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Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com It’s a major cache of weapons that police believe was destined to fall into the hands of criminals in the Tri-Cities and beyond. On Tuesday, Coquitlam Mounties showed off a haul of guns and ammunition seized by its street enforcement team during a raid in June. In all, 33 firearms including a Galil assault rifle and a fully-automatic machine gun were seized, along with 62 prohibited high-capacity ammunition magazines, 30,000 rounds of ammunition,

two body armours, 60,000 counterfeit DVDs and prepackaged marijuana. Marc Wisdom, 41, of Maple Ridge is facing 50 criminal charges including 26 counts related to firearms and ammunition, 20 counts for possession of prohibited devices and four counts of possession of prohibited weapons. RCMP investigators allege Wisdom was illegally selling guns in the Tri-Cities to criminals. “The removal of a number of these firearms from the streets of British Columbia have reduced a severe threat,” said RCMP Cpl. Frank CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

The removal of a number of these firearms … have reduced a severe threat. –Cpl. Frank Grosspietsch

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Mail not delivered for four days UNION UPSET AS CANADA POST LEAVES ROUTE UNATTENDED ON WESTWOOD PLATEAU

Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com It could be another black eye for the postal service in the Tri-Cities, as one Coquitlam neighbourhood went without mail for several days last week. According the local union of postal workers, the carrier responsible for an area around the Westwood Plateau was sick for four days last week and was unable to deliver the mail. Union representative Cindy McDonnell said Canada Post brought in supervisors for one day, but the mail failed to get out the rest of the week. The days in question were Aug 30, Sept. 3, 4 and 6. By Monday, the carrier was back and the mail started to flow. However, the local union is concerned the situation will not only reflect poorly on the service, but the carriers themselves. “Their [mail carriers] concern is people are going to get frustrated and take it out on the carriers, because they’re thinking ‘where’s my mail?” McDonnell told the Tri-Cities NOW. She explained the urban carriers, who are under a different collective agreement than the suburban carriers in Coquitlam, offered to help take the shift in relief, but Canada Post refused. McDonnell said the problem could be voided if Canada Post hired more casuals in the

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A neighbourhood on Coquitlam’s Westwood Plateau went without mail for several days last week after a letter carrier was off work sick. region to take over when a regular carrier is sick. She also noted the carrier, who just returned from maternity leave, was expected to deliver five days of mail in one day.

“That’s very unfair,” McDonnell said, also adding she expects similar situations to happen in the future. For its part, Canada Post acknowledged

there were “unexpected absences” that “challenged” its resources. “As a result, one route did receive delivery on alternate days,” said Eugene Knapik, manager of media relations for Canada Post in an e-mail. “We are committed to delivering mail within our service standards, and we typically process mail to have most of it delivered a day in advance. This allows us the flexibility to optimize our labour force when we experience such an unexpected period of high absenteeism and still generally deliver within our committed standard. The situation last week was an anomaly and I can confirm that we have returned to normal delivery this week.” Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart has been an outspoken critic of Canada Post, and isn’t pleased with the most recent incident. “They’re [Canada Post] struggling to be relevant… it’s not going to help if you’re outdated perhaps, but you’re unreliable,” he said. Stewart said he’s spoken with officials from the postal service in the past on the issue of community mailbox theft, and he intends to meet with them again regarding the most recent incident. The mayor said he wants to know a similar situation won’t happen again. “Even one day without mail is unacceptable,” he said.

Three paintball attacks in Port Coquitlam It’s one of the more cowardly acts of crime and now Coquitlam Mounties are on the lookout for the suspect responsible for three paintball attacks in Port Coquitlam over the weekend. Police said three people were vic-

timized by a paintball shooter within a two-hour period after midnight on Sunday. According to RCMP, the series of events began when a vehicle heading westbound on Lougheed Highway near the Coquitlam River Bridge was hit by blue paintballs.

