third, Coquitlam converted a couple of crucial powerplay opportunities and peeled off five unanswered goals en route to the B.C. title.

It proved to be sweet revenge for half the team, who last year was knocked off by Langley in the bantam provincial final.

“I knew we were a good team going into the season but I knew Maple Ridge and Langley were going to be a challenge,” said coach Pat Coyle. “We really began to hit our stride over the last month, but it’s the provincials and you never know what will happen.”

The team’s lineup includes: Dennon Armstrong, Jeremy Basic, Mitchell Beauregard, Reid Bowering, Jalen Chaster, Blane Donaldson, Josh Goble, Robert Hofseth, Cam King, Mateo Le Van, Liam Macdonald, Owen McCulloch, Matthew McIlwrick, Andrew Miller, Kyle Nichols, Thomas Semple, Jordan Taylor, Ethan Ticehurst, Ty Yanko and Devin Vowles.

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