Then a pedestrian who was walking in the same area was shot multiple times. Police said the night of “paintball mayhem” ended when two vehicles going through the Lougheed Highway and Coast Meridian Road

intersection were hit several times by paintballs. No one was hurt in the three incidents and the suspect is still at large. “If whoever did this thinks it was a funny prank, then that person

should give his or her head a shake,” said RCMP Cpl. Jamie Chung. “Shooting paintballs at someone could cause serious injuries if the projectile hit the eyes. This is not a joking matter and the shooter could face significant criminal charges.”

Province improves signs near interchange CITY RELIEVED AS PROVINCE UPGRADES SIGNS NEAR CAPE HORN

John KURUCZ jkurucz@thenownews.com The City of Coquitlam and the province appear to be bridging the gap over longstanding signage concerns near the Port Mann Bridge. A representative from the Ministry of Transportation appeared before council in committee Monday to outline a series of ongoing improvements that now link antiquated route names with actual destinations. Up until the last month, the vast majority of signs used numbers only to indicate major routes in the area: Barnet Highway being referred to as Highway 7A, Lougheed Highway appearing on signage as Highway 7, and Route 7B being used as a place name for the Mary Hill Bypass. Now those signs include specific destinations — pointing motorists to Coquitlam City Centre or Maple Ridge, among other places — alongside those numeric designations. “We’ve tried to address most of the issues,” said Patrick Livolsi, the south coast regional director with the Ministry of

Transportation. “That’s not to say that there’s not more tweaking that can go on … I think people are finding it a little bit easier to figure out their destination.” Livolsi said 26 new signs have gone up near the bridge and around the Cape Horn Interchange in the last month. Three more signs will be added next year when the bridge is fully expanded to handle 10 lanes of traffic. Livolsi added that his ministry hasn’t “really received any complaints,” since those changes were made. Mayor Richard Stewart noted the signage issue was previously the biggest single source of complaints related to the Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1 Improvement project, even more so than construction noise. However, Stewart and others on council suggested the vast majority of their signage concerns have been addressed. “The transformation [of the Cape Horn Interchange] is incredible and the fact that you’ve been able to keep it open and keep it running, I think is just an engineering marvel,” said Coun. Craig Hodge. Despite all those positives, a series of concerns did remain, mostly around the state of the Brunette Avenue Interchange, which Coun. Lou Sekora referred to as a “disaster.” Livolsi conceded that not much high-level planning for the area can take place until a final decision is made on how to replace the 76-year-old Pattullo Bridge. twitter.com/johnkurucz

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New highway signs near the Cape Horn Interchange include both the name and route number.

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possess restricted-class firearms, but alleged he chose to sell them illegally to criminals. Wisdom did not have a criminal record. Grosspietsch noted police are seeing a trend Grosspietsch, with the National Weapons from people who don’t have criminal records Enforcement Support Team. Police began the investigation into Wisdom choosing to sell weapons on the black market, adding the markup is signifiback in February after getting cant. wind of the seller through He suggested an automatic information gathered by the weapon could fetch up to force’s criminal analyst and $5,000-plus. information received at the Guns and drugs RCMP Insp. Paulette Freill detachment. are not only a said the removal of the On June 12, Coquitlam Coquitlam or weapons from the street makes Mounties, with the help of sevPort Coquitlam the community safer from gun eral other agencies, raided four violence. locations in Coquitlam, Port problem. She also suggested the bust Coquitlam and Maple Ridge. –Insp. Paulette Freill eliminated a major source of Wisdom was arrested in illegal guns in the community. Maple Ridge without incident. “Guns and drugs are not Police would not reveal the locations of the Port Coquitlam or Coquitlam only a Coquitlam or Port Coquitlam problem,” raids, or offer details on how the suspect is Freill said, noting the co-operation between related to the Tri-Cities, other than to note he police jurisdictions on the case. “Guns and drugs are a regional problem worked in PoCo. Investigators also didn’t say if the weapons and with regional problems come the need for were used in a crime or how long Wisdom had regional solutions.” As for Wisdom, he’s due back in Port been in business. Grosspietsch said Wisdom was licensed to Coquitlam provincial court on Sept. 19.

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Guilty plea in fraud ALVIN CHAND’S PROBLEMS BEGAN AS HE GAVE POLICE A FORGED DRIVER’S LICENCE

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A week later, Chand was pulled over by police in New Westminster after he frauduA Port Coquitlam credit lently rented a vehicle. He was once again found card thief will spend the rest of the year in jail after plead- with two forged credit cards. Chand was finally picked ing guilty in provincial court up for good on Jan. 16 of to his crimes. On Friday, a provincial this year after local RCMP court judge sentenced Alvin raided his Port Coquitlam Chand, 44, to one year in jail home where he lived with his and one year probation after mother. In what was described as he plead guilty to a global a “credit card charge of posfactory” in session of court by the identity inforCrown, invesmation for the tigators seized purpose of Mr. Alvin Chand a number of fraud. is well-know to items that Chand was includedcredit arrested by us. card printers, Coquitlam –Coquitlam RCMP a laminator, Mounties in gold foil and January and an embosser. has spent Police also found forged seven months in custody while his case made its way postal keys, stolen computers through the courts. He will and six stolen point-of-sale spend five more months terminals, commonly known behind bars to serve out the as Pinpads. Investigators also seized rest of his sentence. According to the agreed 250 stolen ID’s and credit facts of the case, the trouble cards. At the time, Chand was for Chand started on Sept. 5, 2012, when he was pulled facing a number of charges that included possession of a over by police in Langley. He gave cops a forged driv- stolen firearm, possession of er’s licence and was subse- instruments used in forging quently found to have forged or falsifying credit cards, poscredit cards in his wallet at session of identity documents of another person, and posthe time. jdeutsch@thenownews.com

session of stolen or forged credit cards. “Mr. Alvin Chand is wellknown to us,” Coquitlam RCMP said in a statement at the time of his arrest. “This successful investigation has disrupted the local identity theft ring and virtually stopped this ‘fake credit cards factory’ from running.” Chand was convicted of a similar offence back in 2011. But defense lawyer Sarah Jackson pointed out there were a series of events that led to Chand’s downward spiral. His lawyer explained her client’s life fell apart in 2005 after he lost his job with Telus, his father died and his truck was totalled in a hitand-run, all within a short amount of time. Jackson said Chand, who was born in Burnaby, fell in with the wrong crowd and started using crystal meth. His lawyer suggested his crimes were a result of an attempt to feed his addiction. She noted Chand has been working toward rehabilitation and has been clean from drugs since his incarceration. Judge Bonnie Craig also ordered Chand to continue to take drug counselling following his release from prison. twitter.com/jertricitiesnow

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Oakdale Neighbourhood Association president Ben Craig has officially confirmed his intention to run in the Coquitlam byelection next month. Craig joins former councillor Doug Macdonell and local entrepreneur Bonita Zarillo as confirmed candidates. Several other hopefuls, including former councillor Barrie Lynch, Fred Soofi and Chris Wilson, have said they’re considering running. “I’ll run on a platform that supports communities, our small businesses and the taxpayer,” Craig said in an email to the Tri-Cities NOW. “With the cost of government going straight up in our city, I believe a taxpayer-focused councillor is desperately needed. I’ve been a financial advisor for 15 years. I understand the value of a dollar and the need to stick to budgets.” The 43-year-old, who has no political experience, suggested the Burquitlam area is under-represented by the current council. “Burquitlam will transform in the next few years,” he said. “With Evergreen Line construction underway and thousands of new residents coming to our area, it’s more important than ever to have a strong voice for our region.” The byelection to fill the two vacant council seats is set for Oct. 26, while the nomination period for candidates to complete their paperwork began Tuesday, Sept 10 and runs until Thursday, Sept. 20.

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Jeremy DEUTSCH jdeutsch@thenownews.com Many Tri-Cities residents will remember the desperate search for missing Douglas College student Joy Zhang last summer at Sasamat Lake. The mentally challenged women had gotten separated from her classmates during a field trip to the Port Moody park last August and was missing for three days. Dozens of search and rescue volunteers combed the lake and trails looking for the 21-year-old. While the rescue came to a successful conclusion with Zhang being found safely in a dense area around the lake, it’s a call that could have been resolved quicker using the latest in drone technology, according to officials with Coquitlam Search and Rescue. “We’re always looking for some advantage,” said Coquitlam SAR search manager Michael Coyle. So on Saturday, a group of search and rescue teams from around the Lower Mainland, along with hobbyists, gathered at Eagle Mountain Park in Coquitlam to see the technology in action. The drones are called unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and in the not-so-distant future these flying machines could be helping to save lives. The devices, which are about the size of a remote-controlled car, can fly in and out of areas, relaying real-time video and high-resolution images to a crew on the ground. A company called North Guardian UAV Services Canada was in charge of the demo. The UAVs on display can fly as far as 10 to 20 kilometres and operate on a battery for up to an hour at a time. They can also be modified to mount items, like a radio, to be dropped for individuals if needed.

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Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were tested in Coquitlam Saturday.

North Guardian charges on a per-hour basis and provides a pilot and ground crew. Coyle, who started researching the use of these devices last year, said the idea behind Saturday’s demo was to bring SAR teams together to see how the UAVs would fit in with an actual search — whether the technology could let teams carry out tasks faster. “We hope it does, and we’re almost certain we’ll be able to use it,” he told the Tri-Cities NOW. Currently, any help in the air during a search is done with helicopters, which can be expensive and not readily available. In the case of the Zhang search, Coyle noted the team was given permission by provincial authorities to use a helicopter for two hours a day. He said the UAVs could have been used for parts of the day when the helicopter wasn’t available. Neither search and rescue teams nor North Guardian see the drones replacing the use of helicopters, but rather supporting rescue efforts. Jeff Howe, co-owner of the company, sees his machines as another set of eyes for SAR teams. “What we ended up doing was looking at how we could do something that could support existing agencies on the ground,” he said. Though Howe was reluctant to provide rates, he did indicate using a UAV is

significantly cheaper than a helicopter, which can cost in the four figures for an hour. He also said his team can get a UAV up in the air quicker than a manned helicopter. But it isn’t just SAR teams interested in the technology. Representatives from the Coquitlam fire department were also at the demo. Stu Aspinall, assistant fire chief with Coquitlam Fire & Rescue, said the drones could be used in a number of ways, including for calls to large structure fires and hazardous materials incidents. The vehicles could be sent in to have a look, before crews are used. UAVs could also be put to the test during an emergency in the tunnel of the yet-to-be-completed Evergreen Line. “Really, it’s unlimited. It’s a new technology that we’re having a look at, [to] see whether it’s something we can apply or not,” he said. Though Aspinall said there are still questions about the technology, he’s impressed with what he’s seen so far. “If this is another tool that will help make everybody safer and help us do our job safer then we’re interested in looking at it,” he said. Coyle also said there are challenges that need to be worked out before a drone is pressed into action. One example would be how the billing for the UAV service would be handled by Emergency Management BC, the organization that handles some search costs for SAR teams. North Guardian is working with Transport Canada on the use of UAVs, and has been issued a special flight operation certificate for the area around Eagle Mountain Park for the rest of the year. Coyle said the team intends to hold various experiments and tests in the fall before putting any UAVs into service. “We don’t want to be stumbling in the middle of a search trying to figure this out,” he said.

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t’s official. Elections BC has issued petition sheets for an initiative to amend the Police Act. The goal of the petitioners is to stop police from enforcing laws against possession and use of marijuana in B.C. — or at least to make it more difficult to prosecute against simple possession and use. The petitioners, calling themselves Sensible BC, see it as a way to decriminalize marijuana in B.C. without having to go through a federal government that is decidedly antagonistic towards any efforts to back off on its current drug laws. They now have 90 days to make their case and collect supporting signatures from at least 50 per cent of registered voters, including at least 50 per cent of registered voters in at least two thirds of the electoral districts in B.C. If they can do that, the government will be forced to seriously consider the proposal. They’ve got a long row to hoe — and it’s not just weed in that row. Interestingly, there has been little vocal support from prominent proponents of ending the prohibition on marijuana. And perhaps with good reason. For one thing, many of the high-profile people who have come out against the legal status quo for marijuana do not support decriminalization. Many want pot legalized, regulated and taxed — just like alcohol. Even among those who favour decriminalization, with possession and use of small amounts of pot penalized through tickets and modest fines, there are few who want to do it the Sensible BC way, by effectively hamstringing police, whose efforts against more serious offenders — high-level traffickers, grow-operators, multi-drug purveyors and the like — might also be hampered. And then, of course, while they may be a technical minority in Canada these days, there are still plenty of people who simply won’t sign any petition that allows freer use of marijuana or any drug.

AMALGAMATION WOULD SOLVE PAY RAISE PROBLEM 6.

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Yet again, Port Moody city councillors are grappling with the tough question of whether to give themselves a pay raise. The median family income in Port Moody in 2005 was about $70,000. The total remuneration for a city councillor in 2012 is $25,000. I suggest that this 2.8-to-1 ratio should establish a formula. If councillors act to boost the median family income then they will gain a salary increase. Alternatively, we could slash city councillor expenditures (and civic staff too) by amalgamating the Tri-Cities. An amalgamated city would have a stronger voice in regional forums too, such as TransLink. D. Wilson Port Moody

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ast week’s column about how a wage hike for CUPE will likely be funded appeared to touch a nerve with a number of school trustees and teachers, who descended upon me on social media (notably Twitter) to say how unfair the whole situation is. The funding situation for B.C. schools is indeed unfair in many ways, but it doesn’t lessen the likelihood that school boards will have to dig into their budgets to give their employees a pay raise. Nevertheless, it’s important to examine whether school funding has fallen short over the past decade, or whether it has kept pace with mounting cost pressures. Every year, the provincial government likes to boast it has increased the average rate of funding-per-pupil. It now stands at about $8,600 per student, an increase of 37 per cent since 2001. And school districts’ operating budgets now total more than $4.7 billion, a 27-per-cent hike since 2001. On paper, this all looks significant and it appears the funding arrows are pointing the right way: upwards. And these increases have taken place even while student enrolment has declined by 72,000 in the last decade, a significant reduction. But school trustees have their own numbers, and they are not as positive. In fact, it’s hard to square the two opposing views in any meaningful way. School districts such as Vancouver have compiled a list of cost pressures they claim are not “funded” by the dollars-per-student funding model. For example, the Vancouver School Board estimates inflation alone has added $10 million to its budget over the last decade. Employee benefit improvements (including teachers’ pension

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changes and higher MSP premiums) have added a further $37 million and collective agreement wage hikes have added $58 million. There are other cost items as well, but the VSB puts it own funding “shortfall” for this year compared to its situation in 2002 at about $47 million. A two-percent hike for CUPE would cost an additional $2 million or so. Northern and rural school districts have other cost pressures. Heating costs are a bigger and more expensive issue in places like Prince George and Prince Rupert than in, say, Victoria. As well, rising bus costs are a bigger headache in Williams Lake than in Burnaby. One Prince George teacher, who read last week’s column with some despair, wrote to me to recount some of the challenges he encounters in his district. “While no two districts are alike,” wrote Glen Thielmann, “we have also seen a sharp increase in the amount of vulnerable, at-risk and special designation students in our classroom, coupled with downloaded parenting costs such as meal programs, after-school supervision, and community transitions/support programs designed to develop basic skills and maintain safety of kids.” His description sounds like the current funding levels aren’t getting the job done. To meet these rising costs, boards have pursued different options when it

comes to service cuts or resource reductions over the years. Teaching and librarian positions have been axed by varying degrees, and books and supplies have also been chopped. In some schools, the heat is turned down at times to save money. And parents find themselves having to fork over more money for their kids to purchase what’s needed in the classroom. And now the cutting exercise is about to begin again, CUPE wage hike or no CUPE wage hike. School trustees have been vocal in their protests about funding levels for years now, but there are no signs they’ve been able to persuade the provincial government in providing much more money for the system. In fact, the B.C. Liberals have been re-elected three times since trustees and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation started complaining about so-called underfunding of the education system. The K-12 education system simply has failed to register as a ballot box question in elections. Compounding the matter is that the B.C. Liberals no doubt view protests led by the BCTF and school trustees with direct ties to the NDP as being mostly political in nature, and therefore easier to dismiss. And that’s why the next school year will see a repeat of what we’re seeing now: the government will boast that it has increased education funding and school boards will cry foul, and both sides will appear to be correct. Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

LETTERS WHY OPPOSE FAIRNESS AND ACCESSIBILITY?

Whales have shorter gestation periods. For the third time since the Local Government Elections Task Force tabled its report, the B.C. government has been stricken with a case of cold feet. In 2010, the task force made 31 recommendations to improve local democracy, including: setting campaign spending limits for candidates, requiring all election advertising to disclose who paid for it, and requiring financial reports to be posted online through Elections BC. Two months after the task force tabled its report, the government said it would proceed with the recommendations in time for the 2011 elections. Those elections came and went. Ida Chong, minister at the time, confessed that the Union of B.C. Municipalities and other groups “may be disappointed” by the government’s inertia. Last year, the government promised that the recommendations would be in place for the 2014 elections. This April, then-deputy minister Don Fast went so far

a councillor $11,000. If local campaign spending is obscene, it only follows that candidates need to fall back on contributors with obscenely large wallets to pay the bills. And fall back they did. In the 2011 elections, the single largest donation was $960,000 courtesy of local land developer Rob Macdonald to Vancouver’s NPA. To put that sum into context, it’s more than double what Naheed Nenshi spent on his way to winning the mayor’s chair of Calgary in 2010. Calgary has nearly a quarter of a million more voters than Vancouver. It’s why most provinces have strict rules over who can give to a campaign and how much they can donate. In Montreal the annual cap is $300, in Toronto it’s $2,500, in Winnipeg it’s $750 and in Calgary it’s $5,000. In Quebec, you can only donate to a candidate you can actually vote for. So if you live in Sherbrooke you can’t donate to a candidate running in Montreal. In Ontario and Manitoba you have to live in the province to donate to a candidate. But in B.C. a donor doesn’t even have to live in Canada to cough up as much cash as they want, resulting in the bizarre case

as to write: “The Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development is conducting the work necessary to implement the recommendations of the Local Government Elections Task Force in time for the 2014 elections.” But last month the government got cold feet. Again. Most of the recommendations may be put into law, but not all. Notably, the government has chosen not to proceed with campaign spending limits in favour of yet more consultation, even though the task force received more than 10,000 written submissions during its 2010 review. It would seem B.C. voters need to steel themselves for another round of grossly obscene campaign spending during the 2014 local elections. Just how gross? In the 2011 election, Vision Vancouver, the NPA and COPE collectively spent $5 million. That’s roughly $12 for every eligible voter. Contrast that with a candidate running for council in Montreal who can spend all of 30 cents per voter, a candidate for mayor 38 cents. In Toronto, candidates have a limit of 85 cents per voter. In Regina, the overall limit for a mayoral candidate is $65,000 and

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jkurucz@thenownews.com The 33rd-annual Terry Fox Run takes place in four of the five communities within the Tri-Cities area this Sunday, and the Tri-Cities NOW spoke to organizers for each of those events in advance of the big day. Hometown Run organizer Dave Teixeira has headed up the PoCo run for 11 years, and has been a part of the movement in some capacity in each of its 33 years. “Terry is a hero to me, so it’s an honour to be doing this,” he said. “Here was someone who wasn’t that much older than me inspiring a nation to do some pretty cool things. I latched onto his youth and his passion.” By far the largest run of the four locally, the Hometown Run kicks off with registration at 8 a.m., followed by the run at 10 a.m. Terry’s father Rolly will speak to participants before they take off from the Hyde Creek Centre at 1379 Laurier Ave. and three distances will

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Richard Rainey, left, and Mark Pettie are with the Coquitlam run. be offered: 2.5 km, six km and 10 km. The 2.5-km route will take participants in a loop from the centre along Coast Meridian Road, Lincoln Avenue, Dorset Avenue and back to the Hyde Creek Rec Centre.

The 6-km option covers sections of Prairie Avenue, Freemont Street, Riverwood Gate and back to Coast Meridian Road. The 10-km trek is larger, combining those two routes. The Coquitlam run gets under-

way with registration at 9:30 a.m. and the run kicking off at 10:15 a.m. from Blue Mountain Park. The two-km run travels around Ridgeway and King Albert avenues, while the six- and 10-km runs follow a rectangular route encompassing Blue Mountain and Gatensbury streets, as well Como Lake and Ridgeway avenues. “I’ve been telling people that this event is about coming out for one hour of the year and showing up to honour the memory and legacy of Terry Fox and what he means to our country,” said Coquitlam run co-chair Mark Pettie. The Port Moody run follows the Shoreline Trail, starting from Rocky Point Park, and is broken up into two-, five- and 10-km increments. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and the run is one hour later. “I’m sure everybody goes through it at some point — you’re standing at a Terry Fox run and you think about your dad, your mom, your sister or your grandma, because cancer has touched us all,” said run

organizer and Port Moody Mayor Mike Clay. “For some people, it’s an outlet. They’re not really trying to do a run or raise money; they want to share with each other.” Anmore’s Gord Bytelaar will head up his first run this weekend, though he’s no stranger to the event. In fact, he captured the best time in the West Van run in the mid 1980s. “Being a former runner myself and having run two marathons in my life, 20 years apart, I can’t imagine running a marathon every day for as many days as he did until he had to stop,” he said. Bytelaar stepped up to the position of run organizer just three weeks ago, and he’s keeping his goals fairly modest: 50 to 100 participants who can raise anywhere from $500 to $1,000. The Anmore event will be offered in two distances — 2.5 and 4.5 km — and will follow a loop around Spirit Park. Registration begins at 11 a.m and the run goes at noon. For more info on any of these events, log on to www.terryfox.org.

Mural adds colour to SkyTrain work zone

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jdeutsch@thenownews.com Most busy construction sites look more like war zones than something that’s being created. But the City of the Arts would have none of that when it comes to work on the Evergreen Line. On Friday, the City of Port Moody unveiled a 400-footplus art mural at the corner of Douglas and Clarke streets that runs along a fence of the construction staging area for the rapid transit line. The eight-by-448-foot vinyl mural is a result of collaboration between the Evergreen Project Team and the Port Moody Public Art Liaison Committee. The mural, which is made

up of 14 panels, each 32 feet in length, depicts everything from animals and performing characters to historical figures important to Port Moody. Tri-Cities artist David Pacholko said he wanted to have some fun and make the mural as colourful as possible. “It was a huge undertaking, so it was a lot of fun,” he told the Tri-Cities NOW. Pacholko, who was also behind the illustration on a city recycling truck, said he hopes people will stop and take the time to view the mural. “I think it’s great. I think we should do more of it in the city,” he said, adding each panel took about 10 to 20

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The Riverview Hospital grounds will be the site of a celebration of trees this Saturday (Sept. 14), as the Riverview Horticultural Centre Society, City of Coquitlam and Burke Mountain Naturalists host the 20th-annual Treefest. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the site, located at 2601 Lougheed Hwy. Activities will include: Arborist-led tree tours every hour from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., children’s crafts and activities, a children’s tree walk at noon, community and artist displays, live music, history bus tours, a blackberry tea in the Serenity Garden from 12:30 to 4 p.m. and a heritage building tour at 1 p.m. Originally landscaped to be a Victorian English “Fantasy Garden” in the grand style of Kew Gardens in London,

the lush, giant trees at the Riverview Hospital Grounds create a unique, stately and majestically whimsical parkland forest, according to a press release. The following are personal reflections of a visitor wandering among the trees of Riverview: “Exotic trees bearing the fantastic character of cathedral columns with fan-vaulting, boughs bearing a dazzling myriad of orchidlike flowers, large fleshy leaves with a diverse array of lobe shapes and margin textures. Fan-shaped waves of braided Redwood needle sprays dramatically slice the atmosphere and kindle the imagination. One can become happily immersed and ‘lost’ in the delicately draping verdant curtains of monumental branches that hang from a great dome-like canopy.” The festival site is located

on the Riverview Hospital Grounds outside the Industrial Services Building. Access to the site is via Lougheed Highway from either the Orchid Drive entrance or Colony Farm Road/Holly Drive entrance. Once you enter the grounds, follow the festival signs and arrows to the Industrial Services Building. There is plenty of free on-site parking. Visitors are asked not to wear open-toed footwear to this event as many areas will have long grass and uneven terrain. Coast Mental Health, which cares for people living with serious mental illness, will also host an open house during Treefest. To learn more about treefest, call 604-290-9910 or visit www.coquitlam.ca/ city-services/environment/ events.aspx.

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What if you can’t earn as much now because you were hurt in a car crash? You may be forced to find an easier but lower-paying job and be unable to earn as much income as before the accident. Lawyers call this loss “diminished earning capacity.” This work-related loss is just one of many losses you could be compensated for if the crash was caused by another’s fault. It’s often part of a compensation claim by personal injury plaintiffs. But what if your earnings don’t go down after the accident? Can you still get compensation for “diminished earning capacity”? After all, you might think that because your income didn’t decrease, your ability to earn hasn’t been reduced. Not true. A recent BC case illustrates that this approach is too simple and can be unfair to the injured person. Colleen, 46, was injured in two car accidents, one right after the other. She hurt her neck, shoulder and upper back, resulting in chronic widespread pain (later diagnosed as fibromyalgia). Before the accidents, she was a highly energetic and motivated individual. She had a fast-paced job as an executive secretary to the president of a large organization, which she loved and was ideally suited for. All that changed. Because of her chronic pain – which she could only endure with large amounts of pain killers and anti-inflammatory medications – she could no longer handle the demands of her job, nor the three-hour (both ways) commute it involved. Colleen sold her house to move to a smaller home with fewer stairs. Because of her injuries, she also found a new easier job where the commute was only 20 minutes. Having to switch jobs “was a huge blow” and it “was far less rewarding in terms of job satisfaction,” said the trial judge who initially decided her case. Yet, by happenstance, her new job paid her a better salary, and so she didn’t suffer an immediate

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The circle of secretarial or administrative positions that she could compete for in future had narrowed because of the limitations imposed by her injuries. In short, she became less marketable as an employee and less capable overall of taking advantage of all employment opportunities that might come her way. As well, the trial judge concluded that there was a real and substantial possibility that Colleen would have moved up in her organization’s hierarchy to a director position had she been able to stay there – at a higher salary and with improved health and pension benefits. (This particular finding was overturned on appeal as speculative only, reducing her compensation award somewhat.) And there was a real possibility that because of her injuries (which had plateaued or possibly could even worsen), her working career would likely end earlier than it would have if the accident hadn’t occurred. Overall, she proved that she had suffered a loss in her capacity to earn future income, as confirmed by the appeal court. The BC Court of Appeal ultimately awarded Colleen $275,000 for diminished earning capacity. If you’re injured in an accident, consult your lawyer. She can help you receive the fair compensation that you may be entitled to receive. This column has been written with the assistance of KERRY DEANE-CLOUTIER. It provides information only and must not be relied on for legal advice. Please contact KERRY DEANECLOUTIER, Trial Lawyer at (604) 464-2644 for your free, no obligation, initial consultation.

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Glen Pine offers dance classes for adults Glen Pine Pavilion, a community centre for adults 50 and older, will offer dance lessons on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, beginning on Sept. 18 and 19. Couples are invited to take introductory

classes in ballroom, Latin, West Coast swing and night-club two-step in a fun and stressfree environment with experienced instructors Karen Weiner (on Wednesdays) and Candice Zanini (on Thursdays).

The two will teach “the fundamentals of each type of dance needed to move to the music on the dance floor with ease,” according to a press release from the city. Participants can choose one or more class

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